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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1938
Page
9
A Streamline themed party drew about 300 guests last evening at Cedar Rapids Country Club as Community Players hosted a railway station style event. Guests toured a transformed lounge with observation cars, call boards, and travel bulletins while enjoying games dancing and a waiting room candy stand curated by Mrs. Edwin H. Wadsworth and the Players' group.
Social column notes Cedar Rapids residents planning warm weather trips. Mr. and Mrs. Addison J. Ramsey depart for Florida visiting Miami Beach for a month. Mr. and Mrs. Roy E. Curray plan four weeks in California with stops in Claremont San Diego and Long Beach. Miss Helen Larimer to visit friends in Vincennes Nashville. Dinner host noted for Ramsey courtesy. Nearby club events and other social happenings listed.
Cedar Rapids women lead a daily indoor sport boom as they bowl before meals and compare scores with husbands. Featured are Mrs. David Turner Mrs. Howard R. Green Mrs. J Harold Horan Mrs. Sutherland C Dows Miss Frances Wolfe Mrs Chester D Salter and Mrs Frederick N Lutz among others enjoying the alley life. A note on Miss Larimer and traveling companions shows a Chicago trip ahead. Wallace Darling Jr hosts a fifteenth birthday bowling breakfast with friends John Foster Dick Chadima Jack Munn Hamilton Bell and Jimmy Day.
Announcement states the marriage of Mrs Leone Shackell of Carlton Apartments and Burgess West of Commonwealth Apartments occurred last evening at 6 at Miss Ella Johnson’s home 1809 Second Avenue SE. Reverend Melvin L. Welke presided with a small gathering and a supper followed. The couple departed for a wedding trip.
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