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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1935
Page
6
Cedar Rapids Country club and city players combine for a joint Friday night bridge event. The city tournament usually at the Roosevelt hotel moves to the Country club at 8 PM with hosts from the club and no reservations required. Mrs. George E Beattie leads arrangements.
Grant Collins Jr and James Hamilton traveled west for work and travel plans. Collins waits in Okmulgee for four months with Empire Gas and Fuel Refining Co, while Hamilton intends a month in San Diego. Mrs Leon A Meyer hosts a luncheon for sister guest Miss Janet Moffat at the Meyer residence.
Mr and Mrs Addison J Ram of 225 Crescent Drive SE will be dinner guests this evening of Mr and Mrs Herbert T Cherry of Tama.
The item lists Miss Frances Teeter of St Louis Missouri visiting in Cedar Rapids area with relatives and friends. It notes arrivals and several names including Mr and Mrs A A Elderkin and Miss Hortense Lowe, and mentions other guests and a drama preview at local churches.
Miss Buster was honored at a three course progressive dinner hosted by friends and relatives in their homes on Wednesday evening August 12. The event featured courses from Mrs J E Dameron and Mrs Stephen Pirdera with dessert by Miss Burdiner Latiner and a bridge game won by Mrs Howard M Benninghoff, Mrs Henry Choosky, and Miss Margaret Pratt. The couple Mary Jo Studer and her parents plan a two week trip to Park Rapids Minnesota starting Friday.
Mark Cleaver of Chicago is expected Friday to join Mrs Cleaver and their son Tommy who have been visiting Mrs Cleaver’s parents Mr and Mrs V Y Weariner at 316 Forest Drive. Monday the Cleavers will leave for Cincinnati Ohio for about ten days with friends and will return here before going to Chicago.
Four hundred five campers of all ages attended Camp Fire Girls Camp Huaga during five periods this summer. Highlights include horseback riding with 169 participants, archery for 100 girls, and eight girls earning life saving credentials. Numerous craft, nature, singing, and boating activities were documented under leaders and staff including Mary Jane Cooper, Jane Niles, Marian Niehaus, and the local Camp Fire executive.
A reminiscence recalls Betty’s dinner guest as Callan and poor Pennsylvania accents. The narrator notes Ma’s tender steak and a homey, rich-relatives atmosphere during the meal with us.
Boat singing and overnight trips entertained campers at Camp Wapsie. Seventy two senior girls attended. An international program featured pantomime, foreign dress, and songs including French numbers by Bonnie Bates and Dorothy Ward. Florence Rohrbacker and others staged musical plays Pierlala The Spinner. A Chinese Folk Story pantomime was performed by several campers. Anne Marie Weber of Cologne spoke at a campfire.
Out of town Kappa Delta members hosted in Cedar Rapids were honored at a farewell luncheon by local Kappa Delta members at the Country Club. After lunch the group attended the Middle States tennis tournament at the club.
Mrs Theodore Carter a recent bride was honored at a miscellaneous shower hosted by friends and First Reform Church members. Refreshments were served by Mrs C H Anderson Mrs H A Carter Mrs J A Bixby and Mrs Ray Brague. Guests included Asa Wright F Friebel J Sloan J Chukas John Hollister George Plotzer Gus Solbrig Ed Bye John Martin J A Bixby Earl Olver Grant Newport H Erickson L E Kizer J H Salasek H A Carter C H Anderson and Ray Brague plus Etta L Willson and Rose Marie Salasek and Rev Mr and Mrs Samuel Ramaker.
A group of friends surprised Mrs. Josephine Stoddard at 436 F avenue NW Tuesday evening for her birthday. Those present included Hazel Stoddard, R. E. Walker, R. Marshall, Opal Snetzler, Mrs. Thomas Watt and daughter Betty, and Mrs. Harvey Froman and daughter Elisabeth.
Miss Alys Scott of 1801 Park Avenue, apt. 57, leaves Thursday for Superior Wisconsin to visit her mother Mrs Ruby Scott. She will then travel by boat to Bay City Michigan to stay with her aunt Mrs E Finstad for the rest of the summer.
Miss Cora Moore of 2511 Johnson avenue SW departed Thursday for Long Beach California to visit her brothers Ralph and Kenneth Moore her aunts the Misses Gertrude and Maude Nisley and her uncle Claude Nisley.
Washington AP outlines the tightest duck hunting regulations in U.S. history. Ding Darling says the plan, approved by President Roosevelt, splits the nation into two zones with a 30 day season from October 21 to November 19 and bans live decoys and baited-water shooting.
A new city ordinance tightens dairy regulation set to take effect Thursday with adoption pending. The measure requires herd owners to prove animals are healthy through tests overseen by the board of health and county inspector, aiming to protect public health and prevent disease.
Army engineers propose seven Iowa reservoirs for flood control at a total estimated cost of 44.276 million dollars. The plan, part of a Mississippi river system project, would store 2.133 million acre feet and release water later in the year. Key sites include Spragueville Maquoketa river and Howell on the Des Moines river, with capacities from 100 000 to 720 000 acre feet and costs ranging from 2.366 to 13.681 million dollars.
In Heath Massachusetts Mrs. Susan H Dwight observed a Bald-Win apple tree with branches bearing blossoms while other branches had ripe apples, a curious instance of uneven fruit development on a single tree.
Nancy teaches a darning stitch method for heavy linen pillow tops. She marks the center, traces a pear design, and uses tapestry wool with careful vertical and horizontal channel stitches to keep alignment. The technique emphasizes precise placement of each row to preserve the pattern.
Direction leaflet on Pillow with Pear Design may be obtained by sending three cents and a self addressed stamped envelope to Nancy Page care of The Cedar Rapids Gazette. Copyright 1935.
Linn county introduces the state highway patrol with Patrolmen Russ Fisher and H W Jennings on highway 13 during the Wapsie Valley fair at Central City. They patrol the road between Manchester and the junction with No 161 two miles east of Marion.
Relatives in Independence Ore report Gen Hubert A Allen of Portland a former Cedar Rapids resident will retire from the regular army in September with the rank of brigadier general. He is a Independence native and Bell Telephone manager turned Iowa National Guard officer who served from the Spanish American war through World War I, commanding a brigade in France before transferring to the regular army as a colonel.
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