Park Parallel and Public Sparks in Town Notes
Around the Town reports a playful quip about a park name Park Parallel, a fire chief recounts rescuing jewelry from a smoke-filled Holloway residence, and a Cedar Rapids mother coaches social charm for her son. It notes The Sahara night club in Iowa City, new North Western streamliners costing 3 million, and a stray upper plate found at a Cedar Rapids police station with no owner yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Felix O’donnell
Holloway
Malinda Gollobitz
O’donnell
Malinda
Fred Sargent
The
North Western
Mount Vernon
Sargent
Everett Alnutt
Cedar Rapids
Eleventh Avenue
Tenth Street
Clarence Wilson
Nominations and Ice Age Tales From Cedar Rapids Gazette
Old Timer nominates J A Yessler and Lou Dennis for keeping Cedar Rapids on the tennis map. Chine Stodola also ranks high. Frank Luther Mott plans a larger garden at Iowa, with ornamental gourds on a map wall. A recipe for baked green beans with cream cheese is shared. Local notes joke about fashion back to the 1890s. An icy story in War Wheatland and a quip about Wallis Simpson headline the flood piece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
J. A. Yessler
Lou Dennis
Chine Stodola
Coralville
Frank Luther Mott
School of Journalism
University of Iowa
Ethelyn Killian
New York
Bridge Club
Silent Interview And Club Events At Cedar Rapids
Society notes outline Dr. Fred Smith of Iowa University speaking on heart health at a Cedar Rapids Woman's club meeting Monday at 2 30 p.m. at the Montrose hotel. Club departments sponsor gym dances card parties and plant talks with prize draws and teas. A Thursday reading group will meet to review Finland the New Nation by Agnes Rothery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Smith
Department of Medicine
University of Iowa
Cedar Rapids Woman’s Club
Montrose Hotel
Health Education Department
Verne Henton
A. G. Brown
Homer Maxwell
C. H. Stark
R. H. Bo
The
College Club
George L. van Deusen
C Avenue
William Rinderknecht
Finland
New Nation
Agnes Rothery
Francis Robert White
Little Gallery
W A A Officers At Cornell To Be Honored Dinner
Newly elected officers of the Women s Athletic association at Cornell college will be honored at a formal dinner in Pfeiffer hall followed by a ceremonial installation for Blanche Marquart Berniece Reynolds Corrine Anderson and Nina Trump. Irene Canfield planned the event. Purple Quasers and other clubs are also noted with upcoming meetings and events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women’s Athletic Association
Cornell College
Pfeiffer Hall
Blanche Marquart
Oak Park
Ill
Berniece Reynolds
Marion
Corrine Anderson
Lake Forest
Iil
Nina Trump
Polo
Delphi
Cornell-Carleton
Irene Canfield
Fairmont
Minn
The
Purple Masquers
Bobsled Parties Draw City Youths This Weekend
Several Dutch treat bobsled parties drew younger residents, with junior high and senior high groups meeting at homes for sleigh rides, games, and refreshments. Chaperones and family hosts hosted the gatherings, including birthday and social events across multiple SE neighborhoods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kathleen Victorine
Grande Avenue SE
Victorine
Dorothy Gibbs
Kathleen McGladrey
Joan Jeffry
Winifred Hargrave
Phyllis Haynes
Dorothy Helmendahl
Evelyn Heins
Marian Rubins
Warren Hyten
Billy Harriman
Robert Puckett
Jimmy Israel
Jim Rogers
Gerald Wachal
Robert van Horne
Ben Wolverton
John Wagner
Leland Hausler
Camilla Morin
Elsie Jiruska
Barbara Sgarlata
C Avenue NE
Sgarlata
Virginia McLean
Jean Severson
Lucille Hamlin
Marilyn Ingham
Margaret Ann Toogood
Stephen Barwick
Evan Kearney
Wallace Hollingsworth
Sherwood Craft
Jack O’brien
Billie Albright
Mary Margaret Strathmann
Leo H. Strathmann
Country Club Parkway SE
Strathmann
Mary Ann Kubicek
Mary Elizabeth Hiegel
Loraine Schillig
Jean Anderle
Betty Jean McGuire
Joe Stoddard
Wayne Elder
Vernon Stevens
Jimmy Dochterman
Peter McHugh
Junior Vetter
Dinner Dance By St Margaret's Circle At Roosevelt Hotel
Members of St Margaret's circle of the Immaculate Conception church entertain their husbands at a dinner dance in the Roosevelt room at the Roosevelt hotel this evening. Dinner at 6 30 serves about fifty with red and white valentine decorations. Dancing follows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Margaret’s
Immaculate Conception Church
Roosevelt Room
Roosevelt Hotel
John Welch
Richard Bruch
Needlework Blossoms Amid Icebound Winter
Mrs. Lael Ray Abbott of 2052 Eastern Boulevard SE shares how being snowbound spurred knitting. She wears a blue Glacier crepe lacy knit dress finished this winter and has begun another knitted suit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lael Ray Abbott
Eastern Boulevard SE
Silent finches and a noisy scene at Carlton apartments
Mrs. Everett Phillips feeds forty finches and other birds from a swinging tray built by Carleton custodian Steve Belehrad. The reporter and photographer struggle to get a usable shot as the birds fuss and the family surveys the scene from the window.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlton Apartments
Everett Phillips
Phillips
Bronx
Cardinals
Also Mentioned on This Page
Greene Square
Iowa City
William S. Catlow, Jr
En. R. Hubbard
Glacier
Town Hall
Msgr
John M. Molloy
Alaska
Madaline Darrough Horn
Grant Wood
Athletic Board
Rom Wheatland
Harry Carraher
Carraher
al Burbridge
Greeley
Wallis Simpson
Society
Woman’s Club
Mildred MacDanel
Dempsy Jones
S. E. Garber
Charles Earhart
H. L. Schlesselmann
A. B. van Dyke
van Dyke
Dial
N. C. Sutliff
Ida H. Elliott
Helen Mokrejs
Mary Trzil
J. Hervert
Esther Hronik
Frank V. Orr
Helen Kacena Stark
Hronik
Nature and Garden
Karl A. Stiles
Coe College
J. L. Rhea
Nature and Garden Department
Health Education
College Club Group
W.A.A
Cornell
MR. White
H. J. Achter
Park Terrace SE
Vernon Heights
Reading Club
W. A. Gauger
Graduate Nurses’ Club
Graduate Nurses
Commonwealth Tea Room
M. W. Fisher
G. A. Robinson
Bob
Dental Auxiliary
Greenawalts
Richard Greenawalt
Blake Boulevard
Ruby Byers
Franklin Junior High School
C. V. Lehman
V. O. Hasek, Jr
John Scholten
Ed Spraker
Betty Larson
O. J. Larson
Nineteenth Street
Joanne Crawford
Joan Yessler
Patricia Marshall
Doris Cone
Barbara Barry
Mary Lou Protzman
Margaret Stone
Muriel Lowe
Mary Frances Bucknell
Ruth Buresh
Dorothy Mesknes
O.E.S
Cedar Chapter No
Cedar Chapter
Price-Knight
Lois Maxine Price
Frank Price
Alburnett
Clair S. Knight
Ray S. Knight
Center Point
Second Evangelical Church
O. C. Gatrelle
Knight
Collins Radio Company
Second Avenue SE
St. Margaret's Circle
Mrs. Brown
W. E. Brown
Fourth Avenue SE
Home Garden Club
John Brookman
Friendship Circle
Friendship Circle of the King’s Daughters
Philip K. Gaines
Eighth Street NW
Thompson Photo
John W. Barry
Frances Westerfield
Mrs. Phillips
Mr. and
Thrift Service
Marx
Ilies
ZORIC
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