Around the town notes from Cedar Rapids and rural Iowa
A collage of village snippets recalls wartime rationing and local life. Mentions WAAC status, old federal building doors still labeled U S Courtroom, jail harmonies, restaurant butter tips, a 3 580 light bulbs Iowa theater sign, and a rural mailbox near Union Station. Also references Major Gill and David Boyce, OPA ration points, Aircrew smoking rules, a Turner funeral home garden in Cedar Rapids, Morgenthau broadcast memories, and a humorous mayoral mood about Main Street paving and possible Waterloo railroad news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ieelings
Newshawk
Wacks
Africa
WAAC
Witwer Grocer Company
Federal
U. S
Restaurateurs
Iowa
Greene Hall
Fourth Avenue
Union Station
John H. Gill
Gazette
Guadalcanal
David Boyce
William F. Johnes
Cedar Rapids
Green Hell Island
Boyce
San Diego
Maude Boyce
Nineteenth Street
O. K
OPA
Y W C A to Sponsor Girls Summer Camp in Cedar Rapids
The YWCA Cedar Rapids will run a summer day camp for seventh and eighth grade girls starting June 18 with registration June 14. Camp meets Fridays at 10 am with activities including sports, outdoor play, crafts, hiking, biking, and a monthly fun night. younger sisters may join separate programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Y.W.C.A
Cedar Rapids
Eearene
Margram
W.C A
Neale
Marguerite Ida Mee
Posiete
Apele
Rompot Bride Ruth Ann Palmer At Camp White
A notice from 117 Fifteenth Street SE announces the marriage of Lieut. Edward Rompot of Camp White Oregon to Ruth Ann Palmer of El Paso Texas. The ceremony took place April 26 in the infantry chapel with Lieut Slodeski officiating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Rompot
Fifteenth Street
Camp White
Ore
Ruth Ann ,Palmer
el Paso
Texas
Infantry
Slodeski
Rompot
Batone
Birmingham
Ala
Paso
Rom
Nu Art Display Company
Army
Fort Benning, A
Frances Eby and Pfc Jakoubek Married in New Orleans
Frances Eby daughter of Mr and Mrs Moray L Eby and Pfc Frank P Jakoubek son of Mr and Mrs Louis Jakoubek were wed November 15 1942 in New Orleans with Rev George J Truath officiating. Mrs Jakoubek is Cedar Rapids Gazette society editor and the groom is in a coast artillery specialist school in Panama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coast Artillery
Panama
Quaker Qats Company
Cedar Po
Linn County Junior Red Cross gets new chairwoman
Mrs. Harry Chadima named chairman of the Junior Red Cross in Linn County with Mrs. R. R. Kouba as Cedar area chair. The program expands with more comfort articles for service members and refugees. Iowa junior enrollment rises across schools. Midwest region shows gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Chadima
Red Cross
Linn
Harry J. Chadima
Twenty-third Street Drive
Linn County
Wells C. Peck
Chadima
R. R. Kouba
Twenty-first Street
Cedar Rapids
Junior Red Cross
Iowa
Engagement notice for Bernice Brandau and Daniel Sweeney
Mrs. Otto G. Brandau of Rudd announces Bernice Brandau engaged to Daniel L. Sweeney U S N R son of Mrs L M Sweeney 1430 B avenue NE No wedding date set Miss Brandau finishes at Coe college Monday and will teach at Vinton high school next year Sweeney graduated from the University of Iowa and awaits naval officer indoctrination school Also attended Coe college with Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otto G. Brandau
Rudd
Bernice
Daniel L. Sweeney
L. M. Sweeney
B Avenue NE
Brandau
Delta Delta Delta Sorority
Coe College
Vinton High School
Sweeney
University of Iowa
Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity
Dinners and Parties Mark Cotton Ball Weekend
Cedar Rapids society gathered for dinners and cocktail parties before the Cotton Ball hosted by the Cedar Juniors at the Cedar Rapids Corn club. Notables included Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Daniel and out-of-town guests from Peoria Iowa City Sioux City and Des Moines along with Coe College alumni.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret E. O’brien
Lucille Kinley
Rochester
Minn
Ae Goodrich
Rosemary O’brien
Des Moines
Harold Odendahl
Moline
Pearl Strohecker
Meson City
Mary Woll
Iowa City
Margaret Tate
Delma R
Kay O’brien
Knoxville
Cedar
Cedar Rapids
Henry H. Hamilton
Cottage Grove
Knotts
Hamilton
Willis A. Glassgow
Bever Avenue
Jay Mac- Namara
Drew Mac- Namara
Dean Parkes
Country Club
Coe College
Commonwealth
O K. Burrows
Cherry-Burrell Corporation
Chicago
Robert C. Armstrong
Mary Stuart Davidson
Ruth Griffith
Charles S. Schwinn
Elmer Lowe
Helen Drake
Joseph W. Stoddard
Ben H. Peterson
Coe
Glyde Marie Beach
Muscatine
Orrie F. Watkins
Darwin VanCleve
Missouri Valley
G. O. Newland
Center Point
Hazel Walker
Bedford
Fred Geigel
Irvington
Agnes Ottilie Weds R M Wood in Cedar Rapids
W A Ottilie of Eldora announces the marriage of his daughter Agnes to R M Wood of Kett. The wedding occurred Tuesday at Westminster Presbyterian Church with Rev James H Blackstone Jr officiating. Attending were Mr and Mrs H C Andrews of Cedar Rapids. The bride taught at Bennett and attended Coe College. Wood, a Cedar Falls Iowa State Teachers College graduate, has been superintendent at Bennett for two years and will lead the Atkins schools next year. A four ball foursome is planned at Cedar Rapids Country Club at 2 PM, weather permitting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. A. Ottilie
Eldora
Agnes
R. M. Wood
Kett
Westminsterbyterian
James H. Blackstone, Jr
H. C. Andrews
Cedar Rapids
Coe College
Bennett
Wood
Iowa State Teachers College
Cedar Falls
Atkins
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Popeye
George Geiger
Johnson Avenue NW
Amana
Morgenthau
Archie Pike
Circle Drive
Richard L. Pike
Pearl Harbor
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Memorial Coliseum
Frank Kurtz Hahn
Guvner Bourke Binkemore Hickenlooper
Gittin
Ourn
White
State of
Waterloo
Shirley Clark
Helen E Welsch
Helen Elizabeth Welsch
Denver
Frances Eby
Pfc
Jakoubek
Averill
Son
Worth S. Averill
Second Avenue
Delafield
Wis
Dudley
St. John’s Military Academy
Martin J. Cole
Millers
Los Angeles
John L. Miller
Avenue NE
California
Cole
W. L. Neal
C Avenue NE
Charles Earhart
F. W. Kopp
Wilson
Wilson School
Crystal Ballroom
Montrose Hotel
Vernon Kriz
Bob Nejdi
Florence Leiter
Mildred J. Simanek
P. A. Tracy
C.E
Masonic Hall
oOo
Minerva Delphian
Minerva Delphin
Commonwealth Apartments
Stanley Stookey
A. E. Eine
F. L. Bokorney
Bokorney
Mexico
O’brien
George Klumpar
G Avenue NW
Niels Harnum
Daniel Sweeney
MR. and
Mrs. Lux
George L. Lux
Miss Louise Lux
Turner Alley SE
Mrs. Olberg
R. C. Olberg
Diane
Evanston, NL
Minneapolis
W. H. Ryan
Twentieth Street
Diane Waples
Forest Drive
William Ryan
Wold-Chamberlain Naval Air Field
Ryan
Keehn
P. F. Keehn
Glenway Drive
Cedar Rapids Country Club
David Coffing
Iowa State College
Earl C. Coffing
Park Avenue SE
Martha Miller
Marthe Miller
C. E. Miller
Grande Avenue SE
Mayflower
D.A.R
Donald Barry
Fourth Avenue SE
Ralph E. Walker
David A. Stofler
J. R. Treichler
Lester Thomas
Collis M. Spencer
Barbara Nassif
Catholic Book Shelf Committee of the Daughters of Isabella
K.C. Hall
Montieur Photo
Bernice Brandau
F. O. Ellison
Anamosa
T. E. Watters
M. H. Morrison
Leonta Ann
Second Avenue SE
Drake Unity
C. Louis Fontanas
Fennells
C. Louis Fontana
Betsy
St. Louis
Gordon Fennell
Susan Brown
W. H. Brown
Ridgeway Drive
Susan
H. N. Jerome
Avenue
Sac City
Oscar A. Anderson
Oliver S. Wilson
Andrew Fetersen
Ottilie
R.M. Wood
CHI Omega Mothers
Chi Omega Mothers Club
Ed.Wessale
Knollwood Drive
M. R. Warren
H. K. Focht
W. C. Peck
George A. Johnson
Bill Duster
Charles H. Duster
Garden Drive
Immaculate Conception
Patricia Marshall
Barbara Dypwick
Watson
W. C. Watson
Tampa
Fla
F. E. Wing
Sixth Avenue
H. C. Watson
First Avenue
Lieut. Watson
MacDillfield
Florida
Winifred Hargrave
Stephens
Fred M. Hargrave
Stephens College
Columbia
Hargrave
Sandoe Jordan
Gazette Hamblin
Sandoe Quarton Jordan
Linden Drive
Sandoe
Nedsom
John Widmer
Julie Cobb
Sandee
Susan van Nostrand
Diane Quarton
Tommy Bever
Kate Pickford
Michael Miller
John Hamilton
Lisa Glanville
Dad
Thompson
DIAL
Marion
SUN. & Holidays
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