Twenty five Year Motorcycle Club marks annual reunion
Cedar Rapids riders from the 1911 era gather yearly to swap racing stories and ride old routes through Marion Iowa City Williamsburg Des Moines Vinton Dubuque Amana and beyond. Party hosts Ed Meisel of Cleveland and officers from the 1935 charter recount past races tours and the club’s spirited disputes and charity votes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
East
Iowa
Marion
Iowa City
Williamsburg
Des Moines
Vinton and
Dubuque
Ed Meisel
Cleveland
Ohio
Twentyfive Year Motorcycle Club
C. B. Whelpley
Harry Yonkers
J. Fred Currell
Ben Rubins
Bob Smulekoff
Alhambra
Calif
Ed Hall
E. Grissel
B. C. Franks
Murray Fawcett
al Drew
Meisel
Fawcett
Tipton
Yonkers
Linn
Forrest Schaefle
Schaefle
Currell
Dr. Whelpley
Motorcycle Club
E. J. Meisel
Dr. C. B. Whelpley
Larry Hunter
Walt Siebert
L. J. Thill
Leo H. Blom
A. G. Dyson
A. G. Deitrich
F. C. Jiruska
T. C. Reid
William L. Novotny
Ben Rubias
Elmer Dietz
Jim Anderson
E. H. Easterling
Cedar Rapids Motorcycle Club
Charles Zika
Bill Morgen
George Letty
Ben Currell
Emil Krejci
Clyde Spurgeon
Louie Miskovsky
Cecil Harmon
Ted Seweck
Ben Kubias
Claude Summerlin
Seweck
Rubias
Morton Meisel
Ben Pohorsky
Bill Morgan
Northeast Iowa Library Association Meeting Set in Oelwein
The Northeast district of the Iowa Library association will meet next Wednesday in Oelwein at 9 30 a m for an all day session. The roll call topic Streamlining Your Library will be the keynote. The program includes morning and afternoon sessions with speakers from Cedar Rapids Waterloo and other towns and nominatin g committee appointments and resolutions announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa Library Association
Oelwein
Ruby Taylor
Cedar Rapids
Cochairman
Blanche Stewart
Waterloo
Edna Giesler
Edna Giesser
Daven- Port
Marcella Klein
Yieural
George M. Strayag
Iowa Rural Young People’s Mothers
Ralph_ Mitchell
Hudson
Beatrice Kerr
Orange Township
Lydia M. Barrette
Masonic
Jessie B. Gordon
Jona Ity
Clyde Tull
Cornell College
W R. Halden
Grundy Center
Abbie J. Converse
Cresco
Marybelle McClelland
T. C
Lelia
Wilson
Boulder Students Tour Cedar Rapids Industrial Sites
Twenty students from South and North Boulder schools near Central City and several parents visited Cedar Rapids Saturday. They toured The Gazette company plant Wilson and Company city water works and Hutchinson Ice Cream plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South
Boulder
Central City
Cedar Rapids
Gazette Company
Wilson and Company
City Water Works
Hutchinson Ice Cream Company
Renewal notices extend Midland Mortgage corporate period
Court house news reports renewal filings for Midland Mortgage company of Cedar Rapids advancing its corporate period twenty years to May 14, 1958. Authorized capital stock is listed at 50000 with F. C. Waples as president and director and Ingram Bixler as vice president and secretary treasurer. L. J. Thompson and R. J. Pollock of Cedar Rapids are assistant secretaries. An amendment moves Streamline Products company principal place of business from Iowa Falls to Cedar Rapids with J. W. Posey as president and J. P. Schack as secretary. A sheriff brings Jack Bess of Kansas City to Newton for check investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Midland Mortgage Company
Cedar Rapids
Dempsy Jones
F. C. Waples
Ingram Bixler
L.J. Thompson
R. J. Pollock
Streamline Products Company
Iowa Falls
J. W. Posey
J. P. Schack
Divorce Action Dismissed in Benike Case
A divorce action of Charlotte Benike against George W. Benike filed June 3, 1936, has been dismissed by the plaintiff. The marriage occurred August 30, 1929. Alvin Klinkhammer sues for a $600 personal property fire loss naming German Mutual Fire Insurance Association of Monticello as defendant. He cites fire damage on February 26 and May 31, 1937.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte Benike
George W. Benike
Alvin Klinkhammer
German Mutual Fire Insurance Association of
Monticello
Klinkhammer
Iowa Home Economics Council Plans Fall Convention
Nine members of the Iowa Home Economics advisory council met in Cedar Rapids to plan the fall meeting on November 4 and 5 in Des Moines, in connection with the State Teachers’ association convention. Presiding was Mrs. Josephine Arnquist Bakke of Ames, president of the association, with attendees including Mary Campbell of State Teach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ers College
Cedar Falls
Elizabeth Ferguson
Ames
Myrna M. Johnston
Meredith Publishing Company
Des Moines
Casper Schenk
Bernice Borgman
Simpson College
Indianola
Grace Mcllrath Ellis
Marengo
Lorraine Gutz Baur
van Meter
Louisa Rosenfeld
Farm Security Administration
Gertrude Dieken
Iowa Home Economics Association
The
Cedar Rapids
State Teachers’ Association
Josephine Arnquist Bakke
Home Economics Association
Mary Campbell
State Teach
Canaday Leaves Pilot Role for Pan American Ground Ops
Captain Harry Canaday, veteran pilot of the Clipper era and Cedar Rapids native, will shift from flying to assistant operations engineer in Pan American Airways Pacific division. He has flown since 1931 and captained Pacific Clipper missions before moving to ground duties in Alameda, California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canaday
Pan-American Airways
Harry Canaday
Cedar Rapids
Pacific Ocean
Pan-American Airways, Inc
Edna Canaday
Second Avenue
Alameda
Calif
Pan-American
West Coast
Miami
Fla
Pan-American Airman
Pacific
Trinidad
Porto Rico
Jamaica
Canada
Honolulu
Midway
Wake
Guam
U. S. Naval Academy At
Annapolis
U.S.S
Saratoga
Pan- American
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Co. E. Summerlin
F. J. Dawley
Muscatine
Button Workers of
Enthusiasm Committee
Cal Stickle
A. G. Ferguson
A.S. Long
W. N. Morgan
Harry B. Hall
R. A. Reid
G. W. Pentz
Ira R. Walbert
Frank Whitney
Earl Comer
Frank Nodland
Belle Plaine
By Joe McCormick, JR
Northeast Iowa Library Association
City
Court House News
Jack Bees
Jack Bess
Kansas City
Newton
James H. Smith
Iowa Home Economics Council
Martini
PB Daar
Mlag
Pinkham
Hershey
Trav
Robert Futsjoba
Geclers
Maxwell House
Lomanty
L.H.C
William R. Kemble
Marion Blvd
Iowa Theater
Sage Tee
Yeasances
Sawyer
K. BR. O
Carey’s Salt
Epsom Salts
L. C. Kaiser
Oftician
Optometrist
Eastman Kodak Films
May
Astic Iose
Oxydol
Sunmaid Prge
Raisins
van Camp
Prince Albert
Seie
Lady Esther
Nurito
Sur-Ango
Robert Broadwater
Davenport
W. Sthge
Ravenport
Laws
Bs K. P
Woodbury
Tec Phillips Dreams
LIFI
Buick
Oldsmobile
Allen Motors
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