Iowa Bridge Fans Gather for Fifth State Championship in Cedar Rapids
Bridge players from across Iowa descend on Cedar Rapids for the fifth annual mid-winter state championship hosted by the Iowa State Bridge league at the Montrose hotel. The three day event runs Thursday through Saturday with multiple rounds in four championship events, rotating trophies, and permanent awards for top finishers.
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Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Iowa State Bridge League
Montrose Hotel
Whitney
Gator
Sioux City
Glyn Gough
Waterloo
League
Oliver Longueville
Wallace G. Boyson
Mae Suzette Longueville
Bridge clubs keep to midwinter state championship at Montrose
The midwinter state bridge championship heats up at Montrose as players brave icy streets. Helen Larimer, Margaret Wilcox, and Virginia Knox dominate top photo hands while Justin Albright and James Bell study tricky deals. The Bell family, noted former city champions, reside on Country Club Parkway SE.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Larimer
Margaret Wilcox
Virginia Knox
Miss Larimer
E. J. Larimer
Fifth Avenue SE
Miss Wilcox
E. E. Wilcox
Washington Avenue
Miss Knox
James M. Knox
Knollwood Drive
Justin W. Albright
Second Avenue
Center
James W. Bell
Engagement of Miss Lavinia Steele to Frederic Bateman
Announcement of the engagement of Miss Lavinia Steele of 1245 First Avenue E to Frederic H. Bateman of Grenloch New Jersey. They plan an April wedding. Steele is an Illinois University library school graduate and assistant librarian at the Masonic Library Cedar Rapids. Bateman is a farm machinery designer and president of the American Potato Association. They met aboard ship in summer 1935 en route to Europe. Steele will resign mid February and visit relatives before her wedding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lavinia Steele
First Avenue E
Frederic H. Bateman
Grenloch
N. J
Miss Steele
Illinois University Library School
Masonic Library
Cedar Rapids
State Library
Des Moines
Bateman
American Potato Association
Europe
Gertrude Nelson
Audubon
Ferdinand Schmidt
Bridge party honors Alec Douglas in Cobourg visitors
Mr and Mrs Alec Douglas of Cobourg Ontario, visiting the Commonwealth apartments, will be honored guests Monday at a bridge club hosted by Mr and Mrs R R Epler. The dinner Saturday, by Mrs Addison J Ramsey, honored the Douglases as hundreds receive invitations for a Streamlined Party at the Cedar Rapids Country club on Feb 6 with dancing to Art Herr and a Shack replica dining car with free lunches.
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J. H. Ramseys
J. H. Ramsey
Second Avenue SE
Commonwealth Tea Room
John M. Ely
First Avenue E
Ladies Literary Club
H. R. Trewin
Alec Douglas
Cobourg
Ontario
Commonwealth Apartments
R. R. Epler
Linden Drive
Addison J. Ramsey
Crescent Drive
Douglas
Country Club
Cedar Rapids
Aliyuc Party
Cedar Rapids Country Club
Art Herr
City of Denver Streamliner
Lael Abbott
Robert B. Davis
Eugene M. Pinney
J.P. van Horn
Bever Avenue
Herbert Henderson
A. W. Erskine
Helen Dunn
Alice Rudd
Alice Rogers
Mabel Smouse
Community Players Plan Evening Party With Orchestra
Chief Engineers plan an all evening event featuring an orchestra. Mrs. James L. Cooper and Ed win H. Wadsworth head the engineering team for the trip. Interior decorating by Mrs. Edwin H. Wadsworth and assistants. Invitations led by Miss Gladyce Getz. Transportation by Donald P. Barnes with Clare R. Marshall and others. Entertainments overseen by Mrs. H. Gordon DeLay with a large assisting group. Call Miss Marian Galloway or board members for attendance.
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James L. Cooper
Edwin H. Wadsworth
J. Max Widmer
Franklin Battin
Dean Stauffacher
Joe Cohn
Gladyce Getz
Donald P. Barnes
Clare R. Marshall
Hazel Brown
Neil Montgomery
H. Gordon DeLay
Community Players Board
B. P. Lattner
Lael Ray Abbott
Harry Boyd
Richard Rinderknecht
Mary Lackersteen
Ralph Clements
Douglas Kirk
John B. Turner II
Jane E. Riley
William Miller
Roy E Currays Leave for California Stay
Mr and Mrs Roy E Currays and their children Ellen Joseph and Margaret will depart Wednesday morning for California spending two months visiting relatives in Long Beach Claremont and other cities They will travel via Texas stopping in principal cities with J A Currays and Lieut and Mrs R M MacKinnon hosting and visiting in Calfornia
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy E Curray
Linden Drive
Ellen
Joseph
Margaret
California
Texas
Long Beach
Calif
Mr. Curray
J. A. Curray
College Socials Honor Vacationing Students
College and university students on vacation are honored at social events this weekend. Miss Marjorie Deacon hosts an informal open house for about seventy guests, with Mrs. Deacon presiding at the tea table and Misses Buckingham and Thomas assisting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marjorie Deacon
W. M. Deacon
Knollwood Drive
Betty Buckingham
Oak Park
Janet Thomas
Primrose Selden
Sara Lea Hesbacher
Valerie Keneeny
Selden
Seve
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Socilats
W. G. Whitney
Independence
George E. Beattie
Joe Barry
Hampton
A. J. Kleinschmidt
Dubuque
Will Weise
Davenport
E. J. Carey
Longueville
C. G. Yoran
Manchester
John Evans
Perry
Mr. Gough
F. H. Don Carlos
D. D. Sheldon
Preston Daniels
C. W. Parks
Council Bluffs
H. J. Robertson
W. M. Jayne
R. S. Hardendorf
S. A. Sanders
T. E. Taylor
Ruth Cummins
Cedar Falls
Genevieve Keedick
Toledo
James Taylor
John W. Barry
Ridge
Bridge Club
Montrose
E. J. Clapps
Edwy J. Clapp
Twenty-sixth Street
Lorin R. Lindamood
Chicago
Charles Ingrams
R. H. Pickford
Charles Ingram
Tacoma, Wash
Mr. Ingram
Roswell H. Pickford
Mr. Pickford
Forest Drive
Literary Club
Roy E. Currays
LYNCH
Katherine Lynch
Blake Boulevard
Betty Sziear
Betty Gage
Betty Hamilton
Patricia Salter
Mary Jane Murdock
Jeanne Rowe
Betty Mae Sommer
Marianne Corey
Jean Killen
Dorothy Graham
Patricia Graves
H. Gordon
Mexico
Twentysixth
Mexico City
William Crawfords
William Crawf
Vernon Drive
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