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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1940
Page
6
The Iowa Conference of the Church of God holds its annual meeting in Marton at the local church corner Ninth avenue and Sixth street. Elder C F Ladd of Des Moines to preside at Friday opening. Saturday starts 10 am with Sabbath school and a sermon. picnic lunch at noon. 2 pm youth meeting and evening preaching.
A Linn County Democratic rally is planned for Friday at 8 p.m. in the Marion Public Library auditorium with short talks by Mrs Paul Huston Joseph Mekota Raymond Coward and Paul Huston. Cedar Rapids singer Patricia Sedlacek and the Democratic quartet will perform God Bless America and America the Beautiful. Miss Donis Scott Howe will lead music.
Dr Daniel I Berger head of the Bible department at Coe College will lead one of the discussion groups at the fifteenth annual Other Bove and Girls conference of Linn County in Marion on October 24 at the First Methodist church.
Marion chapter No 183 O E S celebrated its forty fifth founding anniversary with a party at the Masonic temple attended by grand officers of the Iowa order. Special guests included charter member Mrs Clementine Schminke and initiates Mrs Freda Joss. The program featured solos, dances, and a presentation of honorary membership to Nathan Hicks of Marshalltown.
Irvin Castle has gone to Alta Vista on business. Dr David I Berger head of the Bible department at Coe College will preach Sunday at Marion Presbyterian church. Mrs Gerald Gordon recovering well after Monday operation at St Luke's hospital Cedar Rapids. Miss Muriel Gordon returning Thursday from Chicago where she visited kin Mr and Mrs Lawrence Gordon.
Miss Hezel Meyer and Donald Jack were wed Tuesday evening by Rev. G G Hunt. Attendants included Iris Cooperider and Harold Meyer. The couple will reside on a farm near Marengo.
In Saginaw Michigan Thomas E Dewey urged voters to elect Wendell L Willkie for President to stop a trend toward totalitarianism He said Roosevelt uses methods that produce dictatorship and faulted the democratic party in tone of a political clash during his first post nomination visit.
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