Town Happenings and Witty Mishaps in Cedar Rapids
Local blurbs recount a mayor alerting the fire station to a rooftop caller, a ventriloquist’s town promotion, and residents reacting with humor. Miss Nelson boards a wrong bus, an artillery-wife joke amuses deputies, and two attorneys clash before Justice Watsabaugh. Louise Eldridge and Ruth tease a sister in a phone call mix up as Chester White hurries home for a game. Jane Hickenlooper notes school closings while primaries loom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meee E. C. Carnal
Tama
St Pauls Group Hosts Guest Tea at Brucemore
Brucemore provides backdrop for a Saturday afternoon silver guest day tea by St Pauls church district 7. Margaret Hall hosts with organ music by Marshall Hickman. reception by Mrs. Hall and helpers. tea served in dining room and the room decorated with pink and white florals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brucemore
St. Paul's Church
Margaret Hall
Marshall Hickman
Hall
Charles J. Bready
Howard Hall
Bready
B. Harrington
J. D. Wardle
W. W. Richards
W. E. Warren
Edwin C. Nelson
C. W. McCauley
Leland Mahafty
H. N. Boyson
Florence Narber
J. le Roy Farmer
Irvin Hartrum
H. N. Stoehr
James Barnett
C. E. Nelson
Mattie Tschirgi
Marion Club Keeps History Since 1867 Returning Students
Returning students from Northwestern and other colleges arrive in Cedar Rapids for summer visits. Don Kessler and George Lowe head home from Northwestern as Sutherland Cook comes from Princeton. Frances Blaul Betsy Flodin Miss Jessie Benson and others also return for summer. Local clubs host gatherings and civic groups plan picnics and bridge events as seasonal departures and visits unfold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ion
Indian Road
Northwestern
Evanston
Don Kessler
L. A. Kessler
Greenwood Drive
George Lowe
Eastern Colleges
Sutherland Cook
Robert S. Cook
Crescent Street
Princeton University
Princeton
N. J
Cook
Cedar Rapids
Villa de Chantal
Rock Island
Tucson
Martha Trewin
Harold R. Trewin
Fourth Avenue SE
Red Cross
Tempe
Ariz
Frank C. Nissen
Second Avenue SE
Betty Nissen
MacMurray College For Women
Jacksonville
Ill
Donald Barry
University of Illinois At
Champaign
Donald S. Barry
Patricia Barry
Rockford College
Rockford
Cooke Anderson
Ray F. Anderson
Avenue
Park Peas
Parkville
Miss Benson Honored At Three Affairs
Miss Edith Benson and Richard H. Buresh plan a June 25 Davenport wedding. Three social favors filled the weekend calendar with a breakfast and luncheon hosted by Mrs. E. J. North for fourteen guests, a luncheon at Clara Robinson’s Colonial Tea Room hosted by Miss Helen Burt, and a picnic supper hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Madden with guests including Mrs. Ottsen and Mrs. Whipple.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edith Benson
Richard H. Buresh
Davenport
Miss Benson
E. J. North
Forest Drive
Helen Burt
Marion
Clara Robinson
Kenneth Ottsen
William P. Whipple
Elizabeth Focht
Pauline Ogden
Bernita Sebern
Mr. Buresh
Kenneth Madden
Carroll Drive SE
Engagement of Gwen Storey and Charles Schimberg
Mrs Leta Hedrick announces the engagement and approaching marriage of her daughter Miss Gwen Storey to Charles Schimberg Jr son of Mr and Mrs C C Schimberg. The wedding is set for July 2. Storey is a Coe College graduate 1933 and works for Iowa Electric Light and Power. Schimberg attended Notre Dame and graduated from the University of Town in 1933 and works for Wilson and Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leta Hedrick
Third Avenue SE
Gwen Storey
Charles Schimberg
C. C. Schimberg
Bever Avenue SE
Miss Storey
Coe College
Chi Omega Social Sorority
Zeta Phi Eta
Honorary Dramatic Society
Coe College Players
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Schimberg
University of Notre Dame
University of Town
Wilson and Company
Tea Hosts Mark Franksens Mayflower Chapter Event
Miss Katherine Franken hosted a tea at her Hillcrest Drive home for Mayflower chapter D A R members and officers. Pink and white decor highlighted the gathering with Mrs. Carl D. Thomas presiding. Also noted were a Kappa Delta sorority garden breakfast and various social gatherings around town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katherine Franken
Hillcrest Drive
Carl D. Thomas
R. C. Young
Boise
Ida
Earle G. Nichols
Nichols
Meadowbrook Drive
George T. Wilhelm
Linden Drive
Delbert R. Ashby
Country Club Parkway
Kappa Delta Sorority
Wilhelm Home
Coe College
Audrey Abell
Dorothy Dwelle
Dorothy Pfandhoefer
Dorothy Blodgett
Mildred Hanson
Irving L. Churchill
G. H. Cornwell
Rainbow Girls Tea For Mothers At Masonic Hall
Rainbow Girls No 11 hosted a tea for mothers at the Masonic hall after their business meeting. Ruth Jane Hubbard headed tea service with others, followed by a playlet Say It With Music directed by Ina Hibbard. Several members acted in character roles. social duties were led by Mrs. A E Chase. Also noted was upcoming transatlantic sailings by Robert O Meara, Robert Waples, and Charles West with return plans to Cedar Rapids in November.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Assembly No. 11
Order of Rainbow
Masonic Hall
Order
A. E. Chase
Ruth Jane Hubbard
Hulda Rice
Patricia Rice
Charmian Chapman
Jean Killen
Ina Hibbard
Margaret Mineck
Nancy Kerren
Kathryn Dennison
Phoebe Kerren
Edna Mae Hardy
Shirley Kerren
Laurette Kerren
Jacqueline Lorig
Clara Belle
Nada Jean Bradley
Otehilia Ward
Gladys Linge
Della
Gertrude Pailthorpe Returns From New York Visit
Miss Gertrude Pailthorpe has completed a course at Grand Central Art school in New York City and arrived to spend a month as guest of her parents, Dr. and Mrs. A. W. Pailthorpe, at 2103 Bever avenue SE.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gertrude Pailthorpe
Grand Central Art School
New York City
A. W. Pailthorpe
Bever Avenue
Jack O'Toole and Don Hanson Visit Here
Jack O'Toole and Don Hanson, after two months in Macon Georgia, are visiting the home of their parents Mr and Mrs M F O'Toole 416 Fifteenth Street NE and Mr and Mrs Paul C Hanson Carroll Drive SE They will then go to Cleveland Ohio to continue work with Butler Aerial Photography firm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack O’toole
Don Hanson
Macon
M. F. O'Toole
Fifteenth Street
Paul C. Hanson
Carroll Drive
Cleveland
Ohio
Butler Aerial Photography
Theristriai Scrapbooks Record in Iowa Club History
The Theristriai club of Marion preserves two hand decorated volumes covering 1867 to present times with yearly programs from 1891, early party pictures, and a tintype of charter members led by organizer Miss Beulah Small. The club, started by Miss Anna Merriam and Marion Female Seminary pupils, was christened on church steps and later aided Marion’s library and the formation of the Marion Federation of Women's Clubs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theristriai Club
Marion
Anna Merriam
Boston
East
Miss Merriam
Caroline Daniels
B. F. Mentzer
Alice Durham
Alderett Nott
Ada
Mary Nye
Mattie and
Nellie Ristine
Estella Wilson
Marion Female Seminary For
Eighth Avenue
Twelfth Street
George C. Oxley
W. G. Koppenhaver
G. O. Pyle
Hollywood, Fla
Iowa Federation of Women’s Clubs
Adeliza Daniels
Mar« Jon Federation of Women's Clubs
Edwin C Frenchs Will Make Home On West Coast
Mr and Mrs Edwin C French of the Commonwealth apartments will leave Cedar Rapids Tuesday for Wichita Kansas onward to Dallas Denver and finally Los Angeles where they will reside at 419 North Beechwood Drive They plan to travel west through July and August join a party for a boat trip from Los Angeles to New York and a three month Mediterranean cruise Friends have given small social occasions in their honor
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
West Coast
Edwin C. French
Commonwealth Apartments
Los Angeles
Wichita
Kan
Dallas
Tex
Joyce Palmer to Be Camp Counselor in Mississippi
Miss Joyce Palmer daughter of Mr and Mrs Harry A Palmer 1819 Fourth Avenue SE has served as instructor in the physical education department at Sophie Newcomb College New Orleans She will spend the early part of July as a counselor at a Mississippi camp She will go to Bennington Vermont in July for dancing instruction and return to Cedar Rapids in August
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joyce Palmer
Harry A. Palmer
Fourth Avenue SE
Sophie Newcomb College For
New Orleans
Mississippi
Palmer
Bennington
Cedar Rapids
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Nanna Nelson
van Buren School
Central Park
Dick Payn
Battery E
Sheriff's Office
Lois Mason
W. R. Watsabaugh
W. E. Williams
Atlanta
Louise Eldridge
Louise
Ruth
Chester White
Alden Young
Ellis Park
Chester
Penick and
Ford
Jane Hickenlooper
B. B. Hickenlooper
H. A. Schodde
Denver
Colo
Hundred Club
Shaver Park
Bever Park Pavillion
A. J. Pruchas
Alvin F. Prucha
A. J. Prucha
Europe
S.S
Emil Christle, Jr
Robert Prucha
Donna Mae Prucha
James Sova
J. B. Christie
Prucha
E. G. Christie
Health Education Department
Louise Leibert
The
King’s Daughters
St. Paul’s Group
Frances Sturtz
F. J. Lightner
Gail Lightner
First Avenue E
John H. Lightner
W. Lightner
Mary Richmond
Mary Lightner
W. H. Lightner
C. H. Young
C. L. Miller
B. R. Hetherington
Clyde Sawyer
Needham Young
Tom Young
East Side
Cyrus Metcalf
Youth Temperance Council
Duck Pond
Marion Club
Monday Shakespeare Club
River Pavilion
Mae Hollenbeck
Olive Tower
Bertha Robbins
Dan Swannells
Charles Knox
Dan G. Swannell
DR. Artis
Rush Medical
G. Hubert Artis
Twentysixth Street Drive
Chicago
House
Presbyterian Hospital
Rush Medical College
Rush
Drake Hotel
West Side
Fred Larson
Eighth Avenue SE
Kensington
W. L. Neal
F. W. Kopp
M. Gullege
Nell Broberg
George P. Starrs
George P. Starr
Avenue NE
Electa Circle of
King’s Daughters of
Silver Cross Circle
Thomas Park
Silver Cross
L. W. Walker
H. R. Hess
George Kosek
W. L. Paxson
Board OF Managers
Board of Managers of the Home For the Friendless
Noeller
George Davis
Ellis Boulevard
Clara Noeller
Maurice
Paul Noeller
Don Williams
Okel Book
William Perry
Stanley Davis
Frank Warren
Donald Diehl
J. D. Barker
William Benson
Clifford Davis
Raymond Sawyer
Maurice Koppenhaver
Earl Davis
Mary Campbell
Ann Slamen
Nineteenth Street
Hazel Noeller
Slamen
Emma Drake
Ethel Wright
Louise Parker
Betty Thompson
Irma Martin
Ruth Smith
Ruth McCauley
Gloria Johnson
Chester Hasek
Molly Noeller
Carmil Stark
Leota Johnson
Paul Hanson
LeRoy Cooper
Glen Johnson
Horace Chapman
Horace Brown
Marvin Brown
Martin Simon
Harley Reece
John Porter
Richard Kennedy
Miss Franken
Mrs. Treichler
Ashley
Louise Bunker
Bette Noblett
Minnesota
Irma Kubik
Ila Patrick
Shirley Sacora
Mary Taylor
Betty Belknap
Mary Pugsley
Westwood Community Club
Robert Hegewald
Central City
Wilson Office
Miss Strang
Roosevelt Hotel
Jessie Strang
Isabel DeMers
Rebecca Clements
Rule of Contrary
Lenore Humble
Betty S. Deeny
Jeanne Russet
Pauline Ulish
Frances Niles
Bingo
O. C. Long
Church of the Brethren
Delores Hanshaw
Dorothy Johnson
Marjorie Long
Rebecca Spear
Bertha Hanshaw
Dorothy Mathers
Robert Long
Junior Ritchie
Violet Hanshaw
Virginia Ritchie
Marie Vejda
Ina Belle Long
Robert O'Meara
H. D. O'Meara
Robert Waples
Frank C. Waples
Charles West
Waterloo
O'Meara
S. S. St. Louis
Waples
S. S. New Amsterdam
Mr. West
Mr. O'Meara
Mr. Waples
New York
Jack O'Toole
Don Hansen
Theristriai
Iowa
Amber Travis
Edwin C. Frenches Willl
Los Angele
Bezdek
Johnson Avenue
ESS Ric Dry Cleaners
Third Street
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