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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1939
Page
25
A Cedar Rapids column recalls playful antics around "Nestor the Talking Horse" with Betty's window lines and a skeptical schoolboy. It also notes a muddy scene from a junior league skit, a British adviser visiting during a polling day, and other city vignettes from theater and civic life.
Plans are completed for the annual high school Girl Reserve neighborhood conference hosted alternately by Waterloo and Cedar Rapids YWCA. This year the Cedar Rapids event runs next Saturday and Sunday with about 200 out of town attendees from multiple Iowa towns.
The Cedar Rapids Woman's Club music department and chorus plan a Friday military ball at 2 30 p.m. in the Crystal room of the Montrose hotel with performances by the chorus Miss Grace Gordon and the Coe music department Edward Melcher tenor and marimba selections. Reservations and follow up events include art department meetings and a visit to Mount Mercy art gallery plus a Porgy and Bess program and a nature talk on moths and butterflies.
Mayflower chapter of the D A R will host an Emerald Green luncheon on Friday at 1 p m at 119 Nineteenth Street SE Mrs L E Henry. Hosts include Mesdames Arthur Barlow Ralph Walker Fred Kluss W A Cash and B L Sheldon. The program on the national history magazine will be by Mrs Ethel Mahon and state convention reports.
The National Executive Housekeepers' Association will meet Monday at 8 p.m. at the Commonwealth. Mrs. Kate Loomis will describe the hotel show held recently in Chicago. Other important business will be discussed and all members are asked to attend.
Miss Bonnie O. Pickard national deputy visitor of Alpha Xi Delta sorority is hosted by Alpha Gamma chapter at Coe college this week. Her schedule includes dinners with alumnae, meetings with active members, a model meeting, a formal dinner at the Elks club, a model initiation, and several observances as she travels from Vermilion South Dakota through Cedar Rapids visiting Iowa chapters.
Delegates from Mayflower chapter named to state reception committee with Mrs Carl Thomas as regent and alternates listed. Hospitality tea at Hoyt Sherman, with Mrs Liek presiding with Spirit Lake guest Mrs Carl Schlotterbeck. Conference opens Monday afternoon after executive board meeting. Dinner honors Sons of the American Revolution and Mary Ann Sanders. Tuesday features luncheons, a junior group meeting, and special guests including national chairs. Oral reports will include production of two patriotic films The Right to Work and The American Way.
Betty Kitterman will be honored at a breakfast today hosted by sorority sisters Phoebe Jane Nemecek Elizabeth Jackson and Elizabeth Focht. The event celebrates her upcoming April 19 marriage to William Burl James of Boulder Colorado with Easter motifs and jonquil centerpieces.
Three advanced ROTC students at Coe college discussed plans for the annual Military Ball to be hosted by Scabbard and Blade in the Memorial coliseum. Charles Garberson is cadet lieutenant colonel, Stanley Smith a company captain, and Clifford Heilman serves on the planning committee.
Dance season kickoff at the Country Club with Tama and Mrs Lawrence J Halpin hosting a pre dance dinner for members and guests. A Dutch treat table included several couples and a cocktail party was held at the Dunn home on Elmhurst NE before the club dinner. A no host foursome featured L P Boudreaux and T M Ingersoll. Owen Barry family to Illinois for weekend visit relatives Northwestern Evanston and Oak Park. Mrs Elizabeth Stuart joins Peddies in Chicago for Wah Mu show at Northwestern.
Mr and Mrs Theodore F Blauls of 345 Woodland drive SE will travel Monday to Rock Island to spend two days with their daughter Frances a Villa de Chantal student. They will attend the senior class play in which Frances acts.
Coe college hosts a military ball at Memorial Coliseum with Scabbard and Blade members and a Roosevelt Military Academy drill exhibition. Honorary cadet colonel and captains to be presented during intermission. guests include Gen P P Bishop and Gov Wilson family.
The College Club schedules Judge Braude to speak on juvenile delinquency and court jurisdiction over youths aged 17 to 21. He will discuss engaging business leaders to create jobs for at risk youths to steer them away from trouble. A Plantation Singers performance from Ellsworth college will precede the talk.
Twenty four people joined a scavenger hunt at Miss Cynthia Daly’s home on Twentieth Street NE with prizes and green St Patrick decorations. Guests listed ten people who were “50 per cent Irish” and were treated to green hats and a Supper after the hunt at Daly’s. Other notices include P E CQ and PEO chapters meeting in Cedar Rapids areas with talks on relief programs and club dinner plans at Roosevelt Hotel.
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