Around the Town highlights and local anecdotes
Keokuk’s Ruth FICKLE elected to the office of FIDELITY with many lighthearted notes about travel faux pas, summer plans, and small town moments. The column recaps vacations, radio mishaps, a German stein crash, a humorous hotel riddle, and a baby arrival update from Hank Adams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Fickle
Keokuk
Fidelity
Rainbow Girls
Hank Adams
Edith Larimer
Mrs. Larimer
Hank
Click
Club Dance Honors Students Guests At Weekend Gatherings
Social notes describe hosts and guests at a club dance weekend. Included are Mrs. Ben F Wolverton and others, Deerfield NL and Madison Wis visitors staying at Carlton apartments, plus dinner parties hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Harry D Durham and Mr. and Mrs. Walter J Barngrover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben F. Wolverton
C. Ward Macy
E. C. Hoover
Henry H. Hamilton
Johnstons
William D. George
Deerfield
William B. Miller
Madison
Wis
Malcolm V. Bolton
Carlton Apartments
Harry D
Durham
Walter J. Barngrover
Kathleen Blaul
Coe Graduates Wed In College Chapel
Local social notes outline summer travel plans of Cedar Rapids residents. Miss Blanche Krebs sails to New York with Mrs. LeRoy Kramer to visit Yale glee club member Henry Kramer aboard the Queen Mary, then Harbor Point Michigan for July. Walter Cherry Jr. and others plan farm stays, rail trips, and family visits across Illinois Wisconsin Minnesota and Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama Canal
New York City
Blanche Krebs
Pleasant Drive
Chicago
LeRoy Kramer
Miss Krebs
Kramer
Harbor Point
Mich
Chester Fletcher
Milwaukee
Mrs. Fletcher
Cedar Rapids
Brides-Elect Round Of Courtesies Highlight Weekend
A round of engagements and social teas surrounds upcoming weddings. Miss Mary Lockwood of Marion and Charles D. Roberts of Peoria plan to wed June 24, with numerous Marian and Cedar Rapids hosts, guests including Miss Beth McCrone and the Delzells. Other events revolve around Miss Dorothea Dolson's linen shower for her June 30 wedding to Glenn Benecke of Mishawaka, with a large list of Cedar Rapids and Marion attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Lockwood
Marion
Charles D. Roberts
Peoria
Ill
Earl B. Delzell
Grande Avenue SE
H. F. Lockwood
Lois Lockwood
Charles E. Roberts
Dwight E. Mound
Huntington
W. Va
Beth McCrone
San Francisco
Milford, Earl, Jr
Sterling Delzell
Miss Lockwood
Mr. Roberts
N. W. Dunlap
Jean Dunlap
Elmhurst Drive
Diane
Barbara
Marilyn
Leona Marshman
Ellsworth
Dorothea Dolson
Glenn W. Benecke
Mishawake
Ind
Lois Stitzel
Dolson
Mr. Benecke
L. L. Dolson
Marie Dolson
Gertrude Illen
Audrey Campbell
Cora Hampton
Jeanette Focht
Pauline Frederikson
Billie Hauser
Jeanne Curry
Cedar Rapids
Betty Hense
Kathryn Klink
H. G. Stitzel
K. E. Cornell
Helen Pyle
Hollywood
Fla
Women Sail For Summer In England On Nieuw Amsterdam
Four Cedar Rapids socialites sail Tuesday aboard the S S Nieuw Amsterdam for a summer in the British Isles. Escorting them is Mrs Hester Smith Larner of New York City, a former Cedar Rapids resident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
S. S Nieuw Amsterdam
British Isles
Hester Smith Larner
New York City
James W. Good
Evanston
Larner
Robert E. McCandless
Forest Drive SE
M. M. Ogden
Tacoma, Wash
Sherman Yates
Commonwealth Apartments
Good
Summer Camps Draw Young Folk
Cedar Rapids residents plan for a busy summer at multiple camps including Geneva Osoha Highlands Kawaga and Owanka. Miss Winifred Murray leads the Geneva contingent with Coe College students and other Cedar Rapids youths set to travel by train and motor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winifred Murray
Avenue
Osaka
Miss Murray
Y.W.C
Dean Mary Bell
Geneva
Murray
Chicago
Osoha
Cedar Rapids
Jean Severa
Lumir Severa
Blake Boulevard
Nadine
Arlene Sinaiko
Joe Sinaiko
Miss Severn
Fred Winter
Highlands
Camp Highlands
Plumblake
Sayner
Wis
Fred A. Winter
Linden Drive
Douglas van Meter
Mount Vernon
James de Yarman
Rogers Overley wedding held at Coe campus chapel
Miss Miriam Rogers became the bride of Charles A. Overley at the T. M. Sinclair Memorial chapel on Coe campus with Dr. Harry M. Gage officiating. Attendants included maid of honor Miss Phyllis Rogers and bridesmaids Mrs. Robert J. Rogers and Miss Helen Hanson. The couple will reside in Chicago after July 1 and both hold degrees from Coe College.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chi Omega
Kenneth Ottsen
C Avenue NE
B. F. Austin
Harry Peterson
Helen Burt
Elizabeth Jackson
Ottsen
Miriam Rogers
Joel E. Rogers
Park Terrace SE
Charles A. Overley
Chicago
J. R. Overley
Park Avenue SE
T. M. Sinclair
Coe
Harry M. Gage
Marjorie Hungerford
Rogers
Phyllis Rogers
Robert J. Rogers
Miss Helen Hanson
Miss Rogers
Milford Delzell
Jack Piper
James Higgins
Overley
Greenwood
Overley Wer
Overle
Kansas State College
Manhattan
Las
Frankli High School
O Kappa Delta Sorority
University O Iowa
Swift and Company
W. J. Aurelius
Mildred
Lois Aureliu
Frank W. Aureliu
Jeanne
Joanne
Otis White
A. Rodger
Springfield
James A. Coddington
Troy
John A. Belkna
A. C. Watters
A. B. Lake
J. E. Remley
Nellie Miller
Frank Steckel
Weekend social notes highlight guests from Oll of Town
Mrs. M. R. Warren hosts twenty six guests at lunch, with families of Waple Fussell Bailey and Warren. Mrs. Dennstedt of San Diego and her daughter Albert remain as guests in town and join a buffet supper hosted by Mr. and Mrs. R Meister at their Forest Drive SE home this evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin Hanson
Bill Kim
Martin
Steele H. Wilcox
Niantic
Conn
Malcolm V. Bolton
Bolton
Carlton Apartments
Buffalo
Elizabeth Wilcox
Ida Wilcox
Commonwealth Apartments
Providence, R. I
Charles Bode
Mount Vernon Avenue SE
Peggie Bode
Davenport
Frank C. Byers
Nineteenth Street
Spencer
Alden Avery
Mr. Avery
M. E. Sanderson
Texarkana
Ark
Lewis Robbins
Robbins
Bever Avenue SE
M. R. Warren
Fift Avenue SE
Waple
M. W. Fussell
W. H. Bailey
Warren
A. L. Dennstedt
San Dieg Calif
Albert
L. M. Downing
Second Avenue SE
C. J. Stewart
Thirty-second Stree
R. D. Gray
Third Avenue SE
Elk Club
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Frank J. Naibert
Dorothy
Harry Boyd
Boyds
Des Moines
Dorothy Ames Carter
Theodore F. Blaul
Betty Ann Ericksen
Muriel Lowe
Mildred Matteson
Patricia Smith
Margaret Allen
Ann Lenzen
George Ross
N. J. Markey
Peter Schwinn
Tom Shive
Dick Vogl
Jim Day
Kenneth Knaus
Elizabeth Thom
M. M. Thompson
First Avenue E
Phillip Lannan
West Point
Neb
Walter J. French
French
Charles E. Byrnes
P. M. Lattner
W. M. Jayne
J. A. Lattner
Herbert L. Morehead
Mrs. Ottsen
Arthur Tscurgis
Piney Ridge
Minn
Arthur Tachirgt
Charles Knox
Champaign
Charles S. Knox
Dan G. Swannell
Mrs. Hornibrook
Philip K. Kuback
Ninth Street
Kuback
Queene V. Hornibrook
College Chapel
Betty Mae Sommer
Illinois
Twentieth Street
Glenn Ellyn
Country Club
Cedar Rapids Country Club
James Skinners
Mrs. Tapper
James M. Skinner
Joliet
David Bernt
Donald George
Glenn W. Hopkins
EIN Nebraska
Grande Avenue
Charles
Glenn
Betty
Oakland
California
Stewart
Paul Liggett
Charles Stewart
Donna
San Diego
East
Liggett
Elizabeth Stewart
Laura Pearle Stewart
Douglas Wells
Skidmore
Mattie Tarpley
Tampa
Wynne
Margaret Dale Hoblitzell
Bodes
Miss Bode
William Millers
Boltons
Mr. Miller
Madison, Wis
David
Tommy
Robert RK. Clarks
Missouri
Robert R. Clark II
St. Joseph, Mo
Barron
Beals
Minnesota
Lorraine Barron
W. J. Barron
Washington Avenue SE
Barbara Beals
H. J. Beals
Fourth Avenue SE
Marcell
Minneapolis
Gertrude Steiner
Mary
L. W. Dunlaps
Stella Eberhart
Miss Shields
Grace M. Shields
Seventeenth Street
M. E. Sanderson Guest
Dorothy Morehead
Sixteenth Street
Oklahoma City
Altah Mae Mideke
William Gaines Roach
Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Milas Morehead
Miss Mideke
Stephens College
Columbia
Anna Heyberger
Maine
Coe College
Czechoslovakia
Ogunquig
Paul Berger
Foster
Peter
Los Angeles
Wayne J. Foster
Dr. Foster
Hillcrest Drive
H. F. Westfall
Second Avenue
Valerie Gruhl
Clinton
Meadowbrook Drive
Iowa
Blair
SONS
Benjamin Taits
B. W. Blair
Buell
Bruce
Benjamin Tait
Taits
College Springs
Robert Wilsons
Robert A. Wilson
Brown Apartments
Ella Barnett
England
Lester DeYarman
Avery Gage
Gage
Medford
Mass
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Bill Severa
Wisconsin
Robert J. Mills
Ray J. Mills
Garden Drive
Camp Owanka
Lake Sylvia
Annandale
Kawaga
Lake Kawagasaga
Minocqua
Max Widmer
Alts
J. Max Widmer
Iowa State College
Ames
George Alt
E. G. Kieck
Harry M. Ivins
John E. Stansbury
B. D. Silliman
Arthur W. Shepherd
Sam Stochi
Ah Cheleae
Oll of Town
Erie
DIAL
Third Street
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