Cedar Rapids Chest Campaign Expands With Unit Account Drive
The Cedar Rapids Comprenity Chest enters a unit account phase starting Friday, led by M H Morrison. Twenty six teams of volunteers will canvass firms and individuals, with executives tasked to mobilize colleagues, prior to the general campaign opening next Wednesday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
M H Morrison
Morrison
Roosevelt Hotel
Carl Ettinger
Ervin F. Stepanek
Fruunger
Gertrude Stenner
Warren Hansen
AL. Smulckoff
Paul Huston
Ed Cupp
James E. Franken
Sales Army
G Stewart Halmes
C S Foster
Dental Draven
Township Trustees Sought For New Road Improvement Plan
Trustees were urged to choose roads for a forthcoming improvement plan funded by Bergman ral program. The note asks the township to select routes for inclusion. A separate passage recounts a man named Flesh Fav who was imprisoned, then released, and later fled police after running up a taxi bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bergman
Jinn Houpty
Hece
Berg
Pou
Dita Sabr
Sore Wail
Joes
City Briefs and Personals Highlight Local Happenings
Cedar Rapids residents hear about club meetings and civic notices. Veterans of Foreign Wars gain permission for a street poppy sale while unions plan gatherings at Union hall. Local residents report family moves, hospital stays, and travel plans. A tire cutting incident draws police attention as a rain of CCC workers passes through.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
Cedar Rapids
CCC
Rock Island
Montana
Idaho
Camp Dix
N. J
Aviation man J Wilbur Buresh heads to Bremerton after sick leave
J Wilbur Buresh a US Navy aviation rig ger and son of Mr and Mrs John Buresh left for Bremerton Washington Tuesday night after spending thirty days sick leave. He will rejoin the crew of the USSS Saratoga aircraft carrier. Ed McCune reported a theft of two crescent wrenches a hammer and pliers from the old Washington high school parking lot. The tools valued at 1 dollar were taken overnight. Dave Williams commissioner of public improvements was reported in serious condition at the University hospital in Iowa City after a major operation Monday Attending physicians said the turning point would be reached in several days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J Wilbur Buresh
United States Navy
John Buresh
Sixth Avenue
Bremerton
Wash
Saratoga
Ed McCune
Second Avenue SE
Washington High School
Dave Williams
Public Improvements
University Hospital
Iowa City
Town Milling seeks permit to erect scales council Friday
The Town Milling company asked the city council for permission to erect scales on the premises. The request underscores potential impacts on traffic operations and local business activity.
Gas mains to run near Twenty second avenue and A street SW
The Cedar Rapids Gas company was granted permission to install gas mains near Twenty second avenue and A street SW. A fragment notes the plan extends into Dewey avenue NE near the Sixth street plant and that the matter was referred to City Engineer F. E. Young. The Women's Labor Bureau No. 17 will meet Thursday at 7 30 p.m. at the Labor Temple.
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Dewey Avenue
Sixth Street
F. E. Young
Cedar Rapids Gas Company
Women's Labor Bureau No. 17
Labor Temple
Train No 108 Timetable Change on Milwaukee Route
Schedule update effective Sunday shifts Ottumwa Cedar Rapids train No 108. The rail line’s daily service, excluding Sundays, will see the train arrival here move from 655 PM to 605 PM under the new timetable.
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Milwaukee Railroad
Ottumwa
Red Cross Roll Call Under Linn County Chapter Plans
Supplies for the Linn county American Red Cross annual roll call arrived Tuesday with Mrs. Metta A Burd as executive secretary. C. V. Shepherd chairs the drive for the third year, covering November 11 to November 25. Evangelist Harry Vom Bruch warns youths about moral dangers from immodest fashions and other temptations, speaking on The Devil Goes Fishing and Lest We Forget in upcoming Sunshine Mission events.
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Linn County
The
American Red Cross
Metta A Burd
C. V. Shepherd
Harry Vom Bruch
Sunshine Mission
Evangelist
Friday Sermon and Final Campaign Appearance by Jimmie Davis
Jimmie Davis tenor will make his final appearance during the campaign on Friday night with Hangman Rope as the theme. The children's chorus will sing. Mrs. William Rush of 810 Ninth Street NW has returned from Hidden Paradise Nebraska where she visited her daughter Evelyn Scurlock a member of a girls' orchestra now touring the Black Hills and planning a tour of southern states this winter before returning to Cedar Rapids in spring.
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Jimmie Davis
William Rush
Ninth Street
Hidden Paradise
Long Pine
Neb
Evelyn Scurlock
Black Hills
Cedar Rapids
Young Democratic Club of Linn County Meet Thursday Evening
The Young Democratic club of Linn County will hold a meeting on Thursday at 8 pm at the office of president Raymond Coward 807 American Trust Building. All members are urged to attend to plan a fall outing in the near future.
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Bakers Union
Union Hall
Young Democratic Club
Linn County
Raymond Coward
American Trust Bldg
Fifth annual Dog Watch to be held at Fort Des Moines hotel
Navy men statewide learn the Fifth annual Dog Watch will be held at the Fort Des Moines hotel in Des Moines on Sunday Oct 24. Principal speaker Congress member Melvin J Maas of Minnesota will address the event. Maas sits on the House naval affairs committee and is a lieutenant colonel in the marine corps aviation reserve.
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Fort Des Moines
Des Moines
Melvin J. Maas
Minnesota
House
Naval Affairs Committee
Marine Corps Aviation Reserve
Leathercraft program opens Cub Pack No 2 meeting
At Hayes school the season's first Cub Pack No 2 meeting featured Rev. V. C. Grant speaking on leathercraft and displaying leather work. Thirty Cubs and leaders plus thirty visitors attended the evening with a trained seal act and musical selections by Tommy Rebec Vernon Kriz and Donald Vesely. Rufus Rebec is cubmaster.
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Hayes P. T. A
Hayes School
V. C. Grant
Tommy Rebec
Vernon Kriz
Donald Vesely
Rufus Rebec
Council Grants Final Approval of $30000 Bond Sale
The council approved selling 30000 dollars of city bonds to Kosek Investment Company with 13000 for parks and the rest for fire improvements. Commissioner Benesh said the aerial ladder truck funded by the bonds should arrive after Oct 1 and be placed at the central fire station.
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Council
Kosek Investment Company
W. C. Benesh
Public Improvements
Central Fire Station
Grocery Item Prices From A Local Store List
A reader listing shows varied grocery items with unit prices and weights. Items include pancake flour 25c, griddle mix 23c, northern beans two pounds at unknown price, oats, 3 minute Crisco, beef roast per pound, wieners, bacon, soap chips five pounds, corn niblets, peas, oil, spinach, broccoli, carrots, perch, haddock, oysters pint, lard in three pound pails.
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de Robb Roses
Pentek
Galien Witsen
Haddeck
Local Speeder Fined Ten Dollars In Police Court
Keith Lyon of 120 Thirty-second Street NE was fined ten dollars and costs after arraignment on a speeding charge. Overtime parking fines applied to J C Kucera Y M C As and Dr R D Proctor with costs.
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Bull Bell
Central Hotel
Keith Lyon
Thirty-second Street
J. C. Kucera
R. D. Proctor
Dows Build
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Chester S. Johnson
Mercantile
A. T. Pleune
Marvin R. Selden
James F. Plumb
George Laird
E. M Pinney
Joe A Walsh
D.” Henry Haegeg Financial
Karl Blaise
Life
R H Pickford General Insurance
JO J Shepard
Hal Sheridan
Andy Talbot
Ed E Lowe
Walter O Schultz
National Stores
RV. Zummerman Retail
James Killian
Walter Kahler
Federal
Frank Baldwin County
Milo Sedlacek City
Louis D Burgus
Philip Shive
Robert R Little
SFE Joliet
3Rd Ave
RS Tec Bros
St. Louis Symphony
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
Vladimir Golschmann
Cedar Rapids Community Concerts Association
St Patricks
Royal Entertainers
Hanna Barber Shop
2Nd Avenue
Townsend Club No 4
Superior Court Room
William Mulvihill
Sixth Avenue SE
Mercy Hospital
Sadie Abodeels
Eli
Fifth Avenue SE
Lowell Mass
Marvin L Vanots
Milos Vanotts
Eighth Avenue
Ames
School of Forestry
Iowa State College
C Knight
Eighth Street
United Laundry Workers Union
CIO
United Production Workers, L. — U
Frederik W Warsmith
Fairfax
Fourteenth Cavalry
William Melton
Federal Building
Orval Kruse
J Street
Twenty-eighth Avenue
Merlin Mickel
Denver
WE Mickel
Third Avenue SE
Mr Mickel
Colorado State House
Associated Press
Williams
Pachege
Dutiter Mrantas
Salerno
Michigan
Jonathans
Calif
Iceberg
St. SE
National
Chad
Jack Sprat
Pkags
Pillsbury Flour
Michigan Peaches
Noods
Philips Soup
Clover
Baby Rize
Glendale
the Family Blend
Glendale Coffee
Dinty Moore
Eer Re
Glendale Toilet Tissue
Clover Farm
Mickey Mouse
Globe Trotters
Belle Plaine
Iowa
Lees
Women's Labor Bureau
Milwaukee
Young Democrats
Ing
Ed Anderson
George Lindsay
Nineteenth Street
W. T. Jackson
Marion
Hayes
Kenmore Food Shop
A. J. Geesaman
Clarence Gloe
Richelieu
Uae
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