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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1941
Page
3
Social notices describe multiple courtesy dinners and luncheons in Cedar Rapids for Miss Eleanor Taylor and fiancé Raymond Wendland ahead of their Saturday wedding. Hosts include Mrs. Curray and numerous friends, with out of town guests from Alabama Michigan Florida and Illinois.
Alicia Hart advises women to combat facial let down by improving sleep, diet, eyestrain, lighting, and grooming. The column urges consistent good grooming to boost morale and outlook, noting a neat appearance often correlates with a happier expression.
A Monday evening shower for Miss Erva Taylor bride elect was hosted by Mrs. Marvin Taylor and Miss Betty Whiting at Mrs. Walter Mawdsley’s home. Attendees included Mrs. Herbert Pratt, Mrs. George Patterson, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Lillian Gongwer, Mrs. Simon Gongwer, Mawdsley, Marvin Taylor and Willis Whiting, and the Misses Virginia Pratt, Betty Whiting, Evelyn Kelsey, Luesther Patterson, Josephine Stumpff, Virginia Mawdsley, Lila Gieger, Ruth Mary Maxine Walker.
A group of Prof. Max Daehler's younger piano pupils will perform Thursday at 3 p.m. at his home 1800 Second Avenue SE. Mrs. K L Coltman of Manchester will present three piano selections at the close. The program includes works from The Boy and the Brownie and pieces arranged by Ditter Quaile and others.
Members of the Home Garden Club entertained their husbands at a dinner at the Marion Country Club Tuesday evening. Twenty eight attended the annual affair with Mrs. Arthur L. Augustine and Mrs. James Bramwell presenting movies of trips down the Mississippi and through the south. The meeting ended with a lawn breakfast hosted by Mrs. O. W. Lawrence on Vinton Road NW.
Mr and Mrs Delbert Ashby and daughter Jean return home from a week in Albert Lea and St Paul. They attended the St Paul Open golf journey.
Miss Constance Sheridan will return to her home at 117 Eighteenth street NE Thursday after a short vacation in Clear Lake.
Mr and Mrs H Chiverton and their family with grandson James McKee returned home Monday after a two weeks trip in the Ozarks.
The Gazette will start a weekly social section series on Mistakes in Dress by Alice L. Tildesley. Each Sunday illustrations show fashion pieces nearly correct and the author explains what is wrong with the picture. Topics cover gloves gadgets shoes hats furs and more.
Aunt Het jokes about pain being real if the mind believes it with a humorous line about Jim whose foot was cut off and still itches, reflecting lighthearted old time humor.
Camp Wapsie Y held a weekend event for Girl Reserves featuring canoe tests and sports festival activities. Alice Kru picka of Cedar Rapids named sports queen while many girls earned honors in water tests and canoeing alongside electing council members.
Miss Virginia Roberts daughter of Mr and Mrs Ray Roberts of Knoxville and Henry Vail son of Mrs Hattie Davie 809 Third Avenue SW united in marriage Saturday July 26 at Unionville MO The ceremony was performed by J S Morgan in the presence of Irma Ersland and Harry Bell of Knoxville After graduating Knoxville High School in May the bride has been employed as bookkeeper at the Knoxville Express office Mr Vail runs the Go Rule Roller rink in Knoxville and the couple will live there until fall.
Cedar Rapids hosts a stream of visitors this week as residents greet house guests. Mrs. James E. Blake welcomes Miss Jean Gordon from South Lincoln Mass en route home from Arizona and Colorado. Mrs. Stanley C. Mulholland arrives to visit her parents and attend the Taylor Wendland wedding. Dr. and Mrs. Lange host Mrs. Lange’s mother and sister plus sons until Sunday. Mrs. Alice Montgomery receives her son’s family while Miss Mary Zuercher plans guest Mary Ingersoll from Evanston Ill. Leila Gossett entertains Miss Anne Malloy from Inde for two weeks.
Mrs Edna Canaday announces the marriage of her daughter Charlene Seen to Chester G Rejsa son of Charles Rejsa The ceremony was Sunday at 4 p m in the Methodist church Kahoka Mo Rev J M Monroe officiated The bride wore a navy print ensemble with white accessories and a Sweetheart rose corsage Best man Bud Fischer attended The couple will reside at 910 B avenue after a trip and after Aug 15 at home at 910 B avenue.
Forty five guests attended a Sunday dinner at the John Heaton home near Central City. Hosts were Mr. and Mrs. Heaton for members of Rebecca Alexander tent and their husbands with Mrs. Mary Moreland assisting.
The Cedar Rapids Woman's Club held the first in a series of benefit breakfasts Tuesday morning to inaugurate the new club piano. Thirty-five tables were set, with performances by Lulu Engleman Welty on three piano selections, a flute solo by Marion McWilliams, and incidental music from G. J. Lorenzen and Paul Miner on violin. Co chairmen were Mrs. Charles Bode and Mrs. J. T. of the ways and means committee along with club officers.
Mr and Mrs Gray Alan Wilson of Leon and their son Philip returned home Tuesday after spending the weekend with Mr and Mrs Oliver S Wilson at 362 Fifteenth Street SE.
Mrs. Orval Schmitt hosted eight Cedar Rapids Cyclists members Tuesday at her Bowling Street SW home. A picnic supper is planned for Friday at the McCarthy Heights club grounds.
Leon Ethbert Gossett and Eleanor Meyers married at the Wee Kirk O the Heather in Glendale. The ceremony featured a white lace gown, gardenias, and orange blossoms as 60 guests attended a reception at the Ewins home before the couple's departure to Corpus Christi where Gossett serves as a Navy musician.
Miss Helen Parker a junior nurse at Mercy hospital in Iowa City arrived Monday to spend a three weeks vacation with her parents Mr and Mrs Claude L Parker at 1624 J avenue NE.
The Credit Women's Breakfast club met Wednesday morning at the Montrose hotel with 31 members present. After breakfast they adjourned to the Corn room where Frederick E. Fluegel spoke on a credit convention he attended recently in New York City.
The executive board of Hanford unit No. 5 American Legion auxiliary will meet Friday at 7 30 p m. The meeting is led by president Louis F Schirm of 1722 CFC annue NW.
The Link Belt Auxiliary invites all mothers wives and daughters of Link Belt Speeder employees to a luncheon at 1 p m Friday at the Ellis Park River Pavilion.
Notice of probate of will No 16179 reports a document presented on the Sunday of August 1941 at 9 o clock asserting validity. The record notes the case name and court authority, with proceedings to follow under applicable probate law.
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Caldwell of Chicago, visiting Mrs. Caldwell's parents at 1911 Fourth Avenue SE, attended the Ramsey Owens wedding and returned to their Chicago home Tuesday.
Lieutenant General Ben Lear’s publicity stunt faced no backlash at the Colorado State College military department. They bought a mare and named her Yoo-Hoo to prove they were simply shouting at their pet horse.
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