Around the Town in the Gazette of 1930
A quirky roundup of 1930s town notes includes a Gazette critic’s blinked forecast for Edgar Bergen, cribbage tales from Fire Station No. 3, Mr Smarty Pants mischief, a Decorah Journal blaze prompting Justin Hammond to chase flames, Jane Blake and her puppies, Sted Carpenter’s Benton county talk with jokes, a joke about Harold Ellis and Ray Anderson, and April Fool feats seen by Scotty McLeod as a house explodes on A avenue drawing a playful broadcast wakeup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gazette
Edgar Bergen
Charlie McCarthy
Iowa Theater
Bergen
Decorah Journal
Justin Hammond
Water Street
Ream Market
Justin
Benton County
Ivan Trottnow
Harold Ellises
Ellis
Pioneer Republican
Marengo
Trottnow
Ray Anderson
Gazette Farm
Scotty McLeod
OES Auxiliary Plans Picnic and Installations
The O E S auxiliary to the Children's Home will meet Wednesday at 1 p m for a picnic lunch at 519 Fifteenth Street NE. Hostesses are Mesdames Jessie Bauman George A Russell Dean Cooper and J E Stevenson. Nursery auxiliary meets Thursday at 1 p m at the same address with Mrs Helen Vrbicek hosting. Gethsemane Shrine No 1 will install 1939 40 officers Saturday April 8 at 8 p m at the Masonic hall with a 4 p m meeting and 6 30 p m dinner. All members invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O.E.S
Fifteenth Street
Jesssie Bauman
George A. Russell
Dean Cooper
J. E. Stevenson
Children's Home
Helen Vrbicek
Gethsemane Shrine No
Order of the White Shrine of Jerusalem
Masonic Hall
Order
Gladiolus Society Plans Free Soil Test Demonstration
The Cedar Rapids Gladiolus Society will hold a free soil test demonstration at its Monday meeting at the Montrose Hotel. Members and guests are asked to bring a half cup of dry soil from their gardens for analysis. The west side W C T U meets Wednesday at 12 30 p m for a picnic luncheon at Mrs. R A Koehn s home 233 Thirteenth Street NW. Mrs Fred Bokerney leads the program and Mrs Rollin Heald conducts devotions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
West Side
W.C.T.U
R. A. Koehn
Thirteenth Street NW
Fred Bokerney
Rollin Heald
P.E.O
T. J. Markland, Jr
E Avenue N
John W. Altfillisch
Beethoven Club Concert Tonight With Violinist Ohmann
The Beethoven club hosts annual guest night in YWCA rooms at 8 15 p m with Miss Virginia Ohmann Cedar Rapids violinist and Grace Dierks Morek Belle Plaine pianist performing. Members may invite guests, patron members one guest each. Chorus directed by Stark Topinka and Am broz with soloists Brown Hill Barger and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beethoven Club
Virginia Ohmann
Cedar Rapids
Grace Dierks Morek
Belle Plaine
Miss Ohmann
Coe College
Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra
Paul Juan Valse
Mana-Zueca
Moreik
Tschaikowsky
Moderato
Ss Ohmann
Alice Mune
Ottilie
Signe
Able Cain Valse Arlette
Deems
Taylor
Dann
Buchanann Beethoven Chorus
Etude Heroique
Leschetizky
Marek Ar
Iona Burrows Named Organist at Bruton Parish Williamsburg
Iona Burrows has been appointed organist and choir master of Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg Virginia by Rev Fran cis H Craighill effective today. A Coe College and American Conservatory of Music graduate she studied under renowned teachers and has performed with major artists. she plans European research and weekly eighteenth century organ recitals on a rare Samuel Green instrument upon her return from Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iona Burrows
Bruton
Craighill
Europe
Daughters of Isabella Plan Charity Ball
Plans are being completed by Our Lady of Perpetual Help circle for their annual charity ball to be held Easter Monday April 10 at Danceland. Mrs Laura Buck general chairman will meet Thursday evening with her committee to finalize plans. East Side W C T U to meet Tuesday at 2 pm at YWCA with business meeting and program. Mercy Hospital auxiliary to meet Tuesday at 2 pm in Mercy hospital library.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Circle of the Daughters of Isabella
Danceland
Laura Buck
Hitaga Camp Fire girls hold camparee at First Christian church
About 400 Camp Fire girls gathered for a camparee and picnic supper at the First Christian church to kick off summer activities at Camp Hitaga. Skits depicted camp periods from June 26 to August 7, including Rainbow Gold Hill Billies Barcelona Fiesta Pinicon Pow wow Darky Daze and The World’s Fair with songs, dances, and hawker folders. Verna Hanold and Jerry Peck attended as guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Hitaga
First Christian Church
Camp Hiaga
Barcelona
Aguah
Ferdinand
Patty Ann Dudek
Verna Hanold
Hitaga
Jerry Peck
Nadia Thorpe
L. D. Dennis
Cc. H. Morningstar
Punch
Church pie queen bakes 10 408 chicken pies since 1934
Mrs. Walter C. Rice of Central Park Presbyterian church leads a cooperative baking effort. From April 1934 to March 1939 she produced 10 408 pies using 693 chickens 452 batches of biscuits 1 808 cups flour 201 pounds lard 37 cans baking powder 2 640 gallons gravy 264 quarts skim milk. The pies fetch 15 cents each and total sales reach 1 561 20 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter C. Rice
C Avenue NE
Diamond Jim Brady
Wuark
Mrs. Rice
Chicago
Spring Travel Plans Include Short Trips and Visitation
Mr. Epler plans return after the holiday. Mrs. J J Studer and Mrs. M J Donnelly travel out of town this week to Chicago. G King Thompson and family plan a six day trip to Galveston. Miss Georganne Dunshee visits Waterloo with relatives. Evelyn Elizabeth Heins marked sixteenth birthday at a party hosted by John and Edith Heins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georganne Dunshee
Walter E. Dunshee
Mount Vernon Avenue
Waterloo
Jack Deets
John Heins
Oakland Avenue NE
Evelyn Elizabeth
Jean Kindler
Elaine Jansen
Dorothy Helmendahl
Shirley Parks
Marjorie Engberg
Jean Daniels
Edith Morris
Edith Sanford
Edith Spencer
Kathleen Victorine
Dorothy Gibb
Betty Womacka
Bob Morris
Bob Myers
Tad Jones
Bob Puck
Easter Recess Arrivals And D. A. R. Meeting Detail
Easter recess brings students from Lindenwood Lake Forest Villa de Chantal and other schools to their families in Cedar Rapids with Chicoine, Becker, Diebold, Flo din, Blaul and Meister listed among returning arrivals. Ashley chapter D A R hosts a session next Saturday at 2 pm at the Cedar Rapids Woman's club with O J Elsenbast speaking on Amanas past and present. Hostesses are Mrs. Lewis Emerson and several Mesdames.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. B Trumbull
Forest Drive
Beloit
Miss Trumbull
Jessie Benson
Lindenwood College
St. Charles
Harry C. Benson
Grande Avenue
Benson
Tamar Meister
R. H. Meister
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest
Ill
Villa de Chantal
Rock Island
Betty Ann Becker
H. J. Becker
Bever Avenue
Ashley
Cedar Rapids
Oberlin Alumni Honor Dean Graham in Cedar Rapids
Oberlin College alumni living in Cedar Rapids plan a luncheon at the Roosevelt hotel next Thursday after a noonday Holy Week talk by Dean Thomas W. Graham. An Oberlin alumni group will be organized, with reservations through Mrs. Henry P. Howells.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas W. Graham
Oberlin College
Oberlin
Ohio
Cedar Rapids
Roosevelt Hotel
Continental Grill
Dean Graham
Henry P. Howells
Dial
Also Mentioned on This Page
Charles A. Nelson
Fire Station No
Earl Mueller
Earl
Charlie
P. S
Lewis Robbins
Mr. Pants
Mr. Smarty Pants
Jane Blake
James E. Blake
Janey
Jitterbug
Susie Q
Jane
Sted Carpenter
Monticello
Vinton
Harold Ellis
Sted
Cal
O.E.S. Auxiliary
Children’s Home
Gethsemane Shrine
Gladiolus Society
Daughters OF Isabella
East Side
Mercy Auxiliary
Mercy Hospital
Kinderknecht
William J. Rinderknecht
Fifth Avenue SE
Wilbur D. Kennedy
Everett E. Fisher
E. J. North
Canada
000 Home Garden Club
Home Garden Club
Killian’s Tea Room
W. E. Brown
Arthur L. Bye
A. G. Smiths
A. G. Smith
Upland Drive
Jay
Oklahoma City
Mrs. Markland
Deamer
Arthur Deamer
Twenty-second Street
Myron L. Koenig
James Taylor
Alan Richardson
Legion Auxiliary Meeting
American Legion Auxiliary
Hanford Post No. 5
Memorial Building
Jompson Photo
Harriett Swain
Dean
Duluth
Lisbon
McIntyre
Scott McIntyre
Cottage Grove Avenue
M. S. Hallman
H. C. Watson
Waln
Mrs. Perrine
Miss Lafley
B. T. Perrine
Louise Safley
Perrine
Crescent Street
Mayflower Chapter
Marion
Third Street
NEW Man
Beauty
Hazel O’dell
Miss O'Dell
Hazel O'Dell
Newman's
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