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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1941
Page
6
Vacationists heading to northern and western lakes will find the outfit handy. It features navy wool jersey overalls paired with a printed challis blouse with full sleeves, suitable for sports or dining at the lodge.
Bride elect Eleanor Taylor and a guest list of out of town visitors receive breakfast and luncheon honors in the city. Attendees include Mrs. Cook at 222 Crescent Street SE and guests for Mrs. Krause and Mrs. Severn. Annette Ashlock celebrated her third birthday with a morning party and luncheon.
Mr. and Mrs. H. F Blomquist host their sons Dr John H Blomquist and Dr Richard F Blomquist plus families. Dr John Blomquist and Mrs Blomquist of Wilmington Del will end visit Wednesday while Richard Blomquist and Allen of Crete Neb will stay longer.
West Highland circle of the King’s Daughters arranged a family picnic for Saturday at 5 30 p.m. at the Ellis Park River Pavilion.
An open house honoring Rev Mr and Mrs Foster M Beck of Silt Cole will be held Thursday evening at 148 Thirty-second Street NE. Attendees may call from 7 to 9 p.m. No other invitations will be issued. The Rev Mr Beck formerly pastored Kenwood Methodist Church. They will visit Mrs Lambertzen Thursday and Friday.
John Ely son of Mr and Mrs John Montague Ely will leave New York this week for Trinidad in the West Indies where he will be employed by the United States government in defense work. He recently earned a Princeton degree and completed a government defense training program on campus this summer.
Mrs Viola Moore of New York City and her daughter Corrine Anne will depart after a five week visit. They are hosted by Burdette Lackman and Mrs Lackman at 1809 J Street SW with events planned at the Shamont farm near Monticello and dinner hosted by William Lackman and Mrs Lackman.
Mr and Mrs Winn Pierce of Dixon NL returned home Monday after visiting Roy E Chiverton at 715 Seventh Street SW.
Early records indicate shipments of iron from North Carolina began arriving in England as early as 1729, reflecting colonial trade links and industrial needs of the period. The exact origins and destinations within England remain partly documented, highlighting the distant Atlantic commerce of the era.
Miss Vicky Lee Glidden wraps up a three week stay with Mr and Mrs J E Lampman and Mr and Mrs F H Bunker in Cedar Rapids. She leaves Saturday for Waukesha Wisconsin. Miss Betty Sidwell accompanies her home for a two week visit.
Mr and Mrs George P Starr return home Monday after spending ten days at International Falls and Burntside Lake near Ely Minnesota. They reside at 1727 A Avenue Northeast.
Visitors in Cedar Rapids arriving Sunday to spend two weeks with Mrs. Marie Dvorak Reif at 326 Ninth avenue SW include her daughter-in-law Mrs Milo Reif of Chicago and sons Jimmie and Lee. Mr. Reif accompanied them and returned Sunday. Saturday callers at the Reif home were Mr. and Mrs. J Reif and their son Bobby, Mrs E Scrorg and her children DeLoris Dickie and Ruth, and Mrs Marie Sedlacek of Ottumwa.
After a weekend in Ottumwa and nearby areas, Mr and Mrs John H Burrier along with their four sons and Mrs Mary Hahn, Burrier's mother in law, returned to their home on Ellis boulevard NE Sunday evening.
Mr and Mrs. Joseph Mach and their children Bob and Margaret, along with Mrs. J B Sedlacek and her son Lumir, arrived home Sunday evening after a three week vacation at Cedar Lake Minnesota.
Mrs W Stansby of St Paul left Monday for her home after a three weeks visit in Cedar Rapids and Walker with relatives and friends.
Mr and Mrs F W Kennedy and their children Nadine Margy and Robert attended the Kennedy reunion in Peoria Illinois on Sunday at 220 Fifteenth Street NW.
Cedar Rapids residents and relatives return from a month in the west and other trips. Families include the Wadsworths, Chandlers, Frenchs, Taylors, Chehaks, and Zodys visiting Carmel California, Estes Park Colorado, and Lake Okoboji. One Amsterdam bank employed only women.
Capt Leo G. Severa of Company H 136th medical regiment departed Sunday for Camp Claiborne La after a visit with his parents Mr and Mrs George Severa 1813 Sixth avenue SE Cedar Rapids. Mrs Leo Severa and her daughter Carol Lee will stay in Cedar Rapids for a few months.
Miss Jane Goldberg of 613 Eighteenth Street SE has been visiting friends and relatives in Minneapolis for several weeks and will return home next week.
Mr and Mrs Thomas O Bailey return home to 1120 Third Street SW after a four day trip to Fort Frances Canada and Ten Mile Lake near Hackensack Minnesota arriving Monday.
Miss Gladys Sherrer, 229 Sixth street NE, Miss Lorraine Sherrer of Hazleton and Miss Estella Strain of Dubuque have returned after visiting relatives in Washington, DC and Richmond, Virginia, and after visiting Gladys Sherrer's brother at Fort Eustis, Virginia.
Ruth Millett argues families should cut clothes and furniture costs and trim home upkeep to stretch budgets. She says education and proper diet remain vital while entertainment and chipping away at yard work can save money, calling for a national defense driven habit of frugality.
The city pool at Ellis Park set a record with 1,640 visitors on June 26, per recreation superintendent Nevin Nichols. An earlier report overstated a heat wave day as over 11,000. the correct figure was 1,100. Second-highest day was July 22 with 1,250 visitors.
Fifty two workers from King's Crown Plaster gathered at Hawkeye Downs for a company picnic with refreshments, games and races. Winners included Mrs. Jerry Parkins in hog calling, Jerry Johnson and Don Emmerson in foot races, and Richard Fahl in flag relay, with Ralph Johnson and Mrs Evelyn Fahl taking bean guessing and potato race honors respectively. The truck drivers beat the truck drivers helpers 6 to 2 in softball as president William C. Crawford filmed the event.
Two hundred parents and friends of the Y M C A Drum and Bugle Corps attended a picnic supper at Bever Park to honor the corps for its national victory at the Lions convention in New Orleans. Highlights were shared by R Ariel Cross Mrs Lee Boston and J J Barker. Cross and Mrs Boston received honor plaques for their work on the trip. Mrs Charles King and George Westcott were co chairmen of the event.
The treasury department grants a general extension for capital stock tax returns for the year ending June 30 1941 to Sept 29 1941. Corporations that filed assuming no extension may amend before Sept 29 without penalty or interest. Social security tax returns for the quarter ending June 30 remain due by July 31.
President Roosevelt named Charles E. Wyzansky Jr of Boston to succeed Clarence A. Dykstra on the national mediation board. Dykstra resigns to return to the presidency of the University of Wisconsin and will remain an alternate board member, with Wyzansky having previously served as an alternate.
Pattern 4803 offers sizes small to large with fabric requirements listed for aprons A C and B. Includes yardage for 35 inch fabric and face edging, plus a pattern book offer with a fashion forecast. Send payment to Pattern Department at The Cedar Rapids Gazette.
Extended forecast for the upper Mississippi valley from July 29 evening to August 2 evening shows above normal temperatures with an ongoing heat wave except Minnesota. Iowa and Illinois see relief at the start and toward mid period. Showers and thunderstorms peak mid period with moderate to locally heavy rainfall. Temperature trends ease in the first half of the period.
In Washington, Representatives Knute Hill and Harry Sauthoff said district polls show strong antiwar sentiment. Hill cited 12,720 opposed to intervention and 1,925 for armed aid to England, with 75.2 percent opposing conveying goods to Britain. Sauthoff tallied 52,764 against intervention and 3,123 for a declaration of war.
Three American built Douglas bombers departed Belem Brazil as part of the aid to Britain program. Officials said their destination was simply Europe marking the first lend lease planes flown from Brazil.
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