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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1940
Page
18
Cedar Rapids residents seek travel by car this summer as U S Highway travelers rise. Families leave for vacations in Ouray Colorado Gull Lake Minnesota and Edinburg Indiana with relatives joining at Yankton South Dakota for visits and rest.
Weekend wedding buzz fills the town as brides elect hostesses plan showers and buffet suppers. Sara Huntington’s Sept 7 wedding to Conrad B. Link draws guests from Des Moines Blairstown and Central City. The Cedar Rapids Country club hosts Ladies day and a blind bogey event.
On Thursday Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey circus rolled into Cedar Rapids drawing families. The society desk photographed guests including Nicholas Craemer and his daughters Patricia Cynthia and Pamela and the Randall siblings at animal and midway displays. Arthur Springer and clown Milt Taylor pose with friends backstage and in the dressing room during an eventful day.
More than 600 members and out-of-town guests attended Cedar Rapids Country Club's annual Pool party last evening. Guests enjoyed dining around the pool with three-sided tables, underwater lighting, and a dance program. Nat Towles' orchestra from Omaha played in the ballroom after the dinner.
Mrs. Jay G Sigmund of Wanbeek formerly Cedar Rapids announces engagement and forthcoming marriage of her daughter Jane Elizabeth Sigmund to William C Cooper son of Mr and Mrs Emmett C Cooper. Wedding planned for September.
Mrs. John D. Randall, Sue and Jack Karch of Cleveland stay with grandparents Amor H. Sargent in Cedar Rapids. George visits Cedar Rapids in August. others return from Woodstock and Chicago. Aquatic party highlights and visitors from Terre Haute and St Louis. Bingham baby born August 1 in Wynnewood Pennsylvania. Winslows return from Forest Hills after a three week visit.
Busy weekend continues with a terrace buffet at Patricia Graves home honoring Miss Helen Ijams of Terre Haute and Miss Harriet Meyer of St. Louis, guests of Miss Marianne Corey. Dozens of friends attend, with additional hosts welcoming Mrs. E. G. Eberle of Little Rock.
Mrs. Thomas hosts her sister Mrs. Clark H. Galloway of Washington DC and niece Miss Virginia Galloway at 1927 Bever Avenue SE for the week. Miss Galloway has spent the summer at Cheley camp near Estes Park.
Dr and Mrs C L Gillies of Iowa City entertained last evening at a dinner party at the Roosevelt hotel in Cedar Rapids feting their house guests Dr and Mrs Morgan of Lincoln Nebraska Other guests included Dr and Mrs James V Prouty and Dr and Mrs Edward Hy Files
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