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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1936
Page
2
Mrs Minnie Schenken and her son Arnold R. Schenken, both of Newark, New Jersey, are visiting in New York and Connecticut. She plans to start home on Tuesday after a Florida trip.
Four-H club members meet Saturday at 7 30 p m in the Presbyterian church. Miss Lucille Gove home demonstration agent assists with games and songs for rally day. Members are asked to bring their music literature.
The second quarterly business meeting of St. Pauls Evangelical Lutheran Church is scheduled for today at 2 15 PM in the church.
Mrs. S. B. Fuller returns to her Chevy Chase home in Maryland following a visit at the Earl Cone residence.
The Musical Literary club convenes Monday at 7 30 p m at Miss Pearl Bulkley home. The First division chairs the program centered on Beethoven and Sacred Music.
Mrs Gerald Thomas will present a music program at the Cary club meeting on May 4 held at the home of Mrs gd Beeson.
Mrs Helen Taylor longtime national secretary and former state president will speak at the Linn County Federation of Women's Clubs spring meeting in Springville on May 14. A number of Marion women plan to attend the event.
The Jolly Dozen club schedules its next meeting for Saturday at the home of Margaret Beadle. Members will gather for discussion and social time at Beadle residence.
Electa Circle of the King's Daughters will meet Friday at the home of Mrs. George C. Oxley at 08 Eighth avenue. Mrs. B. E. Beiber will host Fidelis Circle Friday at p.m. to the King's Daughters gathering.
Mrs Carl N Owen will host the Nous club gathering at her home located at 1144 Seventh Avenue on Tuesday. Members are expected to attend and discuss upcoming social plans.
All rural schools of Marion township will participate in a track meet at Thomas park on May 12 at 2 p.m. The event brings together area teams for a day of competitions and preliminaries.
The Chitaya Camp Fire group will meet after school Thursday at the home of assistant guardian Jacqueline Clay to discuss activities and plans.
The Prairie Union Agriculture and Literary club will meet Friday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Goodyear. Members are asked to take plates and cups or glasses.
The Tennyson club will observe Founders Day with a meeting at the home of Miss Emma Klein on May 11.
Chapter CS of P. E. O. will meet Tuesday at 7 30 p m at the home of Miss Lora Turner in Cedar Rapids Miss Nevah Prior will present a book review.
Mrs. A E Miller will host the Book club Tuesday at a one o'clock luncheon. Mrs. H G Stit zel will be in charge of the program.
Winners in the Lions club attendance contest will be entertained by the losers Tuesday evening at an as yet unannounced venue.
Entries from Marion High include Lyle Manson tubist, the boys quartet with Richard Little Gaylord Ward Ralph Hanson and Donald Bragg, and the school band. Quartet performs Thursday 8 p.m. Manson solos Friday 7 p.m. Band performs Saturday 8 a.m. at Iowa City state contest.
Picayune district women host an all day session Tuesday at Mrs. E. E. Badham on refinishing furniture with a noon picnic. A sacrificial supper follows at 7 30 at the Christian church under the Mewell Trimble division. Marion women join Davenport district meeting in Anamosa Thursday with Miss Mildred Pierce of India as speaker at 2 30 and Mrs. Ralph Hall Collis leading morning devotion. Luncheon at noon and a 5 30 young people dinner complete the program.
The Ladies Aid society will meet Wednesday at 10 a.m. to clean church parlors. A picnic luncheon will be served at noon with coffee provided. Business will be discussed at a noon meeting with the trustees.
Myles Sidlinger who graduated from Marion high school in 1932 has moved to Ames to take a government probationary appointment in animal husbandry at Iowa State College. He previously worked as chief clerk in Des Moines with the conservation corps and took the civil service exam for clerk typist last October.
Marion High School will host the district track meet on May 16 at the new recreation center. Hurdles jumping and vaulting standards are being built by the manual training classes. This will be the first major meet held here in some time.
Grove City Rebekah lodge No. 35 meets Monday at 8 p.m. in 1.0.C.F. hall. A report on the Linn Jones Rebekah convention will be given. A family picnic precedes at 6:30 open to Odd Fellows and Rebekahs and their families. The meal will include meat potatoes coffee cream and sugar.
The Mothers club will host a court whist party Thursday at 7 30 p m at the home of Mrs Frank Allen. Each member may bring one guest. Reservations should be made by Wednesday noon with Mrs James Fitzgerald or Mrs Robert Hess.
The St. Pauls Evangelical Lutheran church youth group will attend the second district zone rally of the Walther league in Cedar Rapids on May 3.
Miss Bernice Reynolds of Cornell College is expected home today after attending the National Woman's Athletic Association convention in Minneapolis where she serves as president of the college W A A.
Dean A R King of Cornell College will address the Oxford club and Epworth League of the Methodist church tonight at 6 30 on The Psychology of Drunkenness. The public is invited to hear him.
The Laura Bailey auxiliary of the Methodist church will meet Monday at 7 30 at the home of Mrs George Hutchison instead of with Mrs Carrie Reichert Mrs A A Hardin will lead the program and Miss Elva Emerson will conduct the devotional period Mrs Hutchison will be assisted by Mrs J H Moorthart and Miss Anna Jordan
Ivanhoe club members will be guests of the Tennyson club Monday at 1 PM for a luncheon at Mrs. Harold Phillips home located at 1008 North Eleventh Street. Mrs. William Bleakly will oversee the arrangements.
Mrs Henry Miller of 200 Fifteenth Street will host the Child Study club event on Wednesday at 7 30 PM. The gathering focuses on discussion and shared activities among members.
Mr. and Mrs. Irving Drake will entertain the Excelsior Agriculture and Literary club May 15. Miss Mary Clemens will give a book review at a Theristrial club meeting Tuesday at 7 30 at Mrs. J B Howell's home 1580 Eighth avenue
The Township Teachers club will meet on May 7 at the home of Mrs Julius Raddatz in Solon.
The Concord Agriculture and Literary club will meet May 8 at 7:30 p.m. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Taube.
The Loring Campbell company presents a high school lyceum at the Lincoln school auditorium Thursday at 8 o clock. The program features tricks of magic ventriloquism artistic rag pictures illusions and humorous situations. A small admission fee will be charged and the public is invited.
A welcome program will be held at Prairie Chapel church to greet newcomers to the neighborhood. Residents are urged to invite new neighbors to attend the meeting on Wednesday.
Family night will be observed at the Methodist church on Wednesday. A picnic supper is served at 6 30 under Rainbow division supervision.
Among the Marion folk who plan to attend the Second district American Legion convention at Davenport Wednesday are A. R. McElwain, Second district commander, A. Schueler, W. H. Balster, Frank Williams, Emil Levenson, H. R. Livingston, P. J. Fiedler, Mrs Celan Rollins, Mrs. William.
The Triple Tau association of Royal Arch Masons will hold a school of instruction in Cedar Rapids Wednesday at 2 p.m. Trowel chapter will host with supper available for a nominal charge. Marion chapter No. 10 will confer the Most Excellent Master degree.
Marion Post 298 American Legion plans a stag party on May 7 at Marion Golf Club. The grounds are rented for the day and a program of golf wrestling and other entertainment is being arranged.
Donald Dukek and Miss Emagene Dukek of Marion and Miss Holyce Stingley of Center Junction, students at Lenox College Hopkins, are spending the weekend at the Earl Dukek home near Marion.
The Reading circle will be entertained at a May breakfast Friday at 11 a.m. at Mrs L A Levas seur's home. Committee in charge includes Mrs Robert Oxley, Mrs E W McKean, Mrs C E Blinks, and Mrs R J Williams. Members unable to attend should notify the committee.
Marion chapter No. 183 O. E. S. will present an Eastern Star Kensington Monday in a local lodge setting.
Union services begin at 7 30 this evening at the Methodist church under Rev Frank Mathis of Colorado Springs who will speak on The Two Doors The public is invited and the chorus choir will sing
Persons with old magazines are asked to leave them at the office of the Marion Service Club with Miss Mildred Titus for the Federation of Women's Clubs.
Mr and Mrs W K Lothian 1680 Eighth Avenue entertained the Saturday evening card club at dinner in honor of Mr and Mrs La Rue F Prior who are soon leaving for the west coast. The evening featured bridge.
Guests today in the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Hutchison are Mr. Hutchison's mother Mrs. E. J. Hutchison his brother in law and sister Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Tosten son and his brother and sister in-law Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Hutchison all of Toledo and Miss Louise Hutchison of Kalona.
Osceola Lodge No. 18 I O O F invites members to gather Thursday at 8 p m in the I O O F hall for a routine meeting and agenda briefing.
The Ladies Aid society of Prairie Chapel church will meet Thursday at the home of the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Thomas.
Special to The Gazette from Tama reports a meager maple sugar crop for the Mesquakie Indians this spring due to flooded lowlands and late tapping. Only three camps operated, versus twelve last year, as warm weather arrived too late to tap most trees. The tribe will trade mainly Indian corn and Iowa herbs rather than maple sugar, with Chippewa traders in Wisconsin keen on corn for their short growing season.
Mr and Mrs E M Newcomb of Delaware township marked their golden wedding anniversary at home Tuesday. Friends and relatives visited to offer congratulations as the Rev and Mrs A Robinson sang, and lifelong friend Mrs James C Huston read an original poem for the couple.
All officers of the Clutier fire department were re elected last week. F J Pod hajsky remains chief with V B Hadacek as assistant chief Charles Bata as secretary and F A Hadacek as treasurer.
Des Moines report shows 350 of 547 recent prisoners lacked eighth grade completion while 91 had some high school, 26 had college or graduate status. Tests found 55 percent of convicts with inferior mental ability and 304 had prior convictions.
In Dubuque a two month workshop will employ about 15 relief rolls workers to craft temporary oak markers for Iowa historic sites. A $2100 allotment funds materials for roughly 800 markers. panels will be bronze lettered and mounted on creosoted cedar posts bearing the site name and the legend Temporarily Marked by the Iowa Historical Society.
Cornell hosts Grex at its campus next Saturday with tours interviews and demonstrations for prospective students. Activities include lab demos by science art and dramatic art departments a wrestling exhibit campus lunch and a style show followed by a tea dance and intercollegiate events in Ashpark.
The Fairfax Camp Fire girls stage a three act farce tonight at 8 p.m. in St Patrick's auditorium. Cast includes Patricia Neuhaus Elaine Weland Jean Vorel Mary Margaret Odland Nadine Weland Lucile Barta Edith Stanek Marguerite Vorel Agnes Yanacek. Orchestra and tap dance classes sponsored by the group will assist.
A Keokuk professor, Prof Sayre, weaves morals and humor into bedtime radio tales for children. He uses self produced animal sounds, features Themistocles the fox terrier, and draws fan mail from mothers who praise his engaging broadcasts.
In Muscatine a film from the serial Flaming Torrents caused a real blaze when the projector light ignited the film. The theater sustained fire damage to the film and minor damage to the sound system with little other loss reported.
U S Bureau of Fisheries official H L Canfield reports garpike once despised on the Mississippi may become a top asset for about 10 000 river fishermen across Iowa Wisconsin Illinois and Minnesota. He notes experiments with smoked gar prove promising as sturgeon stocks decline and an Iowa Wisconsin Minnesota Illinois market opens.
Tama Iowa reports the junior senior prom events at the high school gym with Treasure Island theme. The grand march featured Miss Mabel Anderson and Victor Lipka, followed by Velma Mc Fate and Robert Blythe.
Rose Bampton of the Metropolitan Opera and concert circuit, a Cornell Festival artist, will give a recital Friday May 8 as part of the 1936 May Music festival at Cornell college Mount Vernon. The Buffalo born contralto studied at Curtis Institute and rose to fame with the Worcester festival and Philadelphia Grand Opera.
Des Moines reports that Iowa county fair boards consider a bank night style plan after Supreme Court rulings. Leroy A. Rader notes fairs may offer prizes with chance but without payment, while state official A. R. Corey cites difficulty in framing a valid consideration. Merchants might distribute or add tickets with purchases, but both options risk constituting consideration.
In Council Bluffs Iowa police are instructed to visit beer taverns regularly to ensure proprietors obey beer laws. Mayor William Guilfoyle announced the change and officers must act if a husband is found waiting for his wife on pay night to be turned over to his wife.
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