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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1937
Page
22
Cedar Rapids area contest opens for fifth annual play writing with judge AMES WEBER LINN. Miss Mary Lackersteen manages entries from across the United States for a $50 top prize and honors for runners up. Scripts must be original, typed single side, with sealed author identity and a $1 fee.
Mrs Shaffer's doll house dazzles visitors with a grand piano music box, gold fixtures, and curio shelves housing miniature treasures. The living dining and kitchen rooms feature red and white palettes, tiny chandeliers, wired prisms, and themed furnishings. A sun deck canopy, blue yarn ropes, and a pet yard complete the elaborate display. Cedar Rapids bridge players suffer a loss to Waterloo as Mrs Max Wilson leads the winning side.
Mrs J P Winn elected Linn county chairman of the American Legion auxiliary succeeding Mrs William Bleakley who resigns to become matron of the Linn County Home. Winn is a former county vice chairwoman and senior past president of the Hanford post No 5 auxiliary.
Local shops offer colorful snow suits and accessories aimed at practicality and style. Popular looks include the black and Norwegian green two tone jacket with Norwegian trousers, lumberjack parka blouses, plus fours, knit sheep skin upper jackets, and waist belts with heart shaped pockets. Accessories include Tyrolean vests, ear warmers, caps, berets, and a Tyrolean color palette with tobagon red, Petoskey green, Tyrolean blue, ski pack yellow. Underthings remain warm wool blends, washable and snug.
Mid year pledges announced by Cornell social groups spark a season of campus parties and dinners. Dinner at the Grill honored new members from Mount Vernon Osage Minneapolis Edgerton Stratford Davenport Chicago Hollywood and more.
The Country Club hosts winter sport enthusiasts during the last week with a photo lineup. Suther land C. Dows Jr and Mary and Sally Zuercher rest after skating. Other skaters include Henrietta Dows Martin Hanson Donna Jeanne Johnson and Ralph Gearhart.
The Cedar Valley Caledonian society will observe Robert Burns birthday with a Jan 25 gathering in the Gold room of the President hotel Waterloo. A 6 30 p m banquet will be followed by Scottish music and Pip ing in the Haggis with Dr Arthur E Bennet of Des Moines to speak on The Immortal Memory of Robert Burns.
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