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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1941
Page
15
Geraldine Miller married Harold F. Sirowy on Wednesday in a ceremony at the C. S. A. hall Iowa City. The reception followed at noon with a three tier pink and white cake and corsages for the mothers. Out-of-town guests came from Oxford Muncie Ind Dysart Cedar Rapids and Cedar Falls.
A string of June wedding festivities unfolds with dessert bridge at Mrs Wurster s tea room honoring Miss Margret Clarke who will wed Dr Robert Stansbury on June 23. Hostesses Miss Maxine Culbertson and Miss Betty Schmit lead guests including Miss Celia Armstrong Louise Doty Isabel Doty Marian Grant Nadine Housman and others from Elizabethtown Ky.
The First Christian church Business Women's class met for breakfast at Miss Ger a dealer aaseion's home. Hostesses were Miss Powers Miss Zoe Varney and Mrs. Charles esh. Twenty four attended the two long tables with Fay sed coreopsis. Bible lesson on breakfast followed by a church service.
Mr and Mrs Frank E Driscoll of 1112 Third Street SW announce the engagement of their daughter Frances to Donald Reed of Burlington son of Mr and Mrs David A Reed of 1047 Sixteenth Street NE The wedding is set for July 3 at St Patrick's Church.
Junior D A R of Iowa unveiled a new Tama Indian school project at the state junior jamboree in Cedar Rapids. New state junior chairman C E Loughry outlined Tama efforts and scholarship plans, with remarks by Imogen Berg and participation from Francis Shaw Anamosa Spinning Wheel Marshalltown Pilgrim Cedar Rapids chapters.
Mr and Mrs Mark Anthony of 835 Seventeenth Street SE will depart Thursday by motor for their summer home at Maple Grove on the St Lawrence River at Cape Vincent New York Anthony will stay in the east several weeks and later return with their daughter Miss Jeanne Anthony for a longer stay at Cape Vincent
Cedar Rapids Country club hosts a women’s day with both nine and eighteen hole competitions. Prizes go to low scores in each event and a blind bogey is offered. Coffee and refreshments served. Mrs Admiar C Hoblitzell leads arrangements.
Mrs W Tyler of Detroit Michigan spent Sunday visiting her brother William C Culver and Mrs Culver at 2503 Bever avenue SE in Columbus. She plans to return to Detroit by plane Friday.
Relatives and friends gathered Sunday evening for a surprise party at Mrs. Alfred Witousek’s Western home. Card games provided entertainment with prizes awarded to Mr. and Mrs. John Louvar, Miss Mary Neckville, and Mrs. William Dvorak among others. attendees included numerous family and friends such as Lea and Rutham, Mr. and Mrs. Wendl Nechville, Joe Louvar, Edwin Pudil and Brian, Chuck Kosek, Emma Nechville, Harry Nove, Arthur Marak, Elaine, James Bowersox and Carol, Ernest Kaplan, Fern and Shirley, Lavonen, William Michalek, Antonette Michalek, Alfred Witousek, Inez and Don.
Mrs J J Gregory and Mrs W L Saanee hosted a shower Monday at Gregorys home 2307 Meadowbrook Drive SE in honor of Miss Alice Burton whose engagement to Marvin Lundt of Chicago will be celebrated at St Pauls Methodist Church Sunday
Mrs. George Holmes entertained at a six o'clock dinner and miscellaneous shower Monday evening at 125 Twenty-Ninth Street Drive SE in honor of Lois Keller. The event celebrated her upcoming marriage to Wesley Novotny on June 27 with attendees including the bridegroom’s mother Mrs. Mary Kuchynka and several named guests.
Mrs. Arthur Hurtt and Mrs. Herbert Hoadley hosted a luncheon as one of the first quartet luncheons organized by the Gamma Delta Sigma class of the First Evangelical Sunday school. Each member will host four friends to aid the class treasury.
Cedar Rapids Parent-Teacher council representatives attended the Iowa conference on child development and parent education at the University of Iowa. Opening session Tuesday featured Mrs. Willis Clark and four other officers. Memorial Union hosts conference quarters through Thursday with sessions on the campus.
Mrs M H Loizeaux of Stillwater Oklahoma spent a weekend visit at the W J McGuire home located at 224 Fifteenth Street NW.
A working girl with two weeks vacation plans ahead and prepares to enjoy it, while another spends time at the desk and lets vacation creep up. The piece contrasts proactive holiday planning with vague, unplanned time off and urges thoughtful preparations to entertain friends without rush.
A speaker insists that while three people are to host the club party, the event will be managed at one member's home and overseen by that person alone, with responsibility and credit falling to them.
About ninety three relatives and five visitors gathered for the Heefner family reunion at Bever Park Sunday. J. D. Heefner of Denver attended, marking his first return in eleven years. Officers elected included Melvin Heefner president and Richard Heefner vice president with a secretary treasurer and a program committee named among members and teen guests.
Mrs W H Kirkpatrick of Sug arland Texas and her daughter Marcia Esther visit Mrs Kirkpatrick's parents Mr and Mrs L J Smith at 312 Sixteenth Street NE and Mr F C Kirkpatricks at 25 Eleventh Street NE. They will stay until the end of June.
John Albert Bailey of Glenview Illinois spent the weekend with his parents Mr and Mrs E C Bailey at 611 Memorial Drive SE before leaving Monday for Jacksonville Florida to join the Naval Reserve Aviation corps for duty.
Mr and Mrs Benjamin P Door and Virgil and Vivian 303 Ighlana Warren Merrill and Jack Barkist of Des Moines over the weekend. Sunday dinner guests be Mr and Mrs John Irving, Mr and Mrs Dvorak and Ernest Ellis, samen Delores and Glenniss Dvorak of Elberon.
A fragment recalls a Saturday party at a home with Doris Mae age four and attendees including Jackie Gillick Buddy Ishop Clarence Gennie Thorson Jacqueline Mc Allen and Nancy Hughes.
Mr and Mrs Obed Bean and Josephine of 1004 First street SW travel Tuesday evening to attend the wedding of Mrs Beans nephew Carl Nixon Jr the bridegroom in a local ceremony with family ties noted in the notice.
Mr and Mrs Frank J Neto Jr of Western celebrated their tenth wedding anniversary with a surprise party Sunday. A red white and blue cake, flags and observance of Flag Day marked the event. Attendees included the Deterts Beneshes Deterts Prachars Kadlecs Pazours and Netolicky families and their guests.
The service club will meet for breakfast Thursday at 8:30 a.m. at the Community House. Transportation is provided. members bring their own dishes and silverware. Committee in charge includes Mesdames Bessie Paulsen, Bessie Bartholomew, Helen Klinger and Miss Elizabeth Bender.
Dick Wildman a junior at Iowa State College travels home with his mother Mrs Gladys Wildman after living in Philadelphia for two years. They spent the summer in Iowa.
The Rock Island Women's Club will meet Wednesday at noon at Bever park pavilion. A breakfast at 9 am will precede the meeting and members should bring table service regardless of weather.
Mr and Mrs Everette Finch and Mr and Mrs Lawrence Talbotts entertained the Home Builders class of the First Evangelical church Friday evening.
Mrs William ee of 1601 E avenue NE has returned after spending a week with the L Web bers of Muscatine.
Brief nutrition note on a butter pecan parfait with butterscotch sauce and whipped cream. It mentions Mrs. Campbell of Marion showcasing the nut topped dessert from a Gazette cookbook page. The instructions describe filling glasses one half to three quarters full, layering ice cream, sauce, and whipped cream for service.
Mrs. Edwin V. Mellett formerly Frances Miller of Cedar Rapids received a certificate of recognition from the Illinois Federation of Women’s clubs for her work as Dixon Illinois Woman’s Club correspond ing secretary. Her Golden Jubilee banquet write up earned second honorable mention in a General Federation news writing contest, and the club’s press and publicity scrapbook she compiled placed first in a division of the Illinois Federation scrapbook contest.
Lambda chapter Beta Sigma Phi held a supper at Ellis Park Monday evening. Mrs Frank Kellogg and F W Damour were sponsors. committee members included Misses Ada Vedder Helen Stourne and Florence Paulus. Margaret Mackin will represent the chapter at the international convention in Kansas City next week hosted by Mrs Harold Warner.
Mr and Mrs M J McGillicuddy and Miss Nedine Barron return to Cedar Rapids Sunday after visiting Kansas City Missouri and Omaha with Sergeant Robert F Hopkins.
The United Commercial Travel Auxiliary invites members to bring a picnic dish and table service for a city gathering at 1132 J Avenue NW.
The board of education set September 2 as the earliest opening date in six years for public schools. The first semester runs to January 23 with a half day Armistice Day and extended Christmas recess periods.
The Cedar Rapids board of education on Monday night approved appointment of three more teachers for the system. Bradford, a University of Arkansas graduate with a master of arts from Iowa, will join in August assignments. Thompson and Wilson, both Iowa State Teachers College alumni, will also be added to the staff with placements to be made in August.
The census bureau reports an increase in births in the United States with 20,000 more babies born in the first four months of the year than in the same period last year. Data cover 43 states and the District of Columbia.
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