Enrollments Rise At Cedar Rapids High Schools
Cedar Rapids schools report 163 more pupils in senior high on opening day than last year. Total public school attendance is 9 737, down ten from 1935 36. Junior highs drop 176. senior highs gain 21. Roosevelt and McKinley see shifts. 381 teachers on payroll, with reductions to fit the budget. Several resignations noted among staff.
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Cedar Rapids
Arthur Deamer
Board of Education
Wilson Junior High
Roosevelt
McKinley
Franklin
Wilson
Education Committee
Edith Ray
Lida Tallman
Gelia Clemans
O. John Gerwig
Marie Houck
Miriam Silseth
Margaret Grier
Sigourney School Enrollment Figures Report
Supt E B Lynch notes Sigourney high school enrollment 218 with seven th and eighth grades at 45 each. In South Ward Miss Martha Haffner reports 180 pupils. kindergarten taught by Sue Downing and grade teachers Mae Jackson Mabel Brolliar Elizabeth Hayes and Vera Floto. North Ward principal Miss Helen Kadel reports 120 attendance for fourth and fifth grades with Sue Downing organizing kindergarten Vena Utterback Nina Pennel.
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Sigourney
E. B. Lynch
Harvey Littrell
Rufus Hoffman
Martha Haffner
South Ward
Sue Downing
Mae Jackson
Mabel Brolliar
Elizabeth Hayes
Vera Floto
Helen Kadel
North Ward
Vena Utterback
Nina Pennel
Wife Entitled To Her Allowance In Family Budget
Dear Miss Manners advises the wife to seek fair treatment after fourteen years of marriage. The letter describes a grudging allowance system and a past affair, with the writer confronting humiliation and doubt about staying with an unfaithful husband.
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MR. S
Miss Manners
Dear Miss Manners Advice on a Boyfriend’s Affection
A reader asks why the boyfriend has left her for another girl with advantages. The columnist replies there is little to do beyond hoping he tires of the other girl and returns. any attempt to attract him may push him away.
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Miss Manners
Grasshoppers 212 Inches Long Found in Dakota
A tourist named John Wesley of Pittsburgh brought 15 large grasshoppers to The Gazette office on Wednesday night. Caught near Midland South Dakota at the edge of a field, the smallest measured two and a half inches and the largest over three inches. Local lore calls them cannibal hoppers for their habit of eating smaller kin when food is scarce.
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Gazette Office
John Wesley
Pittsburgh
Midland
S. D
Monona Public Schools Open With 232 Students
Monona public schools opened Tuesday with 130 students in the high school and 102 in the grades. The faculty includes J. F. Church as superintendent and J. P. Lambert as principal, with staff covering agriculture, commercial and band, home economics, music, English, athletic coaching, and grade teachers Garnet McGhee, Mary Pigott, Naomi Tangen, Marjorie Mangold, and Mabel Tooker from nearby towns.
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Monona
Monona Public
J. F. Church
J. P. Lambert
J. S. Schoentag
W. P. Carr
Eunice Johnson
Merle Sliter
Viola Bohlen
Edward O’connor
Garnet McGhee
Manchester
Mary Pigott
Waukon
Naomi Tangen
New Prairie
Minn
Marjorie Mangold
Ryan
Mabel Tooker
Merrill
Armstrong's INTER WOVEN Patterns Attract Young Men
Young men favor the popular new patterns shown at Armstrong's by INTER WOVEN. Colorful patterns in good taste. Shoes in Smart plain toes wing tips and straight tips with supple grain leathers priced from 4.95 to 5.95. Town Talks noted as popular choice among hundreds.
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Armstrong’s
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Denigr High School
George Clark
Mary Manners
Monroe
Sanford
Dakota
Winthrop
Nancy Lee
Axminster
Wiltons
Manhattan
Tom Sawyer
Duke of Kent
Ideal College
Glover
Western Range Woolens
Hudson Bay
Glenurquhardt
Armstrong
Bigelow
Alli
3Rd Ave
8Rd St
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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