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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Oct 17, 1937

Page

7

Forty-Niner party at Cedar Rapids Elks lodge

Cedar Rapids Elks lodge No 251 hosts a Forty-Niner party with guests in frontier garb including Billy the Kid and Calamity Jane. Attire features hoop skirts sunbonnets and frontier costumes. Dine 6 to 8 30 pm in the new Elks dining room and dance 9 to 1 with music by the Cedar Valley Hillbillies.

Billy the Kid Poker Alice Kit Carson Frontier History Cedar Rapids Lodge No B. P. O. Ellis Jane Wild Bill Hickok Susanna Cedar Valley Hillbillies McKinstry Elks A. L. McKinstry Walter Nesper Howard Hays Frank Long Francis H. Anton A. L. Weiss Charles A. J. Marousek Entertainment Committee Richard Jones Barney McPartland Walter Young Gilbert Martin George Swartzendruber Beahi Perrine Ronald Booth L Broulik Harry Flow David Bleakley H L, Concannon Adel Leibsohn

Cedar Rapids Woman's Club schedules weekly departmental meetings

Cedar Rapids Woman's Club lists daily departmental meetings for the coming week. History and Literature chair Mrs. A E Chase will screen South Seas travel slides at 2 30 pm with Mrs Esther Krabbenhoff singing and Miss Anna Marie DeCastello reviewing a travel book. American Home hosts a Tuesday 1 pm picnic and guest day with McKinley High School sextet.

Cedar Rapids A. E. Chase South Sea Islands Samoa Fiji Islands New Zealand Australia Chase Honolulu Esther Krabbenhoff American Home Department Anna Marie DeCastello Dorothy Canfield Fisher McKinley High School

Miss Edith Hersch Honors at Cedar Rapids Bridge Luncheon

Miss Edith Hersch, soon to wed Carl B Myers Jr of Barrington, Ill, was feted with a bridge luncheon at Cedar Rapids Country Club organized by Miss Frances Eby, Miss Betty French, and Miss Barbara Bloom hall. Gifts poured in as guests shared the celebration.

Edith Hersch Carl B Myers, Jr Barrington Hew Friends Frances Eby Betty French Barbara Bloomhall Atl Theda Myers John Sates Margaret Wilson David M. Elderkin Helen Larimer Robert E. Samuelson Miliss Mary Jane McRaith

A A W Study Groups Schedule Weekly Meetings

American Association of University Women study groups plan meetings this week. Cinema group gathers Tuesday at 8 p.m. at Miss Marjorie Emerson’s home. Current literature meets Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Mrs. Arthur Bye’s home with review of An Almanack for Moderns. Creative writing group meets Wednesday evening at Mrs. Brittin’s home to begin short story study. Miss Irma Dovey’s poetry cited in The Lantern. Jolly Sixteen to meet Friday afternoon at Mrs. Kern’s home. Friendly Club meets Tuesday at 7 30 p.m. at the Y W C A with business then music and games.

American Association of University Women Marjorie Emerson Thirty-second Street Arthur L. Bye Second Avenue SE George Kosek Donald Culross Peattie C H. Brittin B Avenue NE Florence Gritzner Irma Dovey Brooklyn N. Y Jolly Sixteen Wall Dora Kern Fifth Street

Miss Bloomhall’s Guest in Madison and Local Notices

Miss Beverly Lack of Paducah Ky visits Madison with Miss Barbara Bloomhall and plans to return to Cedar Rapids midweek. Alumnae of Pi Beta Phi dine Tuesday at 1 pm hosted by Mrs C Ward Macy. Laura Storms Knapp of Ames visits. Miss Mary Boehm and Charles Novak wed in Chicago Oct 2. couple at home on Cottage Grove Ave SE. National Council of Catholic Women meets Sunday 2 pm at Immaculate Conception school parlor. Mrs P L Hutchins and daughter Mrs Ernest Maupin of Nucia Cole visit the Dodge home.

East Side W.c TU Helen Main B Avenue WT U Boone Wiew TV Beverly Lack Paducah Barbara Bloomhall Bever Avenue Madison, Wis Cedar Rapids C. Ward Macy Thomas L. Crabbe Pi Beta Phi Macy Blake Boulevard Laura Storms Knapp Ames Province Mary Boehm National Council of Catholic Women Immaculate Conception P L. Hutchins Ernest Maupin Nucia Cole M B Dodge Chi Omega Sorority John W.W. Miller Cottage Grove Avenue SE Franklin S. Battin Wilbur D. Kennedy Hazel Brown

Three P E O Chapters Plan Meetings This Week

Three local P E O chapters announce schedules this week. Chapter H1 meets Monday at 2 p.m. at 1925 B Avenue NE with host May Doolittle and program by Beatrice Thomas and Marguerite Koenig. Chapter FO meets Tuesday at 2 30 p.m. at 546 Vernon Drive SE with hostess C O Gray and travel talk by Forest S Rutgers. DK member Charles T Hickok will share travel experiences. Chapter DK meets Monday at 8 p.m. at 1730 Second Avenue SE with Ray Anderson reporting on last month's supreme convention in St Louis. assistants include Edward H Files and others.

May Doolittle B Avenue NE Mary Israel Ada Ferguson Beatrice Thomas Marguerite Koenig C. O. Gray Vernon Drive Bessie Jacobson J. E. Jackson Virginia Weld

Rowan Author of Article On McCosh

Two former Cedar Rapids men are featured in the September issue of the Magazine of Art. Edward Rowan discusses the art career of David McCosh now teaching at the University of Oregon with frontispiece watercolors and reproductions including a self portrait. The piece recalls McCosh's first one man show and the Cedar Rapids Art association's purchase of The Prodigal Son. The Stone City Art Colony is noted with McCosh described as least self serving among artists. Social notes list alumnae Chi Omega dinner and O E S meeting, plus a Shakespeare club session on Loves Labour's Lost.

Cedar Rapids Magazine of Art Edward Rowan Treasury Department McCosh Art Association Galery Stone City Rowan

Football Games Attract Local Folk This Weekend

Local residents traveled to Wisconsin and Chicago for college football action. Families from Madison and surrounding areas attended games featuring Iowa Wisconsin Princeton Northwestern Purdue and more. Travel included trips to Chicago Evanston and Ames with students and alumni joining family groups at various venues.

Home for the Friendless thanks Cedar Rapids for fruit drive

The Home for the Friendless board expresses gratitude to Cedar Rapids citizens for donations of fruits and vegetables on the annual fruit reception day. El Kahir unit of the Shriners hospital auxiliary will meet Thursday at 1 PM at the Shrine temple for a picnic luncheon. Mrs Verney Heames chairs assisted by Stella Smith Robert McNabney J W Sloan and M M Knickerbocker donate a covered dish sandwich and jelly for the hospital.

Board of Managers the Home For Cedar Rapids el Kahir Woman’s Auxiliary Shriners’ Hospital For Shrine Temple Verney Heames Stella Smith Robert McNabney J. W. Sloan M. M. Knickerbocker

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