Local notes crowd Cedar Rapids town life features
In Cedar Rapids the Young Men's Bureau quiz hands out questions on town life while camera shop operators warn G I buyers about fake, damaged, or missing parts. Cribbage expert Dave Hubbard scores a 29 and Collins Radio markets Beechcraft and Vultee trainers for testing needs. O J Elsenbast faces Lions Club censure and praise for discussing husbands business. Export and county records reflect postwar growth as licenses and instruments surge. A New York salesman ends up jailed in Rio for being Republican.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DR. LQ
Young Men’s Bureau of
The
Chamber of Commerce
Fred C
Woolrich
YMB
Cedar Rapids
Marion
William B. Cormack
Quaker Oats Company
Ludwig Rubek
L. H. Stubbs, Inc
Collins Radio Company
Muny
Beechcraft
Collins
Vultee
Beta Sigma Phi Chapters Plan Joint Evening Meeting
Beta Sigma Phi announces a joint meeting for all chapters at 7 p.m. in the Bungalow of the Light. The event features a prize drawing and hostesses from the visiting Minnesota member Mrs. H. E. Walters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beta Sigma Phi
Wreak
Orr
Ee Bers
Country Club Dinner Draws 200 Reservations in Cedar Rapids
Two hundred reservations were made for the Cedar Rapids Country Club buffet dinner on Saturday evening before the dance. Don Roberts and his band provided music for dancing. The El Kabir unit of the Shriners Women’s Auxiliary held a luncheon at the Masonic hall at 1 p.m. with tickets for several local residents. Members were instructed to bring a covered dish and sandwiches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids Country Club
Don Roberts
Wien's
Shriners Laert
Masonic Hall
Cates Sal
Camp Fire Girls Mark 34th Birthday Week in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids observes the Camp Fire Girls week long birthday celebration with daily activities. A church day, costumes, local and national events, radio skit, and a cookie contest highlight activities across the organization founded in 1910. The local group notes Cedar Rapids has the nation’s highest per capita Camp Fire membership for cities over 25 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Fire Girls
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Camp Fire
Blue Birds
Horizon Club
Camp Fire
Radio Council
Edith Kempthorne
Severte
Horizon Clubbers
Coe Musicians To Play Brahms
Coe college music faculty present Brahms program in Sinclair Memorial chapel tonight at 8 15 o clock. Max Daehler professor of piano performs Brahms piano pieces, Harold Reeves voice instructor sings four Brahms numbers, accompanied by Eleanor Taylor organist. Chamber music by Joseph Kitchin violin and Daehler. Public invited.
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Coe College Music
Johannes Brahms
Sinclair Memorial Chapel
Max Daehler
Jano
Harold Reeves
Eleanor Taylor
Joseph Kitchin
Daehler
Don Barnes Returns From Palm Springs Vacation
Mr and Mrs Don Barnes of 308 Nassau street SE have returned home after a Palm Springs California vacation by automobile visiting in Texas and Arizona Weekend guests in George Starman home include Alfred K Falcon Ottumwa as visitors over the weekend at 1937 C avenue NE.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Barnes
Nassau Street
Palm Springs
Calif
Texas
Arizona
Ute
George Starman
George R. Starman
C Avenue NE
Alfred K. Falcon
Ottumwa
Janet Jo Jefferis Engaged to F Wendell McMeans
Mr and Mrs L C Jefferis announce the engagement of their daughter Lt Janet Jo Jefferis of the Waves to F Wendell McMeans son of Mr and Mrs R P McMeans of Longview Texas. Lt Jefferis has been in Washington DC for two years and is a Coe College alumna. McMeans is a Navy discharge veteran planning to study pharmacy at the University of Iowa. The Hesperian club meets Monday at 7 45 p m at Miss Nell Boyack’s home with a book review by Miss Hazel Scheiber.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. C. Jefferis
Third Avenue SE
Janet Jo Jefferis
the Waves
F. Wendell McMeans
R. P. McMeans
Longview
Texas
Jefferis
Washington, D. C
Coe College
Alpha Gamma Delta
McMeans
University of
Owa
Hesperian Club
Nell Boyack
Hazel Scheiber
Ladies’ Literary Club
R. D. Hunting
First Avenue
Neil Montgomery
James Donald Adams
Legislation Program Theme at B P W Meeting
The Business and Professional Women's club sets a Tuesday 6 30 p m dinner in the Roosevelt hotel Florentine room. Committee chair Miss Leola Zavodsky leads planning with members Miss Costello McFall Stauffer Jenista Chindlund Harris and others.
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Business and Professional Women’s Club
Florentine
Roosevelt Hotel
Leola Zavodsky
Mary Costello
Frances McFall
Virginia Stauffer
Helen Jenista
Cristine Chindlund
Jean Harris
The
Mines
Irene
Helen Fowlie
Virginia Bean
Hazel Hicks
Imogen Emery
Emery
Emma Enstein
Gertrude Steiner
Maude Krebs
Marjorie Costello
Pat Kurtz
Eleanor Pohorsky
al Bothell
the Mines
Edna Wilson
Dorothy Drew
Farewell Luncheons Planned for Mrs Holstrom in Cedar Rapids
Circles of Cedar Rapids social life honor Mrs C W Holstrom of 2519 Meadowbrook Dr SE who departs for Minneapolis on April 1 after five years in the city. A luncheon and bridge hosted by Mrs Richard H Weld and Mrs J H Ferguson will host 16 guests at the Commonwealth Tearoom on Wednesday. A second luncheon hosted by Mrs H L Van Winkle and Mrs De Morris at the Van Winkle home will include 20 guests with bridge during the meal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. W. Holstrom
Meadowbrook
Minneapolis
Holstroms
Cedar Rapids
Holstrom
Richard H. Weldhouse
Twenty-third Street
J. H. Ferguson
Twenty-fifth Street
Commonwealth
H. L. van Winkle
Fifth Avenue
de Morris
Twenty-sixth Street
van Winkle
Garden Club Opens Year With First Meeting
The Cedar Rapids Garden club schedules its first session of the year for Wednesday at 10 a.m. in the Martha Washington room of Franklin high school with Miss Iola Tillapaughl discussing native wildflowers and showing slides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids Garden Club
Martha Washington
Franklin High School
Iola Tillapaughll
Leroy Homer Cornell Visit with Parents Family Reunion
Leroy and Homer Cornell return home for a family reunion at Meadowbrook drive SE. Leroy, recently discharged as an electronic technician from the navy, arrives with his wife and two daughters Marilyn and Carolyn of Omaha. Homer, now residing in Omaha, was discharged from the marines in December after serving as a dive bomber.
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Meadowbrook
LeRoy B
Homer
LeRoy
Marilyn
Carolyn
Omaha
College Club To Hear Headmaster Dr Taylor Speaker
The College Club invites members and guests to hear Dr Edgar C Taylor headmaster of the Taylor School for Boys in St Louis speak on Americas Role in Our World of Tomorrow at Roosevelt hotel at 8 p m. He is an author and educator and has written books on Mark Twain Robert Burns and Our Next Enemy.
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Dgar C. Taylor
Taylor School For Boys
St. Louis
America
Roosevelt Hotel
Taylor
Taylor School
Bowdoin College
Oxford University
Washington University
Mark Twain
Robert Burns
Archie Dennis
Russell Wicks
Alan Baldwin
Richard Buresh
Robert Hunnicut
Merlin Morris
Kenneth Ottsen
Ross Wilson
Donald Reid
George Hallenbeck
Phi Beta Kappa Elects Alice Mary Thompson at Carleton
Carleton College selects nine senior members for the national honorary society. Miss Mary Thompson, daughter of Mr and Mrs M M Thompson of 2137 First Avenue SE Seistetiean endenne ocho appe, is among eight women named. Thompson majors in history.
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Alice Mary ‘Thompson
M. M. Thompson
First Avenue SE
Carleton. College
Northfield
Minn
Carleton
Society
Thompson
P E O Chapters Announce Officers
Four local P E O chapters reveal officers for the coming year. Chapter GM names include president Mrs Thomas F Suchemel and treasurer Mrs Lena Vogt among others. Chapter II lists president Mrs W H Bailey and recording secretary Mrs Russell Manatt. Chapter IF names president Mrs D E Grim with secretary details. Chapter IF again lists president Mrs Irving Churchill and guard Mrs Burton H Day among others.
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Thomas F. Suchemel
A. C. Loepp
Marguerite Chapman
Mary Randall
Lena ‘Vogt
Carl K. ‘Linge
Harry Dunker
W. H. Bailey
Scott McIntyre
Loftus Elected Secretary-Treasurer of State D A R Group
Mrs A W Loftus, of 408 Dunreath eter, was elected secretary-treasurer of the State Junior committee of the D A R at the State Conference in Des Moines. She belongs to Ashley chapter MERIMYX Dancing Club plans a Monday social at Roosevelt Hotel with cocktails and dancing from 9:30 to 12:30, chaired by Mr and Mrs Hare old Chermeyer.
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Loftus
Dunreath
Merimyx Dancing Club
Roosevelt Hote
Mr. and
Mrs. Hare Old Chermeyer
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Europe
G.I
ETO
Ray Hubbard
Karl Schmidt
Hubbard
Twentieth Street
Ray
O. J. Elsenbast
Lions Club
Bob Scharf
American Home Department
Elsenbast
Railway Express
West Coast
County Recorder
Dempsy Jones
State Conservation Commission
Recorder
Frank P. D’aquila
Iowa Manufacturing Company
New York
Rio de Janeiro
South America
Duluth
H. E. Walters
Minnesota
Eee
Ae Avenue
Guibor
EL Kabir
Guardian
C. G. Lovenc
Maplewood Drive
June Thompson
Karl Thompson
Seventeenth Street
Patty French
Joseph Hladek
Elmhurst Drive
Margaret Butterfield
Carl Butterfield
Eight Point Law
Luther Gulick
Miss Boyack
B.P.W. Meeting
Garden Club
oOo
Mayflower
D.A.R
Y.W.C.A
Virginia Ohmann
George M. Newland
Charles Fisher
A. E. Einen
Lee S. Coy
J. H. Ramsey
W. E. Brown
Robert J. Rogers
C. J. Bready
Charles J. Bready
Grande Avenue
Louis D. Burkhalter
Robert Armstrongs
Robert C. Armstrong
Pleasant Hill
Donald B. Youel
Chadron, Neb
Ann Krupika
First Ave
Dial
Dapenis
Chloe
Raoul
Boston Orchestra
Koussevitcky
Victor &Pi
Music
Mendelssohn
N.Y
Spring Tonic Records
Edge
Music For
ATA and
FUG
Orsan
V. A Sebi
Evie
Bruno Walter
Columbia
Chosata and Fugue
Ime
Tet
Tessa Columba
Haere
First Street
Homer Cornell
PIANC
College Club
Ashley
D. A
Ashly
James Smith
Vernoncourt
Edgar Taylor
Phi Beta Kappa
Alice
Mary Thompson
P.E.O
A. W. Loftus
Roosevelt
Bulova
Etrap
Tea Xaos
Rwelerg
Paramount Theater
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