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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1948
Page
8
Members of the Indian Creek Country club in Marion will begin the winter season with a social event named Indian Powwow. Music by Al Sperrino and his orchestra will run from 9:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. The dining room stays open from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Sutherland Dows at 340 Twenty seventh street drive SE will entertain at a dinner tonight at the Cedar Rapids Country club honoring Miss Daphene Shaver of Coral Gables Florida and her fiance Donald Lee Herring of Mt. Vernon Places are laid for 14 The couple will marry Saturday in Cedar Rapids.
Miss Joan Donnelly arrived in Cedar Rapids Wednesday to spend Thanksgiving with her parents at 315 Nassau street SE. Miss Louise Beaubois of Wilmette Illinois joins them. both are Barat College students in Lake Forest Illinois.
Miss Jocelyn Bickel visits her parents Mr and Mrs Robert O Bickel at 2241 Grande avenue SE over Thanksgiving. She is a student at William Woods College in Fulton Missouri.
Nuptial vows joined Marilyn Bolton and Richard Fields Sunday evening at the First Methodist church in Tipton with Rev. Leo G. Wolfe presiding. The bride, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Bolton, and the groom, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Fields, will reside with the bride's parents until March 1 after a short wedding trip.
A Thanksgiving weekend schedule at Cornell College Mt Vernon lists a special dinner a play a tea dance and a fall festival frolic with guests from the college administration and faculty at Bowman hall and Pfeiffer hall The tea dance runs Thursday 2 to 5 pm in the Cole Bin The Little Foxes will be staged Thursday and Friday evenings and the fall festival dance is Saturday at 8 30 pm Religious fellowship groups will be hosted by Rev Chester W Quimby at his Mt Vernon home with several campus leaders in attendance
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Heabel quietly marked their golden wedding anniversary at 278 Twenty-fourth Avenue SW Cedar Rapids. They married November 22 1898 at Hus Memorial Church with Rev V Hlavaty officiating now residing in Cedar Rapids and Long Beach California their five children and extended family celebrate their milestone.
Miss Elizabeth Shadid, a Frances Shimer academy student at Mt Carroll Ill, is spending Thanksgiving vacation at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs Nicholas Shadid at 118 Seventh Street NE.
LaVonne Eileen Miller and Robert D. Hudson were married Sunday evening at Marion Methodist Church in a ceremony led by Rev. James P. Gable. The bride, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Miller, wore white satin with lace, a fingertip veil, and carried yellow roses and white pompons. Attendants included Miss Margaret Martin, Miss Maine Quass, and Miss Gertrude Lewis. best man Frank Hudson, with groomsmen Glen Langton and Harvey Miller. Music by Ruth Engstrom and Mrs. Lauretta McDaniels, reception cake served in the church parlors. The couple's families are from Marion and Cedar Rapids, with both spouses employed locally.
Miss Mary Jane McRaith and Edward D. McDonald of Anamosa were married Tuesday morning in the rectory of St Matthew's church. The Rev J D Kearn officiated in the presence of immediate families. The couple will reside in Anamosa where Mr McDonald is in business.
Mr and Mrs George Simitz at 613 Meadowbrook Drive SE hosted a surprise housewarming Sunday evening by 14 members of their card club. A dinner was served and the group presented a gift to the couple.
Mrs. Con stance Andreson entertained guests including Dean McMonigal and his wife from Indianapolis and John Sackis with his wife and son from Chicago. Mrs. Sackis and Mr. McMonigal are niece and nephew of Mrs. Andreson and former Cedar Rapids residents.
Mrs Al Wuchter of 3416 C avenue NE entertained Monday afternoon honoring her son Teddy on his seventh birthday. Assistants were Miss Wencie Dattolo and Mrs Michael Crose. Guests included Ronnie and Suzee Kelly Marilyn Reed Johnie Farwell Bob Hepner Ann Maree Laubly Herbert Roberts Nicky Glee Ronnie Neff Kathryn Graf ton Bobbie Iversen Peggy Bardo and Bary Lupton.
The Beta Iota chapter held a Tuesday evening meeting in the sorority rooms. Mrs Merlin Meeker spoke on the topic Good Thinking.
Mosses collected from the woods are arranged into a shallow bowl to create a decorative, long lasting centerpiece suitable for display.
Nup tial vows joined Miss Kathryn Ann Kotek and Clarence Fuhrman in St Marys church Lamont officiated by Rev Joseph W Bohr. Bride from Dundee. Groom from Strawberry Point. Nurse bride wore slipper satin with lace and pearl accents. Ceremony included bridal party and children choir. reception followed. two hundred and fifty guests expected.
Guests attended a reception in St Marys hall and the couple left for a short wedding trip. They plan to reside after January 1 on the bride’s father's farm near Laming. The passage also reviews holiday records and a dessert recipe appears among the clipping.
Recording companies offer a wide range of children records as ideal Christmas gifts. Items include 25 cent six inch platters and longer albums from titles like Tubby the Tuba Many Moon with Thurber and Lansing, St Catherine and the Miraculous Medal on Victor, and The Eager Piano with John Larkin and Frank Glazer.
The record presents a two record set with 20 picture pages featuring Bozo the Circus with Pinto Colvig and Billy May. A child follows the story by turning pages at signals while hearing Debussy Chopin Liszt pieces and circus sound effects. A festive Christmas gift for kids.
Readable fragments describe pre holiday prep including cranberry sauces and cocktails with oysters or shrimp. It mentions songs and recordings by Dennis Day Johnny Appleseed, Pinto Colvig Bozo down under the sea, Danny Kaye Tubby the Tuba and notes on marinating fruits and shellfish service, plus cranberry crisp sauce and apple cheese salads.
A vintage lamp may seem short next to modern table lamps rising to 26 28 30 inches. Consider building up the base or adding columns to preserve value. The process requires careful proportion, quality materials, and skilled workmanship.
A kitchen shower pattern sale offers pattern 718 for six motifs sized 6 by 7 inches. Send 20 cents to The Cedar Rapids Gazette Needlecraft Dept. 549 West Randomh Street Chicago 80 III with pattern number and your name and address printed plainly.
A craftsman can adapt a base from a lamp or use a carved table section to create height. Wood bases must be finished to match the lamp’s original look and a skilled frame or art repairer can attach the old lamp to the new base and finish it suitably.
Belle Plaine couple C. M. Dresher and wife will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary today. Married in Dysar on November 24, 1898, they lived in Cedar Rapids before moving to Belle Plaine five years ago. They have two children Ralph F. in Cedar Rapids and Mrs Floyd Crawford in Anamosa, six grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
Hollywood report says Rosemary De Camp mother of three received the 1948 Mother of Distinction honor by Dr. Paul Popenoe of the American Institute of Family Relations. He credited her with advancing American womanhood and domestic welfare. she is married to Mural Judge John Schidler.
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