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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1933
Page
4
Invitations are issued for the White Cross Society Charity ball to be held Tuesday evening December 26 in the Crystal ballroom of the Montrose hotel. Mrs Charles S Knox 350 Pleasant Cr SE chairs the ball and proceeds aid the society’s annual good works.
Martin Kahn of New York carved Sunday night and spent a couple of weeks here as the guest of Mr and Mrs Arthur A Conn at 1720 Sixth avenue SE. Mr and Mrs Maurice Dewey of Montpelier Vermont were guests of Mr and Mrs Harvest MecCiars at 1924 First avenue FE over Sunday.
The Silver Cross circle of King Daughters will meet Wednesday for a 1 PM luncheon at the home of Mrs C O Hillbrunner 1627 Park Avenue SE. Mrs Amos J Houser will assist. A business meeting and installation of officers will follow.
The Trene Douglas circle of Kings Daughters meets Wednesday at 2 pm at Mrs C W Whipple’s home 2325 Meadowbrook drive SE. Election of officers will be held and plans for Christmas baskets will be made. Bob Pfeiffer has returned from Lake Forest academy to spend the Christmas vacation with his mother Mrs Alta Pfeiffer at 400 Twenty-first street SE.
The M and W class of the United Brethren church at Shueyville held a Friday evening party at the J R Bowersox home with forty-one class members and guests. The gathering featured games and singing followed by a late supper. The January party will be hosted by Mr and Mrs Frank Ziskovsky.
At the home of Mrs. W C Henning 1730 Second Avenue SE on Monday evening forty members of Chapter DK of P E O enjoyed their annual Christmas affair. Mrs Net tie T Neil and Miss Laura Turner assisted. Mrs Walter Newell gave a program on Christmas and New Year customs. A white elephant exchange amused attendees. Miss Humphrey of Williamsburg was a guest.
A Williamsburg group hosted a tribute Friday evening for Mr and Mrs R F Wilson celebrating their 30th wedding anniversary. The event featured a game titled A Trip Through Town with town names as answers and a social of attendees including local clergy and neighbors.
Unclear OCR text describes a bridge luncheon at the Country Club. Names like James W Bel and Frarek Fratches Lerch appear with other participants and a Monday luncheon event referenced. Limited readable details prevent full reconstruction of event specifics.
The feature outlines matching gloves with handbag textures and shapes. It highlights oval and streamline bags for day use, suede or fabric bags with matching gloves, and formal evening bags with glitter accents like gold or silver sequins. It notes longer gloves for afternoon wear and suggests coordinated material choices.
The piece suggests choosing es suedes or kidskins for evening wear and six teen-button gloves for any gloves gift. For daytime and afternoon options, use the same types. For outdoor sportiness, opt for gay wool gloves with cap and scarf. Tomorrow: Christmas towels are gay as their wrappings.
Johnston of Waterloo formerly resident engineer for the Iowa state highway commission in Black Hawk county opened an office at 625 Cedar Rapids Savings bank building to assume duties as division maintenance engineer in charge of civil works in Johnson, Jones and Linn counties. The appointment was announced in Des Moines by Prof George Keller, Iowan CWA engineer, with district engineer C R Livingston noting engineers are assigned to divisions to advance CWA work.
Jack Wisdom, 26, a cowboy, signed a statement admitting kidnapping and killing Mr. and Mrs. Harry Pritchard of Wichita. The confession, given at the Kansas state reformatory, omits the name Buck Smith whom Wisdom had previously claimed to have killed the couple while watching.
At the Decorah Elks lodge January session, 34 applications will be acted on while seven new members joined at the last meeting. The lodge expects total membership to rise by sixty within three months.
The Iowa supreme court upheld the Simmer law allowing cities to build public utility plants based on anticipated earnings. The ruling reversed an injunction blocking Villisea from constructing a $150,000 electric light plant after a challenge to the special election ballot was rejected as legal.
DES MOINES AP says the state civil works administration approved two Benton county projects employing sixty men. One project ripraps the Cedar River banks with forty workers and $5,800 in labor costs, funded with material from the city of Vinton. The second extends a stone crushing operation at a $3,000 additional cost using twenty more workers.
The government set the price of gold at 34.01 dollars per ounce on Tuesday for the tenth straight time. The move reflects ongoing policy as the pricing remains stable and unchanged for the tenth session in a row.
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