Around the Towns Wit and News in Iowa City
A light column of humorous local notes and tiny vignettes. A San Francisco mix up, a stray mat caption Miss Annonimous, coffee mishap at a Beta Sigma Phi gathering, Chief Stanley on a cigar bet, a convention orphan baby, and bits on Glenn Miller records. Local names include E. C. Torgerson Harold Warner and Julius Haber.
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Gazette
E. C. Torgerson
Harold Warner
Torgerson
Lambda Chapter
Beta Sigma Phi
Business Girls’ Sorority
Earl Stanley
Chief Stanley
Glenn Miller
Julius Haber
RCA Manufacturing Company
Mike
Tommy Dorsey
Hal Kemp
Larry Clinton
Ben Wain
Dorothy Lamour
Methodist Home Missionary Group Met Wednesday
The forty ninth annual meeting of the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist church Upper Iowa conference will be held at Gladbrook Wednesday. Registration starts at 9 a.m. A morning address by Mrs. H R Clarke of LaGrange Illinois will be followed by a fellowship luncheon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman’s Home Missionary “Society of the Methodist Church
Upper Iowa
Gladbrook
H. R. Clarke
LaGrange
Rock River
Cedar Rapids ‘District
W. E.goreham
Cedar Rapids
C. W. Cleveland
Albion
Harry P. Seward
Marshallshown
W.T. Hecht
Grundy Center
Mary Bruence
New Junior Leaguers Named at Brucemore Tea
The New Junior League announces eleven new members including Mrs. Arthur A. Collins who attended Coe College and Chicago art schools. The group will host a welcoming tea at Brucemore with active professional and provisional members invited. Mrs. Carl Kirwin will discuss the public welfare bureau and the Community Chest drive in November.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur A. Collins
Coe College
Chicago
Collins
Brucemore
Mesdames Hall
Horace G. Hedges
James W. Bell
A. R. Butterfield
Public Welfare Bureau
Montrose
Tea At Opening Of Marvin Cone Art Exhibit
Members of the Art Association host a reception and tea today at the public library galleries for the Marvin Cone exhibit. Tea runs 3 30 to 4 30 p m with Mrs Marvin D Cone and other board members pouring. Assistant hostesses include Mrs R K Keech and Mrs John E Stansbury. Public invited to view the exhibit and attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marvin Cone
Art Association
Harold N. Graves
Association
Marvin D. Cone
Isaac B. Smith
E. W. LaPlante
Harry L. Marshall
Ashley Chapter D A R Meets At Mrs Furrow's Home
Ashley chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution met at Mrs. E. H. Furrow's residence 2320 Grande avenue SE with members inspecting early American glassware furniture and a music program by Miss Eulalia Hauser students. Additional notices announce junior group luncheon and visits, plus a Mercy Hospital auxiliary fruit shower thank you list from Cedar Rapids and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. H. Furrow
Grande Avenue SE
Ashley
Daughters of the American Revolution
Furrow
Eulalia Hauser
Jacqueline Middaugh
Rosalie Campbell
Ames
Borowsky
Kreisler
Hauser
H. B. Lembaugh
E. J. Esgate
R. Lee Taylor
C. W. Sutliff
Marion
J. E. Ives
W. F. Johnes
Cedar Rapids
Earl Heinze
High Rock
Heinze
First Avenue
Robert O. Bickel
E. C. Hoover
Bickel
MERCY
Sisters of Mercy
Mercy Hospital Auxiliary
Robert C. Toms
C. C. Kesler
Arthur C. Gertsen
Robert C
Mrs Mary White Returns From West
Mrs Mary E White returns after ten months in Los Angeles with daughter Mrs H E Carlson and Rev Mr Carlson. Tau Kappa Epsilon Mothers club to meet for luncheon Wednesday at 1 PM at Mrs H C Carmichael's home in Hawk Eye.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary White
West
Mary E. White
Raymond A. Reid
Reid
Knollwood Drive
Los Angeles
H. E. Carlson
Mr. Carlson
Camp Fire Initiates Take Practice Outing Ceremony
A Cedar Rapids community note covers a wedding and gatherings. Audrey Lea Ivins and Sam Nigh wed with Mrs Ivins and Mrs Nigh hosting after the ceremony. Out-of-town guests from Minneapolis San Francisco Ripon Wis. join in festivities.
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Dith Larimer
San Francisco
Cedar Rapids
Audrey Lea Ivins
Bride of
Sam Nigh
John E. Stansbury
J. H. Queal
Minneapolis
William H. Nigh, Jr
T. Danforth Boardman
Russell J. Potts
Kathleen Potts
Ripon
Wis
Oon
Ray Ashlocks
Kappa Alumnae to Host Tea and Swedish Coffee
Cedar Rapids Kappa Kappa Gamma alumnae plan a travel tea Friday at 3 PM and a Swedish coffee at 8 PM in the Electric Light bungalow. Miss Vivien Buser will present color pictures from her Scandinavian trip. Proceeds benefit local and national sorority philanthropy. Mothers will preside at tea service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Cedar Rapids
Electric Light Company
Vivien Buser
Johnson C. Greedy
Helen Larimer
Robert P. Bell
Elizabeth Clark
Horace G. Hedges
Kenneth Kohl
Atherton B. Clark
S. R. Meek
Younger Set Hosts Hayrack Ride and Steak Fry Near Ely
A fall hayrack party and steak fry attracted the younger group at Ely. Attendees included Misses Mary Zuercher Kathryn Claassen Doris Cone Marion Reiff Jeanne Cash Barbara Rogers Donna Jeanne Johnson Kathryn Wandel Margaret Barngrover Bonnie Mae Diebold Dorothy Spencer Susan Brown plus visitors from Omaha and local hosts Mrs Rex B Conn and Mrs R A Greenawalt. The event followed a 6 pm meet and ride to the picnic grounds.
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Ely
Mary Zuercher
Kathryn Claassen
Doris Cone
Marion Reiff
Jeanne Cash
Barbara Rogers
Donna Jeanne’ Johnson
Kathryn Wandel
Margaret Barngrover
Bonnie Mae Diebold
Dorothy Spencer
Susan Brown
David Keehn
Gordon McKay
Bob Taylor
Jack Mehrtens
Omaha
Miss Cash
Dick Marnette
Ralph Gearhart
Martin Hanson
Bryce Fisher
Horace Hedges, Jr
R. Dean Finnigan
Bob Tucker
Bill Holmes
Mrs Warren Hosts Theta Tea at Warrenwood Home
Mrs D W Warren entertained fifteen members of the local Kappa Alpha Theta alumnae association at a tea held Saturday at Warrenwood on Carroll drive SE. The house featured fall foliage and autumn flowers on the tea table.
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D. W. Warren
Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority
Warrenwood
Carroll Drive
Junior Art Club Reunion Highlights Cedar Rapids Weekend
Cedar Rapids Junior Art Club marks a 25 year milestone with a weekend of dinners luncheons and a breakfast. Guests include former members from Indianapolis Northfield Minn and Omaha plus local members. Events feature a Country Club dinner view of Marvin Cone paintings and a golf outing.
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Ceedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids
Archer Sinclair
Indianapolis
Arthur Poe
Twenty Seventh Street Drive
Robert Sinclair
E. P. Ristedt
Country Club Parkway
Nelson V. Russell
Northfield
Minn
John M
Ely
First Avenue
Theodore Thomas
Denison
Robert Little
Blake Boulevard
Hiram C. Carson
Omaha
A. W. Erskine
Second Avenue SE
Andrew Woods
Iowa City
Cedar Rapids Country Club
Charlotte Pinney
Malcolm V. Bolton
Sua Witwer Luberger
Erskine
Poe
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Hoyt Thomas
David
Grandma's
Iowa Chiropractors Association
King’s Daughters
Baby
Ozzie Nelson
Lionel Hampton
John L. Miller
John Hladky
Joseph Hladky, Jr
Dick Valliere
Alice Spevacek
Miss Spevacek
Marvin Wright
Bill Crawford
Bertha Johnson
Johnny
California
Robert Calder Davis
Marv
Mildred Crawford
Calder Davis
Davis
the Gazette
Indiana
Methodist Home Missionary Group
F. O. Hillman
Eldora
Frieda Schmickle
Central City
A. W. Henke
W. B. King
S. S. Byerly
J. N. McCurdy
Tama
Hearing Society
Society For the
Society Room
Hortensen. Gray
New York
C. M. Jones
Ashley Chapter
Mrs. Kleitsch
Donald W. Kleitsch
Linn Boulevard SE
Mr. Kleitsch
John M. Kleitsch
Duluth
Jack Kleitsch
BR. O. Bickel
000 Taul Kappa Epsilon Mothers’ Club
Ultang
Ray Ashlock
Twenty-eighth Street Drive
Carl Bowman
Sheldon Fillenworth
Joseph A. Mochal
R. C, Toms
Cyril Keglers
Cyril L. Kegler
Country Club Parkway SE
John R. Groves
Robert Toms
Detroit
Karl A. Stiles
Twenty-fourth Street Drive
Stiles
Thomas Grady
Grady
Benjamin Russell
Judith
Owen
Camp Fire
Ellis Park
Blue Bird
van Vechten Shaffer
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Joan Killian
Richard E. Killian
Louanne Clark
Charles W. Clark
Jane Hickenlooper
B. B. Hickenlooper
Joyce Skinner
E. Harold Skinner
Suzanne Salter
Chester D. Salter
Nancy Soboda
Edward M. Soboda, Jr
Kappas
Merimyx Club
Roosevelt Hotel
Mrs. Conn
Rex B. Conn
D Avenue NE
R. A. Greenawalt
Shampee and Wave Soc
Kabe
Second Avenue
Second Street
Nat's Institute OF Dyers and Cleaners
ZORIC
R. D. Spears
Peoria
Twenty-fifth Street Drive
Peoria, IL
Robert Lamson
Jefferson Hotel Company
G. M. Bird
George M. Bird
Third Avenue SE
Mary Spence
Gertrude Coykendall
Robert
Robert Read
Dayton
Ohio
Hollywood
Joan Crawford
Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer
Anne Shirley
R.K.O
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