Metropolitan museum in miniature opens at public library
The Junior League of Cedar Rapids curates an arts exhibit in the public library with Harriet Sargent and Vivien Buser among participants. The display includes Lincoln’s desk relics, Russian jewels, gold crowned items, a London coronation story, Victorian book editions, and a dollhouse by Mrs. Van Vechten Shaffer. Tea is served. admission is free Tuesday 4–6 and 7–9 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Metropolitan Museum
Miniature
Junior League of
Cedar Rapids
Oguers
Harriet Sargent
Abraham Lincoln
Miss Sargent
Roosevelt High School
Vivien Buser
Arthur Poe
Robert S. Cook
Horace G. Hedges
Malcolm V. Bolton
Clare R. Marshall
Douglas Kirk
Edwin H. Wadsworth
H. Gordon DeLay
Justin W. Albright
Ernest W. Anderson
Patricia Burkhalter
London
Queen Victoria
G. W. Hopkins
Wallace Darling
Paris
Florence
Junior League Plans Parties For Officer Seacrest
Mrs. Joseph W. Seacrest of Lincoln arrives to spend several days as a guest of Mrs. Horace G. Hedges in Cedar Rapids. Seacrest, director of region No. 7 of the Junior League of America and president of Zeta province of Kappa Kappa Gamma, will attend teas luncheons and meetings with league members and directors at the Montrose hotel and local homes. Jo Elora Boardman turns thirteen at a blue and white party. The Social Fifty set to meet for a picnic luncheon at Mrs. H. N. Boyson’s home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph W. Seacrest
Lincoln
Neb
Horace G. Hedges
Seventeenth Street
Seacrest
Junior League of America
Zeta
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Hedges
Veiver Avi
G. Stewart Holmes
Stanley R. Meek
J. Hamilton Bell
Knollwood Drive
Nutrition Center
Junior League of Cedar Rapids
H. N. Boyson
Bever Avenue SE
Miss Marie Schmermund To Be Honored Before Trip Abroad
Ill talk of a tea at Mrs. M. S. Hallman home with about twenty-five guests. Miss Schmermund plans a three month trip starting Monday with trains to Salt Lake City and Los Angeles visiting Bell California Long Beach and San Diego areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marie Schmermund
Second Avenue SE
California
M. S. Hallman
W. R. Boyd
Margaret Bridge
Black Hills Teachers’ College
Spearsfish
S. C
Hallmans
Linden Drive
Local Socials and Club Notices Roundup
Mrs. Frank C. Byers plans a Santa Barbara winter with her brother Dr. Richard G. Lyon. Mrs. Ethel Pinney Ristedt hosted a luncheon for the Cook ing club in Byers' honor. Georganne and Barbara Dunshee hosted an ice skating party for twenty guests. Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Pickford entertained the Saturday luncheon club, 28 members attended. Delta Delta Delta alliance 606 to meet Miss Wynne Hoblitzell for dinner and a business meeting. Miss Betty Roth leaves for New York City to study at the New York school of fine and applied arts. Lunch hosted by Mrs. Ronald P. Evans. 606 Mrs. William Rinderknecht to host PEO chapter DE Monday at 8 p.m. Mrs. E J North to read a paper on Changing Tastes In American Music with several assistants.
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Frank C. Byers
Nineteenth Street
Santa Barbara
Calif
Richard G. Lyon
Ethel Pinney Ristedt
Country Club Parkway
Cooking Club
Byers
Georganne
Barbara Dunshee
Walter E. Dunshee
Third Avenue SE
Dunshee
R. H. Pickford
Forest Drive
Delta Delta Delta Alliance
Wynne Hoblitzell
Woodland Drive
Harold J. Rowe
W. D. Barnhizer
Edith Knox
Betty Roth
Walter K. Roth
Park Terrace SE
New York City
New York School of Fine and Applied Arts
William Rinderknecht
Fifth Avenue SE
P. E
E. J. North
Helen Hibnes
Olive Tower
C. T. Regynolds
Sadie Combs
High School Group Enjoys Ice Bobsled Party
A group of sixteen high school students held a bobsled party Saturday night at Miss Katherine Luberger’s home 1937 Second Avenue SE. The gathering included Katherine Luberger Margaret Farquhar Jane Miller Allayne Kenecny Margaret Ann Massey Mary Jane Plate Phyllis Hatten Jimmy Jensen Bill Bloomhall Bob Johnson Junior Delzell Bill Fluegel Tom Wright Jimmy Drew Jack Talbott and Howard Beals. Mrs Addison J Ramsey hosted a luncheon at 225 Crescent Street SE Saturday afternoon to honor birthdays of Mrs Steele Wilcox and Mrs Howard R Green and the wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs Ramsey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katherine Luberger
Second Avenue SE
Margaret Farquhar
Jane Miller
Allayne Kenecny
Margaret Ann Massey
Mary Jane Plate
Phyllis Hatton
Jimmy Jensen
Bill Bloomhall
Bob Johnson
Junior Delzell
Bill Fluegel
Tom Wright
Jimmy Drew
Jack Talbott
Howard Beals
Addison J. Ramsey
Crescent Street SE
Steele Wilcox
Howard R. Green
Ramsey
Local Socials Highlight Visits and Upcoming Wedding
Miss Patricia Burkhalter hosted a small dinner honoring her guest Miss Eleanor Jane Davis and to compliment Miss Mary Ellen Hamilton on her birthday. Mrs Charles F Edwards will entertain the Ladies Literary Club Monday at 2:30 p.m. at her home and Mrs Haven Simmons will review Man the Unknown. The Misses Snouffer will host a tea and miscellaneous shower for Miss Velma Baumhoefener, bride-elect, with about twenty guests. The marriage to Kenneth Fry of Blairstown is set for January 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patricia Burkhalter
Crescent Drive
Eleanor Jane Davis
Oelwein
Mary Ellen Hamilton
Miss Davis
Burkhalter
Miss Burkhalter
Coe College
Charles F. Edwards
Park Avenue SE
Ladies Literary Club
Haven Y. Simmons
Alexis Carroll
Anna Mae_ Snouffer
First Avenue W
Jane Sloan
J Street
Snouffer
Velma Baumhoefener
Miss Baumhoefener
Kenneth Fry
Blairstown
P E O Luncheon To Honor Founders Day In Cedar Rapids
E O S members from Cedar Rapids and nearby towns will observe the sisterhood with a Founders Day luncheon at 12 30 pm Saturday in the Roosevelt hotel Roosevelt room. Chapter HJ hosts include Mrs George G Clements president and arranging officer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. O’s
Cedar Rapids
Sisterhood
Roosevelt Room
Roosevelt Hotel
George G. Clements
Clements
Lester de Yarman
C. Harve Geiger
Karl P. Blaise
O. W
Mrs Hunting Plans Southward Cruise in January
Mrs. Herbert B. Hunting of 1857 Second Avenue SE with her daughter Mrs. Harry J. Williams of Davenport will leave January 25 for New York City and sail January 27 on the Britannic for the West Indies. After touring South America and a stop at the Panama Canal Zone Jamaica and Cuba en route home they plan to return by early March.
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Herbert B. Hunting
Second Avenue SE
Harry J. Williams
Davenport
Hunting
New York City
West Indies
South America
Panama Canal Zone
Jamaica
Cuba
Charles F. Duncan
Savannah
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Douglass
Neil Montgomery
League
R. F. Torstenson
Mark Twain
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Leigh Hunt
Charles Grandison
Samuel Richardson
Betty Davis
Edwy Clapp
William C. Crawford
Verne Marshall
Robert B. Davis
San Francisco
National Junior League
England
Elizabeth Chandler Tomec
James H. Yuill
United States
J. K. von Lackum
John W. Barry
Elora Boardman
Grande Avenue SE
Betty Atkinson
Betty Lou Hruska
Barbara Anderson
Barbara Hird
Jane Ma~son
Marjorie Fiebig
Miriam Greenberg
Sally Luberger
Ramona Miller
Erva Fath
Mary Jane Stevenson
Ellen Curray
Ann Hill
Janet Wohlrabe
Ruth Dutton
Mrs. Boyson
Wardles
J. D. Wardle
Arthur Biddinger
Longueville Bridge
Frank Byers
Barbara, Georganne Dunshee
Pickfords
Hoblitzells
Mrs. Edwards
Sloan
P.E.O
F. W. Orr
Marian Wilson
C. S. Mahaffy
Ray Anderson
R. R. Williamson
W. R. Kemble
Everett Pratt
Philip W. Shive
Metta Burd
F. E. Stull
Paul Menoher
P. E. O. Union
Pratt
Williamson
Mrs. Hunting
Dwight Krumholtz
Ethel R. Outland
Gladys McVay
Voorhees Hall
Lillian Anderson
Pride and Prejudice
F. G. Murray
B Avenue NE
Thomas Eldred
N. Harold West
Twentieth Street
David G. Bleakley
Mary Ellen Chase
White Shrine
Kensington
Anna Heumes
Twenty-seventh Street Drive
Stella Smith
Mesdames Adda McLain
Kathryn Chambers
Lillian Myers
Della Chadima
Lillian S. Beane
Agnes C. Clement
Emma L. Holmes
Julia Barta
Mary Novak
Anna Shramek
Florence Thomas
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