LaPlant Home Is Antique Lovers Haven
Edith Knox profiles Mrs. FE W LaPlant of 2118 Blake Boulevard SE, a collector whose home displays bisque figurines from 50 years ago, copper luster pitchers with storied pasts, and a wide array of antique treasures. The article highlights a pink gown couple, ornate glassware, brass plaques, prints, lamps, and family heirlooms forming a vivid collectors’ haven.
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Edith Knox
FE. W. LaPlant
Blake Boulevard
E. W. LaPlant
Seven Branches of Cedar Rapids Woman's Club Schedule
Cedar Rapids Woman's club sections plan a week of programs including history and literature reviews of Under Green Apple Boughs and The Border, a picnic luncheon for the American home department, a club chorus luncheon, constitutional study, current events discussions, health education sessions at the YWCA, and dance classes with Pilgrim Fellow groups.
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Woman's Club
Cedar Rapids Woman's Club
Arthur Mott
Lucile Drebene
R. R. Westfall
Border
Dagmer Doneghy
Veterans of Foreign Wars Commander Addresses Auxiliary
Arthur Buckner, commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, spoke to the VFW auxiliary in the Memorial building. The national president will visit Des Moines April 16 to 18, with several auxiliaries planning to attend. Davenport members will travel to Cedar Rapids March 16 for a special meeting. A social gathering is set for March 24 and each member should bring a prospective member.
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Arthur Buckner
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary
Memorial Building
Des Moines
Davenport
Cedar Rapids
Social Meeting Planned by League for Hard of Hearing
The League for Hard of Hearing will host a picnic supper and social at the YWCA Tuesday at 530 PM replacing the regular class. Members families and others are invited and asked to bring table service dishes sandwiches and a covered dish. A tour of the Quaker Oats plant is planned for Thursday at 2 PM meeting 130 PM in the league room of the ORCG building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
League For Hard of Hearing
Y.W.C.A
C. M. Kime
P. M. Lattner
Dial
League
Quaker Oats
O. R. CG
Marriage Announcement Ruth Gillespie and Dr L L Huston
Announcement of the wedding of Ruth Gillespie of Watertown Massachusetts and Dr Lewis Lee Huston formerly of Cedar Rapids held at Peekskill New York on June 21 1936 Dr Huston son of Mrs Lewis Huston of Baltimore is a University of Iowa and Harvard Medical School graduate and is studying orthopedic surgery at Harvard while residing at 53 Carroll Street Watertown Massachusetts Mrs Huston is a graduate nurse trained at Springfield hospital nursing school They reside in Watertown The notice also mentions club events and P E O meeting details with names George R Liddle and others
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Ruth Gillespie
Watertown
Mass
Lewis Lee Huston
Cedar Rapids
Peekskill
N. Y
Huston
Hugh Gillespie
Springfield Hospital
Lewis Huston
Baltimore
University of Iowa
Harvard University Medical School
Springfield, Mass
Shriners’ Hospital For
Springfield
Harvard Medical School
Boston Children's Hospital
Carroll Street
Mrs. Ink Recalls Linn County History For D A R Meeting
Mrs. R P Ink of Mount Vernon. regent of Balliel chapter D A R, spoke on Linn county history at Ashley chapter gathering. She noted firsts including Westport now Bertram as the first town site and the county’s 1846 status as Iowa joined the union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Abbey
Linn County
R. P. Ink
Mount Vernon
Balliel
The
Daughters of the American Revolution
Ashley
Woman's Club House
Ink
Westport
Bertram
Marion
Iowa
Linn
C. L. Douglass
E. D. Hardwick
R. B. Cronbaugh
Des Moines
H. P. McKnight
W. L. Crissman
G. F. Gibson
Grandma Old Style to be staged at Cedar Rapids club festival
The Cedar Rapids Woman's club dramatic art department presents Grandma Old Style by Walter E. Pritchard as part of the Iowa City play festival. The class B production opens the Thursday program in the new dramatic arts building with cast members including Mrs. L L Owen and Robert Campbell. Maurice Gnesin of Chicago will judge. The festival runs Thursday to Saturday with multiple performances and a Friday luncheon at the Memorial Union. Scout mothers of troop No 6 form a council with Mrs L E Henry and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter E. Pritchard
Dramatic Art Department
Cedar Rapids
Robert Campbell
Audrey Campbell
Richard Savel
Iowa City
Memorial Union Building
Maurice Gnesin
Goodman Memorial Theater
Chicago
P. T. A. Meetings Around Lincoln and Nearby Areas
P T A study groups meet Tuesday at 902 Sixteenth Avenue SW Mrs E J Whitmer. Van Buren group meets Monday 7 30 pm at 1111 Third Street SW. Woodrow Wilson group meets Wednesday 2 15 pm at the school. Harrison group meets Wednesday 2 pm in the school auditorium. Arthur group meets Wednesday 2 15 pm at the school with Miss L Dinsdale’s pupils in charge. Dr G Hubert Artis speaks on communicable diseases and their prevention.
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Lincoln Pt.a
E. J. Whitmer
Sixteenth Avenue SW
Parent Teacher Magazine
van Buren
Oscar Lundquist
Third Street SW
Woodrow Wilson P. T A
Harrison
Harrison P. T. A
Arthur
Arthur P. T. A
Lillian Dinsdale
G. Hubert Artis
Cedar Rapids Business and Professional Women’s Club Vocation Map
The Cedar Rapids Business and Professional Women's club lists 47 vocations held by 107 members. Among roles are stenographers nine bookkeeping five office clerks and many other professions from teachers and doctors to YWCA secretary and librarian. President is Mrs. Imogen Emery with officers Stenner Caryl Harris Loyka Scott. Hospitalization program launched and the Muscatine visit to feature Mary Allensworth Creighton speaking on business women abroad. The week begins with morning worship at First Congregational and a hotel gathering Tuesday night with plays directed by Ollie Larson.
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Retary
Public Health Nursing Association
Imogen Emery
Twentieth Street SE
Cedar Rapids
Gertrude Stenner
Id Caryl
Merle Harris
Etta Loyka
Ethelyn Scott
Muscatine
Cedar Rapids Club
Lady Astor
Schiaparelli
Molyneaux
Louise Boulanger
Creighton
Knox College
New York
Chicago
San Francisco
Oakland
Calif
First Congregational Church
Montrose
Ollie. Larson
Czech Fine Arts Society Meeting and Cedar Rapids Wedding
The Czech Fine Arts Society plans a Tuesday 8 p.m. program at the Hotel Montrose Terrace room with federation news, a musical lineup including Dvorak and Smetana pieces, vocal and piano numbers, and a post program one act comedy by Cedar Rapids Woman's Club artists. Also reported is the Davenport wedding of Phoebe Root and Eugene Heald with springville family attendance and wedding attire details.
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The
Czech Fine Arts Society
Montrose
Federation News
J. J. Hervert
Helen ‘Kacena
Stark
Dvorak
Smetana Helen, Masha
Alice Spevacek
Eroka
Novak Edna Mae Stra
Henschel
Children of the Moon
Warren
Mannea Zucca
Cedar Rapids Woman's Club
Aulden Griffin
Mount Vernon Girl To Give Senior Recital
Miss Hul dah Peet of Mount Vernon, a Cornel College senior majoring in music, will present her senior recital Tuesday at seven in Cornel chapel. She studies piano with Helen Venn.
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Mount Vernon
Huldah Peet
J. D. Peet
Cornel College
Cornel
Miss Peet
Helen Venn
El Kahir unit plans picnic at Shrine temple
El Kahir unit of the Shriners hospital auxiliary will meet Thursday at 1 p.m. at the Shrine temple for a picnic lunch. Mrs. Mary Pirkel chairs with assistants Mrs. A. Mason Mrs. Mary Duncan Mrs. Bessie Bauman and Mrs. E. H. Pirkel. Members bring a covered dish and sandwiches.
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el Kahir
Woman's Auxiliary
Shriners Hospital For
Shrine Temple
Mary Pirkel
A. Mason
Mary Duncan
Bessie Bauman
E. H. Pirkel
Easter Eggs to Help Home for Friendless Children
Junior Red Cross council members voted to donate colored Easter eggs to the Home for the Friendless as an Easter gift during the March 6 business meeting at the YMCA. Forty five members attended with Jim Baba presiding. Eggs will be colored at the YMCA on March 27 morning. Hayes school reported seven Easter cards completed for Home for Aged Women and Franklin school said cards nearly finished.
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Red Cross Council
Jim Baba
Roosevelt School
Hayes School
Home For Aged Women
Franklin School
Leadership Group Of Y W C A Tea Event
The YWCA leadership council hosts an all association tea today from 4 to 5 p.m. in the YWCA building. Miss Harriette Struve reads poems and Miss Helen Masha with Miss Martha Leksa performs violin pieces. Mrs. E E Fisher directs group singing after the program. Committee members include Miss Tillie Prestegard Miss Lydia Kriz and Miss Mildred Cargan.
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Harriette Struve
Helen Masha
Martha Leksa
E. E. Fisher
Tillie Prestegard
Lydia Kriz
Mildred Cargan
Mission Circle and club meetings gather in Jesup
Mrs. Leonard Brown spoke to the Mission Circle with Mrs. E. L. True hosting. Presbyterian missionary society met at the E. E. Hull home. Even Dozen Study club met at Mrs. W. M. Stoddard home with Mesdames Van Eman Barger Ingamells Brown Sherman Slater in charge and serving lunch. Mrs. Holman given handkerchief shower birthday gift and farewell token at the Methodist Aid event.
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Leonard Brown
E. L. True
Presbyterian Missionary Society
E. E. Hull
H. W. Gates
W. M. Stoddard
Mesdames A. D. van Eman
J. M Barger
H. V. Ingamells
J. L. Brown
Will Sherman
James Slater
Methodist Aid
H. F. Mercer
A. C. Holman
Marriage of Ina Kammeyer and Stephen Nugent
Announcement reports the marriage of Ina Kammeyer of Chicago to Stephen F. Nugent of Madison Wisconsin. Attendant couple was Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hoffner. Nugent's in laws are Mr. and Mrs. August Kammeyer of Clarence.
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Ina Kammeyer
Chicago
Stephen F. Nugent
Madison, Wis
Kenneth Hoffner
Nugent
August Kammeyer
Clarence
Margaret Sylvester
Lydia Bauman
Minnie Conrad
Elmer Meyer
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LaPlant
Amia
Dunique Thebes
Bergard
Thompson
Ae TQ Robinsons Colonial Food Shop
Third Street
Jay Gigmund
Re Arra
Yan
American Home Department
Cedar Rapids Gas Company
Home Service Department
P D Morveaux
F. B. Benesh
Emma Miles
Home Service
Charles S. Cuyler
Forest Drive
R J Allen
T H DeWees
George Miller
United States
Tre
R. M Mearaum
R W. Williams
Mas Pra Williams
Ben Oeden
Philanthropic
Tre Philanthropic Department
Eith Education
YWCA
Tremer
M.s Wi'lid H Gubbs
Park
Dota Becken
Walter H Staves
Gandhi
Fred Wuittke
Jolly Eight Five Hundred Club
N Street NW
Melvin Harbert
H F. Holloway
R H Burns
Vv. F. W
Mary Martha
St. Paul's Church
Geraldine Reames
Nevin Nichols
League For Hard of
Dr. L.L. Huston
P.E.O
L. R. Gerhardt
First Avenue E
Gerhardt
Iowa Composers of Music
Harriet Moon
Henrietta Frank
Hope Kurtz
George R. Liddle
Cornell College
Marian Anderson
the Financial Office
Mt. Vernon
Mrs. Ink
D.A.R
Scout Mothers’ Council
Scout Mothers of
L. E. Henry
Nineteenth Street
Henry
C. S. Woodward
Lyman Jones
P. T. A. Meetings
Lincoln
Woodrow Wilson
Masseuse
Octor
Cedar, Rapids
Busines
Lasswell
Lena Nelson
Center Point Road
Women's Employment Service
Phoebe Root
Frank Oot
Springville
Eugene Heald
Amos Strickel
Fifth Street
J. Arthur Young
Lawrence Clark
Mrs. Heald
Mr. Heald
Kitterman
Retex
Sta- Press
Kitterman’s
Wakadiyu Camp
Ethel Bell
Wakadiya
St. James Church
Guardian
Sybil Hayward
Fifth Street NW
Loretta Kepler
Mary Jane Bingham
Patty Ann Dudek
Clarke College Club
Clara Robinson
Colonial Food Shop
Henry Choosky
Study Club
Jesup
Eystead
Hollywood
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