Local Weekend Visits Across Cedar Rapids Areas
Jean Allen Beth Boyer and two Cedar Rapids friends spent the weekend visiting Floyd Allen and Carl Boyer homes. Mr and Mrs Chris Bogert joined Mr and Mrs John Sutton to celebrate Sutton's birthday Sunday. Noah E Smith and spouse from San Francisco Calif spent last week with her parents Bert and Mrs Drake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean Allen
Beth Boyer
Cedar Rapides
Floyd’ Allen
Carl Boyer
Chris Bogert
John Sutton
Noah E. Smith
San Francisco
Calif
Bert Drake
April lunch menu week with varied entrees
April hot lunch offerings list daily items including baked beans mashed potatoes with butter patty relish fruit jello salad peanut butter sandwich and jelly juice and milk April 16 features chicken and noodles lettuce salad cake with fruit topping and bread April 17 serves fish sticks with tartar sauce creamed potatoes and fruit pie April 20 offers beefburgers potato salad creamed carrots plums and peanut butter bar April 21 presents beef stew lettuce wedge fruit cookie hot roll and milk April 22 closes with spaghetti and meatball green beans red dessert
Obituary: Leslie E Woodward Dies in Sioux City March 29
Leslie E Woodward died in a Sioux City hospital after two months illness and three weeks of hospitalization. Born May 26, 1895 in Rock Rapids, he married Marie Foss in 1919. He farmed near Pierson, later served Kingsley Public School as custodian and bus driver, and for six years lived in LeMars as a painter. Survived by wife Marie, three daughters, three brothers, nine grandchildren and a great grandchild. Services were held April 1 in LeMars with burial in Pierson.
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Leslie E. Woodward
Sioux City
Rock Rapids
Oscar
Anna
Boger) Woodward
Marie Foss
Mr. Woodward
Pierson
Kingsley
LeMars
North End Ladies Aid Meets With Joyce Phillips
North Bend Ladies Aid gathered at Joyce Phillips home on Thursday afternoon. Lorena opened with a poem and an exchange of flowers followed. Members read minutes and roll call responses from a list of names. Visitors included several local residents and Mary Sue Zapatil joined the aid. Weather and napkin prizes were awarded, plans for May Mother’s Day poetry and hints were noted, and refreshments were served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Bend
State Releases 400 Mallard Ducks in Southern Iowa
Four hundred Mallards were released April 4th on Brown's Slough Colyn and Rathbun Areas to establish a breeding population in Southern Iowa. The project, run with the Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation, bands and marks the birds and may see some hens using prepared nests. Colyn Unit Game Manager Jack Coffey leads field work to study adaptation, mating with wild drakes, and broods, with band returns aiding movement data. Hunters may encounter these marked birds this fall as the project aims to prove a self-sustaining wild population.
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Brown's Slough
Colyn
Rathbun
Iowa
Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation
Dundee
Illinois
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Conservation Commission
Jack Coffey
Russell
Mullins Finds Money in Centerville Bank Robbery Tie
Mullins discovered a money cargo and kept it with him for 150 miles. He believed turning it in was safest as bank officials alerted Sheriff Harry Robertson. At Centerville National Bank, Robert Malmberg Jimmy Douglas and Wilbur Rush coordinated with authorities before returning the money to the bank.
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Mullins
Matt
Centerville
Centerville National Bank
Robert Malmberg
Jimmy Douglas
Wilbur Rush
Rush
Rushed
Harry Robertson
Robertson
Harry
Mott Shop
Greene Street
South Centerville
Shorty
Centerville National
Bank Money Return Sparks FBI and State Agents Report
Robertson returned with the money and notified the State Bureau of Investigation. Agent Wayne Sheston and Sheriff Dave Houck arrived at 6:30 p.m. The money and shotgun were guarded while the vault stayed open. Sheston and Houck verified the money. Douglas, a former trooper, arranged the wrappers. The sum was locked in the vault overnight. Saturday noon, two FBI agents retrieved the money and took it back to Des Moines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robertson
State Bureau of Investigation
Wayne Sheston
Dave Houck
Leon
Centerville
Sheston
Houck
Douglas
FBI
Des Moines
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West Main St
Mystle
Max Gilther
Batavia
Hammond
Yamaha Organs
Everett
Cable-Nelson
Yamaha
K. H. Carter
N. Kent
Knoxville
Eagle Industries
Meadowbrook Road
St. Louis Park
Minnesota
Guernsey
Clell McDanel
Moravia
FFA
Court Ave
Chariton
Cver
Safety Dept. Nationwide Systems, Inc
Blackhawk Terminal
First Street
Rock Island
Andy Andrews
Independent Pioneers
Brushy
Marvin Martin
Bobby Mitchell
Kathy Martin
Billy Sulser
Bruce Martin
Burrows-Emerle
Bud
Ewing Centerville
Towa
Earl Burrows Moulton
REGAL
E. Well
Lay
Eagle Brand
Zephyr Dry Cleaners
Nadine & George’s Fine Foods
Hilton Hustlers
Mike Koffman
Stuart McDanel
Dennie Bolin
Gordon Massman
Koffman
Alters Feed & Ferm Supply
Matcer
NORTH @END LADIES AID
Joyce Phillips
America
National Distributing Co
South Grenstone
Epringfield
Jeno
Hunt's Manwich Sauce
Dinty Moore
Vel
Spencers
Behnke
Verl Perkins Hog Market
Lee R. Benz
Agenc Moravia
Dean Tomlin
Parks & Bruntford, Inc
Pittsburgh Paints
Turner Lumber
Ivc
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