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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1941
Page
15
The June bride Miss Primrose Selden and her fiancé William L. Jackson plan a June 14 wedding. The couple and their families navigate invitations, licenses, medical blanks, and color and quality shopping across multiple stores, collecting notes like a Congressional Record.
Peggy Stewart daughter of Mr and Mrs Archibald Campbell Stewart and Robert E Yaw son of Mrs Harry E Yaw were married in a garden ceremony at the Forrest W Stewart home 142 a Thirty-fourth street drive SE Cedar Rapids at 4 pm with Rev James H Blackstone Jr officiating A reception followed at the Cedar Rapids Country club Attendants included sister Mrs Ernest W Curtin matron of honor and bridesmaids Miss Marianne Corey Miss Henrietta Dows and Mrs Abram Baynton Horner Jr Best man was Forrest W Stewart.
Joyce Eileen Palmer daughter of Mr and Mrs Harry A Palmer will wed William Raymond Fuller of New York City on June 28 at the parents home in Cedar Rapids. Palmer a 1937 cum laude graduate of the University of Wisconsin Madison studied dance in Europe and taught at Sophie Newcomb College and Rockford College. Fuller a 1938 graduate of Stephens College Hoboken and with Babcock and Wilcox in New York City.
The Junior League of Cedar Rapids prepares its third annual Cotton Ball at the Cedar Rapids Country Club on June 21. Invitations go out this week as society calendars the formal party with dancing at 9 PM after earlier private and Dutch treat dinners. Mrs. John B Turner II serves as general chairman. Cotton formal wear is the prevailing style for attendees.
Cedar Rapids notes show several Carleton and local students returning home for vacation. Elizabeth Thompson accompanied by her mother arrives from Cedar Rapids to Northfield Minnesota. Betty Neuzil to Rosemont Pennsylvania will receive her degree. Three Cedar Rapids students from Lindenwood College arrive in town Thursday.
Miss Barbara Barry daughter of Mr and Mrs Owen T Barry 2217 Ridgeway drive SE returned from Ames where she attended the Pi Beta Phi sorority spring formal dance Thursday evening She stayed with Miss Jean Miller of Cedar Rapids at the Pi Phi house Also Mr and Mrs James D Bever who wed May 3 will return today from Miami Beach Fla where they vacationed Burgess West will host an informal Sunday night supper for 40 at his home 2223 Linden drive SE
Cedar Rapids teenage members and friends will attend a formal spring dance at the Country club Saturday evening with a buffet supper and an 8 to 11 p.m. orchestra. Party officials urge dress is optional for girls and urge early reservations for the dinner.
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