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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1938
Page
10
A Cedar Rapids story notes Craemer's loyal staff once staged a playful groom and bride sendoff at Union Station for Lloyd and Gladys McKinlay Barnes. The couple fled for Detroit after fake reservations and a wave of wedding cheer from 40 coworkers.
Local families attend ceremonies as seniors prepare for Lindenwood and Monticello College graduations. Mr and Mrs Allen Nash head to St Charles June 6 for their daughter’s Lindenwood degree. Mary Frances Lee graduates from Monticello College, Godfrey, IL, this weekend. Jeanne Anthony, finishing her freshman year at Monticello, travels with her parents to Chicago for a week before Cedar Rapids return. Shirley Jerome of Des Moines visits Cedar Rapids for the weekend with her parents.
Springville couple announces the marriage of Eleanor Roberts to Wilmer Johnston at St. Pauls M E Church Cedar Rapids with Rev Charles J Bready officiating. Attendants were Darwin and Mrs Robertson. Eleanor wore azure blue and carried garden flowers. She is a Springville High School and Cedar Rapids Business College graduate and works for Cherry Burrell. Johnston is employed by Cedar Rapids Auto Supply. Lois Myron to receive BS from North Dakota Agricultural College at Fargo on June 6 and plans to teach in Plainview Minnesota starting September 1. She held multiple leadership roles in Gamma Phi Beta Phi Upsilon Omicron and Pan Hellenic.
Numerous families host weekend visitors from across Iowa and Illinois. Notable guests include Miss Ellen Porter of St Joseph Missouri visiting the Sheehy home and Mrs Otto Dvorak with her children at the Munger residence. Other households host relatives from Keosauqua Dubuque Ames and Chicago, with social plans and open houses noted. The event includes a local OES auxiliary meeting at 1 p.m. Wednesday.
A rush of homebound travelers marks the double holiday weekend. Local residents host visiting relatives while others take trips to Minneapolis Dubuque and Chicago for weddings reunions and leisure. Notables include Leonard Stark Miss Alice Brenk and Dr. Richard Greenawalt among others visiting family and friends across Iowa Minnesota and Illinois.
Eastern Iowa brides announced include Miss Doris Roller of North English to Harold Reiss a local farmer with a June 7 wedding pre nuptial parties hosted by several local families Miss Helen Hanson daughter of Thomas Hanson to Lyle W Knight of Chicago to be wed June 4 at St Michaels Holbrook Miss Hanson a Linn county teacher to be married in Holbrook Coe graduate Hilda Stentz marries Faye Collins of Viola with a reception at Lafayette hotel Clinton Leona Skoo of Vinton to Roman Gardner C Garrison set for June 4 in Vinton Presbyterian Church reception at the Skoo home 150 guests anticipated The groom is a farmer and the Armstrons plan to live near Viola The notices cover multiple engagements and upcoming weddings in nearby towns.
The Misses Helen Ford Ali Charlesworth Helen Johnson Loi McBroom Betty Hubbard Gretchen Hubbard Adeline Fieseler and Winifred Lillie spend the holiday at the George Arnold cottage at Clear Lake. Dr and Mrs Harold Fussell hosted a Friday dinner at their 13 Twenty-fifth Street Drive SE home with twelve guests and cards for entertainment.
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