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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Nov 02, 1941

Page

19

Gatherings And Pranks Highlight Iowa City Notes

Around the Town recounts a duck dinner prank when guests slipped away, a wilted flower note, and a humorous misdirection. It also covers anecdotes about Arthur Poe and Princeton Yale dropkick lore, a Community House Halloween Ghost game, Ruth Barth’s Time Magazine stint, and a taxi mix up for Anna Baskett at 823 East Burlington Street.

Iowa City Theta Anna Mae Baskett Reserve Library Miss Baskett Burlington Street Baskett

Woman's Club Schedule Features Readings and Classes

The Woman's Club outlines Monday activities with Miss Marcella Klein, a children's librarian, discussing Forward With Books. A Children's Book Week event includes Edna Dieman Dancing School performances and a book exhibit. other departments host patriotic lunches, lectures on immigration, international relations reviews, and open forum discussions. Social events include a Husbands Night, a workshop, and various club meetings. East Side WCTU holds a fall institute with devotions and reports. The Boys Auxiliary and the Society for the Hard of Hearing also plan activities, card parties, and classes through the week.

Marcella Klein Childrens History and Literature Department Edna Dieman East Side WCTU Guy C. Rich Washington Avenue SE Ruth Otte Storm Lake

City Set For Puppet Invasion at Three Class Centers

The Gazette reports a planned puppet invasion event across three city class centers led by organizer Ann Tamarr i. Details outline a civic themed spectacle featuring marionette performances and community workshops aimed at youth engagement.

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Homecoming Festivities and Halloween at Local Venues

Cedar Rapids scenes include a university spirit display at a ballroom with decorations and a post game dinner at the Roosevelt hotel. Also notes a Halloween party at the Zrudsky home and a puppet making program led by WPA staff with classes at churches and the Community House.

Richmond Country Club hosts university student and guests

Ted Welch a university student hosted a table for eight at the Country Club in Richmond Ill. Guests from Iowa City joined by Mr Mrs Webb R Dock Mr and Mrs E W Sommer and Mr Mrs R I McWilliams of Chicago also attended. Dinner companions included many couples from Davenport Grand Rapids and Davenport area with a wide guest list.

Thomas F Lange Forrest C. Brady George Kosek Robert L. Stonebraker Second Avenue SE

AA U W group meetings and club notices

The column lists AA U W group meetings and related club activities across multiple addresses. Events include Wednesday and Monday sessions on writing, travel literature reviews, Spanish classes, public health nursing discussions, and a Monday Shakespeare club meeting with a King Richard II act study led by Mrs. A. R. Swem.

George Arduser 1622 Avenue NE Monday Shakespeare Club Richard II A. R. Swem

Lenihan-Fay Engagement Announced in Washington

Miss Mary Elizabeth Lenihan daughter of former federal judge Tames J Lenihan and Mrs Lenihan of Washington D C is engaged to Arthur Edward Fay son of Mrs Thomas Patrick Fay and the late Mr Fay of Long Branch New Jersey. The couple have ties to Cedar Rapids through Miss Lenihan and her family and both attended noted colleges. No wedding date has been set.

Tames J. Lenihan Canal Zone Lenihan Washington, D. C Mary Elizabeth Lenihan Arthur Edward Fay Thomas Patrick Fay Mr. Fay Long Branch N. J D. J. Lenihan St. Patrick’s Catholic Church Cedar Rapids Cedar

Weekend guests flock to Ames for homecoming events

Local residents host visitors from Bloomfield Chicago Evanston and Des Moines for a weekend of gatherings. Attendees include Dr. and Mrs C D Fenton, Mr. and Mrs R I McWilliams, Mr. and Mrs Lyman Mitchell, Miss Fern Baxter, and many others visiting at addresses across Ames. The Minerva Delphian club meets Monday at Commonwealth apartments.

Ames Carl D. Thomas Bever Avenue Bloomfield C. D. Fenton Robert S. Wray Twenty Seventh Street R. I. McWilliams Chicago W. R. Dock Nineteenth Street City Lyman Mitchell Lillian Larrabee Evanston, Lill Fern Baxter Jay Mitchell 1630 Park Avenue SE George G Clements First Avenue EK Clements Roy Emerson Creston Emerson Carl W. Nelson Sixteenth Street Kirk Yerkes Marshalltown A R. Nelson Des Moines W. Livingston Fourth Avenue Livingstons Jane Barbara Janelle Souers Ogden Lance Daniel K. E. Williams Helen Dunlap G. A. Gage Twenty-second Street Iowa City Gage Cottage Delhi Miss Dunlap Gage S. L. Bokorney Carl Godwin E. A Einin X. Guyott Minerva Delphian Club Commonwealth Apartments

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William C Arthur Poe Princeton Tiger Yale Poe Fritz Crisler Michigan Time Magazine Ruth Barth Manhattan DuPont U. S. Public Health Service Woman's Club Departments American Home Department Alma Wright Guy McKibben Matilda Snouffer A . Mott G. I. Cowell Finley Stone International Relations Department S. C. Stookey Adolph Hitler Hitler Douglas Miller S. C Stookey A. H. Mott W . Natbert South American George Yuill G. H. Artis South America Philanthropic Philanthropic ‘Department Millie Davis Bernard J Bishop F. W Oxley Dramatic Art Department W.C.T.U George A. Crabb Fourth Avenue SE Boys Auxiliary Myers J K. Myers Fifteenth Street NW J. A. Minor A. D. Holbrook John Olson A. M. Fenske HARD Society For the Hard of Hearing Gas Company Third Avenue Ann Tamarri David Hickenlooper Jack Lehman David Bourke B. Hickenlooper Park Terrace Jack Russell Lehman Twenty-fifth Street Drive University of Iowa E. B. McCready Francis Anton Arthur Beeney Mr. Cary Donald B. Herring R. P. Andreas Roosevelt Hotel Henry Home John W. Altfillisch Stanley R Meek Harry S Johnson Glenn Jeffrey E B Lyman Henrys Elks Club G. Y. Swartzendruber Guy Barrett Ida Grove Ray Bramsen Shirley Clark William Hruska Ray Bragg Harry Cocker Or. Elsenbast E. B. Shaw Oelwein Charles E. Cornwell Mason City Mrs. Elsenbast Zrudsky Alvin Zrudsky Second Street Merrill Hansen Gaylord Olson Marguerite Musel St Paul's Methodist Church Martha Tschirgi Circle 12 Guy E Hillier White Cliffs Alice Duer Miller J. D. Wardle National Defense C. A Voelker WPA Trojans Dubuque Archer McMackin Hollywood Voelker Nettie Rosenberg Helen Halverson Louise Shaffer First Presbyterian Grace Episcopal Playground Commission Camp Fire A. W. Doubrasky First Presbyterian Church Shaffer U.W David G. Bleokiey Meadowbrook Drive Project Writers Project Writers’ Group J M Wiley Lydia Ann Hrubesh E Avenue NW Pauline Shepherd Florence Barrett Willoughby W. J. Hladky B Avenue NE Social Studies John B. Heidel Twelfth Street Public Health Nursing Bureau Elsie Magnusson First Avenue W J. M. Wiley P.E.O Jones Fifth Avenue SE Lacey Gee Halford T. Barry F. B. Moore James Taylor Kittie Herbert Hughes Brahms Lester DeYarman Children's Home Nursery Auxiliary W. Klinger Knollwood Drive MERCY Mercy Hospital Alpha Gamma Delta David G. Bleakley Isabel Schluter JL. B. Stevenson Bery] Brookman Wilma Myers Leone Burgert 2Nd Ave Tnd Sneezey Thrift Ane Oy Dial Cedar Ramnds 268 Marion Coe College Extension COE College Extension Committee Underwood and Underwood, Mary Elizabeth Lenihan Minerva Delphians CHI Namel Paint Store 3Rd Ave Consult Fred C. Wodrich V. Shepherd Craemer’s Levin S . Sexible Sréqy
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