Painting misadventure and small town anecdotes
A Cedar Rapids weekend column recounts artists Marvin Cone and Arnold Pyle chasing painting spots, a long driving search, and a mislaid supply run. The piece blends local humor about weather, pets, theater goofs, apartment life, a firehouse bet, and a preschooler’s cinema fright in a breezy community snapshot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Marvin Cone
Arnold Pyle
Arnold
Marvin
Gaston
Alphonse
First Congregational Group Hosts Luncheon Event
The women's association of the first Congregational church held a Friday luncheon in the assembly room with Annette Palmer circle members as hostesses. Devotions and programs featured readings, flower arranging demonstrations, and remarks on keeping flowers fresh longer. Guests included Mrs. J. H. Stevenson and family visiting from Philadelphia alongside relatives returning from a regional trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman’s Association of the
King’s Daughters
Foster
O. E. Samuelson
Joyce Kilmer
Charles E. Roate
Anna Marie Farnum
Arthur L. Augustine
Gregory Jae
Advanced Music Students At Coe To Present Recital
Coe College music department presents an afternoon recital at 4 30 with Prof. Max Daehler Prof. Grace Swab Morris B Katzoff Prof. Joseph Kitch in Prof. Paul S Ray and Eleanor Taylor guiding advanced pupils Performances include cello etude Wiegenlied Bruch Grieg and pieces by Warlock Malin and Borodin Accompaniment by Martha Leksa Organ parts by Eleanor Taylor attendance open to the public Industrial Circle hosts picnic at Second Evangelical church honoring former member Mrs A Garrett Graduation exercises Monday at Iowa City field house feature Prof Bertrand J Miller of Davenport receiving a PhD.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coe College Department of Music
Max Daehler
Grace Swab
Morris B. Katzoff
Joseph Kitchin
Paul S. Ray
Eleanor Taylor
Manda Ouvite
Wiegenlied Brahms-Schuett
Marjorie Deacon
Grieg Marabelle
Jesus Rt Busser
Connie
Bruch Helen Masha
Ae Borodin
Passionate Shepherd
Peter Warlock
Don Malin
Betty Ay
Ane Levsen
Mae Oe
Julia
Martha Leksa
Second Evangelical Church
A. Garrett
California
J. L. Shaw
John Tomash
Harry Hoberock
E. L. Russell
O. C. Gatrelle
C. H. Webster
Colip
Susan Scott
Nellie Hahn
Glen Lindsey
Benham
Amos Scott
Sadie Maloney
Avenue
Field House
Iowa City
Bertrand J. Miller
Davenport
Three June Brides-Elect Are Feted
Three June brides elect receive weekend honor at shower and breakfast events. Miss Mary Fernow, bride elect of Byron A. Barnes, hosts a breakfast and linen shower at the Roosevelt hotel with guests from Marion Cedar Rapids Fort Collins Iowa City and Virginia. Miss Mary Yakish, to wed Marvin D. Bailey June 10, is feted at Mrs Mark Lilly and Miss Mary Kay Supple home with Iowa City guests. Sarah Reid, bride elect of Ernest H. Christensen June 17, is praised at a bathroom accessory shower hosted by Miss Jeanne Curry at her Sixteenth Street home. guests attend a court whist evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Fernow
Byron A. Barnes
Helen Burt
Roosevelt Hotel
Stanley Kellams
Charles Louden
Ralph Harvey
Phillip Crew
Marion
Robert E. Gunn
Fort Collins
Colo
Clarence James
Iowa City
Herbert C. Gee
Fort Belvoir
Mary Jane McBaith
Elizabeth Munger
Beth Mahannah
Marianne Dvorak
Florence Martin
Isabelle Kehrer
Jean Reid
Howard Meyn
A. H. Aukerman
Lesley Lawrence
Claude Frutchey
Society Honors Guests In City This Weekend
Social rounds fill a Cedar Rapids weekend with courtesy luncheons and dinners hosted by local residents for visiting guests from Buffalo Iowa City and beyond. Notable events include a Clarke college graduate’s commencement and a Seattle marriage.
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Society
Cotton Ball dance plans and society notes at Cedar Rapids club
Plantation setting described for the Cotton Ball with decorations chairs, invitations, and pre ball dinners. Social notices include D A R members receiving national recognition and an Ashley chapter author in National Historical Magazine. Also announces a Cedar Rapids marriage, club meetings, and hostess arrangements for Suburban Co-Workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashley Chapter
R. B Cronbaugh
Cedar Rapids
Henry M. Robert, Jr
L. Hampton Aust
St. Joseph
Mich
National Historical Magazine
Wisconsin
Rust
Get-Acquainted Party For Newcomers At Roosevelt Hotel
New residents arriving since early spring are invited to a newcomers get acquainted party Wednesday from 2 to 4 30 p m in the Roosevelt hotel ballroom. Cards and Chinese checkers will be played followed by tea. Hostesses include Mesdames Suehrstedt Paul Davison William Worden A W Tholen John Schellberg R E Wood George W Baldwin Harry Bellamy Hilding Olson and Willis Glasgow.
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Cedar Rapids
Roosevelt Hotel
Mesdames Suehrstedt
Paul Davison
William Worden
A. W. Tholen
John Schellberg
R. E. Wood
George W. Baldwin
Harry Bellamy
Hilding Olson
Willis Glasgow
Ashley Chapter D A R to Hold Final Season Picnic
Ashley chapter of D A R plans a 12 30 p m picnic luncheon Saturday at Cedar Rapids Woman's club house. Imogen B Emery will read the president general message Charted Seas and comment. Local good citizenship winners Bessie Livingood Marie Kibler Ruth Subotnik Betty Whipple will attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashley
Cedar Rapids
Bessie Livingood
Wilson High School
Marie Kibler
Ruth Subotnik
Betty Whipple
Charles W. Boegel
R. B. Crowbaugh
Oak Hill Cemetery
Mary Wilkinson Cogswell
Boegel
O. S. Johnson
L. R. Orr
Wallflower Club Hosts Graduation Eve Dance at Roosevelt Hotel
Wallflower club members and guests held a Friday night dance at the Roosevelt hotel with eighty attendees. Hostesses Ruth Ann Hasek Dorothy Boisen Virginia Dodds Dorothy Miller Joan Chehak Kathryn Dennison Eloise Heath Barbara Shonka and others celebrated graduation season with a seven piece orchestra from 9 to 12, punch on the terrace, and chaperons including the Puckett Dennison and Weiss families. Later a slumber party hosted by Gladys Linge followed at her home. Miss Gladys Reid visits from Oakland to attend Coe College anniversary events and University of Illinois commencement.
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Wallflower Club
Roosevelt Hotel
Ruth Ann Hasek
Dorothy Boisen
Virginia Dodds
Dorothy Miller
Joan Chehak
Kathryn Dennison
Eloise Heath
Barbara Shonka
Gladys Linge
Marjorie Moravec
Jeanne Puckett
June de Nio
Theone Larson
Gladys Reid
A. E. Chases
Oakland
Calif
A. E. Chase
Chase
Grande Avenue SE
Reid
Coe
University of Illinois
Committees Named for Iowa Assembly Of Rainbow Girls
Committee appointments completed for the grand assembly of Rainbow for Girls to meet in Cedar Rapids June 12 13 and 14 led by General Chairman E D Manilaw Hosting by Assembly No 11 with decorating housing registration badge luncheons and banquet plans directors for gifts and entertainment named Includes Missegg ie Bode Lyman Jones and Mrs Cullman among chairmen and officers Also notes Cedar Rapids residents visits and family events.
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Grand Assembly of Order of Rainbow For Girls
Cedar Rapids
E. D. Manilaw
Alicin Benesh
Harry Dunker
Sess Manilaw
Agnes Horak
Ruth Watson
Clara Heider
Hulda Rice
Charles Bode
Vera B. Cullman
F. L. Bokerney
Boy Scouts
Eggie Bode
Lyman Jones
Cullman
Horak
Jo Ann Bode
F. L. Diserens
J. J. Kroulik
Betty Suchomel
Rice
Pi Delta Epsilon Initiation Planned at Coe College
Pi Delta Epsilon, Coe College’s journalism fraternity, plans initiation services at 3:30 p.m. in the Stewart Memorial Library staff room. The ceremony marks renewed activity after a 1938 reorganization and includes new women initiates from the former Pi Alpha Theta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coe College
Pi Delta Epsilon
Stewart Memorial Library
Coe
John Battin
Ethel R. Outland
Pi Alpha Theta
Alice Bennett
A. B. McConnell
Woodstock
Ill
Bertha Biederman
Owen Ball
Evanston
Dorothy Schloeman
Milton Towner
Appleton
Wis
Bernadine Hanby
DeKalb, Ill
Marian Martin
Cedar Rapids
Marjorie Kremers
J. W. Vaughn
Kansas City
Marie Richard
Elwyn Miller
Maquoketa
Louise Northcott
Russell Knapp
Mary Bowne
Beulah Detwiler
Abigail Ann Gilbert
Elgin, Ill
Iva Stevens
Elgin
Nadine Subotnik
Betty Joan White
Ruth Murray
John W. McLaughlin
John W. McLaughlin, and the Secretary, Prof. Outland
Carl Koehn
DeElda Elwood
Anna Tamarri
Higbees Celebrate 20th Anniversary and Family Milestones
Glenn W. Higbee and wife hosted an informal open house at 1832 Second Avenue SE for their twenty fifth wedding anniversary. The event coincided with the sixty first anniversary of Higbee's mother Mrs. N. G. Higbee. Attendants included Mrs. J. A. Hutch, Mrs. W. E. Hampton, and Mrs. A. G. Heim. Out-of-town guests were Mr. and Mrs. Percy Bassett of Seattle, and their children. Fidelis circle of the Kings Daughters will host a silver tea at Marion Golf Club. Mrs. Karl Seliger of Orange City visits with the Hambrights during commencement at Coe College.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Murray
A. J. Murray
Second Avenue SE
Clarke College
Dubuque
Walter Reed Hospital
Washington, Dee
John F. Miller
Knollwood Drive
Glenn W. Higbee
Mr. Higbee
N. G. Higbee
J. A. Hutch
W. E. Hampton
A. G. Heim
Fidelis
King’s Daughters of
Marion
Cedar Rapids
Marion Golf Club
King’s Daughter
Karl Seliger
Orange City
W. T. Hambright
Blake Boulevard
Seliger
Coe College
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Ellie Bell
Jimmy
Poppy
Herm Strasburger
Paul S. Rays
Susan
Herm
Emily Winslow
Jess Alt
Europe
Mary Phipps
Gus Cornwell
R. A. Wilsons
Wilsons
Charlie Nelson
B Avenue NE
Charlie
Johnnie Randall
John D. Randalls
Johnnie
Fern” Graves
Fern
J. H. Stevenson
Philadelphia
Mary Lou
G. R. Camp
Davene
Diriam Carl Home
Miriam Carl
Ohio
Smoky Mountains
Tennessee
North Carolina
Virgnias
Er Brother
E. D. Carl
Carl
Lone Tree
Wilbur J. Carl
Shreve
Ataeee
Industrial Circle
Herbert Cherry
Tame
Harriet Evans
James E. Blake
Crescent Street SE
James L. Bever
Lake Vermillion
J. Hamilton Bell
Richard J. Preston
E. P. Boynton
Bernice Marlowe
Seattle
J. A. Macintosh
Capitol Hill Methodist Church
Macintosh
Johnson Wax Company
Lucille Kendall Griswold
Des Moines
Kipling
Arlington National Cemetery
A. E. Kendall
First Avenue E
Josephine Werner
Young Women’s Missionary Society
The
First Lutheran Church
Virginia Ladage
Twenty-first Street
George Lowe
Orville H. Tousey
John B. Turner II
Neil Montgomery
Helen Larimer
James W. Bell
Vivien Buser
Mary Evelyn Spear
Marion Spear
Toledo
Iowa
Erwin Zimmer
Herman Zimmer
Mexico
Joseph Randolph
Methodist Church
Arthur Krueger
New Boston
Zimmer
St. Luke’s School of Nursing
Mr. Zimmer
Lisbon
Mary Elizabeth Hiegel
S. D. C. Club
A Avenue NE
Miriam Siepman
Mary Margaret Strathman
Bernice Svoboda
Betty Fitzgerald
Eunice Boyle
Mildred Johnson
Helen Parker
Miss Boyle
Washington Avenue SE
Paul Gard
Maple Drive
George Woodward
Raymond Everhart
A. J. Baumhoefner
Mrs. Wells
Dennison
Magnusson
New Mexico
John Magnusson
Elsie Magnusson
First Avenue W
Albuquerque
N. M
J. Ernest Corey
Anne Magnusson
Rock Island Club
Rock Island Woman's Club
Bever Park
John Northcotts
John R. Northcott
Cedar Falls
Mr. Northcott
John B. Northcott
Mount Vernon Avenue
Assembly of Rainbow Girls
Charles Roberts
Mound
Charles E. Roberts
E Avenue
West
San Francisco
Robert Campbells
Robert E. Campbell
Country Club Parkway SE
Robert E. Campbell, Jr
Campbell
Fergus Falls
Minn
State Psychopathic Hospital
College of A
University of Owa
J. F. Miller
Marguerite Ralston
Marshall Thorp
Hubert Ralston
Center Point
Marguerite Edna
Kenneth Thorp
Glenn W. Higbees
Karl. Seliger
Hambrights
Rep. H. O. Talle
Decorah
Helen
Marjorie
Mary Jane Talle
Henry O. Talle
Washington, D. C
Lydia Noe Perkins
Lasswell
Master
Paramount Theater
Palm Beach
Seersucker
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