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Newspaper
Gravity Independent
Location
Gravity, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1934
Page
2
Waubonsie Conference basketball opens tonight with two games as the Waubon sie tournament schedule is declared. Finals Saturday night will determine the top two teams. Season tickets are on sale and local notices include a church supper, plant orders, and farm sale plans.
Millions of Magic Cheese chips were made and sold in Chicago at the World's Fair. Next Saturday afternoon and evening the ALVORD CAFE will display the same preparation methods and products in a live demonstration for guests.
A number of new automobile license plates have appeared during the last week. Ten days from February 1st was given as a further extension of time before the one dollar penalty will apply.
Red Perkins will be here in person February 15 with an in person appearance. On February 22 Jack Mills leads a 14 piece band featuring E I Wilson in a live performance at the venue.
Joseph Aloysius Hansom, born 1803 in York and trained as an architect, patented the one horse two wheel safety vehicle in 1833 and later sold the patent for 50,000 in 1840. He designed major English buildings including Plymouth Cathedral and St. Walpurge's in Preston, though he faced bankruptcy at times. He died June 20, 1882, and was buried at St. Thomas of Canterbury in Fulham.
In streams between Tennessee and North Carolina, beetles living mostly underwater hatch and grow through a pupal stage then briefly emerge to breathe air and fly. Researchers note their air supply under wing covers and low oxygen needs explain their long survival without gills.
Mrs Gladys Kiburtz Conway critic judge announced the winners of the home declamatory contest Oratorical Crime Its Own Detector Ralph Weller Dramatic The Show Must Go On Wade Ambrose Humorous The First Day at the Kindergarten Madeline Smith These three speakers go to Notaway March 2 for the four school contest Wade Ambrose will speak for Gravity in the county contest at Clearfield February 14 Oliver Lock who won second in humorous The Widow s Mites will speak in the Waubonsie conference contest in March.
An all day home dyeing project meeting will be held Tuesday February 18 at the home of Mrs Jane Posten. The lesson covers dyeing old material using a large strip of cotton cloth nine inches by sheet length. Bring two twelve inch fabric squares a light color wrap cord scissors an old flour sack needles thread and an apron. Local leaders present.
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