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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1944
Page
17
Wartime lifestyle guidance urges rest, warm clothing, dental care, and daily seven foods with water and milk. It advises a positive outlook, pleasant demeanor, and morale through well pressed clothes as fashion trends promise slim silhouettes and versatile coats amid postwar shortages.
Clever designs and trends in spring clothing highlight sashes across New York collections of tailored, afternoon, and dinner dresses. The look features varied widths and bows to refresh wartime silhouettes, with black crepe frocks styled by back-tied sashes in purple and fuchsia.
Parlor City lodge No. 58 and Harry Clark lodge No. 56 invite families and friends to Sokol hall Friday at 6 p.m. for a picnic supper. A joint installation of officers will follow, then a dance.
Mr and Mrs Harry A Anderson returned to their Spring Beach home on Diamond Lake Cassapolis Michigan after visiting Mrs Andersons parents Mr and Mrs Frank D Miller at 3432 First Avenue NE during the holidays.
The Gethsemane White Shrine will hold a business session Saturday at 7 45 p m in the Masonic hall. A program will follow with the Shepherdess Guard in charge.
The Society for the Hard of Hearing will resume its weekly lip reading class Tuesday evening after a two weeks holiday vacation.
The Women’s council of the second Christian church will meet Thursday at 2 p.m. in the home of Mrs. C. R. Campbell at 109 Seventh Avenue SW.
Jim Wilcox of 1444 Third Avenue SE has returned home after spending the Christmas holidays in Chicago with relatives.
The Suburban Co-Workers will meet Wednesday in the Bungalow of the Light company. Hostess will be Mrs. H. F. Phelps.
The Iowa State Commerce Commission is told Iowa Electric Light and Power Company Cedar Rapids requests a franchise to construct operate and maintain electric transmission lines across Linn County public lands highways streams and private lands. A hearing is set for January 25 1944 at Des Moines Iowa. Objections must be filed five days prior with the commission.
Mrs. Charlotte Clark of 609 Fourth Avenue SE Cedar Rapids works as a power cloth cutter at Welch Cook Beals. She is the first woman in this job and has two teenage sons in service. Clark describes training in Des Moines, family duties, rationing, and plans to remain in Cedar Rapids after the war.
Edmund F. Wressell named administrator of Emma A. Wressell estate in Linn County Iowa on December 17 1943. Creditors must settle debts promptly and file claims with Linn County District Court through attorney Geo Lawrence.
Dollie Victoria Nyman named executrix of Chris Nielsen estate asks all debtors to pay promptly and directs claimants to file with the Linn County District Court. A W Bass, attorney, handles the matter.
Administrator of the estate of John Siemund in Linn County Iowa asks all debtors to pay promptly and requires all claims to be filed with the Linn County District Court Clerk. Otto L. Schluter serves as attorney for the estate.
Red Cross workers in Cedar Rapids and nearby areas resume activities this week. Starting Tuesday surgical dressings centers reopen, 120,000 2 by 2 dressings and more volunteers needed to meet quota. Kitbags issued at Y M C A rooms and 12 centers. aim to ship 210 more kitbags to St Louis. Board to meet after January session. members voting eligible include regular Red Cross donors in the county. Gifts from local clubs noted.
A new NBC program Here’s To Youth begins Saturday January 15 at 12 noon to 12 30 pm. The show, in cooperation with ten youth groups including the Junior Red Cross, will dramatize wartime youth problems and home front projects. Red Cross first aid trained a third of U S households. A million and a half trained in the last year. Since WWII began American Red Cross chapters produced or donated supplies valued at 19 4 million for foreign relief.
The Thursday international relations group of A A A W will meet at 2 p m at Mrs R E Wallace 1816 Fifth avenue SE to study the topic India.
Notice announces ETHEL I. BOYER named Administratrix of Nellie May Alkin late of Linn County Iowa. Probate No 17325 states on the 31st day of December the court designated administratrix. Creditors must present claims for immediate payment to the undersigned. Donnelly Lynch and Anderson Lynch, Attorneys for the Administratrix.
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