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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1936
Page
30
The article suggests practical wedding gifts for brides this summer. It highlights Chippendale style end tables and cabinets, magazine racks, and chairs copied from Philadelphia museum pieces. It also notes non tarnish metal serve sets, crystal and glass pieces, decorative trays, waste baskets, and Italian ware for wedding presents.
The piece outlines best hour choices for weddings, from morning high noon to evening, and describes breakfast and high tea menus, soup, hot breads, and a versatile buffet option. It provides sample menus for Wedding Breakfast and Wedding High Tea and notes buffet setups suit any hour with trained servers.
The menu lists meals for a day including breakfast with diced oranges bananas cereal cream bacon raisin muffins milk and coffee. Luncheon features asparagus poached eggs on toast radishes filled cookies milk tea. Dinner offers broiled cubed steaks glaced apricots shoe string potatoes creamed new onions jellied fruit salad toasted crackers milk coffee.
A dessert frosting method describes melting marshmallows in a double boiler with condensed milk then blending in confectioners sugar and vanilla. The mixture is beaten smooth and spread on cake as a sweet topping.
Shellsburg Canton Up Streamer's 4 H club met at Mrs. Claude Blattler's home while the Happy Twenty club gathered with Mrs. Minnie Hayes. A surprise party honored Mrs. Dripps on her birthday at Emmett Dripps home. Ray Cue hosted dinner for Loren Cue family from Geneva Illinois. Marguerite and Grace Sanders left for Phoenix Arizona with a farewell dinner at Earl Sanders home. Dorcas circle of the Baptist church held an all day meeting with Mrs. Herman Rogers.
Springville M O B club met Thursday with Miss Mable McShane. Mrs Dolph Van Sickle entertained Missionary society Friday. Mrs Ethel Freeman assisted as hostess. Past Noble Grands gathered at Mrs Elsie Pearsons home Thursday.
The Industrial society of the Presbyterian church met Wednesday at Miss Dora Thomson's home with hosts Mrs. A. G. Alden Mrs. R. Fishwild Miss Jean Broderson and Mrs. Janet Robertson assisting. The Lutheran ladies and Jo eys were entertained Thursday at the parish house by Mrs. Ralph Orth Mrs. Henry Gerdes Mrs. Emil Reimer and Mrs. Elmer Buckingham. The Pollyman circle was entertained Thursday by Mrs. Charles Marshall and Mrs. Ernest Weller at the home of the former. The Royal Neighbor Thimble bee was entertained Tuesday at Mrs. Louis Dusanek. Division One of the M. E. aid society met Wednesday with Mrs. E. R. Marshall and Miss Ellen Marshall and Division Two met the same afternoon at Mrs. Charles Rogers. The Social Card club met Wednesday at Mrs. Henry Nissen where prizes were won by Mrs. Anna Carstensen Mrs. Carl Westphal and Mrs. Gus Von Sprecken.
Edgewood alumni association hosted a banquet in the M E church dining room Tuesday after commencement. Sixteen seniors attended as guests, with Mrs Ruby Noble-Gardiner of Graettinger delivering the outstanding toast. Mrs Ruby Bixby-Smith gave new member instructions, and Mrs Leona Fraser served as toast master. Newly elected officers include President Alfred Arthur and Vice President.
President Joseph Funk and secretary treasurer Miss Burnita Al corn hosted a school faculty dinner Wednesday. On Sunday the Congregational church Christian Endeavor members had breakfast at Bixby state park then held a lesson study led by Miss Carolyn Tyrrell with Mr. and Mrs. Urban Harken in attendance.
Central City reports the marriage of Lois Falcon daughter of Mr and Mrs William Falcon Waterloo to Cecil Patten local groom. Both graduates of the public school here and the bride has taught in the vicinity for years. They reside on a farm near Central. Sept George W Hansen entertained the hi school seniors at Yates cafe Monday and hosted the faculty there Tuesday.
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