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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1944
Page
12
In downtown Cedar Rapids a distraught woman chased her hat as a gusty wind sent it airborne and it hung on a lamp post corner. A passerby helped her reclaim it, a light moment amid Wednesday’s gale.
Beethoven club members will perform Thursday at 10 a.m. in the YWCA club room as part of music week. The program includes a two piano number a violin piano duo solos and group singing with Dorothy Ann Kucera guest pianist. The meeting is open to the public.
Rita Marie Spaight and Ernest W. Pappenfus were married at St. Patrick’s church on April 27 at 8 am. The ceremony was led by Rev. D G Peters with music by Miss Margaret Ousin and Betty Leichsenring. The bride wore a sheer linen gown with pearls and a Juliet cap, carried a silver rosary, and the couple will reside at 1860 B avenue NE after a wedding trip to Chicago. The reception followed at the bride’s parents’ home with a three-tier cake and tapers. The couple’s families attended and the bride’s sister Miss Theresa Spaight served as bridesmaid. A later note mentions the Practical Nurses club meeting.
P E O Chapter HJ meets Monday at 1 15 p m for a dessert lunch with Mrs B M Bradford at 514 Forest Dr SE. Dr David I Berger of Coe College will speak on The Road to Freedom. Chapter DK meets Monday at 8 p m with Miss Ruby Taylor at 1744 D Ave NE. Chapter GM meets 7 30 p m at 303 Twenty Second St NE with Miss Lena Vogt leading Our Juvenile Delinquency Problem. Theta chapter breakfast featured Miss Marjorie Walters at 326 Sixteenth St NE with Miss Evelyn Peterson of Waterloo as guest speaker and 24 members present.
The Woman's Club holds a board meeting Monday at 10 a.m. at the club house and will meet all day Thursday there to make surgical bandages with coffee provided.
USO Notes The Navy Mothers will operate the center today serving sandwiches cakes cookies and coffee free. Mrs Hazel Conarr is chairman with assistants Francis Kovarik Hilda Werner Helen Montague and Laura LeClerc on duty from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Cedar Rapids alumnae of Clarke college will entertain at a tea May 14 from 3 to 5 p.m. in E. of C. hall. Mrs. H. C. Davis will oversee arrangements. Invitations go to graduating Cedar Rapids high school girls and Clarke students. Committee includes Publicity Mrs. Henry Choosky and decorations Mrs. R. J. Lynch.
Margaret Wilcox daughter of Mrs E E Wilcox 1719 Washington Ave SE is featured in a May Mademoiselle article on Army Hostesses. She serves as director of a Fort Belvoir VA service club and has been an army hostess for almost two years.
Miss Annabelle Louise Hershey wed Floyd Jean Cummings at St. Pauls church in Ottumwa with a yellow white theme. Attendants wore yellow marquisette gowns, a flower girl rode daisies, and a navy ensemble shaded the mothers’ outfits. The couple, graduates of Iowa State College, left for the west coast and the groom will report for navy duty.
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