Extensive Southern Trips Are Planned for Winter Travel
Local travelers announce elaborate winter itineraries with trips to California and South America. Mr. and Mrs. Don Barnes sail January 7 from Los Angeles for a three month voyage down the West Coast and into the South American ports, then return via the West Indies. South American voyages are also being planned by Mrs. Edward H. Smith and Miss Eleanor Cook, with a two month trip from New York through the Panama Canal to the West Coast and back up the East Coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Barnes
Nassau Street SE
California
William Chamberlain
Saratoga
Wil
San Pedro Harbor
Los Angeles
South America
South American
New Year's Dinner Hosts Ashbys Enter Twenty Guests
Mr and Mrs Delbert R Ashby hosted a New Year's Eve dinner for twenty at their 2520 Country Club Parkway SE home. Miss Julia Robbins of Chicago visits Mrs Frederick N Lutz at 358 Woodland Drive SE. Mrs McCandless and Mrs Yates return from Knoxville with plans to visit extended family in Ottumwa and Des Moines area. Junior Art Club meets Monday at 2 45 pm with book reviews on Invertebrate Spain and Life and Death of a Spanish Town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delbert R. Ashby
Country Club Parkway SE
Ashby
Julia Robbins
Chicago
Frederick N. Lutz
Lutton H. Stubbs
Woodland Drive
A. W. Erskine
Second Avenue SE
Spain
Jose Ortega
Elliott Paul
L. D. Burkhalter
Gilbert M. Bates
Linden Drive
Roy E. Curray
George M. Bird
Third Avenue
Bates
Miss Harriet Griffin and Mal Eaton to Wed
Engagement announced at a Chicago tea for Miss Harriet Griffin daughter of Dr. and Mrs. T. A. Griffin formerly of Cedar Rapids to Mal Eaton of Freeport Illinois. Griffin attended Ward Belmon t college Nashville and recently bridesmaided in Cedar Rapids. Eaton graduated from the University of Iowa engineering school and works for a Micro-Switch firm in Freeport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harriet Griffin
T. A. Griffin
Chicago
Cedar Rapids
Mal Eaton
Freeport
Ill
Miss Griffin
Sells
Aledo
Homer Dines
Peter Bailey's New Year Smile Marks 1938 Start
A Thompson photo captures three year old Peter Bailey smiling with dimples in the Bailey family home at 305 Eighteenth street SE. The caption notes Happy New Year and the moment welcomes 1938 as Old Man 1937 departs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Appy
Peter Bailey
Peter F. Bailey
Eighteenth Street
Peter
Thompson
Stewart Holmes Family To Return From Florida Holiday Trip
Mr and Mrs Stewart Holmes of 369 Forest Drive SE and their sons Bill and James return today from a two week motor trip to Florida They visited Miami and Coral Gables and were Christmas day guests of Dr and Mrs P B Also former Cedar Rapids residents Miss Janet Murray leaves Monday for Wellesley Mass where she serves on the Ten Acres school for girls faculty after holidays with her parents Dr and Mrs Frederick G Murray 1829 B Avenue NE
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stewart Holmes
Forest Drive
Bill
James
Florida
Holmes
Miami
Coral Gables
P. B
Cedar Rapids
Janet Murray
Wellesley
Mass
Ten Acres School For Girls
Frederick G. Murray
B Avenue
Mary Gage
Second Avenue SE
Columbia
Stephens College
Gage
Harry M. Gage
Marian Collester Engaged to Jack Durin
Engagement announced for Marian Elizabeth Collester daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Collester Spencer to Jack E Durin son of Mr and Mrs Alfred E Durin 2320 Linden Dr SE Their wedding planned for Northwestern University graduates backgrounds at Ward Belmont and Kemper Military Academy are noted Delta Gamma and Sigma Alpha Epsilon affiliations mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Collester
Spencer
Marian Elizabeth
Jack E. Durin
Alfred E. Durin
Linden Drive
Joyce Wee Wee
Collester
Miss Collester
Northwestern University
Evanston
Delta Gamma Sorority
Northwestern
Ward Belmont College
Nashville, Tenn
Mr. Durin
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Kemper Military Academy
Booneville
White Cross Society Luncheon and Meeting Planned
The White Cross Society schedules a Monday luncheon at 1 p.m. at the Cedar Rapids Country Club for members. After lunch, the monthly meeting will be led by Mrs. Sumner D. Quarton, president. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Soboda Jr. host Mrs. Eleanor Bayless of Chicago as a weekend guest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids Country Club
The
White Cross Society
Sumner D. Quarton
Edward Soboda, Jr
Fifth Avenue SE
Eleanor Bayless
Chicago
Jennings Crawfords Visit in Chicago
Dr and Mrs Jennings Crawford of 232 Twenty fifth street drive SE left Thursday to spend the weekend in Chicago. Barbara Ringer will host a New Year tea this afternoon at her home 1840 Washington avenue SE from 4 to 6 entertaining younger guests before school starts Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jennings Crawford
Twenty-fifth Street Drive
Chicago
Barbara Ringer
Washington Avenue SE
Virginia Dodds
Jean Knight
Mary Shaffer Is Honored On Birthday
A New Year and birthday celebration hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Van Vechten Shaffer at 2001 Linden Drive honored their daughter Miss Mary Van Vechten Shaffer. About twenty guests attended with friends including Louise Gage, Martha Lou Smith, Diane Marshall, Kathryn Barnfrower, Betsy Blaise, Betty Ford, Barbara Harmer, Charys Lenzen, Jane Bell, and others. Several guests plan travel or continued visits, with Mary Gage heading to Columbia Missouri and others en route or visiting Cedar Rapids area homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs van Vechten Shaffer
Linden Drive
Mary van Vechten Shaffer
Shaffer
Miss Shaffer
Louise Gage
Martha Lou Smith
Diane Marshall
Kathryn Barnfrower
Betsy Blaise
Social pages chase year’s top society glimpses in 1937
The Cedar Rapids society column recaps January to June 1937 events from dances, weddings, and club anniversaries to front page flood news. It notes Bertie and F D R Jr., Mary Pickford engagements, Coe College events, and major national stories amid local social highlights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Society
Wally and
the Duke
Romeo and Juliet
Ethel du Pont
Cedar Rapids
Mary Lackersteen
Community Players
Marian Smith
Edwin Welch Miller, Jr
New York City
Hamilton-Davis
George VI
Mary Pickford
Buddy Rogers
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Ake
Fegion
New England
Southwastern
Mountain x
AY. D. Rovasvelt Horm
Amenda
Maitroad
Piret
Suse
Naw Orleane 1818
Queen Victoria
McKinley
William Hottensens
Milwaukee
William G. Hottensen
K Avenue
Mr. Hottensen
W. A. Hot
Don Clark
H. RB. Taylor
St. Louis
City
Mrs. H. R. Taylor
Blaka Boulevard
Delbert R. Ashbys
Frederick Lutz
McCandless
Yates
Robert E. McCandless
Sherman Yates
Tipton
Knoxville
Tenn
W. H. Britton
Joan
Albert Jenkins
Ottumwa
Albert P. Jenkins
H. M. Ross
Miss Harriet Griffin
Marian Collester
Jack Durin
Edward Sobodas, JR
Jennings Crawfords
George Coreys
George W. Corey
Park Terrace SE
del C. Porter
Edwy J. Clapp
Susan
Deyarman, Son
Lester DeYarman
Twentieth Street
Jim
Sonja Henie
Nelsons
Boudreaux
Mason City
L. P. Boudreaux
Sixth Avenue SE
Milton C. Nelson
Blake Boulevard
Bob Finlayson
Mary Shaffer
Mary Luberger
Balcom Luberger
Art Institute
Mary Winslow, Helen Larimer
Nancy Rendleman
Kenneth Shunk
Davenport
Robert Irons
James Gardner
Sioux City
Mary Winslow
Helen Larimer
Fifth Avenue
Miss Winslow
Miss Larimer
J. W. Albright
Tudor Wilder
Ruth Lindsey
Woman’s Club
Junior League of Cedar Rapids
Elaine Barrie
John Barrymore
Katharine Hepburn
Howard Hughes
Country Club
Southern Smilex
Alabama
Golden Gate Bridge
Great Britain
Edward
Wallis
Coe Colonial Ballet
March
H. Gordon DeLay
Franklin S. Battin
Texas
Frances Westerfield
Tom Moore
Cecily Cocker
Donald Leonard
Coe
Agnes Johnston
Henry
Ford
Kansas City
Mary Catherine McCormick
Raymond J. Lynch
DeWitt
S. Ex
McCormick-Lynch
Excelsior Springs
Pershing
Mary Ellen ‘Hamilton
Arthur Drury Davis
Warren E. Hansen
Margaret Larimer
Hudson Swiler
Burlington
du Pont-Roosevelt
Wallis Simpson-Duke of Windsor
Bernice Boynton
Richard Joseph
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