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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1940
Page
18
Amber Travis reports Ida A. Lawrence 82 of Hazleton crafts miniature donkeys from old inner tubes for recreation and income. The quilter and sewer, once nearly blind, now sews for hours, making over 400 donkeys since 1939 while puzzle solving and living in Hazleton.
The Marion public schools art department under Miss Ruth Adair hosts its annual open house this afternoon from 2 to 6. In the Lincoln building's art room and rear bandroom, wall murals, metal work, plaster casting, batik dyeing, cloth stenciling, and pupil work from kindergarten to 12th grade will be on display. The public is invited.
Marion readers gain nonfiction titles including Railroad to the Sea by Leonard and Johnson and Since Yesterday the Nineteen Thirties in America by Allen, plus fiction Mrs Fennington by Carson and Over My Dead Body by Stout. Scout 35 meets Tuesday at 7 15 p.m. at the church with Scout Master Henry Arp Jr in charge. Miss Naomi Adair visits over the weekend with sister Ruth Adair. Also ads for real estate, club meetings, a baritone soloist trip to Waterloo, and lodge activities.
W E Kearns city parks superintendent reports the season's first picnic Saturday at Thomas Park. The picnickers were Mr and Mrs Joseph Witousek and their daughters, along with Lester Barta of Cedar Rapids.
Mrs Mary Filen Sawyer longtime Central City organist and Sunday school teacher will turn eighty seven on Monday. Daughter Mrs E M Adams invites guests to mark the occasion. Born April 1 1862 she recalls early Coe College days under Condit King and Thompson and home organ in the basement.
Eight divisions of the Methodist Ladies Aid plan meetings Wednesday. Comforter division hosts at 230 Ninth street with Mrs Florence Fasterday and Mrs Adella Hobart leading devotion. The Endeavor and other divisions hold picnics or sewing sessions at various neighborhood homes with listed hostesses.
Local church groups plan luncheons picnics and devotionals at various addresses including 970 Twelfth Street 1345 Sixth Avenue and 963 Sixth Street. Guests visit homes in Moline Des Moines Cedar Rapids and Maquoketa. Meetings also note a postponed farm bureau event and a birthday party at 1100 Twelfth Street with several attendees.
John Miller and Robert Wilber of Marion troop 38, Cedar Rapids Gazette carriers, will receive Eagle Scout rank at Linn county district court of honor at Marion Congregational church. Advancements for other district scouts also announced. public invited.
Mrs John Reynolds hosts a program chaired by Mrs La Verna Crew with devotional led by Mrs J B Emmons. Centennial Encampment No 91 F O O F meets Monday at 8 pm. Presbyterian Ladies Aid division four to picnic Wednesday noon at Mrs S A Fontaine 1197 Lincoln Dr. Marion chapter 183 OES to meet Monday 8 pm with social hour to follow. Cary club meets Monday 2 30 pm at Mrs Hill’s home. Mr and Mrs Hardenbrook return from Tucumcari today. Bonny Bolton wedding this spring to Joe Goltewood of Marion.
Mrs. Mark Woodward hosts interlude on Henry Ford and Greenfield Village at 1585 Seventh Avenue. Groups meet including Rebekah lodge at 1590 Seventh Avenue and Westminster guild at 1396 Seventh Avenue. Local families relocate with neighbors visiting and hosting, while a surprise picnic honors Mrs. Joseph Bulman at 731 Fifth Avenue.
Present were Dr and Mrs H O Young Mr and Mrs Elmer Neff and daughter Barbara Ann and Mr and Mrs V W Schroeder. Bridge was played at two tables during the evening. The Entre Nous club will meet of Mrs E D Jefferson 845 Fourteenth street.
Lois Southard a Morley eighth grader won the Jones county spelling contest in Martelle on the word ablative earning the county title. Florence Austin Evelynn Kuntz were runners up with judges Mrs Meeks Sherman and Kahler. The champion advances to Des Moines on April 19 for the state contest.
Ames extension veterinarian K W Stouder will conduct a hog vaccination school for Delaware county farmers in Manchester on April 23. County Agent E L Molin announced Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Christen of Amana celebrate their goldened wedding anniversary with relatives and friends at the AWA clubhouse. They wed March 26 1890 in Marengo after a horse and buggy trip and lived in Cedar Rapids before returning to Amana. They have four children and 14 grandchildren. The couple keeps active with gardening and housework. Mrs. Christen is 71 and Mr. Christen 73.
Max Marthinson of Lake Mills Iowa, who spoke for the first time at age 11 after a whooping cough illness, pursues a liberal arts degree at the University of Iowa. He writes fiction, works on speech improvement, and stays active with tennis and swimming while studying in Hillcrest dormitory.
Special to The Gazette Keota celebrates the ninety second anniversary of the birth of Mrs. Robert White of Keota born in Newport Pennsylvania as Elizabeth Jane Stutzman. She married Robert White in 1865 and moved to Iowa in 1872. Her husband died in 1907 and she lived on a farm until 1912 when she moved to Keota to care for her son James. After 12 years she moved to her son Lloyds home. Two of her six children are dead. surviving children include Mrs. Margaret Ulm Fairfield James M. White Washington Lloyd White Keota and Mrs. Beulah Braun Oquawka. She remains healthy though her sight fails and she enjoys radio and religious services heard through it. She is grandmother to Mrs. Marius Plumley of Cedar Rapids.
Global livestock estimate shows about 1.5 billion head of cattle sheep and hogs. Data imply large herds across major farming regions and ongoing trends in meat and dairy production.
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