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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1936
Page
15
An invite lists a dinner in honor of Mr and Mrs Thomas Sinclair from Indianapolis Indiana. Guests include several local figures and a procession of attendees is described with various names peppered through the OCR text.
Four men s social groups at Cornell College Mount Vernon plan spring dinner dances this weekend. A E hosts at Cedar Rapids Country Club with Miss Ruth Pinkerton and Prof Harold Baltz chaperoning. Thirty couples expected for the Roosevelt Hotel event with a Waterloo dance orchestra. The Panthers dine at Montrose with fourteen couples chaperoned by Dr Charles R Keyes and Dr R A Nelson. The Celts host at Anamosa Country Club with thirty couples and chaperones Prof and Mrs C C Tull and others. Charles Berve serves as group president.
Mrs W L Crssman and sister W W Crssman travel from their homes in SE to Detroit and Romeo Michigan then visit Mr and Mrs L Euates at their country residence. They attend the Neds tulip festival at Holland in March and spend a week touring.
Mr and Mrs J M Dinwiddie invite friends to a dinner at 4507 Fairview Drive SE. Lilacs and tulips center the table for the occasion.
Prof Henry and Mrs John Henry invite ten Coe College senior students to a dinner at the Commonwealth tea room on Saturday evening at their Meadowbrook drive home venue.
Miss Katherine Reed of Des Moines arrived Friday to spend the weekend with Irona and Mrs E H Wadsworth at 2278 Country Club Parkway, San Francisco.
Mrs C Louis Fontana of 621 Seventeenth Street SE hosted members of her bridge club at a Friday luncheon.
Agnes Farta and Edward Viasek wed Thursday at St Ludmila’s Church with Rev Hrn officiating. The bride’s blue gown and attendants’ brown accessories described, guests gathered at 1529 Fifteenth Street after a reception. post wedding plans noted.
Mr and Mrs E C Wonderlich of Buchanan Michigan are guests of Mrs H F Kiemme and Mr Klemme at 1826 Third Avenue SE. The visit highlights family ties and local hospitality as they stay with the Kiemmes.
Four honorary members of the Inter Ocean Reinsurance Company s wives club were honored at a Roosevelt hotel dinner. Spring flowers centered the table. Honorees included Mrs Roy FE Curray Mrs Richard Lord Mrs Earl P Blaise and Mrs D L Nel ton. Treasures Leola Zavodsky and Mary Randall introduced a puppet show. Betty Silliman presided. banquet committee included ViseSec Fila Hansen Mary Ferrow and Lillian Jesina. Misses Marv Gallagher and Alice Hopkins organized Enterprisist.
A Cedar Rapids group attended the wedding of Miss Florence Donohoe of Iowa City and Thomas Sinclair Woods of Iowa City. The ceremony was held Thursday in Iowa City with Rev. David Woods officiating. Guests included Miss Margaret Donohoe as maid of honor and Robert Woods as best man. The couple plans a Miami stop and residence in Chicago after a honeymoon trip.
Pupils of Eleanor Houts Ber nice Hach Baldwin Grace Swab Alma Turechex of Coe college music department present a student recital Saturday in Sinclair Memorial Chapel. The program includes selections by Mozart Handel and Chaminade among others performed by Barbara Haycen Williams Robyn Brown Carter VanCiers Marian Tarnor and Arlene Dvorak with various instruments.
About 100 attended the Young Men's Bureau picnic dance Thursday evening in the Chamber of Commerce ballroom. A Dutch lunch was served and Maquokets, a magician, entertained with tricks. Committee members included Joe Bus chairman Hob Merveaux Howard Cerney Kenneth Crooks and W. H. Frink.
Following the business meeting of the Womans Labor bureau No 17 Thursday at Labor temple the bureau had a joint focal meet ing with the Cedar Rapids Feder ation of Labor The bureaus next meeting will be May 228.
Thursday luncheon guests of Mr and Mrs C G Burvwinkle at 125 Eighth Street NE included Monard Scott and C Fiezer of New York City BOF. Burvwinkle of Des Moines and Mr and Mrs G F Zuresh I Koffron and C E Jeffery of Cedar Rapids.
Members of the Kenwood P T A executive board attended a luncheon Thursday at president Mrs M S Reeder’s home 430 Thirty third Street. Tulips and decor set the scene with guests listed including W W Crabbs Glen Cornish David Whittingham Kenneth Kohl Lee Coy M C Kehne Forrest Clemmens R E Atherton J Houts J J Shepard WOOL Henkle Leslie Crabbs Ed Cohrs Walter Berry HF Lam bertsen I P Mills O F Stab enfeldt Harlow Robinson A B Long Sidney Myers Homer Gardner and others.
About 150 women from eighteen Linn County clubs attended the federation's county convention at the Presbyterian church in Springville. Cedar Rapids and other area clubs were represented, with talks on taxation, women’s legal status, housing, wildlife conservation, and music. The federation plans to meet in Cedar Rapids in the fall.
Mrs Queene V. Hornibrook of Chicago returns home after spending several days with her son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Phillip M Kuback at 1645 Second Avenue SE.
Advice on casual talk from a 1930s column promotes better speech and listening. It contrasts natural speech with slang and urges readers to request the booklet Improving Your Conversation for 15 cents, including name and address details for The Cedar Rapids Gazette Home Institute in New York.
The Linn County Union of King’s Daughters executive board met with Mrs. Rufus B Culver at 818 Wellington St SE Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Kenneth E. Cornell led devotions and a tea was planned for May 25 at 2 pm at the First Congregational church. A tea committee was named with Mesdames Wilson Kimbal Janacek Beiber Condon and Meyer. Mrs S A Sanders outlined summer plans for the junior camp at Montrose.
Mrs C R Scholl and Mrs Frank Melsh won prizes at the Easy Aces bridge club gathering held Thursday afternoon at 1909 Grande avenue SE, the home of Mrs W V Carringer Jr.
In Mount Vernon W E Thompson Baxter superintendent buys the Dilley Brothers grocery, will take possession June 20. Art Dilley retires to Bennett due to illness. H C Dilley plans undetermined. Marvin's gro cery firm buys their building to expand and remodel. Quality store alterations prep to display grocery and dry goods from Pringle stores. Masonic building houses moving drug store merchandise. Buckingham eighth grade baccalaureate Sunday evening. Rev C E Luce to speak. Thursday closes with two plays Baggy Tag Man and Elmer. Friday ends with Clark's park picnic. Bennett American Legion Auxiliary reports poppy poster winners.
Shellsburg and surrounding communities host a slate of free summer programs. S. Chaddo of Cedar Rapids oversees weekly talkies on Wednesdays while the Shellsburg Consolidated School band, directed by Howard Ellson of Marion, presents Saturday concerts.
Davis California experts predict small garden tractors will rank among major American industrial outputs in the near future. The bleak mood spurs this new field as tractors enter general use on small farms gardens and other limited agricultural projects per a College of Agriculture survey.
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