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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1947
Page
10
Mrs Minnie O'Hara announces the forth marriage of her daughter Margaret to L E Dodge. The ceremony is set for February 8 at 7 pm in St Pauls Methodist Church. Miss O'Hara is with Collins Radio. Dodge serves in the navy and works for Quaker Oats.
The MacDowell Junior Music Club met Monday at Miss Eulalia Hauser’s studio on Fifth Avenue SE. The group studied the life and works of Edward MacDowell. Members read papers on research by Barbara Koning Rochelle Jacobson Kay Ales Dick Harman and Jeannine Phillips. New members presented a piano program and plans were made to send several members to the Federation Festival contest at Iowa State Teachers College in April.
The Junior Sokols announce new officers: Victor Naxera as president, Paul Jr as vice president, Barbara Klassen as secretary, and Betty Louise as treasurer.
Rose McGuckin of M County Derry and Gerald Fogarty wed Tuesday morning at Immaculate Conception Church. The Irish bride, first native of Ireland to marry there, met Fogarty in 1942 in Ireland during his army service. They will live on a farm near Elma after a 20-guest ceremony dinner at the Fogarty home.
Home Rebekah Degree Staff in stalled its 1947 officers at a banquet Monday evening in K of P hall. New officers are Ann Kasper past president Lodema Siebert president Betty Davis vice president Edith Wilson chaplain Florence Kisinger recording secretary and Gertrude Jackman treasurer. Bill Dyt rt served the banquet.
Mrs Peter L Topic of 501 Twenty Sixth Street SE entertained 12 members of her bridge club at luncheon on Wednesday.
The Wawasi Camp Fire group hosted a party for Miss Lois Hahn at Mrs. J. A. Arnold's home on 1703 B Avenue NE. Hahn leaves the group due to graduation to junior high. A gift exchange occurred.
Miss Lucille Ann Lang daughter of Mr and Mrs C E Lang and Charles F Gorkow son of Mrs Jeanette Gorkow were married Monday in St Marys rectory by Rev John P Fagan. The couple will reside in Strawberry Point after a wedding trip.
Joint installation held by C.S.A. lodges Junior American Czech 388 and Progressive 343 in C.S.P.S. hall. Installing officers include Henriet ta Seabrooke and others. New lodge officers named for Junior American lodge with sessions and Sunday initiation at 7 39 p m. Public invited to view Chicago parade films.
Degree of Honor Lodge in Cedar Rapids installs 1947 officers during a ceremony led by Etta A. Branson past national president and regional director. Rose Harvey national committeewoman and Louise Smith grand usher assisted. New officers include Edith Burke Gladys Lytle Ida M Barnett Bertha Wright Elizabeth Meyn Dorothy Robinson and others.
New Sunshine auxiliary 22 L A P M installed Monday evening by Mr and Mrs W L Hoffer and staff. Elected officers include Helen Vedder president Anna McCreedy vice president Clara Schaad junior past president and Leona Borschel secretary Ella Scott treasurer Rebea Ridgley chaplain Noblett musician Lucile Sheets color bearer. Committees named with Hazel Neal Addie Sleight calendar Lebbie Howard Minnie Nurss Christine Earhart finance Alta Woodside Viola Vantalge Ruth Neill entertainment Valeria Hamilton Erma Boles Minnie Plummer Dorothy Singer visiting Emma Hammond Clara Schaad Dessa Russell Mattie Hronik Norvella Ellis Minnie Nurss Ethel Height Bess Bachman Alice Andrie Ella Horn Ella Moody Ella Lund ways and means and Mary Olson courtesy.
An urgent city ordinance in Cedar Rapids Iowa designates a street area as A residential and permits a second parcel for residential use. The measure, passed January 13 1947, becomes effective immediately to protect public peace and safety.
A rustic cookbook style note describes peach melba inspired by Escoffier for a Melba party with fresh and frozen fruit options. It also shares a beef dish using a thrift cut with horse radish sauce and suggests using leftover vegetables in a creamed soup.
Creamed soup from leftover vegetables combines pulp of onions carrots celery and beans with milk butter and flour to a thick smooth consistency seasoned to taste. The hot meat and onion sandwich grills onions in water then thickens with flour mix and stirs in meat for a hearty filling served on enriched bread with gravy and optional chili sauce.
Fire records attribute many blazes to inflammable wooden roofs, causing an estimated annual loss surpassing 16 million dollars. Authorities urge preventive upgrades and stricter building codes to reduce costly fires and protect property.
A fragment from Edgar A Guest features a dialogue about marriage and male behavior. A mother and daughter discuss a suitor's attentiveness and future conduct, with the daughter noting his promise to be devoted and neat. The mother cites her own father’s warning.
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