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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1940
Page
8
A series of small-town incidents unfolds from fishing misadventure to a 11-year-old Cub Scout earning 125 dollars, a game warden joke at a lake, a witty radio operator’s plate numbers, a peculiar White Rock hen, a jitterbug dance leg wound, and the origin of Charlie horse.
Cedar Rapids youths head for the Cheley camps near Estes Park on Tuesday evening aboard the City of Denver for a second term. Miss Maurine Hamblin will accompany them as general counselor. The group includes Herbert and Jack von Lackum Betsy Blaise and Joan Vessler Jo an will meet in Omaha with Jane Young. Mrs Evard R Jones of St Louis and her son Morton visit Mrs Lyle Hetzel in SE.
The Cedar Rapids Woman's Club season ended at Kenmore course with 21 players lunching at Marion Golf Club. Trailers team won the season with 164 points led by Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Lorence. runners-up Top Pers with 160 points. Individual prizes went to Mrs. Dvorak for most points and Mrs. Bedell for lowering handicap.
Announcement of the engagement and approaching marriage of Miss Janet Lothian to Leon Fuller Jr of Chicago. Parents Mr and Mrs Whitner Lothian of Marion announce. Fuller is son of Mr and Mrs L E Fuller of Elgin. The couple will reside in Chicago where Fuller works as industrial engineer with Carnegie Illinois Steel.
Country Club guests will watch acts from speed swimming to water ballet with performers from Minneapolis and Cedar Rapids. In Newton a wedding unites Miss Lorna Karsten and William John Robelin at 4 p.m. The Hoovers attend the Newton ceremony. Socials include trips to Delavan Lake and a trip to Clef camp on Lake Pokegama as Alpha Xi Delta sisters travel.
Mr and Mrs Raymond T Ashlock of 311 Twenty eighth street drive SE host weekend visitors Mr and Mrs David Beck of Algona and their daughter Barbara. Mrs Ashlock and Mrs Beck are sisters. Mrs Jra Barcus of 1368 Wilson Avenue SW entertained Floyd Barcus on his fourth birthday with Edward Stevencuk and numerous noted attendees.
Four couples vacationed at the summer cabin of Mr and Mrs Stewart. The Crabbes Figges Fletcher and Greenatyalt spent four weeks in Minnesota visiting lakes near Nisswa and Big Fork. They were joined later by Mr North. Miss Shirer and Mrs Campbell were guests of honor at a Dutch treat luncheon at the Cedar Rapids Country club hosted by Alpha Gamma Delta sisters.
Miss Elizabeth Hayes Jackson daughter of Mr and Mrs Walter L Jackson of Cedar Rapids married Lester Nickless son of Dr and Mrs Alfred S Nickless of Davenport at Westminster Presbyterian Church. The ceremony was performed by the bridegroom's father with music by Miss Marjorie Hungerford and soloist Miss Marion Hepner. The couple planned a wedding trip to Estes Park and will reside in Crossett Arkansas after August 5.
Cedar Rapids YWCA prepares for the Wapsipinicon river camp near Waubeek from August 5 to 19 with Miss Gusti Grayston of Vienna serving as international counselor. She is a former Des Moines camp staffer and University of Iowa student known for skating and arts instruction.
Cedar Rapids players prepare for the Iowa Women’s Golf Association event in Des Moines with qualifying rounds set for Monday at Wakonda Golf and Country Club. Kathleen Carey leads Cedar Rapids Country Club as a state meet contender while Betsy Beardsley Virginia Knox and others depart. Maurice J. Kirby arrives to visit family, a GE designer from Philadelphia.
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