War on Erosion Campaign Outlined for Iowa CCC
J R Maher outlined a large Iowa erosion program by CCC youths in nineteen camps. They will build about 21 500 check dams and slope, seed, sod, and tree plantings on gullied lands, fencing and terrace structures to protect water and soil. Camps span Clarinda Shenandoah Anamosa Knoxville Malvern Eldora Denison Marion Red Oak Vers, Win River, McGregor Cresco Sidney Chariton Centerville Ottumwa Fairfield Sigourney Maquoketa.
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Des Moines
J. R. Maher
Iowa
CCC
Maher
Soil Conservation Service
Clarinda
Shenandoah
Eon
Knoxville
Malvern
Eldora
Denison
Marion
Red Oak
Winverset
McGregor
Cresco
Sidney
Chariton
Centerville
Ottumwa
Fairfield
Sigourney
Maquoketa
United States
Soil Conservation Servce
Eastern Iowa News in Brief Highlights Numerous Local Updates
Washington county postpones the Washington county women’s Republican meeting to May 20 with Mrs. Bess Turner Franklin as speaker. Springville reports the death of Cornelia Knight, born 1859, detailing family history, church ties, and funeral plans. Iowa City notes a suspended $300 fine for Martin Rogers on DUI charges. Earl Probanz faces larceny charges. Numerous local obituaries, school elections, weddings, and civic notices across towns including Lost Nation, West Union, Blairstown, Mount Vernon, and more.
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Wellman
Washington County Women’s Republican
Bess Turner Franklin
Iowa City
Martin Rogers
Farmer
Rogers
Earl Probanz
Moline
Ill
Earlville Farmer Dies by His Own Action
Earlville tenant Andrew Miller aged 4 on a farm north of Earlville reportedly committed death by his own action on Saturday morning. His wife found the body in a machine bed fifteen minutes after he left the house at 5 am. Coroner of Manchester ruled the death a suicide. Surviving are the wife and seven children.
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Earlville
Andrew Miller
Haroldrewin
Cedar Rapids
Manchester
Ife
State music contest yields many superior ratings
Twenty seven percent of 6,500 contestants at the Iowa high school music festival here earlier this month received superior ratings. Prof Karles B Righter of the University of Iowa music department announced the official list of award winners, showing 133 superior awards compared with 113 last year, along with 227 excellent and 117 good awards.
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Iowa City
Karles B. Righter
University of Iowa Music Department
Resolution of Necessity for Sanitary Sewer Cedar Rapids
City Council of Cedar Rapids Iowa fixes time for May 25 1936 hearing on proposed sanitary sewer project along Rockford Road Southwest from 8th Avenue to 965 feet southwest. Plan calls for 8 inch vitrified sewer pipe and manholes with costs estimated at 2312.50. property owners may file objections by final consideration date. Public notice cites inspection in City Clerk's office and publication dates in Gazette.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Id Council
City
City of
Rockford Road
8Th Avenue
Code of Iowa
Memes Gsicas
E Council
Ted
L. J. Storey
M. M. Krebs
Vedar Rapids
Amendment to Articles of Cedar Rapids Engineering Company
Notice states at an April 1936 stockholders meeting in Cedar Rapids the Articles of Incorporation were amended to set authorized capital of 5000 shares with no par value and no preferred stock. Existing common stock will be exchanged at 10 to 1. remaining authorized shares may be issued later with full payment and under directors terms. Signed April 18 1936 by R H Meister president and Albert Hahn secretary with lawyers Donnelly Lynch Anderson and Lynch.
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Cedar Rapids Engineering Company
Ar Rapids Engineering Company
Ted
Cedar Batts Engineering
R. H. Meister
Albert Hahn
Donnelly
Confession Aids Solve Shine Murder Case
The death of Dan Shine, a 60 year old Clayton County farmer, is tied to an arrest and claimed confession by 18 year old Maynard Lenox of East Dubuque. Lenox spoke of a gang plot to kill the elderly bridegroom for his property. officers say Lenox fired the fatal shot, which he denies.
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Dan Shine
Clayton County
Maynard Lenox
East Dubuque
Lenox
Bampton Delights Mount Vernon Audience At May Festival
Metopolitan soprano Miss Bampton charms Mount Vernon with a rich mezzo range and graceful stage presence. Frederick Schauwecker's piano supports enhance the performance as the audience applauds through encores. Mischa Mischakoff will solo with the Chicago Symphony in Saturday's closing concert featuring Tschaikowsky, Gluck, Mozart and Strauss works.
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Mount Vernon
Rose Bampton
Metropolitan Opera
Cornell
Miss Bampton
Frederick Schauwecker
Frederick Stock
Chicago Sympany Orchestra
Tschaikowsky
Mischa Mischakoff
Symphony
Gluck Symphony
Kachel
Uuussy
der Rosenkavalier
Richard Strauss
Asthma Fatal To Father McNamara
WAUKON The Rev. J. H. Mc Namara aged 62 pastor of St Marys Catholic church at Lycurgus near here for 25 years died Saturday morning from asthma and complications. He was born in Ireland where a brother and sister reside.
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Waukon
J. H. McNamara
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Lycurgus
Here
Ireland
Monticello Couple Marks 55th Wedding Anniversary
Mr and Mrs George Keith of Monticello were honored at a family gathering hosted by their daughter Mrs Clara Dunlap in Manchester to celebrate their fifty fifth wedding anniversary. Also present were Mrs Bess Dickey Mrs Leslie Talbott and Beverly Madge of Monticello Mr and Mrs Ben Keith and family of Delhi Mr Ray Dunlap and sons of Masonville and Mrs Grace Hucker and daughter Opal of Hopkinton.
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Monticello
George Keith
Clara Dunlap
Manchester
Keith
Bess Dickey
Leslie Talbott
Beverly Madge
Ben Keith
Delhi
Ray Dunlap
Masonville
Grace Hucker
Opal
Hopkinton
Marengo Youth 15 Killed by Train Near Walcott Iowa
AP report states Paul Frederickson 15 from Marengo died after being found beside Rock Island tracks near Walcott Iowa. He left home Thursday. officials believe he fell from a train. Surviving: his parents five sisters and two brothers. funeral at Lutheran church Monday.
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Marengo
L. J. Frederickson
Paul
Rock Island
Walcott
Iowa
Lutheran Church
Grinnell Youth Adviser To Haile Returns Home
John H. Spencer a Grinnell college graduate and specialist in international law who served as an assistant political adviser to Emperor Haile Selassie returned to the United States. He said his mission was ended after arriving in Djibouti from Addis Ababa where he witnessed the panic following the emperor's flight. His train was attacked but repulsed by French Senegalese troops.
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Djibouti
French Somaliland
John H. Spencer
Grinnell College
Haile Selassie
Ethiopia
United States
Spencer
Grinnell
Selassie
Brain Trust
Addis Ababa
Newhall Seniors Stage Seventeen Play
Newhall seniors present Seventeen by Booth Tarkington with Lucille Werning and Albert Weyer in leading roles. Other cast members include Jeanette Wheeler Lloyd Larson and Mable Boddicker under director Kathryn Scovel in the high school auditorium Friday evening May 15.
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the Gazette
Newhall
Lucille Werning
Albert Weyer
Booth Tarkington
Jeanette Wheeler
Lloyd Larson
Mable Boddicker
Robert Boddicker
Clifford Olson
Charles Horwedel
Georganna Stelling
Arnold Hertle
Marcella Kolsto
Arlene Wilhelmi
Paul Hegewald
Vernon Williams
Kathryn Scovel
Etta B Carpenter Dies Past Grand Matron of Iowa OES
Mrs Etta Blayney Carpenter 67 past grand matron of the Eastern Star lodge of Iowa died at 3 30 a m Saturday in Anamosa hospital after a lingering illness She was born June 9 1868 in Jones county daughter of Mr and Mrs John Blayney She was the last surviving in her family except for brother Gilbert of Olin Her husband Fred Carpenter died in 1930 Funeral services set for 2 30 p m Monday at the Congregational church Rev D M Beggs to officiate Friends may call at Loder funeral home from 1 p m Monday then body lies in state at the church Burial in Olin
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Marengo
Cub Scout Achievement Council
Harold W. Swift
Robert Shipton
John Gode
Otto Gode
Garth Ridenour
Maurice Sandvig
Donald Hardenbrook
Earl Wiebold
Ben Agee
Maurice Landing
Glenn Johnson
William Chantry
Gene Brown
John Frick
Anamosa
Thelma Stoughton
Frank Stoughton
John S
Tony, Jr
John S. Tony
Warren, Ill
Galena
Ill
McMahon
John Schmidt
Monticello
Tony
Warren
Williamsburg
A. J. van Dee
James Cashman
Town
van Dee
Strawberry Point
Men of the Methodist Church
Postville
A. L. Peterson
R. Franklin Galloway
Ednah McConnell
Clay County
Vinton
Charlie Berger
Mt. Auburn
Grand Jury
J. A. Ruhl
Berger
Leland A. Fry
J. B. Franklin
Herman Franzenberg
Newell Crow
Garrison Farm
Harley Schlarbaum
Franzenberg
Grand
Riverside
St. Mary’s Church
Bernard Kinsey
Edward Metz
John Muller
Ronald Pitz
Paul Rummelhart
Norbert Thomann
Charles Waldschmidt
Shirley Fesler
Lucille Kron
Phyllis Meade
Eleanor Ruth
Marceline Rummelhart
Norma Rose Stransky
Holy Name Society
Tipton
District Court
F. O. Ellison
Charles F. Miller
Albert N. Miller
Supreme Court
Fay W. Hite
Catherine McDaniel
Sioux City
E. A. Sabin
Methodist Church
Evergreen Cemetery
McDaniel
Garrett McDaniel
Earlville
High School
Etta Blayney Carpenter
Eastern Star Lodge of
Iowa
John Blayney
Jones County
Gilbert
Olin
Fred Carpenter
Funeral services for L. E. Burget in Fayette Sunday
L. E. Burget 70 died Thursday and funeral services will be held at his Fayette home Sunday afternoon. He recently retired from a long career in plumbing. Born in Indiana he moved to Iowa as a child with his parents. He married Josie Spatcher in 1887 and later farmed before settling in Fayette. Surviving are his widow a mother Mrs Eli Burger Fayette a brother J. W. Fayette a sister Mrs L A Miller Colorado Springs three sons Harley Colorado Springs Donald California and Clifford Fayette and a daughter Mrs Thelma McGillis Edmore N D.
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Fayette
L. E. Burget
West Liberty Names Valedictorian and Salutatorian
Harold Hendricks son of Mr and Mrs Ed Hendricks Cedar Valley is valedictorian and Ruth Ann McMahon daughter of Mr and Mrs Scott McMahon is salutatorian of the high school graduating class. Other graduates include John W Carey Herbert E Hendricks Margaret E Hindee Kath erine F Kapfer Robert L Lane Edith Buenta Romig and many more.
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West Liberty
Harold Hendricks
Ed Hendricks
Cedar Valley
Ruth Ann McMahon
Scott McMahon
John W. Carey
Herbert E. Hendricks
Margaret E. Hindee
Katherine F. Kapfer
Robert L. Lane
Edith Buenta Romig
Donald E. Sickman
Edna M. Townsend
Jean Elaine Wuestenberg
Darrel E
Troy Mills Seniors To Present Crashing Society Play
The Troy Mills high school senior class will present a three act comedy Crashing Society by James C Parker in the high school auditorium May 16 at 8 pm Olive Wagner and Andrew Andrews lead with Virginia Palmer Mary Burke Lester Washburn Arthur Simanek Helen Attwood Ruth Price Wilbur Powell Margaret Fisher and Charles McCright in the cast directed by Maude Shupp
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Troy Mills
James C. Parker
Olive Wagner
Andrew Andrews
Virginia Palmer
Mary Burke
Lester Washburn
Arthur Simanek
Helen Attwood
Ruth Price
Wilbur Powell
Margaret Fisher
Charles McCright
Maude Shupp
Let s Explore Let s Explore Your Mind Author s Note
The text presents a science oriented view on morality, stating that scientific insight guides decisions for social order. It cautions that not all moral questions have absolute scientific answers while affirming science prioritizes collective rights over individual rights in organized society.
Re-marriage After Divorce Finds One Third Remarry
Dr. Paul Popenoe presented at the American Eugenics Society that only about one third of divorced people ever remarry. His paper, titled Re-marriage after Divorce, noted the limited pursuance of remarriage among divorced individuals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Eugenics Society
Paul Popenoe
The
Institute of Family Relations of
Los Angeles
How To Develop Your Personality by Sadie Myers Shellow
A practical booklet offered by The Cedar Rapids Gazette through Wiggam's Let's Explore Your Mind column. Readers are urged to send 10 cents for costs and a stamped self addressed envelope to receive the guide by the noted PhD Sadie Myers Shellow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Sadie Myers Shellow
E Wiggam
Cedar Rapids
Soil base ratios for twenty two Iowa counties issued
Iowa soil conservation committeemen from twenty two east central and south eastern counties received their soil depleting base figures. Federal statistician Leslie M. Carl used 1930 census data adjusted to 1932 1933 to set each county’s target reduction.
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Iowa City
Soil Conservation
Black Hawk
Buchanan
Delaware
Dubuque
Benton
Linn
Jones
Jackson
Clinton
Scott
Cedar
Johnsson
Iowa
Keokuk
Washington
Muscatine
Louisa
Des Moines
Henry
Jefferson
van Buren
Lee
Governor Reviews Cadets On Iowa City Campus
More than 40 200 University of Iowa cadets passed in review before Gov Clyde L Herring on Saturday afternoon in the fifty fifth annual Governors day ceremony The governor was chief speaker at a luncheon in his honor also on the program were President Eugene A Gilmore Maj Gen Frank C Bolles Col George F Dailey head of the university military department Miss Catherine Nacke honorary colonel of the cadet regiment was presented at the luncheon Herring presented prizes and awards to winners in military competition at the review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
University of Iowa
Clyde L. Herring
Iowa
Eugene A. Gilmore
University
Frank C. Bolles
Seventh Corps
George F. Dailey
Catherine Nacke
Plan Television Show For Amateur Radio Operators
Prof. E. B. Kurtz of the University of Iowa will conduct a television demonstration for about 400 amateur radio operators meeting in Iowa City. The university station is the state’s only licensed sight-sound broadcast facility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
E. B. Kurtz
University of Iowa Electrical Engineering Department
Elizabeth The Queen Thursday At S. U. S. Theater
Maxwell Andersons play Elizabeth the Queen will close the University of Iowa theater season. Performances occur next Thursday in the old Macbride auditorium before the new $125 000 theater opens in the fall.
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the Gazette
Iowa City
Maxwell
And It Rained operetta staged by Arlington high glee clubs
Arlington high school presented the operetta And It Rained Friday evening. Cast included Robert Miehe Robert Ernst Stanley Halstead Thornton Roberts Frances Geisinger Dorothy Wilkerson Harley Johnson Arletta Baker Winifred Chamberlin Kathryn Gamm Dorcas Crawford Alice Margaret Beckner Reva Meyers Dorothy Hutchinson Mary Peters Wilma Gordon Carleen Meyers Erma Licke Iss Arley Adams Gladys Wittoff Shirley Green Beulah Squires Edith Read Dorothy Striecher Harold Nus Donald Bachman Floyd Greisinger Max Retz Earl Rice Bernice Grey Bernita Hassler Cleo Wenthy Clara Andrea Gertrude Nus Maxine Scovel Mary Schmidt Inez Freeman.
Just Folks Bird Song Poem Reflections on Joy and Faith
A speaker hears a bird singing at dawn from a maple tree and questions why the bird, despite dangers, seems exultant while humans burdened by doubt struggle to find joy. The poem ends with wonder at the bird’s secret source of lightness and gratitude.
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Utah
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Hastings
Neb
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Knight
L. C. Smith
van Horne
Rozella Peiper
Joseph Peiper
Immaculate Conception Church
T. J. Norris
Clarence Duncalf
Louis
Lucille Peiper
Vinton High School
Federated Church
B. H. Cheney
M. H. Dahe
Polly Ludwig
Howard Mohr
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Margaret Dickman
Earl Ott
Louis Meink
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Albert Dickmen
Clarence Ott
Frank Myatt
Harberlodge
A. F
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Waterloo
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Minneapolis
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Martha Pederson
Martha Olson
Ole Olson
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Elias L. Pederson
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Lewis E. Pederson
Ann Breathan
Storden
Minn
Ole Pederson
Peter
Woodward
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Sampson
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Fla
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Andrew Olson
Heron Lake
Presbyterian Church
J. C. B. Peck
Pleasant Hill Cemetery
Neff
Frank Chamberlain
Cora Chamberlain Thompson
Manilla
Bennett
Otis Moore
Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society
Central City
Perry G. Mills
Chamber of Commerce
B. H. Johnson
F. O. Satter
C. E. Butters
R. Gordon Hatch
M. B. Geesey
George Barclay
Tom Smith
J. E. Blodgett
Wendell Black
Henry Eibhacker
Arthur Hatter
Garth Hite
James Madison
Gordon Luce
Kretan Rinehart
Margaret Dower
Rosa Furlong
Odena Dillin
Sepha Blackwell
Arlene Heller
Miss Hattie Crenshaw
Supt. J. H. Shipton
R. L. Runkle
St. Patrick’s Hall
Rowena Gordon
Keith Bauserman
Donald Thompson
Supt
R. E. Ballard
Fireman’s Hall
Jess L. Tomlinson
Conrad Schallau
Sara Seedorf
H. G. Griffith
Osborne O’brien
E. J. Woltersdorf
L. G. Colston
Colonial Food Shop
Elton Melberg
Geraldine Cole
Marcella Knen
Robert McNee
Lorene Schulte
Geraldine Long
Supt. Johnston
Columbus Junction
Roy Strawhacker
Oakville
Herrick Construction Company
No. 2
Bellevue Hospital
Muscaine
Charles H. Arven
Loder
Beam and Miller
Cascade
J. M. Lehner
Iowa State Highway Commission
St. Paul’s Reformed Church
Albert
Norman Guenther
Thelma Gregory
Nita Floyd
Wilma Riedesel
Kathryn Guenther
Junior Klahn
Marjory Witte
Lola Andreson
Ralph Martens
Ruth Dennie
Ruth Bicknese
Dean Buchana
Ethel Mae Guenther
Wendel Lohmann
JESUP
Jesup Consolidated School
Conesville
Sunny
Sunnyside
Jessie Vera Walker
Lorena Maxwell
Daisy Kemp
Robert Macdonald
Columbia School of Music
Chicago
West Liberty Ladies Choral Club
First Presbyterian Church
Macdonald
Belle Plaine
Milton Fisher
William
Catherine Fisher
Guinntown
Bethany
Vinton Lee
Congregational Church
Oak Hill Cemetery
Dysart
Thomas Allen Fouts
Davenport
G. C
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William Smith
Graydon Howe
Alfred Ellis
Thelma
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Robert A
Thomas
Carl
Eugene
Fouts
Wichita
Tex
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Center Junction
S. V. Williams
Lloyd Morris
Coe College
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Wanda McDonald
Selena Otten
Imogene Chase
Nelda Davis
Lucile Livingstone
Arlo Bell
Edwin Craig
Myron Mead
Robert Alyea
Lloyd Goldsmith
Jean Downing
J. F. Livingstone
Miss Downing
Tama
Baldwin
Baldwin Independent School
Hurst Hotel
Clayton White
Edward Sterk
James Round
Donald Graves
Lillian Wosoba
Eloise Hale
Edward Merrick
Wendell White
Minnesota University
Earlville Farmer
Bampton
Prof
Max Daehler
Father McNamara
Haile
Etta B. Carpenter
Iowa O. E. S
Albert Edward Wiggam
S. A. Is
Elizabeth the Queen
Edgar A. Guest
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