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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1933
Page
7
Linn county retired bonds totaling 132000 and paid 133362 20 in interest. A 74000 road improvement issue was refinanced by Merchants National Bank of Cedar Rapids using gasoline tax revenues. Refunding bonds were issued to bridge highway funding delays while total outstanding bonded debt fell to 4332000.
Ames extension specialist C L Fitch warns against fraud in selling certified potato seed. Dealers use blue tags or labels to imply official certification and some label seed as growers certified though not certified. Buyers should inspect tags for official certifying officials and sealed bags to avoid deteriorated seed.
Tipton reports the death of O. P. Pratt 92 a Civil War veteran at his home after a three weeks illness. He had lived in Cedar county forty eight years and is survived by son Frank of Tipton a foster son Arthur of Los Angeles five grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Funeral plans were not finalized.
Seventh and eighth grade rural school examinations will be held at seventeen points in the county for 350 pupils on Thursday and Friday. Eighth graders take arithmetic civics and spelling Thursday morning and grammar reading and history Thursday afternoon. Friday morning seventh graders answer geography and hygiene with music in the afternoon at numerous schools and the county superintendent’s office in Cedar Rapids.
Mt Vernon council tackled two unusual issues in one meeting: Ray Ruppert applied for a class B beer license and a petition with over eighty signatures urged repeal of a long standing pool hall ban. A separate note describes a railroad bridge built using tree trunks as timbers.
Pearl Buck, author of The Good Earth, resigns from Presbyterian Foreign Missions. She will return to the Orient but not as a missionary and plans to continue writing novels. The board notes the resignation with regret and some officials vow further action or sympathy.
Carl Sexton thirty of 509 B avenue NE was sentenced to ten years at the Anamosa reformatory by Judge H. C. Ring on a larceny of motor vehicle charge. In a signed confession April 17 he admitted taking a Chevrolet sedan from Charles Elson near Toddville and cars from Joe Holland and Claude McClung of Cedar Rapids. Edmund Lockwood and Earl Elson face motor theft charges tied to the confession. A true information was filed by County Attorney G. K. Thompson.
The page lists business cards and wants ads for services including manicure and haircuts, guaranteed permanents, typewriter/tubular ads, and beauty products. It also notes gutter and spouting installation, furnace cleaning, yard work, rug cleaning, roofing, and rough job wants with phone numbers for contact.
Classified snippets advertise poultry and farming supplies. Listings include used newspaper mats for hen house lining from Gordon Hatchery Marion Iowa, baby chicks booking for June, energy chick starter, eggland mash, Quaker Hatchery, and stock to pasture by month. A modern five room bungalow for cash sale appears from Lincoln Park area.
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