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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1943
Page
16
A jaunty digest of local life and wartime quirks from Gazette notes includes guards on aerial surveys, veteran memories, a Shellsburg reader’s service clipper, oddball anecdotes about a Scotty dog, Cribbing tips for exams, Alaska mail, and breakfast tales from Chicago.
Mr and Mrs E A Edaburn announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter Marian to John T Speake son of Mrs Grace Speake The wedding is planned for June Miss Edaburn works for Hutchinson Ice Cream Co and Mr Speake for Iowa Manufacturing Co.
In the chapel of St Pauls Methodist church on Saturday at high noon Edythe Leinbaugh daughter of Mr and Mrs W Leinbaugh of Clarence and Oren O Barlon son of Mr and Mrs William C Barlon of 1333 Avenue NE were married. The Rev Charles J Bready officiated. The bride wore a powder blue crepe dress with white accessories and a white orchid corsage. Mrs Leinbaugh selected a royal blue dress with black accessories for her, both mothers wore gardenia corsages. The couple were hosted to a luncheon at Mrs Wursters tea room and will live at 1402 Woodside Drive NW. The bride attended the University of Iowa and Iowa State Teachers College Cedar Falls and is a Polk School teacher. The groom attended the University of Iowa and works for Willmac Instrument Co. A kitchen shower and a dinner were given in honor of the bride.
Miss Alma Turechek and Prof. Paul Schumann Ray present Miss Dorothy Ann Kucera, pianist, and Miss Devonne Fraseur, soprano, with accompanist Miss Constance Ogden in T M Sinclair Memorial chapel at 8 15 p m. The public is invited.
Dorothy Jane Plock daughter of Mr and Mrs A W Plock and William Robert White son of Mr and Mrs W L White were married Saturday at 4 pm in St Pauls Methodist chapel. Attended by Margaret Plock and Bruce Fishwild with ushers William Plock and Robert Ray. The couple will reside at the Ringly apartments in Maquoketa. Mercy Hospital Auxiliary meets Tuesday at 2 pm.
Dr Ruby M Hickman was elected president of the Cedar Rapids Quota club at the Light Company building. New officers include Gladys Swangler as first vice president Elizabeth Bender second vice president Pauline Murray recording secretary Marie Benneberker corresponding secretary Maude Krebs treasurer and retiring president Imogen B Emery presiding. Directors are Emery Alta Duncan Blanche Hous er and Gertrude Stenner. Margaret Gilbert and Sara Ann Brown were initiated into the club.
Betty Rebecca Larson and Private William Charles McNally married May 22 at First Lutheran Texarkana Arkansas. Officiated by Rev. Kamphoefner. Attendants included Lee Scarborough and Manus D. Kime. They will reside at 1001 Olive Boulevard Texarkana.
Announcement of the marriage of Kathleen Doyle daughter of James Doyle to Private David Wayne Bruce son of Mr and Mrs W Guy Bruce. The wedding was May 22 at St Benedicts Church Shawnee Oklahoma. Mrs Bruce graduated Immaculate Conception high school and worked for Northwestern Bell. Private Bruce a Wilson high school graduate worked for Universal Engineering before service. Mrs Bruce plans to live in Shawnee where he is stationed with the Army Air Forces.
The Evening Current Literature group meets Wednesday at 6 30 p m for a picnic at Miss Lydia Hrubesh home 1890 E Avenue NW Hostesses are Miss Mary Barrett and Miss Terry Palmer.
Miss Helen Lee, bride elect, was honored at a kitchen shower on Friday evening by Miss Dorothy Manchester and Miss Florence Leiter at Miss Leiter's home 1255 Second Avenue SE. Ten guests attended. A second towel shower was hosted by Mrs. Warren A. Hansen at 201 Twentieth Street NE on Wednesday evening with seventeen guests.
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