Marion High Home Economics Exhibit Planned in Lincoln Auditorium
Marion high school prepares for its annual home economics exhibit and style show in Lincoln school auditorium and gymnasium. Demonstrations cover good manners, meal planning, clothing, home management, child care, art, furnishings, and relationships. Eleven division hosts organize meetings and a state conference for scholarship students during Weishea week. B L Lyman to present high school band Friday with fourteen entries, 1 p.m. in North Music Hall.
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Marion High School
Lincoln School
Town State College
Ames
Weishea
Dorothy Kuhn
Rose Wilcox
North Music Hall
Marriage of Miss Gladys Braun and Milton Etzel
Gladys Braun of Sumner married Milton Etzel of Lafayette at the bride’s home. Rev. J. J. Braun officiated with Rev. M. E. Shank assisting. Attendants were Bernice Helbig and Alvin Haehlen. The couple will live with the groom’s parents. Other items note club meetings, teas, and visits in the community.
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Gladys Braun
J. J. Braun
Sumner
Milton Etzel
Henry Etzel
Lafayette
M. E. Shank
Bernice Helbig
Alvin Haehlen
Mildred Haehlen
Marion Entrants To Compete In State Music Contest
Richard Little will represent Marion in class B at the Iowa City state music contest singing at 8 am Thursday in the Methodist church among ten entries. Other Marion acts include girlsglee at 9:30 pm Thursday in the same church with seventeen groups, mixed chorus at Memorial Union Thursday afternoon with fourteen schools, and boys glee at 8 pm Thursday in the MacBride auditorium. The Marion public library lists new circulation books including Wonders of the Past and I Wanted Wings. Members of the Entre Nous club meet Tuesday at 11 in Mrs. C. E. Mitchell’s home. The Tennyson club invites Theristrial club to its birthday party Monday at 2:30 at Mrs Norman J Waffle’s home. Saturday the Waffle family visited Rockwell City to join Mrs E W Decker. Today Mr and Mrs Waffle plan to visit Mrs Decker.
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Methodist Church Ladies Aid Society
Sunshine
Harold Domer
Fourth Avenue
Louise Austin
Ruth Kinney
W. G. Buck
G. L. Hall
Rainbow Division
W. Goodyear
Seventeenth Street
George Reichard
J. L. Papes
Howard Ballew
Gleaners
Emma, Belle and Retta Courtney
Sixth Avenue
Loyal
Hugh Hutton
Eighth Avenue
Irving Drake
Comforter
Endeavor
J. H. Moothart
Tenth Street
True Blue Division
Carol Roberts
Marion
Roscoe Blinks
Jane Robson
Jesse W. Peck
Providence, R. 1
A. R. Hutton
Hutton
Mrs. Peck
California
Richard Little
Iowa City
Memorial Union
Macbride
Marion Public
Hammerton
Parker
England
Dunn
New England
Brooks
Lay Jr
Howes
Mackenzie
Rinehart
Morton
Wentworth
Aldis
Ripley
Lea
Bells
Goudge
Houston
Entre Nous Club
C. E. Mitchell
Tennyson’ Club
Theristrial Club
Norman J. Waffle
Thirteenth Street
Elbert
Rockwell City
Waffle
E. W. Decker
St. Mary’s
John Smith
Festina
John Humker
John
Calmar
P J. Pitzenberger
Rockwell
Will Rausch
Fort Atkinson
Edward
Greenwood
Miss
F. X. Cota
Mason City
Anna Larkina
Kansas City
Will Pavlovec
Anton
Austin
Minn
Herbert
Lillian Holmes
Anamoba
Anamosa
William Fisher
Boy Scouts
Virgil van Kirk
American Legion
Mae Birk
Public Library
F. B. Sigworth
Garden Club
Robert Deyo
Conservation Club
William Folkerts
City of
Leo Loyet
Edgar Beach
Dramatics
T. E. Watters
Oxford
Bernice Leeney
Betty Rohret
Mary Leeney
Bernice Simpkins
Lone Tree
Solon
Tiffin
Bernice
Decorah
Carsten E. Sperati
Fergus Falls
First Lutheran Church
T. A. Hoff
Sperati
Carlo A. Sperati
Paolo H. Sperati
Ripon
Wis
E. Vittorio Sperati
Joseph Koch
Herman Busch
N. A. Klein
Walter Yager
Hugo Schneberger
Elmer Tevedt
Miss von der Goltz
Charles von der Goltz
Mercy Hospital Nurses School
Cedar Rapids
Marengo
Coe College
American Institute of Business
Marengo High School
Community notices and club events crowd Cedar Rapids area
Mrs Decker will attend Rinard Methodist homecoming service. W C T U guest day drew about forty. Activities include devotional led by Mrs Loren Inman and a talk on the five point star projects for the national fund. Out of town guests from Cedar Rapids Springville Waterloo attend. Various club meetings and a peace play scheduled for next week. Knights Templar and Masonic events listed along with church services and a Life of Christ film.
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Decker
Rinard Methodist Church
E. T. Gough
Loren Inman
A. G. Beckman
Cecil Seger
Gerald Thomas
Frances Willard
Irving Wade
Washington, D. C
Palestine
Iowa
H. M. Thomas
William Fleisher
Elda Kemp
Nettie Sisam
West Side Unit
Cedar Rapids
W. S. Butterfield
Institute
A. F. Butterfield
Flower and Relief
P. E. Frink
Charles Ellenberger
Frank Falcon
Springville
Coronation Remembers English Lady's Maid Turned Iowa Farm Wife
Mt Vernon area recalls a former English lady's maid, Gladys Allen known as Mrs. Fred Sadler, who traveled with noble families and later settled as a farm wife near Springville. She shared stories from Melton Mowbray to Ipswich, London society seasons, and tea rituals.
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Mt. Vernon
Mont Vernon
George VI
George V
Fred Sadler
Edith Cavel
Melton Mowbry
Jacob Astors
Prince of Wales
Sadler
Iowa
Ipswich
Wallis Simpson
Gladys Allen
White Horse Hotel
Dickens
Gainsbrough
Hotel Meurice
Paris
Wally
Biarritz
Scotland
London
Amana Grove Der Schulwald Preserved by Locals
Amana residents recall Der Schulwald, a long needle carpeted pine grove planted by schoolchildren since 1876 near highway 149 north of Amana. Over the decades pines thrived shaping a tunnel like path where generations walked and picnicked while outsiders and Cedar Rapids excursionists enjoyed the spot.
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Amana
Dutch Lake
Stone Dam
der’ Schulwald
Cedar Rapids
Highway 149
Greeley Seniors to Present Look Out Lizzie May 7
The Greeley high school senior class will stage the play Look Out Lizzie on Friday evening May 7. Principal parts are Mildred Fischer and Wilbur Beehm with a cast including Marie Pilgrim Lois Gurke Wilfred Nichols Madge Sherman Harold Goranson and Lawrence Smith.
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Gazette
Greeley
Greeley High School
Lizzie
Mildred Fischer
Wilbur Beehm
Marie Pilgrim
Lois Gurke
Wilfred Nichols
Madge Sherman
Harold Goranson
Lawrence Smith
Mary Seigel
Hazel Slater
Stella Clute
George Dilger
Pioneer 87-Year-Old Weaves Loom in Clayton County
Special to The Gazette Strawbery Point Mrs Surrelda Woodruff aged 87 a pioneer settler of Clayton county has lived there seventy years and is among the oldest carpet weavers in the state. Born as Surrelda Johnston in 1850 she learned to weave at twelve under her mother while the family raised sheep. The Johnston clan moved from Jones county to Illinois as Civil War era youths.
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Strawberry Point
Surrelda Woodruff
Clayton County
Bloomington
Ill
George Johnston
Johnston
Woodruff
Tax Sale Law Tested in Bedford Suit
Thomas L. Kuhn county auditor J R Henderson county treasurer Taylor county and the state of Iowa are named defendants in a suit filed to test the validity of the last tax sale. The plaintiff J E Freemyer contends the Aug 5 1935 sale violated the law which requires a sale on the first Monday in December.
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Bedford
Thomas L. Kuhn
J. R. Henderson
Taylor County
State of
Iowa
J E. Freemyer
Morley Seniors Present Just Pass Play
Morley high school seniors stage the comedy Just Pass on May 7 in the school auditorium. Leading roles go to Murial Hunter and Thomas Hartley with Kenneth Pieper and Atelle Maley also featured. Underclassmen Lois Tallman June Hartley Frances Smith Myrtle Hunter J G Walker and Eleanor Boots participate under the direction of Supt Earl Phillips.
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Morley
Morley High School
Murial Hunter
Thomas Hartley
Kenneth Pieper
Atelle Maley
Lois Tallman
June Hartley
Frances Smith
Myrtle Hunter
J. G. Walker
Eleanor Boots
Supt
Earl Phillips
Local school house staff changes in Elkader
Harold A. Van Horn Cedar Rapids veteran foreman departs Elkader project to join a Madison Wisconsin job. Gus Kucharo brother of contractor William Kucharo arrives as labor foreman and George Partington from Des Moines becomes bricklayers foreman.
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Elkader
Harold A. van Horn
Cedar Rapids
Madison
Wis
Gus Kucharo
William Kucharo
Kucharo
George Partington
Des Moines
Another Spring staged by senior class at Strawberry Point
Under Miss Opal Hucker’s direction the Strawberry Point senior class presents Another Spring in the high school assembly May 5 and 6. Prologue covers revolutionary days with three modern acts and leads Helen Gamm and Norman Baumgartner. The cast includes Marvin Chevalier Bernice Malone Edythe Litts Katherine Boland Dean Walters and others.
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Strawberry Point
Opal Hucker
Helen Gamm
Norman Baumgartner
Marvin Chevalier
Bernice Malone
Edythe Litts
Katherine Boland
Dean Walters
Forrest Davis
Esther Zwanziger
Helen Smith
Wayne Luse
Maxine Shadle
Edward Barnes
Riverside and St. Mary’s graduates announced
The Gazette reports Riverside and St. Mary’s high schools will hold their 27th and 42nd commencements. St. Mary’s graduates include Robert Deutsch and Ruth Rice. ceremony June 6 at St. Mary’s church. Riverside seniors include Daryl Gerot and Ruth McClelland. exercises May 27 at the Methodist church.
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Riverside
St. Mary’s
St. Mary’s Church
Robert Deutsch
William Dautremont
Ruth Rice
Donald Schott
Stephen Dautremont
Marian Droll
Marjorie Fesler
Luella Meade
Verena O'Conner
Mary Helen Swift
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