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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1939
Page
15
An OCR fragment notes a local event involving veils and silver on a special day. Details are limited but imply a ceremonial or decorative observance tied to the community. No clear names, places, dates, or organizations are readable.
Lisa keeps busy with shopping trips while Miss Margaret Wilson has chosen June 26 for her marriage to Duane D. Blackwell of St. Louis.
Memorial day festivities at Cedar Rapids Country Club feature a candlelit dinner dance with a fourteen piece band and Miss Evelyn Bell as vocalist. More than two hundred reservations filled the ballroom and dining room as strolling musicians perform during dinner and patriotic decorations set the gala mood. A series of Dutch treat groups and host and hostess parties precede the dancing with multiple invited guests from Coe College and neighboring towns.
Social notes report John T Hamilton hosted a Memorial Day dinner in the Florentine room at the Roosevelt hotel attended by his house guests Mr and Mrs Joseph Frelinghuy sen and Miss Consuela Villa of New York City. Strolling musicians performed for guests during the evening.
The engagement of Miss Janet Coquillette daughter of Mr and Mrs SFE Coquillette 540 Knollwood Drive SE to Robert S Wray of Des Moines was announced at a tea at the Coquillette home. The wedding is set for July 15.
Cedar Rapids welcomes a wave of out of town visitors for Memorial Day weekend. Among them are Mrs R S Fuhrmeister of Sheridan Wyoming visiting her relatives, Mrs Lafayette Young of Des Moines staying with her daughter, and Mr James W Good Jr and family from Chicago and Denver. Also arriving are the Rumls from Dayton with their son, and the Pickfords of Milwaukee. Visitors include Mrs Wallace S Hamilton and Mrs Wilcox visiting Cedar Rapids, while Mrs Donald Brodine from Medford Hillside Massachusetts plans a summer stay with her parents.
Cedar Rapids families anticipate a busy week as college students wrap up exams and attend commencements. Local graduates include Dabeed Tret-2 and Martha Trewin, with travels to Lexington and Tucson for ceremonies. The scene reflects final parties, trunks being packed, and train schedules checked amid the Cedar Rapids sendoffs.
Mrs. Donald Barnes, of 352 Garden Drive SE, will leave this week to spend a week in Council Bluffs as guest of her brother Erskine Mitchell with her son Mitchell. Mrs. Stansbury and son Robert plan a June 7 sailing from New York aboard the S S President Harding for a European tour returning in August. Rebecca Hallman hosts a Bever Park breakfast honoring Miss Jean Brownlee and Joe Brownlee from London. Mrs. Frank Callahan of Oak Park, Ill., will visit family in the city.
Invitations for the Junior League of Cedar Rapids Cotton Ball were mailed for June 10 at 9 pm at Cedar Rapids Country Club. The event honors King Cotton with gowns of organdy lawn and gingham and serves as the League’s sole public fund drive for 1939 to support Community Nutrition Service expanding citywide from a soup kitchen to nutrition and budgetary welfare work.
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