Cedar Rapids GAZETTE readers share lighthearted notes
A Cedar Rapids Gazette page recounts small town vignettes from naval recruiting jokes to a Cedar River bridge token dated 1867. Tales include a mother and father consent quip from a teen, a Camel caravan gift anecdote, college professors children jest, Father’s Day mail traffic, and local shop window humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. C. Madson
Cedar Rapids
Navy
Madson
Frank Hahn
Clyde V. Strohm
Temple City
Calif
Cedar River Bridge Co
Cedar River
Charles City
Wapello
Strohm
Hahn
B. L. Wick
Linn County
Dinner Dance Opens Cedar Rapids Country Club Fourth
The Cedar Rapids Country Club marks its Fourth of July celebration with a Friday dinner dance from 9 to 1 led by a popular orchestra. Saturday features a family buffet supper at 6:30 followed by an old fashioned band concert, outdoor movies, swimming and dancing, with fireworks canceled due to the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids Country Club
Glenn WW Hopkins
Chester D. Salter
R C. Booth
Thomas L. Crabbe
Fred W. Smith
Miss Eckert and Corp William Bogle wed in Des Moines
Miss Lorraine Eckert of Des Moines and Corp William Collier Bogle of Fort Des Moines married in First Congregational church. The ceremony featured white gladioli and delphinium arrangements, a white candle in each window, organ music by Emil Novak, and soprano solos by Phyllis Myers. The couple planned a short wedding trip and will reside in Des Moines after July 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Percy Nickless
Central Presbyterian Church
Des Moines
Emil Novak
Phyllis Myers
Lloyd A. Eckerts
Fourth Avenue SE
Bogle
Regina Kurt
Wichita
Kan
Dorothy Richards
Eleanor Lunsman
Corp Bogle
William J. Bogle
Bob Burkhart
Guttenberg
Herbert Eckert
Chicago
Cecil Miller
Gail Postel
Mrs. Eckert
Roosevelt Room
Roosevelt Hotel
Miss Myers
Novak
Elsie Bradley
Lee Eckert
Robert Glass
Jean Bredle
Cora Hampton
Ruth Casey
Marengo
Cedar Rapids youths head to Camp Owanka for seven weeks
Six Cedar Rapids boys left Friday and a seventh Saturday to spend seven weeks at Camp Owanka in Annandale Minnesota serving as junior counselors. Names include Bill Chadima Bob Mills Hal Marshall Bill Barron Peter Stamats Glenn Chadima and John Cooper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Camp Owanka
Annandale
Minn
Bill Chadima
Lester C. Chadimas
Bob Mills
Ray J. Mills
Hal Marshall
Clare R. Marshalls
Bill Barron
William J. Barrons
Peter Stamats
Herbert S. Stamats
Glenn
Miss Rattery to Wed Doctor Weland on July Fifteenth
OHN T. Rattery announces the engagement and marriage plans of his daughter Mary Lou Rattery and Dr Regis E. Weland of Omaha son of Mr and Mrs N E Weland Walford The wedding is set for July 15 at 8 am in St Patrick's church Mary Lou graduated from Roosevelt high school and has worked for Peoples Savings bank Dr Weland is a Creighton trained physician with internships and graduate study and will continue as a pathology instructor at Creighton University.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Des Moines
Dorothy Bogle
Rene Smith
C 5. Bogle
Wilda Stong
Mary Johnson
Margaret John
Louise Koach
Des Moines
George Robertson
George Stone
Chicago
Rose Barber
Marjorie
Waterloo
OHN T. Rattery
Burch Avenue
Mary Lou
Regis E. Weland
Omaha
N. E. Weland
Walford
St. Patrick's Church
Dubuque
Creighton University
Kansas City General Hospital
Creighton
Weland
Pinneys Host Bridge Club Picnic
Mr and Mrs Eugene M Pinney hosted a bridge club picnic supper Saturday night at their home 1915 Ridgeway Drive SE. Private and Mrs William O Claassen Miss Kathryn Claassen and Gordon McKay visited Camp Crowder Mo with Private Claassen on furlough. Weekend guests include Mrs Leon Travis Noel and grandsons James and Robert of Long Beach Michigan City Ind. Mrs Noel and her husband plan a Wisconsin vacation after visiting Tar kio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernard L. Smith
Elmhurst Drive
Roosevelt Hotel
Francis M. Flanagan
C Wilfred Perkins
Forest S. Rutgers
Cedar Rapids
Charles H. Obye
William McKee
Iowa City
Dick Chadima
Harry J. Chadima
Twenty-third Street Drive
Glenn G. Morrison
Waterloo
Ellen
Westport
Conn
Aspetuck Colony
Douglas F. Boynton
Knollwood Drive
Tatsie Linge
Carl K. Linge
Joan Funk
Jeanne Rowe
Jessie Benson
Grande Avenue SE
Miss Rowe
Camp Wheeler
Robert E. Farrell
Eugene M. Pinney
Ridgeway Drive
William O. Claassen
Kathryn Claassen
Gordon McKay
Camp Crowder
Claassen
George C Claassen
Woodland Drive
Miss Claassen
Mr. McKay
E. M. Soboda
Third Avenue SE
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Iowa
Alex Fidler
Vernon Vandeventer
Montezuma
Vandeventer
M. C
Leonard Bruce
Hawkeye Downs
Benne
Haynes Hutchinson
Mark Hutchinson
Cornell College
James H. Ennis
Cornell
Haynes
Ennis
Western Union
Postal Telegraph
Washington
Third Avenue
Gazette
Herr Adolf
Fifth Avenue
Liggett Store
Third Street
Soc
City
Sac City
Mr. Beattie
Fort Wood News
Sergt
Paul F. Morrison
Jack Ferring
Flyera
Tolstoy
Richard S. Hootman
First Avenue SE
Army
James Fiske
Hootman
Cedar Rapids Airways
Stty Blaus
Theodore Blauls
Chico Ma
Paramount
Heeve
Chico
Betty
Tre
Ahiheenta Jefferson
Franklin Roosevelt
Lincoln
ST. Luke's Hospital
Ben H. Witwer
Linden Drive
Bill Price
Scarsdale
Will J Price
Nancy Green
New York
Howard R Green
Forest Drive
Schenectady, N. Y
William Green
Capt
Mrs. Smith
Mrs. Barron
William J. Barron
Crescent Street
Elizabeth Thompson
Evanston
Margaret Barnum
M. M. Thompson
First Avenue
Carleton College
Northfield
Charles Boegel
Bernard H Boegel
Green Bay
Wis
Boegel
Charles W. Boegel
Wisconsin
Oscar P Rusch
Fifth Avenue SE
E. R. Moen
Spider Lake
Hayward
Combs
Robert Combs
Suzanne
Princeton
Ill
Delhi
Henry Klaus
Manchester
Mrs. Nickerson
Henry A. Thompson
Tenth Street
E. P. Nickerson
Newport
R. 1
ACE Cleaners
Third Avenue &E
First Avenue NE
Miss Eckert
Corp. Bogle
Mrs. Macy
Mrs. C. Ward Macy
Blake Boulevard
J. Howell Smiths
Fosters
Mrs. Westfall
Howell Smith
Pasadena
Joan
Home Garden Club
Duck Pond
Ellis Park
Mrs. Clements
E. J Clements
Camp Grant
Mary Glen Knapp
la Grange
Floyd H Knapp
Mary Glen
Hinga
Bates
Jennings Crawfords
John Bates
Jennings
Jennings Crawford
Vernon Drive
Lasswell
William Bogle
Owanka
Harold J. Rowe
Country Club Parkway
E. J Lattner
Cottage Grove Avenue
Douglas Boyntons
Linge
Clay Phillips
Minnesota
Cokato
Clay E
Phillips
Twenty-second Street
Gary
Clay
Mrs. McDonald
West
Glenn B. McDonald
Twenty-fourth Street Drive
Jack
Roger
California
McDonald
Catherine Holding
Los Angeles
Duane Miller
Glendale
Miss Jessie Benson
David Pickford
Roswell H. Pickford
Palisades
David
University of Wisconsin
Madison
Bonnie Mae Diebold
Jane Carey
Morris, al
Patricia Curran
Dixon, al
Vivian Tarant
Miss Diebold
Susan Brown
Donna Jeanne Johnson
Marion Reiff
Frances Blaul
Nora Cocker
Constance Sheridan
Margaret Barngrover
Wilson Sharp
Allen Dunns
Allen J. Dunn
B Avenue NE
Mrs. Dunn
South Pasadena
John E. Lapes
AYE
Miss Rattery
Dr. Weland
Mary Lou Raftery
Mrs. Pinney
Indiana
Soboda
Montieur
Montieur Studio
First Ave. E
Roosevelt
Second Street