Marion Rebekah Lodge Elects Officers for Grove City No 35
Mrs Cora Starks was elected noble grand with Ella Mack as amrade vice grand Florence Clark recording secretary Evelyn Fleisher financial secretary and Eileen McCalley treasurer. Initiatory degree conferred on four candidates as Goodfellows fund donations rise with many local groups giving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cora Starks
Noble Grand
Grove City
Rebekah Lodge No
Ella Mack
Amrade
Florence Clark
Evelyn Fleisher
Eileen McCalley
Marie Novak
Rebekah Assemly
Stella Marek
Cedar Rapids
Ivanhoe Club Holds Annual Christmas Party
The Ivanhoe club hosted its annual Christmas party at Mrs. L. M. Phelps home with nineteen members attending luncheon around tables decorated with miniature trees. Mrs D B Storck reviewed The First Christmas Tree by Van Dyke. A separate ad lists produce prices from Dickey's Foods. Mr and Mrs Richard Straley and their son and Mr and Mrs Dan Cory visited Brooklyn to see Mrs A M Chalmers who was injured by a car. she is the Straley and Cory relatives mother, and she remained in Brooklyn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ivanhoe Club
Richard Straley
Richard
Dan Cory
Brooklyn
A. M. Chalmers
Chalmers
Straley
Cory
Weekend visitors and local notices fill Marion column
Charles Hibner and his mother Beside Mrs George Hibner return to Chicago Monday. His wife, a guest here, visits her mother in Charles City. Mrs W D Shank travels to Omaha after niece's death. Presbyterians plan a Christmas party at Mrs Otto Kieckhefer home with aprons and 10 cent gifts. Mrs Elizabeth Mansfield Irving dies in Pasadena. Storms advertise slippers and toasters. Mount Vernon teams visit for basketball. Mrs Gilbert Gordon improves after surgery. Oliver Crew funeral in West Union. Patricia May Harbert second birthday observed. Shinaults move to Marion leasing Cities Service station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Hibner
George M. Hibner
Chicago
Charles City
Pauline Feil
Frank S. Skinner
J. J. Wallace
Ames
Wallace
Elizabeth Mansfield Irving
Pasadena
Calif
Irving
Marion
J. J. Booth
Independence
C. D. Harbert
Fifth Avenue
Patricia May
Ruby Seysler
Margaret Seysler
Edward Neville
R. H. Burns
Rolland Seysler
J. E. Seysler
Cedar Rapids
Robert Hogan
Electa circle hosts picnic luncheon and Christmas party
Electa circle of King's Daughters met Tuesday at Mrs. Willis Jordan's home for a picnic luncheon and Christmas party. The group donated 4 to local charities including the Christmas seal fund the Red Cross and the Goodfellows fund and planned a bazaar. Magnolia Peterson of Cedar Rapids named delegate to a breakfast at the Roosevelt hotel honoring Mrs Mansfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Electa
King’s Daughters
Willis Jordan
Red Cross
Goodfellows Fund
Magnolia Peterson
Cedar Rapids
Roosevelt Hotel
Ida Mansfield
Tuckabache Club Plans Friday Luncheon and Gift Exchange
The Tuckabache club will meet Friday at Mrs. Charles Granger's home 1073 Sixth Street for a luncheon and Christmas party. Members are asked to bring a 10 cent gift for exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Presbyterian Ladies Aid Society
Otto Kieckheefer
Tuckabache Club
Charles Granger
Sixth Street
Wildroot Hair Product Sale at Owen's Drug Store
Special sale on Giant 14 ounce Wildroot for the Hair at Owen's Drug Store priced at 59 cents. Limited time offer, advertised for quick sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Owen's Drug Store
Baptist church choir to hold 6 PM picnic supper rehearsal
The choir of the Baptist church will meet tonight at 6 for a picnic supper and rehearsal at the church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Baptist Church
Community Notes From Bellevue and Cedar Rapids
Mrs. Frank Damon of Bellevue visits the Phelps family. Mrs. Lloyd Stark visits relatives in Chicago. E. C. Hamm had an appendectomy at St Luke's in Cedar Rapids. Fidelis circle of King's Daughters hosts a Friday picnic and Christmas party at Mrs. Arthur Fairhurst home with 25 cent gift exchange. Annabella and Robert Young star in Bridal Suite at the Garden. Mrs. Mabel Good of Chicago visiting sister Inez Helbig in A R McElwain home. Pleasant Grove Community club meeting postponed to Dec 19 due to Charles Reinheimer's death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fidelis Circle of
King’s Daughters
Arthur E. Fairhurst
Fifth Avenue
Mabel Good
Chicago
Inez Helbig
A. R. McElwain
Pleasant Grove Community Club
Charles A. Reinheimer
Natzel
Frank Natzel
Montivedo
Minn
G. H. Natzel
Portland
Ore
C. A. Christensen
Omaha
Arthur Natzel
William Carathans
Manilla
Mcgregor
Royal Arch Masons
E. H. McGhee
King
P. E. Cleveland
Henry Schott
W. A. Meyers
E. J. Herron
The
Blue Lodge
Charles Yount
Ludwig Baker
Lawrence Linderman
C. W. Waltz
Robert Coon
Brooklyn
Maxine Lang
Gavin Lang
California
J. G. Paterson
Mary Hertz
Cascade
Andrew Hosch
Leo Gavin
Francis Lees
Charles Klinkner
George Klinkner
Clinton
Mrs Clifford Johnson Visited By Parents In Dubuque
Mrs Clifford O Johnson of Dubuque was an overnight guest Tuesday with her parents Mr and Mrs E V Carey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clifford O. Johnson
Dubuque
E. V. Carey
Garden theater features young stars in BRIDAL SUITE ad
Chapter CS PEO meets at Mrs. Sigfred home with co hostesses Mrs. Crew. Mrs. Emmons and Mrs. Reichard read Christmas stories and carols are sung. Advertisement notes Donald Tow returns from Cedar Falls. Marion Chapter No 10 RA M elects Buck as high priest and installs officers. Street Commissioner Schultz ill but improved with no visitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Sigfred
Arthur E. Crew
Floyd Emmons
George Reichard
W. G. Buck
Marion
Masonic Temple
Amos Stewart
C. A. Garrison
Irvin L. Ford
R. E. Lehdigh
Peter F. Schultz
Mrs. Foster Visits Kin in Minnesota Before Winter in Los Angeles
Mrs. J H Foster of Minneapolis spent Wednesday at the home of Mr and Mrs Karl W Kendall while en route to Los Angeles to spend the winter. Lovely Lorraine garments are advertised in satin crepe or knit with prices from 1.00. Lorraine panties in rayon with stripes and suave styles priced 49c and 59c at Murray's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank J. Harris
Sherwood, N. D
Harris
R. H. Harris
Harley McCalley
Hot Springs
Ark
J. H. Foster
Minneapolis
Karl W. Kendall
Los Angeles
Murray’s
Charles F. Carter, Veteran Newsman, Dies at 76
Charles Frederick Carter, 76, noted railroad writer and veteran newspaperman, died of a heart attack Sunday at his Brooklyn home. A native of Jones county Iowa, he worked as a railway employee in Michigan and later served newspapers in Denver Chicago New York and Brooklyn. He formerly wrote for Railroad Man's magazine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW York
Charles Frederick Carter
Brooklyn
Jones County
Iowa
Carter
Denver
Chicago
Railroad Man's Magazine
Ickes Versus Chamber Over Power Emergency Report
Interior Secretary Harold Ickes clashed with the U S Chamber of Commerce over a planned factual report on whether electric utilities can handle emergencies without government interference. He accused the chamber of delaying release and criticized its practice of presenting conclusions before facts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
Harold L. Ickes
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
Ickes
National Power Policy Committee
Chamber
Arizona Loses Tiff To Texas Accepts Return Of Madman
Bruno Hanks a 25 year old madman and former asylum patient, escaped from an Arizona facility and was captured in El Paso Texas. After a two day cross state dispute Governor R T Jones agreed to return him to Phoenix to resume treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arizona
Texas
EL Paso
Tex
Bruno Hanks
Phoenix
Ariz
R. T. Jones
Winnie Ruth Judd
Jones
Hanks
New President Named for Young Men's Bureau
Erwin J. Wasta, 1902 Avenue NE, was named president of the Young Men's Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce by the newly elected board at a Hotel Roosevelt luncheon. He succeeds W. W. Crisman and is part of a slate that includes Frank Krueger and Mrs. Jes sie Lenz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erwin J. Wasta
B Avenue
Young Men's Bureau
The
Chamber of Commerce
Hotel Roosevelt
Wasta
W. W
Bill” Crissman
Probe Sanity Of Negro Doomed In CCC Camp Crime
State's Atty. John L. Brearton announced an insanity probe into John Collins 17 Chicago Negro condemned for the holdup slaying of CCC camp officer Lamaster. Collins, pending appeal at Joliet, refused food and stares at walls as execution was stayed last week by the supreme court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freeport
Ill
John L. Brearton
Carroll County
John Collins
Chicago
Paul E. Lamaster
CCC
Brearten
Joliet Penitentiary
State Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Collins
Lamaster
Business Optimism High Among Cleveland Executives
A Chamber of Commerce poll of 556 business leaders found 456 expect better business in the first quarter of 1940 than a year earlier, 80 anticipate the same, and 16 foresee a decline after Col. Leonard P. Ayres’s annual forecast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland (Ap
Chamber of Commerce
Col
Leonard P. Ayres
Cleveland
Marriage notices and anniversaries in Iowa towns
In Des Moines a double wedding is announced for Lucille Wince and Kenneth Swailes with attendants Harriet Vince and Floyd Ross. the couple plans to live on a farm near Iowa City. Opal Forbes to wed John Kile on December 16. Forbes is Lone Tree High School alumna. A 30th anniversary party for Roy and wife near Wyoming marks three decades of marriage, while August and wife celebrate 25 years with a large family gathering. Hukill Rebekah lodge in Lone Tree elects Velma Westfall noble grand and Mary Menzer vice grand among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus Junction
Lucille Wince
Harry L. Wince
Kenneth Swailes
Carl Swailes
Iowa City
Des Moines
O. B. Devine
Harriet Vince
Floyd Ross
Winfield
Lone Tree
Charles Forbes
Opal
John Kile
George Kile
Near West Liberty
Miss Forbes
Lone Tree High School
Hukill Rebekah Lodge
Noble
Velma Westfall
Mary Menzer
Myrtle Edwards
Elsie Smid
Anna Eden
Stella Krueger
Linn Relief Worker Receives Salary Increase
Linn county supervisors approved a $20 monthly increase for Miss Laura Hutchison relief department case worker at 1410 Third Avenue SE following a similar move by the social welfare board. Mrs Mildred Hunt said Johnson County relief officials offered Hutchison $95, noting county staff reductions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laura F. Hutchison
Third Avenue SE
Linn County Supervisors
Social Welfare Board
Mildred Hunt
Johnson County
Miss Hutchison
Linn
Allamakee County Boy Killed by Motorcycle
Eight year old Dale Van Groven of Dorchester was killed Tuesday when struck by a motorcycle driven by 16 year old Calvin Wright. Both boys were en route to school. Dale was walking along the highway. It was the county's first motor vehicle death this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waukon, Ia
Dale van Groven
Louis van Groven
Dorchester
Charles Boyden
Calvin Wright
Dale
Allamakee County
Also Mentioned on This Page
Marion News
Rebekahs
Goodfelows Fund
Goodfellows’ Fund
Marion Lodge
A. F
A. M
Trojan Lodge
Shakespeare Club
Klatter Klub
Coast To Coast Store
Diana Fret Club
Musical Literary Club
Gail Storck
John H. Pazour
Winfield A. White
Mildred Titus
Charles T. Rowe
G. A. Senninger
G. W. Miller
H. B. Phillips
Ware Lake
L. A. Mack
Frank Kepros
H. F. Breed
Christian Church
H. A. Culbert
Leibsohn
C. E. Gordon
Gordon
Gordon’ Grocery
Gordon Hatchery
J. L. Papes
Clarence van Fossen
P. G. Harlan
A. P. Munsen
Ed M. Taylor
L. M. Phelps
E. Jefferson
K. E. Cornell
Karl Kendall
W. C. Sheets
Z. N. Lundy
D. B. Storck
D. A. Stamy
Paul Fiedler
W. O. Blake
Lou Hennes
Stewart Hawk
Clarence Meggers
Amber Travis
Dorothy Burrows
Dickey’s Foods
W. D. Shank
Arthur Jewell
Benish Shoe Store
Storm’s
Arthur W. Henke
Leaders of Christian Education
Osceola Lodge No
Western Auto Associate Store
Mount Vernon High School
Gilbert Gordon
St. Luke's Hospital
M. L. Braska Co
Jack Shinault
Shinault
Millie
Gazette
Frank Damon
Bellevue
Mrs. L. M. Phelps
Mrs. Lloyd Stark
E. C. Hamm
Annabella
Robert Young
Donald Tow
Cedar Falls
Cc. F. Carter
Young Men’s Bureau
Frank Krueger
Howard Krueger
Jessie Lenz
Maquoketa
Sons of the American Legion
Thad Harrington
Thomas Harrington
Richard Cribbs
Robert Ruppe
Robert Cribbs
Zellus House
Legion Post
Timber City
Monona
van Horne
Gustave Natzel
Milwaukee Railroad
Germany
United States
Indiana
Alvina Bedmann
Milwaukee
Marengo
Mary Roggentine
Frank Paul Hladky
Mary Boatty
Aurora
John
Anna Beatty
Joseph Chehak
Landora
A. W. Chehak
Arthur Chehak
L. E. Chehak
Sylvia Gleason
Jerome
Idaho
Golda Spoerry
Floyd Chehak
Center Point
Clarence Abbott
Charles Swisher
Mary Mounce
Clyde Price
Frank Benesh
August Steinberg
Harry Hill
Prairieburg
Frank Price
Alburnett
Milo Benesh
Walker
Colonel Mounce
Marshfield
Wis
Bryan
Sigourney
Robert Lee Clubb
Paul Clubb
Lasswell Photo
E. J. Wasta
Iowa News
Wyoming
Roy Overley
Ellen Lewis
August Luckstedt
Peter Johannsen
Luckstedt
Vicks
Sanford
Farm Dairies
Council On Foods of the American Medical Association
DIAL
Be Farm Dairies
Lag ‘Ly
ASTEX
Gabardine
Lastex Suede
Barkers
Second Street
Dows Bldg
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