Vocational School Group Appointed For Night Classes
Harry Palmer chairs a committee to run the vocational night school at Me Finley high school from 7 to 9 pm on Mondays and Thursdays. Members include James Plumb R. V. Richter and A. L. Taylor with E. H. Kristensen advising. H. W. Carmichael will oversee the program. Textbooks and papers by the International Correspondence Schools. William En Jr. to supervise shop work. Open to any local industry employee. costs reduced 10 to 20 percent. board waives $2 evening school fee. Courses cover machine shop tool making foundry sheet metal woodwork heat treatment and welder gas and electric welding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Palmer
Theanufacturers
Dear Rapids Chamber of Commerce
Murday
Meinley High School
James Plumb
Ittee
R. V. Richter
Plumbers Union
E Employes
A. L. Taylor
Manufactors’ Bureau
E. H. Kristensen
H. W. Carmichael
E State Department
William Een, Jr
Roose- It
Divorces Granted by Judge Ring on Cruel Treatment Grounds
Judge H. C. Ring granted divorces on cruel and inhuman treatment grounds. Names restored include Anta Marie Hoover to Mrs Hoover and Lillian Lucille Long to Mrs Stingley. Other filed suits list Marguerite Turk versus Very Turk and Margaret Klopp versus Daniel Klopp among Davenport and Waterloo marriages and dates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. C. Ring
Anta Marie Hoover
Harry C. Hoover, Jr
Center Point
Keith Pennington
Eva Pennington
Aterloo
Lilan Lucille Stingley
Earl E.tingley
West Liberty
Hoover
Lillianucille Long
$1 Start Life Policy Offers Up To $3000 Protection
A mail order life insurance key offers up to $1500 for natural death and up to $3000 for accidental death with no medical exam. Available to men women and children aged 10 to 84. Buy for $1 initial payment and request free inspection details from Guaranty Union Life Insurance Co Department 49 Beverly Hills California.
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Aly
Guaranty Unionife Insurance Co
Dept
Verly Hills
California
Toyy
From Stables To Latin Atting People In Their Place
Hilda Upmier daughter of Mr and Mrs Harry Upmier near Ely works as co manager of a string of saddle horses and as a part time usherette at the Paramount theater while attending Coe college. She balances horses college sorority Alpha Gamma Delta and theater duties and has ridden nearly twelve hours straight to drive cattle from Beverly sale barns to her home.
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Hilda Upmier
Harry Upmier
Ely
Paramount Theater
Verne
Ames
Hilda
Alpha Gamma Delta
Beverly Sale
Sorority Sisters
McDonald Marriage and Divorce Hearings Listed
McDonald married at Galena on December 11 1931. Judge Ring Saturday heard a divorce suit by Jess E Stevens 46 against Meda Stevens. The couple wed in Westboro Wisconsin January 22 1917. Faulkes and Thompson seek 1000 in a rental suit against Alden Motors Inc. D W Bates receiver names S E Smith Laura Smith and D W Smith in a 591 48 note suit. A quieting title action by Evelyn Billingham Mabel Heiss Margaret Parsons Ethyl Erickson and Clara Schuettpelz was dismissed without prejudice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James N. Faulkes
Alice M Thompson
Alden Motors, Inc
D. W. Bates
Wapsie Valley State Bank of
Central City
S. E. Smith
Laura Smith
D. W. Smith
Evelyn Billingham
Mabel Heiss
Margaret Parsons
Ethyl Erickson
Clara Schuettpelz
Divorce suit and custody dispute in Lundin case
Hoyt B. Lundin sues Helen M. Lundin for divorce on cruel and inhuman treatment. The couple wed at Vinton on July 19, 1922, and Lundin seeks custody of three children and title to real estate and household goods. The case was heard by Judge H. C. Ring. Also, Thomas Thompson, 51, held on illegal liquor sale charges since Sept 20, was released after posting a $500 bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoyt B. Lundin
Helen M. Lundin
Vinton
Lundin
H. C. Ring
Thomas Thompson
Eighth Avenue SE
Rail Board Hears Rival Contentions In Wage Dispute
Washington AP report on the special fact finding board meeting as labor lawyer Tom Davis accuses railroads of using a 15 percent wage cut to drive a nationwide wage suppression and discredit the administration, while J H Parmelee of the Association of American Railroads cites severe 1938 conditions and the need to keep rail service and defense support viable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Tom Davis
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Wall Street
Morgan and Company
Kuhn, Loeb and Company
Parmelee
Wright Farm and Homestead Near Webster Sold at Auction
The 300 acre estate of former congressman Fred Wright and an 80 acre tract near Webster sold for 15 300 dollars and 3 450 dollars per acre respectively, bought by Dr. Clarence Heald of Sigourney. The old homestead two miles south of Webster, a Keokuk county show place, sheltering Bryan in 1896, will be repaired and restored. A large crowd attended.
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Sigourney
Fred Wright
Congress
Clarence Heald
Webster
Keokuk County
William Jennings Bryan
Ira
Virgil
Heald
Cedar Rapids
Tovarich to Open UI Theater Season in November
University of Iowa will launch its 1938-39 theater season with Tovarich by Jacques Deval, directed by Edward C. Mabie, premiering the week of November 7. The experimental season opens with Rusty Gun on October 27-28 and Gilded Prairie on November 17-18, both by local and English authors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
Tovarich
Jacques Deval
University of Iowa Theater
Edward C. Mabie
Eugenie Leontovich
London
Paris
Mabie
Billy the Kid
Norman Felton
England
Warren Lee
Kansas
First Cranberry Carload Arrives From Tremont Mass
Opening the 1938 cranberry season the first carload of fresh cranberries shipped to Cedar Rapids arrives from Tremont Massachusetts. It will be distributed to retail dealers Monday by Lagomarcino Grape Co. The 15 000 pound load highlights how a family of four uses about one pound per meal. The fruit dates to Pilgrim times and has become a major national staple with annual consumption near 60 million pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Tremont
Mass
Lagomarcino-Grape Company
Cape Cod
New Car and Truck Registrations Across Years and Months
The Linn County Abstract company’s record shows 1932 to 1938 September new car and truck registrations in Milo Sedlacek’s office. For 1938 nine months total 104 28 January through 89 221 September, with monthly figures listed for each month and year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linn County Abstract Company
Milo Sedlacek
Interstate rail grain rate proposal approved
The Interstate Commerce Commission on Saturday allowed eastern railroads to file proposed reduced export grain rates from Chicago to New York with 20 days notice instead of the usual 30 days.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chicago
New York
Commission
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Ladies’ Home Journal
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Enna Jettick
Vogue
Harpers
Rail Board
Open University
Continental Casualty Co
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Dale A. Stubbs
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