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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1937
Page
11
Mrs W A Montgomery hosts an open house art exhibit at 2325 Hillcrest Dr SE ending Saturday. Hand carved frames by Rev Mr Montgomery frame works such as Delhi Lake Silvery Sentinels and Indian creek, attracting guests and art lovers invited to attend.
Mrs L Poetzinger is elected president of Irene Douglas circle of the Kings Daughters at a lunch meeting at Mrs H K Focht home. New officers include A G Heim first VP, G W Higbee second VP, J M Long secretary, W L Jackson treasurer.
Members of the auxiliary to the National Federation of Post Office Clerks held their annual guest day tea at 1812 Park Avenue SE. Mrs. Donald McKinlay hosted with help from Mrs. Sydney Smith and Mrs. Theodore Neilsen. Guest speaker Mrs. Hugh Hillerage reviewed the book I Remember I Remember by Cole.
Twenty member First Congregational Church choir hosted a picnic supper at Clyde Sanborn residence to honor Miss Maxine Brown and Mervyn Pope ahead of their June wedding. Gifts were presented by Dr. W. S. Newell and Mrs. L. H. Gardner.
Mr and Mrs Harold Trewin entertain their bridge club Friday evening at their home 1950 Fourth Avenue SE. Seatings for sixteen guests are planned with tables centered by bouquets of yellow garden flowers.
Miss Ann Bohac and Edward Macha cek are slated to marry June 5. A party at Sokol hall hosted by her parents Mr and Mrs Charles Bohac honored the couple with 150 guests and a mock wedding as the evening’s diversion.
Dr. and Mrs. W. E. Peschau hosted a Thursday dinner at 2401 Fourth avenue SE in honor of Rev. Dr. J. Renwick McCullough and his wife as they prepare to relocate to Tacoma Washington. Attendees included Ping Pong club members and several local couples.
Mrs G C Macklem installed officers for St Matthew's P T A including President Mrs F McPartland Vice President Mrs William McGuire Secretary Mrs E J Keough and Treasurer Mrs B O Bruce. Reports by committee chairs followed and plans were made for a June 4 card party with refreshments tickets and prizes assigned. The annual school picnic at Bever Park drew about 200 attendees with Rev John T Ryan presiding over games and prize awards.
Mrs Bertram Puckett was elected president of the Franklin P T A at a Wednesday meeting in the school Little Theater. She succeeds Mrs James Barnett as president. New officers include Vice President Mrs Nealy Hill Secretary Mrs Dora Nunnally and Treasurer Mrs Milo Hanzlik. Barnett praised officers and committees and conducted the installation. This was the year end session.
At a school cafeteria picnic Wednesday Roosevelt P T A installed officers led by President Mrs L Gerber and Vice President Mrs F J Anderson. Activities honored the teaching staff with musical solos readings and talks by principal Estella Swein and Fred Kluss.
The Mozart Junior music club holds its last meeting of the year in the Terrace room of the Montrose hotel at 11 a.m. Saturday. Officers will be elected with Miss Josephine Batchelder in charge. Certificates will be awarded to piano tournament winners from March 13.
Mrs C S Cooley was elected president of the I H N circle of the Kings Daughters at a dessert luncheon hosted by Mrs W H Richards at 1648 A avenue NE. Officers include A C Burnell first vice president Bertram Puckett second vice president Richards secretary R E Haig treasurer T C Baker corresponding secretary Muriel Mueller reporter and Dr Jennie McCowan representative. Twenty-one members attended with Burnell presiding Devitt leading devotions. Devitt reported ninety mittens and 675 other clothing and food items valued at 48 given to needy families during the year. Next meeting is an outdoor picnic June 3.
Senior members of Beta Phi Alpha sorority were treated to a buffet supper at the Wells home. Honored guests Miss Cora Wykle Miss Marie Perkins and Miss Mae Fern Uhlenhopp received gifts from members and each presented a gift to the sorority.
The Mothers club of St Pauls Methodist church met Thursday afternoon with twenty five members present. Devotions were led by Mrs Max Burrell. A piano solo by Sally Ann Strother and vocal selections with accompaniment by Mrs Clyde Sanborn were sung by Joyce Sanborn and Esther Alice Armstrong. Mrs Everett Pratt led a discussion on Sunday in the Homes. Refreshments were served by hostesses Mrs Warner Danforth Mrs J W Prouty and Mrs J E Killinger.
Mr and Mrs T O Dunlop host at Gabels for dinner in honor of Robert Clark who will graduate this June from Roosevelt high school. Guests include Anna Layer Violet Layer Mayme Layer Charles Fink Joseph and Donald Dunlop and Dr and Mrs A R Menary and Thomas.
Paramount features Claudette Colbert Melvyn Douglas and Robert Young in I Met Him In Paris. Iowa presents Edward G Robinson Luli Deste in Thunder in the City Chester Morris Helen Mack in I Promise to Pay. New State shows Elephant Boy Edward Everett Horton Eve Arden Oh Doctor Palace screens Can This Be Dixie One Way Passage Kay Francis William Powell. Rialto offers Mysterious Crossing Jimmy Dunn Jean Rogers O Malley of the Mounted George O'Brien.
City of Cedar Rapids Iowa invites sealed proposals for furnishing material and labor to install an eight inch vitrified sanitary sewer on Wilson Avenue Southwest from 2nd Street to end. Work includes brick manholes with cast iron covers and drop connections. Bid deadline June 14 1937 at 10 am.
Mystery thrills open the Rialto bill with Mysterious Crossing starring Jimmy Dunn and Jean Rogers Friday and Saturday. Andy DeVine plays a hillbilly singer in a strong comic role alongside John Eldridge Hobart Cavanaugh Herbert Robinson and Farrel McDonald. The second feature is O'Malley Of The Mounted with George O'Brien, followed by the serial Robinson Crusoe in Chapter Eleven and the Cats and the Fiddle comedy.
Notice of incorporation under Chapter 384 Title XIX of the Code of Town of 1935 for Security Realty Corporation with principal place in Cedar Rapids Linn County Iowa. It outlines powers to purchase the business and assets of Security Realty Company and assume obligations, issue stock, acquire land and buildings, manage property and operate theatres and related facilities, with broad authority to buy lease sell and develop real estate and to establish office and theater facilities.
A new corporation formed in Cedar Rapids Iowa to operate manage and finance theatre motion picture vaudeville and legitimate dramatic and musical enterprises. It may hire performers stage operators and manage rights to plays operas music and copyrighted works. Capital stock authorized at 1500 shares nonpar. Board of three directors named C P F Paulson Erma Hiavaty and S W Saylor.
The text lists O. F. Paulson as President and Treasurer, A. W. Gaylor as Vice President, and Erma Hiavaty as Secretary. It notes stockholders and private property are exempt from corporate debts and liability. Security Realty Corporation, with O. F. Paulson as President, and Trewin, Simmons and Trewin as Attorneys.
Notice states Stewart Molmes as attorney for Merchants National Executor, Linn County Iowa, appoints and qualifies as executor on May 30 1937. Creditors must promptly pay or file authenticated claims with Linn County District Court Clerk. Bank of Cedar Rapids listed as executor.
Notice records the appointment of The Peoples Savings Bank of Cedar Rapids Iowa as Administrator of the estate of William Henry Fealer deceased in Linn County Iowa on May 13 1937. Creditors are urged to pay debts and file claims authenticated with Linn County District Court Clerk.
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