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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1937
Page
17
The article notes a surge of Easter cards in bright colors and playful designs celebrating spring. It highlights romantic, familial, and child friendly messages, including "Sweetheart" notes and Aunt to cousin greetings, with emphasis on colorful, animated Juvenile cards and paper doll inserts.
Barbara Ann Shonka hosted a Saturday dinner party for her fifteenth birthday at 394 Twenty-fifth Street SE. pastel Easter colors decorated the table and guests included Dorothy Miller Ruth Ann Hasek Virginia Dodds Theone Larson June Senio Anna Jean Sallach Jean Puckett Joan Chehak Marjorie Moravec Eloise Heath and Camp Fire group Watecanya met recently at 420 Seventeenth Street SE with Nadia Thorpe among attendees Mari Frances Bucknell Lucile Harris Dorothy Lehman Dorothy Mesk nes Dorothy Mueller Jean Rogers Lucia Smith Jean White and Joan Yessler.
The junior and senior Pilgrim Fellowship units gather at the First Congregational church house at 6 30 this evening with Alice Michale leading devotions and Rush Benson guiding a discussion on Eternal Life. A backward clothes April Foolish Frolic is planned for Wednesday at 8 p.m. with committees led by Elaine Benson and Jeanne Cash. Easter breakfast is set for Easter morning at 7 30 a.m. Devo tions will be led by Lois Grissell, Charles Knox and Jane Hall.
The Malta chapter No. 415 O E S conducted its annual school of instruction and inspection at the Masonic hall with Mrs. Marguerite Hoglan of Center Point as district instructor. A luncheon for 42 officers and grand officers followed at the Roosevelt hotel. A 400-strong dinner crowd met later at the Masonic hall. The event featured gifts, entertainment, and a chapter business meeting with officers including Mrs. Louise Padley and George Cockburn.
The Creative Arts group of the A A U S W will meet Monday at 7 30 p m at Mrs George Kosek Hawthorne Hill. Members will continue their bookbinding project. The cinema group meeting moved to March 30 due to scheduling.
The final talk in a lecture series by Francis Robert White will occur Tuesday at 3 30 p m in the public library art rooms. The event is open to Tuesday Art group members and others with a small admission charge.
Members of the cast and crew of The Meal Ticket by Donald Breed were treated to a buffet at the Montrose Hotel on Saturday night. Breed, a Freeport resident, won the Midwest Play Writing contest two years ago with The Winding Road.
Members of the Silver Cross circle of the King's Daughters will meet Wednesday at the home of Mrs. J. L. Conley 1203 Elmhurst drive NE for a 1 o'clock dessert luncheon. Mr and Mrs A K Burroughs returned Friday after three months in California. their daughter Mrs R L Bryant of Marshalltown accompanied them.
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