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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1940
Page
2
Marilyn Kay Beardsley will present a group of readings at the mother and daughter banquet Friday evening at the First Congregational Church.
Chapter IF of P.E.O. observes its third anniversary with an afternoon luncheon party at Mrs Ray Kim’s home. Charter members present include Rex B Conn and Robert K Davis. Mrs William P Whipple led the event with a program on Modern Art and Music of Latin America.
Mr and Mrs George W Smith hosted their bridge club at 2310 B avenue NE with a dinner and prizes awarded to Mrs Lynn G Swaney and Dr J E Killinger. Mr Cash departed for Oklahoma Sunday and Mrs Cash will join him after school ends in June.
Mr and Mrs John L Miller and their daughter Anne Miller spent the season at Miami Beach Fla Their grandson John Hladky son of Mr and Mrs Joseph F Hladky Jr joined them for the latter part of the stay in the south on Forty seventh street and First avenue E.
The Philathea class of the First Baptist church sponsors the annual mother and daughter banquet on Thursday at 6 30 p.m. Mrs Joseph Parlis is president and in charge. Miss Eston Heath will introduce speaker Mrs Herbert GC Ring. Miss Edith Reed and Miss Margaret Hindee sing. Church men will serve dinner.
Noreen Hiland was elected president of the Junior-Ettes at a Roosevelt high school meeting on Wednesday afternoon. Other new officers include Bella Linkenback as vice president Ruth Good as secretary Harriet Murdock as treasurer and Annabelle Speas as social chairman Ruth Ann Lentz as scribe. Also present were Velma Cook Joyce Richardson and new member Gladys Gable.
Eleanor Sikes Peters will speak at the Cedar Rapids Woman's Club annual May breakfast at the Cedar Rapids Country Club. She discusses the play The American Way starring Fredric March with pianist Mrs. Charles Sneller providing musical interludes. Breakfast served in the ballroom. Mrs. Aubden Griffin presides.
Miss Irma Dovey, a Tyler school teacher, was elected president of the Cedar Rapids Primary Teachers Association at a dinner meeting. New officers include Miss Helen Arduser secretary treasurer, Miss Joy Anderson vice president third grade, Miss Florence Felten vice president second grade, and Miss Helen Fisher vice president first grade. The program featured clay modeling and soap carving demonstrations by E J Bruns, supervisor of art.
Jane Boyd circle of the King's Daughters meets Thursday at 1 pm for a dessert luncheon and annual guest day at Mrs. G. A. Kay's home 22382 Country Club Parkway SE. Mrs. S. Perrine and Mrs. J. C. Wooleyhan will assist.
The Volunteer circle of the King's Daughters will meet with Mrs Don A Dennis at 525 Twenty-third Street NE on Thursday at 1:30 p.m. The group will have a dessert luncheon and members are asked to come prepared to sew.
Sixty five members and guests attended the annual spring luncheon at Commonwealth tea room. The Franklin school string quartet entertained, finished first in the state music contest, and Miss Kathryn Skow shared humorous readings. Mrs Spohn presided, retiring president Mrs Neely Hill received a token of appreciation.
Forty Cedar Rapids PTA members attended the northeast district conference in Dubuque with representatives from Arthur Buchanan Cleveland Van Buren Harrison Kenwood Hazes Jackson Lincoln Roosevelt Taylor Tyler Polk Fillmore and the PTA council. Officers installed include Mrs Peter Oleson Waterloo president Mrs R G Stuhler Monticello first vice president Mrs Spohn Cedar Rapids second vice president and Mrs N E Vorak Charles City secretary treasurer.
The Service circle of the King's Daughters will meet with Mrs L. W. Minehart at 1935 Cavente NE on Thursday at 2 p.m. for the election and installation of officers. Mrs. George H. Halsey will assist the hostess.
Prof Grace Swab of Coe College announces senior recital by pianist Rose Ann Kubovec in T. M. Sinclair Memorial chapel at 8:15 p.m. She belongs to Nappa Delta and Mu Phi Epsilon and earned Phi Kappa Phi. The program includes Bach, Brahms, Debussy, and Prokofiev with Cedar Rapids Symphony next Sunday.
Fifty people attended a Dairy Dale hall picnic supper on Thursday evening. The group spent remaining time playing pinochle with the men. A A Lyons, president, announced a benefit card party to be held at the hall next Thursday. The next community meeting will be May 9.
The Tyler executive committee meets Thursday at 2 p.m. at the school. The E. H. T club holds a picnic luncheon Thursday at 12 30 p.m. with Mrs Kenneth Anderson on First Avenue road. Attendees sharing rides meet at the school at 12 noon and bring a covered dish sandwiches and table service.
Epsilon Sigma Alpha sorority Gamma chapter held a preferential tea Sunday afternoon at Mrs. J Willard Heath 1527 First Avenue E. Honored guests included Misses Ponos Hersh and Mildred Rathun.
Mrs Harold Kimball of 2536 A avenue NE will entertain members of I. H. N. circle of the King's Daughters Thursday at 1 30 p.m. for a dessert luncheon and business session. Mrs T C Baker will assist. Members are to be prepared to sew.
The Ethel Evans circle of the King's Daughters will meet for a dessert luncheon on Thursday at 30 p.m. hosted by Mrs Wayne Montgomery at 1610 Hinkley Avenue NW.
The Friendship club will meet for a picnic luncheon at 12.30 p.m. on Wednesday with Mrs. Rose Moore of 316 Sixth street NE.
Dr James O Kerr opens new chiropractic office at 307 Iowa Theater Bldg. Firefighters auxiliary meets Wednesday at 2 p m in Glow room Cedar Rapids Gas Co. Girls softball teams meet Wednesday 6 30 p m at the Y W C A with Baker head umpire speaking. Lodge Norden No336 Vasa Order of America holds 630 p m picnic supper, bring sandwiches and a covered dish. Rebecca Alexander tent No14 Daughters of Union Veterans sponsor silver tea Thursday 2 p m in Light Company Bungalow. City board of health corrects earlier report condemning 10135 Fifteenth Street SE. the owner is Emma J Pratt, not Harry Pratt. Fifty five Gazette news bays hosted by Ray Vernimont at Monday’s Johnny Apollo Santa Fe Marshal. WPA county road project moved to Thompson quarry three miles southwest of Paralla. rock will surface county roads. Body of William W Graham, killed by car Sunday night, to be moved to Potosi Wisconsin for services and burial.
The Cedar Rapids Camera club will meet May 7 at 7 30 p m at the Iowa Electric Light and Power company bungalow. Print criticism and enlarging demonstration will be featured. Visitors are welcome. For those who feel they have been unfairly assessed, the city council will meet as a board of equalization beginning May 6 at 2 pm to hear complaints. Adjustments and equalizations will be made where deemed necessary.
Mars Towne of Burlington won the annual Pi Kappa Delta ex temporaneous speaking contest for 150 members of Coe College speech fundamentals classes Professor Welsch announced. Lucille Speer of Freeport Illinois finished second and Barbara Eder of Freeport Illinois finished third.
W W Fleming 273 Highland Drive NW announced on Tuesday his bid for reelection as Ranids township constable at the June 3 primaries. Fleming first became constable in 1921 and is active in patriotic and fraternal groups.
Springlike complaints reach police over youngsters running across newly planted gardens and in one case on B avenue NW using sticks to plow up a garden. Authorities urge parental cooperation to curb garden damage.
West side Cedar Rapids Scout masters and Cubmasters meet for a roundtable of mutual problems at Trinity Methodist church Third avenue and Fifth street SW at 7 30 pm Tuesday J R Orton assistant district commissioner will be in charge Cedar Rapids
Commissioners will convene Wednesday at 7 30 p m at the home of Dr M D Marr located at 504 Twenty first Street NE for a scheduled meeting and local business discussion.
D C Mills, Red Cross field representative from St Louis, will stay in Cedar Rapids for the rest of the week to study Linn county chapter setup in light of the 1940 roll call which added over 2000 names to membership. Cedar Rapids and Linn county are among 120 areas being analyzed.
native Linn county resident and Cedar Rapids lawyer since 1908 announces candidacy for reelection as Rapids township justice of the peace. Former Linn county board of supervisors member.
At TAS p.m. Wednesday the Four Square Gospel church at 609 First Avenue W will screen motion pictures depicting the life of Christ. Scenes were shot in the Holy Lands and Egypt. The program features the Martin Family Musical Five led by The Rev. Mr. Martin and his family, touring the United States as interdenominational evangelists.
Luther Fuhrmeister, national youth administration head in Cedar Rapids, spoke to Professor J Dale Welsch’s Coe College discussion class on unemployment of youth. Open forum discussions followed the talk with several Cedar Rapids men participating.
Two landmarks on A avenue NE are set for demolition within a month to clear space for an auto parking lot. The sites are 212 A avenue NE once home to Conrad Buerthel and 216 A avenue NE once George Schumm's barbershop era. The properties are leased to Mr. Jones of Skelly station. Ownership lines involve Mrs Emma Schauweeker of Chicago and her relatives in Los Angeles and Chicago, preserving a web of family ties.
Stanley Cohen, 15, of 2027 Park Avenue SE, reported a bruised left shoulder and side after a delivery truck door swung open while stopping for a school sign at First Avenue and Crescent Street E. He was riding past when knocked down. The driver asked about injuries and left after Cohen said he was not hurt. no name was obtained.
The management of an east coast hotel announced a daily one third discount on guest bills whenever a bomb falls on or near the town or a mine explodes near the promenade or pier.
Melvin Tudor, longtime Scout executive in Council Bluffs since December 1935, has accepted appointment as executive of the Cedar Rapids area Scout council and will assume duties on June 1.
A fragment from The Gazette quotes citizens expressing frustration with government failure to provide basic needs and a belief in self-reliance. The text voice emphasizes a demand for opportunity over dependence and a challenge to current governance.
Theodore H Wesenberg urges the public to endure hardships without protest and to demand leadership and proper governance. He warns internal danger to democracy if governmental affairs lack management, stressing freedom of speech and press as essential life savers and urging immediate action.
Two former transpacific passenger liners moored in San Francisco Bay since 1937 were being made seaworthy on Tuesday in readiness for transfer to the Spanish government.
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