Farming and pheasant misadventures and Perrot site found
A humorous Iowa hunt tale recalls Scotty McLeod and Ben Hogan failing to bag pheasants near Monticello and a reckless horse-killing shot by another hunter. Separately a Minnesota discovery notes Nicholas Perrot’s 1689 annexation ceremony at a French post site on a farm near a lake by the Mississippi River.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnesota
H. F. Blomquist
Nicholas Perrot
Mississippi
France
Mississippi River
St. Paul
Humorous Nicknames For Football Teams In Local Shop
In Cedar Rapids a group of boys and observers joke about team names such as Army Beans Colgate Soaps Yale Leeks Brown Gravies Haly Cross Buns Duke Mixtures North Carolina State Tobaccos and Rice Custards. Suzanne Hahn adds eerie soup lines and bundles for Britain seeks Judy helpers for sewing rooms and coat fittings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Army
Colgate
Yale
Brown
Duke
North Carolina State
Mercy Hospital Benefit Bridge Tickets Available
Mercy Hospital auxiliary sponsors a card party on Monday December 1 at 2 pm in Immaculate Conception school auditorium. Tickets are available from any auxiliary member. Mrs Leo Carney chairs the event to aid the hospital and its room for working girls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercy Hospital Auxiliary
Immaculate Conception
Leo Carney
S. E. Dale
A C. Meakins
Sisters of Mercy
College Club Hosts Reading Group Meeting
The Tuesday reading group of College club meets at 215 pm with Mrs Arthur Bearle at 2025 B avenue NE and hostesses Mrs R M MecCullough and Mrs Irving Churchill. They will review Gods Angry Man by Leonard Ehrlich. Miss Jenmie Drahos, a Thanksgiving bride elect, was honored at a shower at the Henry Keiper home in Atkins with a large group of Cedar Rapids and Atkins guests. The Anthony couple, visiting their son Paul Anthony Jr. in Cedar Rapids, plan to move to Florida after visiting Ashtabula Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
College Club
Arthur Bearle
B Avenue NE
R M MecCullough
Irving Churchill
God's Angry Man
Leonard Ehrlich
Jenmie Drahos
John Sokol
Chicago
Henry Keiper
Atkins
Este Keiper
First Avenue E
Lester Zobae
Mary Ann
Florence, Ann
Helen Drahos
Lillian Hink
Lillian Schminke
Elsie Rinderknecht
Milda Keiper
Cedar Rapids
Lillian Drahos
Fairfax
Edward Rinderknecht
Paul Anthony
Paul Anthony, Jr
Eighth Avenue SE
Ashtabula
Mr Anthony
Florida
Anthonys
Frances ‘Prescott
Fifth Avenue SE
Robert O. Bickel
Grande Avenue SE
Mayflower
D. R
G. M. Wodtke
L. G. Nichols
W. H. Hasek
Harold A. Lockhart
F. E. Corey
Arthur L. Bye
F. L. Diserens
Clark A. Beems
Margaret Hindee
Coe College
Cadiz
Delibes
Treharne
Frank Bates
C. H. Geiger
David I. Berger
United States
Berger
Marriage of Miss Danberg and Robert Hammond
Miss Vivian M Danberg daughter of Mr and Mrs F J Danberg and Robert M Hammond son of Mr and Mrs C P Hammond were married Saturday at 7 pm in the Danberg home by Rev George A Stauffacher. 450 guests attended the reception and after a week the couple will live at the Blackstone apartments in Sioux Falls SD.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vivian M. Danberg
F. J. Danberg
First Avenue
Robert M Hammond
C. P. Hammond
Newark
N. J
Danberg
George A. Stauffacher
First Evangelical Church
Elin Carstens
Jack Finnigan
New York City
Blackstone
Sioux Falls
S D
Hammond
Equitable Life Assurance Society of
United States
Roosevelt High School
RD. Proctor
University of Newark
Omega Psi
Pi Mu
L. A Woodward
Detroit
MC. Danberg
Moline
Neal Danberg
Denver
Colo
R D. Smalley
Charles William Mathews
George Ousiin
Mathews
F Avenue NW
Woodward
Everett Maresh
Carl K.linges
Marionette duo Rufus and Margo Rose to present in Iowa
Rufus and Margo Rose, famed co owners of the Rufus Rose Marionettes, bring their company to Mt Vernon and Cedar Rapids for December shows. Sponsored by the English club at Cornell College, they will present Snow White at the Paramount on December 13 with three morning performances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rufus
Margo Rose
Mt. Vernon
Cedar Rapids
Cornell College
Paramount Theater
Junior League of Cedar Rapids’ Children's Theater
Margo
Inwood
Margaret Skewis
Clyde Tull
Margaret
Tony Sarg
Rufus Rose
Cornell
Tull
Saralou Jordan
Tony Sarg Company
Italy
British Academy
Rome
Europe
Signor P Drecie
Theatre Dei Piccoli
America
Iowa
Jerry
The
Puppeteers of America
National Governing Board
Local social notes list Saturday lunch at Elks club and visits
Younger Set hosts Miss Curran and guests at a noon Elks club luncheon with Ines Curran Carol Curran and multiple friends. A waffle supper honors Miss Sweet with hostesses and guests from the Curran Milner Waples and Sinaiko circles. Mrs Larson and Mrs Niles return from Minneapolis and California visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elks Club
Ines
Carol Jean Curran
A. M. Curran
Third Avenue SE
Marilyn Milner
Diane Waples
Shirl Nichols
Kathleen Hanson
Sally Stamats
Janet Crabbe
Marion Taylor
Jeanne Ferguson
Janice Bailey
Florence Markey
Arline
Nadine Sinaiko
Miss Ferguson
Kenneth R. Ferguson
Washington Avenue SE
Miss Sweet
Curran
Nichols
Imes
Milner
Waples
Bailey
Hanson
Sinaiko
Joan Benson
Family travel and short visits reported in local notices
After a 10 day trip to Peoria Illinois for the Illinois Fraternal congress and Milwaukee for calls on Mr and Mrs J O Mackie Mr and Mrs George M Bird 14 Blake Terrace SE they returned Thursday evening Miss Jean Bailey a junior at the National College of Education Evanston IL will leave for school Monday after Thanksgiving with her parents at 1941 Park Ave SE Mr and Mrs W E Mickel 1311 Second Ave SE head to South Bend Ind and Berrien Springs Mich for a week with relatives Mr and Mrs Jerome L Gearhart 922 Twenty fifth Street SE and their daughter move Monday to 723 Thirty four Street NE they will reside there for three or four months while awaiting completion of their home on Twenty fifth Street SE in the 1100 block.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotty McLeod
Ben Hogan
Fred Caspe
Monticello
Benton County
Casper
Caspers
Hogans
Miss Meister
Tamar Meister
Roberta Gregg
Evanston
Ill
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest
H. Meister
Forest Drive
Peoria
Illinois Fraternal Congress
Milwaukee
J. O. Mackie
George M. Bird
Blake Terrace SE
Jean Bailey
National College of Education
W. H. Bailey
Park Avenue SE
W. E. Mickel
Second Avenue SE
South Bend
Ind
Berrien Springs
Mich
Jerome L. Gearhart
Twenty-fifth Street
Thirty-fourth Street
AA UW Group Meetings and Creative Arts Schedule
The AA U W project writers meet Monday at 7 30 p m with Mrs J W Engle 221 Fifteenth Street NE. Miss Frances Miller hosts the AA U W creative arts group Tuesday at 7 30 p m at 1032 Third Avenue SE.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Project Writers Group
J. W. Engle
Fifteenth Street
Frances Miller
Third Avenue SE
Miss Pospishil and Biderman Wed in Kansas City
The marriage of Miss Eleanore Pospishil of Mt. Vernon to Benjamin B. Biderman of Kansas City was performed at the Methodist church parsonage in Kansas City by Rev. Leslie Miller. The couple will reside in Kansas City with attendants Miss Mary Pospishil and Joseph Pospishil Jr. as bridal party members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eleanore Pospishil
Mt. Vernon
Benjamin B. Biderman
Kansas City
Adolph Biderman
Upper Palisades
Joseph Pospishil
Leslie Miller
Methodist Church
Mary Pospishil
Cedar Rapids
Joseph Pospishil, Jr
Women’s Club schedule and social notes
The Woman’s Club presents readings and music with tea for members after the meeting. A Toy Babies doll program follows a picnic lunch at 1 p.m. Mrs. Arthur Baxter offers a paper with slides of antique dolls. Health education hikers meet Friday 10 a.m. at the clubhouse. Music department meeting canceled for the holiday and will merge with the Christmas program on Dec 10. Four Iowa City couples dine at the Cedar Rapids Country Club as part of the Spinsters Spree. Miss Bonnie Mae Diebold and Miss Louise Flaherty leave for Mundelein college after Thanksgiving. Engagement announced between Virginia Bragg and Luther Couillard. Bragg hosts tea with 50 guests today. An arrangement of yellow chrysanthemums decorates the refreshment table.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Art Department
Arthur Baxter
Bertha LeFebvre
Clayton P. Smith
Health Education Department
Bishops Cafeteria
Lincoln
Leo Schoonover
M. L. Nolan
Music Study Club
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
University of Iowa
Cedar Rapids Country Club
Marianne Corey
Mary Frances Zuercher
Madeline Roberts
Des Moines
Maxine Travis
Waterloo
Bill Lattner
Pat Laughlin
Ben Birdsall
Mason City
Bob Bender
Bonnie Mae Diebold
A. J. Diebold
Grande Avenue
Louise Flaherty
E. M. Flaherty
Twenty-first Street
Mundelein College
Chicago
Virginia Bragg
Luther W. Couillard
W. J. Webster
Minneapolis
Edgar R. Bragg
Macon
Miss Bragg
L. E. Bessemer
Thirty-sixth Street
Bessemer
Cedar Rapids Junior League
Vocal Recital by Leo Students At Home This Afternoon
Ralph Leo will present his voice students in a recital this afternoon at 4 o'clock in his home 1528 A Avenue NE. The program features various arias and songs by multiple performers including Ed, Pauline, Harold, and Edith, with accompaniment and selections from opera and art song. A Cronin book review by Mrs W J Barngrover is set for the Tuesday Study Club at 1 p.m. in the home of Mrs Jay W Hesser 805 Fifth Avenue SE with dessert luncheon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Leo
Serael
Coeey Buck Richard Puiler
Wildwood
Clarkson
Johann Sergevees Grien
Pani Bether
Meyerbeet
Seville
Carmen” Co
Charlotte Trewin
Widmaness
Frans
Harold Barlow
Blind Plourhman
Clarke Pauline Proksa
Danny Deever
Damrosch
Parilacci
Leoncavallo
John Severson
Liszt
Schubert
Beethoven Edith Reed Atkinson
Rio
Haven
Jay W Hesser
Fifth Avenue SE
Also Mentioned on This Page
Suzanne Hahn
H Cedric Hahns
Britain
Judy
Herbert S Stamats
Mercy Hospital
T E Swan
J C Mahannah
J P. Howe
Fred Larson
George J. Knaus
Orville M. Hepner
Fred A Smah
Jennie Drahos
Paul Anthonys
Ohio
Miss Danberg
R. Hammond
Raymond Bell Groves
Davenport
Carl K Linge
Twenty-third Street
Robert Ettinger
Carl N. Ettinger
Bever Avenue
Iowa State College
IRS
Butterfield
Belle Butterfield
Park Terrace SE
Ruby Byers
Miss Byers
Helen Hanson
L. A
Mabel Paustian
Foster
Wayne J. Foster
Mary Ellen Chase
Book Review Club
Rufus and
Marionette Theater
Areme Circle
the Light Company
Marjorie Emerson
Annabelle Coover
Mildred Stucker
Allene Dick
John Sankot
Frank Devery
Omar Cress
Esther Estes
Della Chadima
Grace E. Winter
Nora Bailey
Lorraine Mitchell
Belva Trinka
Marie Earhart
Mrs
Minnie Larson
Minnie D. Larson
Higley Avenue
James B. Carter
Mrs. Niles
California
Los Angeles
Long Beach
Calif
J. B. Niles
Fourth Avenue SE
Montrose
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
George M. Birds
Jerome L. Gearharts
U.W
Project Writers
Creative Arts
Arendts
O. R. C. Kensington
Columbia Division No 37
J. S. Arendts
Avenue NE
Kensington
Fred Douglas
Walter Clauson
R. J. Brodie
J. E. Godfrey
Tom Leet
C. S. Montooth
Helen Randa
J. W. Posey
Vern Kelley
John Randa
Carl Goodwin
Tiffany
Beta Iota Rush Party
Rushees
Beta Iota Sorority
Vinetta Tiffany
Bever Avenue SE
Christine Marbach
Eleanore Condon
Dena Suntkin
Doris Stine
Berne Allen
Mary Baker
Tillie Blezek
Ethel Evans Circle
H. N. Beerkrem
Seventeenth Street SE
Ethel Evans
King’s Daughters
Ray Stanton
Dempsey
Oscar Workman
Luther _ Couillard
Baldridge
Woman's Club
Cowen
Christ
Ware
Mundelein
Leo
OUR Boys IN the
Army & Navy
Kozy Korner
Leah Frazee
Lola
Flo
John E. Lapes
Florist
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