Stained glass expert hails U S work as premier craft
Dr Elton Wells told Cedar Rapids Woman's club the United States matches the world’s finest stained glass in history. He traced the art from early mosaics to cast windows and noted Cedar Rapids churches with notable windows. Slides by Rev Edgar Walker preceded by luncheon singers. By-laws changes were proposed for the club and slated for April vote.
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United States
Elton Wells
Cedar Rapids
Wells
First Presbyterian Church
First Lutheran Church
Trinity Methodist Church
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Memorial Building
Cedar Memorial Chapel of
Edgar Walker
Anamosa
Elizabeth North
American Home Department
W. R. Armstrong
Federation of Women’s Clubs
Des Moines
Birthday Party Surprise for Mrs Gongwer
Mrs Arthur Gongwer of 3023 Waveland Drive NW was surprised Saturday evening at a birthday party hosted by Mr and Mrs Jerome Gongwer of 2820 Waveland Drive NW. Guests included Simon Gongwer and his son Gary, Mrs Pauline Clask, Mr and Mrs Richard Prochaska, Mr and Mrs Homer Chacey and their children, Mr and Mrs Wayne Young and their children Polly Johnny and Barbara, John Rasplicka and their son and daughters Bill Mary and Dorothy, and Mr and Mrs John Rasplicka Jr. Games were played and refreshments were served.
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Arthur Gongwer
Waveland Drive
Jerome Gongwer
Simon Gongwer
Gary
Pauline Clask
Richard Prochaska
Homer Chacey
Wayne Young
Polly
Johnny
Barbara
John Rasplicka
Bill
Mary
Dorothy
Arling Crest Flannel Dress Described for Spring Partywear
A 100 percent wool Arling Crest flannel dress is pitched as perfect for spring dress-up parties. It features a camisole-front with gold-toned buttons, a narrow belt, trick collar, and fly-away cap sleeves to convey current fashion notes among teens.
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Arling
Double Wedding in Iowa City for Hinton and Blood
Lorraine Lee Hinton became the bride of Hillis C Blood and her brother Robert M Hinton married Miss Phyllis Jean Woolstrichill in a double wedding ceremony in Iowa City. The Hintons are daughter and son of Mr and Mrs A W Hinton. Mr Blood is the son of Mr and Mrs E N Blood. Hinton's bride is daughter of Mr and Mrs George Miers of Blairstown. Rev James E Waery officiated in the Little Chapel of the Congregational church.
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Lorraine Lee Hinton
Hillis C. Blood
Robert M. Hinton
Phyllis Jean Woolstrichill
Iowa City
Hintons
A. W. Hinton
First Avenue
Mr. Blood
E. N. Blood
Fifteenth Street
Mr. Hinton
George Miers
Blairstown
James E. Waery
Little Chapel
Congregational Church
Joyce Dwyer Celebrates Fifteenth Birthday Party
Joyce Dwyer celebrated her fifteenth birthday Saturday with a dancing party at her home 1506 L Street SW Refreshments featured a St Patrick's day motif Guests included Jacquelyn Tubbs Amy Sheronick June Johnson Delores Ressa Elaine Jordan Eunice Stepanek Arles Fulton Dick Stanek Ray Suma LaVerne Dostal Bill Risher John Cargana Bob Reid Junior Melichar and Dennis Dwyer
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joyce Dwyer
L Street
Joyce
W. M. Dwyer
Jacquelyn Tubbs
Amy Sheronick
June Johnson
Delores Ressa
Elaine Jordan
Eunice Stepanek
Arles Fulton
Dick Stanek
Ray Suma
LaVerne Dostal
Bill Risher
John Cargana
Bob Reid
Junior Melichar
Dennis Dwyer
Gardening Course At Woman's Club
The Cedar Rapids Woman's Club nature and garden department hosts a short course at the clubhouse on Thursday. Talks cover Finds of Spring in the Garden, Perennials, Gladiolus Culture, and Canals and Windmills. Luncheon served 12:30. after, songs and talks on lawn care and evergreens. Reservations with Mrs. Cordes at 3-0716.
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Nature and Garden Department
The
Cedar Rapids
Dora Cargin Blake
L. A. Talbott
D. D. Offringa
Linn County Extension
Henry Kling
Hamilton Seed and Coal Company
D. R. Melick
Garden Craft Nursery
T. C. Cordes
Linn County Junior King's Daughters meet at First Congregational
The Linn County Junior King's Daughters held a Saturday union meeting at the First Congregational church. Marie Hines led devotions from the Elizabeth Chase circle. Reports described charity work across junior circles aiding the March of Dimes and sick or hospitalized children. Refreshments came from the June circle as all circles rehearsed for a March 28 benefit performance at the Y. M. C. A. Little Theater in Iowa City.
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Linn County
King’s Daughters
First Congregational Church
Marie Hines
Elizabeth Chase
St. Luke’s Hospital
Children’s Hospital
Iowa City
Little Theater of the
Ann Ruth Liebst speaks to Camp Fire Girls
Ann Ruth Liebst addressed the Otyakwa Campfire group during their thirty fourth anniversary week at Mrs R Rink home 131 Twenty sixth street drive SE. She spoke on Home and Family Life in Panama and Mexico drawing on years in Latin America as Camp Fire girls promote the At Home in the World project emphasizing acquaintance with home and family life of all people.
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Ann Ruth Liebst
R. Rink
Twenty-sixth Street
Panama
Mexico
Latin America
National
Camp Fire Girls
Miss Marilyn Nemec Celebrates Sixth Birthday Party
Miss Marilyn Nemec daughter of Mr and Mrs S A Nemec 1534 Seventh Avenue SE was honored at a Saturday afternoon party for her sixth birthday. Guests included Marilyn Fosnacht Margaret Rupp Margaret Ann Hasek Judy Dougherty Gail Gilchrist Donna Jean LeRoux Jan Ellen Putt Judy Hadish Janet Bohlander Mary Louise Zedlick and Elizabeth Fetter.
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Marilyn Nemec
S. A. Nemec
Seventh Avenue SE
Marilyn Fosnacht
Margaret Rupp
Margaret Ann Hasek
Judy Dougherty
Gail Gilchrist
Donna Jean LeRoux
Jan Ellen Putt
Judy Hadish
Janet Bohlander
Mary Louisé Zedlick
Elizabeth Fetter
St Patrick day party honors Netoppeu Camp Fire Girls
A St Patrick day party was held for the Netoppeu Camp Fire girls Friday at Barbara Burke's home on 2333 Second Street SW. Honor beads were awarded to those who took rank on March 9. Games were played and refreshments served by Mrs Lawrence Misel.
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Netoppeu Camp
Barbara Burke
Second Street
Lawrence Misel
Service club pot luck supper at Jane Boyd house
The Jane Boyd community house service club invites members to a pot luck supper Thursday at 8 p.m. Bring a covered dish and call 8999 for reservations.
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Service Club
Jane Boyd Community House
Pattern 4890 frock with no shoulder seams
By Anne Adams a practical all purpose dress pattern advertisement highlights Pattern 4890. It offers a flattering frock with no shoulder seams, pockets optional, and sizes 12 through 20 and 40. The ad notes fabric yardage for size 16 and requests 20 cents in coins to order via The Cedar Rapids Gazette Pattern Dept. Chicago.
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Anne Adams
Rcrac
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Pattern Dept
Clinton St
Chicago
Calkins Family Feted by Local Benevolent Lodge
Mr. and Mrs. Fred T. Calkins of 114 Twenty-fifth Street drive SE were honored Saturday by Division 159, B of L. E., and Mercy Division No. 51, Ladies auxiliary. Calkins, newly installed as chief engineer of Division 159, led a party for about eighty guests in the K of P hall. Auxiliary members arranging the event included H. B. Rupe, J. F. Pavlis, W. L. Jones, and W. A. Blum, with assistance from Walter Herr, W. J. Shanahan, and J. F. Pavlis. Mrs. Wallace H. Herr presides over the Ladies auxiliary.
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Fred T. Calkins
Twenty-fifth Street Drive
Division 159
B. of
L. E
Mercy Division No. 51
Calkins
K. of
P. Hall
Mines
H. B. Rupe
J. F. Pa
Meat stretching recipe from Over the Back Fence
Naomi Decebel presents a wartime style guide urging shared meals for hungry Europe. The recipe details pork cutlets with potato chips and cream of mushroom soup, using eight and eight cutlets per two-pan bake, with mushroom soup, consomme, and a 350 degree oven for an hour plus twenty five minutes.
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Europe
Sauce for Fried Oysters and Ginger Cream Dessert
Instructions describe a sauce for fried oysters with butter flour oyster liquor chili sauce Worcestershire vinegar lemon juice celery seeds onion juice chives pimiento Tabasco and mayonnaise. Also outlines a ginger flavored sugar syrup, whipped egg whites, cream, and freezing to make a dessert.
Fussells Move from Cedar Rapids to Washington D C
Mr and Mrs Richard Fussell have left Cedar Rapids to reside in Washington D C where Mr Fussell will join the Government Map service.
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Richard Fussell
Cedar Rapids
Washington, D. C
Fussell
Government Map Service
Algiers Girl To Be Calmar Bride
Miss Capasso of Algiers arrives in Calmar to wed Clarence Barr after a long journey from North Africa. A 22 year old typist for the French government, she and Barr, who served as a sergeant, plan marriage soon after Easter following three years apart.
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Gazette
Calmar
Clarence Barr
Barr
Mary Barr
North Africa
Elvire Capasso
Algiers
Miss Capasso
Italy
Surprise Birthday Dinner for Mrs Wortham in Davenport
Mrs. Marion Wortham of Davenport was surprised Monday evening with a birthday dinner hosted by Miss Golden Rose Brousard at the Roosevelt hotel. Cards were played at Mrs. Condon’s home, prizes went to Miss Ruth Gordon and Mrs. Robert Pearlman, with musical numbers by several guests.
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Marion Wortham
Davenport
Golden Rose Brousard
Ninth Street
Roosevelt Hotel
Tom Condon
Twenty
Second Street
Ruth Gordon
Robert Pearlman
Ray Dew
K. C. Daniels
Ted Brousard
Public library staff honor Margaret Chiaborel at breakfast shower
The Public library staff honored Miss Margaret Ann Chiaborel Tuesday at a breakfast shower in the Roosevelt hotel before her April 14 wedding to Leslie H Bennett of Baton Rouge Louisiana. She will leave her Cedar Rapids library department post after July and is a Kan sas State Teachers College library school graduate.
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Public Library
Margaret Ann Chiaborel
Roosevelt Hotel
Leslie H. Bennett
Baton Rouge
Kansas State Teachers College Library School
Emporia
Cedar Rapids
Chiaborel
Alice B. Story
Mary Burkhalter
Edna Erickson
Catherine Redmond
Ruby Taylor
Rosemary Fuller
Mary Marrison
Hazel Evans
Charlotte Wendl
Elizabeth Froman
Adele Schaefer
Evelyn Zerzanek
Lena Parks
Oliver O. Hawk
Solons Inspect Building Sites At State College
Ames AP a state legislative interim committee inspected Iowa State College sites Monday for 2.3 million dollars in new buildings funded by the 1945 legislature. They visited the power plant addition and a Squaw Creek bridge on Thirteenth Street Road. Fred R. White of the state highway commission said repairs would cost 2,500 dollars to secure the wooden structure. President Charles E. Finley reported 2,200 GI students with an expected 3,000 in the spring quarter starting next week.
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Ames
Iowa State College
Squaw Creek
Thirteenth Street
College Farms
Fred R. White
State Highway Commission
Charles E. Finley
Iowa State
Mary Haworth's Mail No, Nothing Girl Can Do But Quit
A 22 year old writer asks about love, marriage, and a divorced artist with a wife and child. The wife resists James' divorce and asserts she will support their son, while the lover seeks a future with him. The column rebukes the reader for seeking to entrench a relationship at the expense of the wife and child.
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Mary Haworth
James
E. C
Concede the Field to Mrs James in Love and Honor
The writer argues a wife remains faithful to her husband James despite a competing romance. He contends societal and religious laws support her, shared marriage experiences bind them, and James, an artist, may secretly understand her choice. He urges yielding the field to Mrs. James.
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James
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