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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1937
Page
16
A collection of Q A excerpts on social etiquette including handling unexpected guests, teen dating, and parental boundaries. The pieces discuss welcoming visitors, dating age for a 13 year old, and advice that waiting a few years is wise for dating and social outings.
Gung-Hsing Wang, vice-consul in charge at the Chinese consulate general in Chicago, will give an 8 o'clock address on Shall Japanese Militarism, followed by a 15 minute song service. He will also address a youth rally at St Pauls at 6:30. Wang previously served at the Chinese Foreign Affairs Ministry in Nanking from 1928 to 1930.
The playground commission sponsors a Light Up For Christmas Cheen contest with judging Dec 23 to Jan 2. Prizes are from Iowa Electric Light and Power. Entries compete in one group on artistic effect originality Christmas spirit and ingenuity. Three judges will be named later. Details and entry info are available at the Iowa Electric Light and Power store or city hall playground office. entrants should call 8121 with name and address.
Arthur DeGraw, 55, now held by Sheriff Fred Clemenson at Audubon, was identified by Emil Mallie and D A Van Metre as the man who obtained Mallie’s signature and cashed a forged $240 check at the Mount Vernon bank last June 25. DeGraw was brought back to Audubon from Kearney, Nebraska, on November 27 to face a charge of uttering a forged instrument. DeGraw denies knowledge of the Linn or Audubon county cases. He was arrested at Kearney after several months of investigation.
Iowa City A Armistice ends twenty five years of campus Greek warfare as Men s Pan Hellenic invites nine fraternities to join a single association. Leaders expect acceptance and a new unified interfraternity council with Clinton Moyer slated to lead.
Franklin High School students and staff publish a piano vocal arrangement of the Thunderbolt Battle Cry. Dale Barnhart, 1936 graduate, wins the school song contest directed by Miss Helen Kieth. G. E. Holmes creates a band arrangement. The piece is popular with the football band after almost a year of use.
Franklin district combined grade school orchestras from Arthur Big Springs Garfield Kenwood and Polk join Franklin junior and senior high schools in a district demonstration of instrumental music in Franklin high auditorium on Tuesday December 7 at 730 p.m. under R L Moehlmann with 410 pupils from third through twelfth grades performing in continuous numbers including solos duets and small ensembles and with proceeds to fund new junior high band uniforms.
More than thirty graduate members of Phi Beta Kappa will attend the first annual Linn County Graduate association meeting at the Roosevelt hotel Monday night. Dr Oscan M Voorhees of New York City will speak on Some Lessons From Phi Beta Kappa History at 6 30 p m. He is a senator and historian of the United Chapters and former secretary treasurer and editor of The Phi Beta Kappa Key. A business session will follow to consider objectives constitution by laws and to elect officers.
A number of women surprised Mrs. Frank Uher Jr. at a Thursday house warming. Mrs. L J Schlindevein received a farewell party Friday before moving to New Hampton. Donald Schlindevein was honored Friday at the Bradbury home and Dorothy Sechlinderein received a farewell surprise Sunday.
Bern ard Houlihan and his bride were hosted at a Friday reception with more than 700 guests at a midnight supper where Orve T. Roe presented a purse. The Read more: philanthropy day observed by Searchlight club with Lor raine Kelly Mary Johnson and Nellie Beall as committee heads.
Local items include a Linn County and Cedar Rapids Tavern Owners meeting on December 7 at 2 p m at the Sokol Star of the West lodge. Knights of Pythias elect 1938 officers Monday at 7 45 p m at Pythian hall. The Star of the West company holds its annual meeting with refreshments. Clarence Richards 45 arrested for larceny at 600 Fourth Avenue SE disputed by residents. Rialto theater manager Joe Weaver sent a substantial check to firefighters for duties at the theater early Wednesday. Mrs M J Thompson reports theft of a green and blue blanket valued at 5 95 from a clothesline on Nov 6. Boy Scout troop No 24 hosts parents night at Garfield school with advancement contest, carols, and games. Mladucech lodge plans annual card party Dec 9 at Z C B J hall with prizes and a Dairy Dale P T A minstrel show. Eight weeks active duty tours at Maxwell Field Ala offered to qualified air corps reserve captains under 40 who have completed major requirements.
The Cedar Rapids Gladiolus Society will meet Monday at 7 p.m. in the Roosevelt Hotel. Officers will be elected and other important business will be discussed.
Two Indian blankets valued at 4 dollars were taken from the car of C. W. Brandon at 206 Seventh street SE between 7 and 10 p m Thursday. The theft occurred while the vehicle was parked on Twelfth avenue between Third and Fifth streets SE, police report states.
The regular meeting of Optometrists of the northeast and southeast central districts of the Town Optometric Extension program will be held in Dr. CA Lamb's office in Oelwein Tuesday at 7.30 p.m. Officers in charge will be Dr. Lamb Oelwein chairman of the northeast central district and Dr. E. L.
Local records indicate Copeland associated with Cedar Rapids holds the chairmanship of the Southeast Central District. Details on term dates or actions are not provided in the fragment.
Cedar Rapids Manufacturers' Representatives toured the Gazette building Saturday after their weekly luncheon in the Montrose hotel Corn room. Patrolman Carl Burke, confined in Des Moines Veterans hospital since mid October, returned home Friday after surgery for a spinal cyst and additional procedures on his tonsils and a nasal bone.
The Chinese general consul in Chicago will address Rotary Club members on The Chinese-Japanese Situation at a Monday noon luncheon at the Roosevelt hotel. Other service clubs are invited to join the Rotarians.
Capt M W Duffy of the air corps reserve residing at 115 Thirteenth Street SE departed today for active duty with the procurement planning representative office of the U S Army Air Corps in Chicago. He previously served with the U S Air Corps in France during World War I.
Iowa City saw two University of Iowa debaters beat Minnesota in the Western Conference home meet before 150 high school students at the forensic institute. Iowa speakers Robbins Fischer of Turin and George Hill of Burlington argued the affirmative on unicameral legislative reform. Judge was Professor Andrew I. Weaver of Wisconsin.
Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce unveils a plan to curb itinerant peddlers during the holidays. Prospective buyers may call the chamber to verify credentials of registered peddlers, while unregistered sellers are viewed with caution. The program grows from an advertising and donations agreement governing merchant conduct.
Numerous toys and 8.84 dollars in cash were collected at a Junior Red Cross meeting in the Y M C A. Patty Ann Dudek presided with 33 members in attendance Joyce Richardson served as secretary. An orchestra performed selections by Dean St Germain Cyrus McCaulley Ruth Anne Washburn Dean Brawner Ellery Whitmer Patty Coats and Marian Creger John Hand played a violin solo Donald Parker and Robert Andrews offered a guitar duet Marilyn Wilkins played piano Bobby Gray recited a poem and Patty Ann Dudek told a story.
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