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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1938
Page
6
The Grays host the final hunting season game dinner of the year at Mrs Wurster's tea room on Third Avenue SE. Guests include Bir and Mrs Shied Gras, Mr and Mrs Gray, Miss Clara Thal, Mrs Bart on, and many others as the season winds down.
The current events department of the Ceqar Rapids Woman club met for a luncheon Wednesday at the club home with Mrs F L Snider and Mrs Hf lL. Hanse presiding. Miss Leota Swemn led a program reviewing chapters 8 9 and 10 of Promises Men Live By, about the U S banking system, and Mrs C C Motfitt reviewed Science Up To Date.
Mrs George C Krabbenhoft hosted ten members at 550 Forest Drive SE. Miss Edna Dieman, guest, gave a summary of La Meri the dancer who will appear in Cedar Rapids under the Community Concert association in March.
Mrs FE Ring of 1539 Washington Avenue SE hosted the Women’s Forum Bible Class at her home Tuesday with seventeen present. Rev Marion T. Williams spoke about the Omebo institution for children and the Jacksonville SH home for the needy, and a home for children in St Paul, noting nationwide expansion in size and equipment.
The Women’s Guild of the First Lutheran Church will meet at 2 p.m. on Churn Road to elect officers and plan activities for the coming year. A social basket luncheon is planned for 1 p.m. with funds to support church projects.
Fitts members of the Cedar Kwids Womans Club met Tuesday at the club home for a picnic luncheon and program presided by Mrs Guibert Thompson. Mrs Ida Elliett chaired the phil soutropre department and urged donations for a Christmas box to the childrens hospital. Mr Charles E. Roberts announced an upcoming motion picture on South America sponsored by the international relems studs group with lecture by Guy W. Ingham at Crystal Dellingam. Guests and models showcased modern hair styling with demonstrations by Esther Uromk Kier and others. hostesses were Mrs LC Jeffries Abs J. We Mowe and Mrs Elliott.
Miss Inez Brollier hosted a Tuesday evening shower at Mrs Wurster s tea room for Miss Elaine Campbell of 1624 Fifth Avenue whose engagement to Kenneth Snyder of 513 Seventeenth Street St. was announced. Guests included Mesdames W F Snyder Mary E Campbell F B Schlach Wood Mark Ros Collette Robert Cox A L Brollier Kenneth Morehead Lester Wright Harry Billings Lawrence Snyder Edwin Visher L Fawcett Elizabeth Earl and Misses Eleanor Farr Agnes Ernst Nadine Barron Hemstett Campbell Alicin Jukuubek Mexine Wagner.
Mr and Mrs O W Latimer entertained members of their bridge club at a prem ie supper Wednesday evening. Covers were laid for twelve at 37E Twentieth street SE.
A group of girls from the seventh floor of the Merchants National bank building met Tuesday evening at the Light House for dinner and later played bridge and Chinese checkers at Miss Kathran Dowd’s home at 3801 Mount Vernon avenue SE.
Mr and Mrs Leonard N Bruce announce the engagement of their daughter Vivian S Bruce to Albert L Hoppe son of Mr and Mrs Charles P Hoppe of Morley They plan a January wedding at their home in Morley and Norfolk area with families attending the event
Women of the Cedar Rapids deanery council of the National Council of Catholic Women will meet Sunday at 2 pm at St Ludmila's church. Mrs Z A Wicke reports on the national convention in Biloxi Mississippi. J J Reardon of Marion gives Eucharistic congress highlights. Last meeting before diocesan convention in Waterloo December 10 and 11. units urged to be represented.
Mrs Iva Collins plans to depart Saturday for her Los Angeles home after spending Thanksgiving with her parents Mr. and Mrs C I Van Dorn at 714 Third Street SW.
One hundred parents and teachers attended the Arthur PTA supper and social program held Monday at the school. Immaculate Conception PTA meets Friday at 2 pm in the school parlors with Mrs O H Lundquist speaking on Current Education and Miss Elizabeth McIntosh of the Public Health Nursing Association discussing Different Phases of School Health. The sixth grade will present a short program before the business session, and mothers of sixth grade pupils will serve refreshments. Breakfast Friday will be served by mothers of ninth grade pupils in the school cafeteria.
Piano pupils of Miss Eleanor Hours Miss Martha Leksa and Miss Helen Mokress will present a recital Friday at 7 p.m. in the T. M Sinclair Memorial chapel on Coe campus. The program includes works by Techaikowsky, Beethoven, Bach, Schytte and others, with performances by several named students.
Mrs Marvin Gard of 1701 Maple Drive NW entertained at the Roosevelt hotel continental luncheon Thursday. Guests included Mesdames Harold Mullhise Henry Duttweiler John Gaston Jr Don Mumford Reginald Watters Hoyt Thomas and Herbert Auten.
Mrs C Lunter hosted a midweek surprise party at 1731 Center Point NE to celebrate Me Hunter turning 56. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Harry L Smith, Louis Mikulecks and daughter, Theodore Lickson and Dorothy, Rose McEndree, Gilbert Caldwell, Anton Kloubee, Robert Reidel and families, George Reidel and Ernest Reidel, Behrens and Madeline Mui, Ernest Vin Fleet, Sadie Bovey, Henry Hunter, and Mr Nolan.
Mrs WN Robertson of 1009 Grande Avenue SE hosted the Jolly Ramblers on Wednesday. Prizes were awarded to Mrs W Phillips Mrs Leo J Smith Mrs Henry Kendall and Mrs W Willenborg.
Mrs Ethel Pinney Ristedt hosted a Cedar Rapids Country Club luncheon honoring Mrs Jerome C Fisher of Cleveland, guest in the Binghem home. Mrs Grant Collins hosted a Continental luncheon at the Roosevelt hotel with twelve sewing club members as guests.
Mount Mercy Alumnae Association will hold a Danteh treat luncheon Saturday at 1 p.m. in Nilliai's room. Reservations should be made with Mrs R. D. Long.
A petition for bus service along FG and H avenues from Tenth to Thirteenth streets NW was referred to Cedar Rapids City Lines. The civil division report shows a balance of 441.19 and police receipts totaling 52345 with equal expenditures. City actions include banning parking on the east side of Seventeenth Street NW and approving a beer permit transfer for the Cedar Rapids Eagles.
A permit transfer concerns Violet Gallagher moving from 1801 Johnson Avenue NW to Tug Fifteenth Avenue SW. The action appears to reflect a property or access permit update among local records.
Rock Island announces a series of appointments effective December 1. C B Pratt becomes superintendent of the Arkansas division with headquarters in Little Rock. J Steheny moves as assistant to the General Manager in Kansas City. H Logan named roadmaster for Iowa regions with headquarters at Iowa Falls. C C Cunningham transfers to Des Moines to lead the Des Moines division. J H Johnson succeeds Cunningham as Rock Island trainmaster.
Errol Fink, employed by Hoeg and Schmidt near Lincoln, was severely injured Friday while harvesting soybeans. His boot was cut by the combine sickle after weeds clogged the blade, and he was pulled into the machine when he jumped off.
The doctor said recovery will be slow after the machine used to clean the guards.
Lester Appleby of Delhi was seriously hurt when a crow bar struck his head during hog house construction after a rock fell on one end of the bar. He was rushed to a Dubuque hospital for treatment and faces possible eye injury.
Dale Stanton Sharar of Alden and Dorothy Evelyn Mittelstadt of Iowa Falls. Leonard A Castello and Mary Eliabeth Shaler, both of Cedar Rapids.
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