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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1939
Page
19
Local residents gather in Madison to watch the Iowa Wisconsin clash while others follow Iowa State Missouri and Northwestern Illinois games. Notable Cedar Rapids couples host breakfasts and dinners as weekend house parties, with open houses and visits among friends marked by festive travel and meetings.
Weekend social life centers on home gatherings as Halloween themed events yield to hosts hosting at Cedar Rapids Country Club and private homes. Notables include Don Hillier and Guy E. Hillier from Lancaster visiting. guests attend Dutch treat dinners while others host and travel. Delzell heads to Chicago for Arthur Andersen. Staves family departs for Chicago after week with Northcott.
Social events honor Miss Jane Young of Omaha as she visits Cedar Rapids. Miss Yessler and Miss Siebke host tea and breakfast with dozens of guests featuring autumn flowers and Halloween motifs. Other patrons include Miss Bell hosting a Friday party for Miss Young.
Timothy Evans, son of Mr and Mrs Ronald P Evans, celebrated his second birthday with a party hosted by Mrs Evans at 2625 Meadowbrook SE. Guests arrived with their mothers and included David Turner III Linda Topic Barbara Bearle Susan Clapp Anthony Anderson John Hladky Sonny Kleitsch Jimmy Qolerich Jeffrey Soboda Billy Catlow. Mr and Mrs Edwin C Tuttle of Des Moines visited the Spears family at 231 Twenty-fifth Street SE for the weekend.
Entertaining by Joanne Halloween Greene led twenty four masked girls to a festive gathering. Names highlighted include Jeannette Blaine Lois Ann Machemer Ilene Warner Polly Green Barbara Burrell Jean Hartman and Bessie Lou Rudzinski with others pictured enjoying apple bobbing and string games in a community fête photographed by Carl Dueser.
The Misses Jean and Joan Newburger daughters of Mr and Mrs B J Newburger 2101 Ridgeway drive SE were selected among Smith College freshmen to form the college’s freshman choir after competitive trials in a field of over 100 entrants.
The Ladies Literary club will meet with Mrs John M Ely at 2218 First Avenue East on Monday at 2 30 p m. Mrs Robert Little will review I Travel by Train by Walter Rollo Brown.
Mrs Mark Anthony of 835 Seventeenth Street SE and her cousin Miss Ada Christie of Beverly Hills Chicago have returned after a week long motor trip to Lake of the Ozarks. Mrs E P Ristedt Mrs George Kosek Mrs W J Brown Miss Charlotte Pinney and Mrs Edward F Winslow motored to Des Moines Friday. Ristedt and Kosek were guests at the Des Moines Needlework Guild ingathering tea at the University Church of Christ.
Miss Kathleen Hanson and Miss Tucie Imes hosted a Friday scavenger hunt for 22 guests. Teams in four cars searched for quirky items and inscriptions, then gathered at Imes residence for dancing and refreshments amid Halloween decor.
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