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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1939
Page
32
The Mount Vernon Lisbon country club hosts a Monday picnic dinner to close the summer social series for members and families. Numerous hospitality events feature visitors and local hosts, with farewells and courtesy dinners spread across the week.
Announcement from Mr and Mrs F E Kilbreth of Dubuque says their daughter Colleen will wed Kenneth A Fuller of Dubuque. Nearby social notes list Monday club guests, bridge prize winners, and gatherings at Five Hundred and luncheon events with residents from Monticello and neighboring towns.
Late Summer weddings headline social notices with Glen dolyn Maxine Jones wed to Ivan Hoge at Little Brown church Nashua officiated by Rev Kent. Attendants Delila Palmer Richard Mercer. They plan to live in Whittier after a Ozarks trip. Mrs Hoge to run a grocery business. Mr Hoge with Witwer Grocer Cedar Rapids. Also school and club meetings note W C T U changes and donations for Benedict home Des Moines.
Janice Anita Smyth celebrated her first birthday at a party hosted by her family Thursday. The gathering also marked the fifty ninth wedding anniversary of her great-grandmother Mrs. Thuerauf with lunch served at 4 30 p.m. Guests included Mrs Thuerauf and her daughters Lina and Bertha, along with other relatives and friends.
The Atalissa chapter of the RNA honored members with August birthdays at a Tuesday luncheon in the lodge rooms. Honorees were Geraldine White Maude Overman Vinnie Conklin Pearl Chapman Bernice Fingle. Committee in charge included Mabel Lindle Zoe Walters Gladys Depping and Sadie aa.
The Women’s Catholic Order of Foresters Court No 769 met at St Patrick’s auditorium in Fairfax on Monday. Prizes were awarded in a whist game won by Mrs Francis Voss. Dora McNulty won a door prize. Hostesses were Mrs R L Stallman Velda Stallman and Lillian Zamastil. Miss Muriel Hanssen and Charles Highley wed in Monticello with attendants Nadine Highley and Paul Hanssen. They will live in Anamosa where Highley works for Hybrid Seed Corn Co. Mrs Russell Chaplin hosted a bridge session with prizes to Mrs Melvin Engwersen Mrs Marvin Hanwardsen and Mrs N C Holst.
Mechanicsville Past Matron circle held an annual family picnic dinner at the Masonic hall on Thursday with 34 members present. Committee members included chairman Mrs. Vesta Hines and members Mrs. Daisy Butler Mrs. Maud Stoffel and ee Wilson.
Decorah reports its Oneota Golf and Country Club will host a monthly dinner on Tuesday evening with Frances Algyer as committee chair. The list includes Mesdames Waterbury Bernatz Bishop G A Baker Fritchen Howland Gust Haigen Taylor Biermann Hammond Graham Mel Johnson Germann Hook and Parman. Frances Haas of Cedar Rapids will wed Raymond J. Meyer of Cedar Rapids on October 14. Both couples work at Iowa Mutual Liability Insurance.
Local families hosted a sequence of events for the 1919 class and community groups. Out of town guests included Mrs. Ross Rayner and Mrs. L A MacNeil. Various clubs met for dessert bridge, a silver tea, a miscellaneous shower, and a buffet supper with Bertha Wild visiting Pasadena.
Immaculate Conception and St Rose circle meetings set for Thursday at 2 p.m. in school parlors with Mrs Ellen Doorley hosting. Trinity Lutheran ladies aid gatherings Thursday 2 30 p.m. and Friday 4 p.m. followed by a 6 p.m. picnic supper. Women left to consult leaders for details. A fall luncheon is planned by the women’s association Friday 1 p.m. with Mrs Oliver Wilson hosting and devotions led by Mrs C J Lynch Jr. The Emma Holden circle hosts with Mrs Oliver Wilson. a mission barrel donation is requested. The C C C class meets Wednesday 6 30 p.m. at 1302 Ninth Street NW for a picnic supper. The every member canvass dinner is scheduled Thursday 6 15 p.m. at the church. Lydian society to picnic at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Mrs Bruce Lindsay home. Wild Rose Lodge meets Wednesday 7 45 p.m. for initiation at Mrs C Lybarger’s home. W F M S meets Thursday 2 p.m. at Mrs Walter Piper’s. St Johns guild begins fall meetings with a 12 30 p.m. picnic Thursday at Mrs Bertha Spencer’s home. Several circles plan picnics and luncheons Friday and midweek, with numerous hostesses, addresses, and times listed. Mount Vernon notices report the wedding of LeNore Simpson and Norman E Current at 2 p.m. today at E L Simpson’s home, with remarks by Dr C F Littell and a reception to follow. Out-of-town guests include Barretts and Simpson relatives from multiple states.
A dense listing shows Chicago and Northwestern women’s club meeting at 2 p.m. at the YWCA, railway mail auxiliary luncheon at Mrs Nicholas’s home, and many others including Mercy Division, Royal Neighbors, Melody camp, W R C T Z Cook, Home Rebekah, Firefighters Auxiliary, D of A V Rebecca Alexander tent, Linn Lodge, Praha Rebekah lodge, Aldebaran Court, U C T Auxiliary, Winter Temple, D of A V, and Sacred Heart court all scheduling gatherings, initiations, picnics and installations at various venues with details on dates, times, locations and hosting members.
International News Service explains simple rules to pronounce Polish city names. Examples include Krakow Katowice and Gdynia with phonetic guidance and notes on consonant clusters. The piece cites an estimated expense of 320000 dollars and Corey’s comments on crop conditions weather and exposition success aided by rainless conditions.
The Anamosa Supper club entertained at the clubhouse for Miss Eva Byerly of Cedar Rapids and Miss Mary Remley of Algona. George Watters, Grinnell student, celebrated his nineteenth birthday as an honor guest. Other attendees included Mrs. S. H. McNeill and daughter Helen, Mrs. M. H. Loydin ger of Chicago, and Des Moines teacher Grace Millikan Baer.
Iowa state fair officials estimated the 1939 exposition will net about 31000 after a successful season. Attendance was the second largest in a decade, surpassed only by the 1938 centennial exposition with 430000 attendees. Total receipts to date are 335606.23, with about 16065 in deferred receipts, totaling roughly 351000.
Cedar Rapids hosts Union service at 10 30 a m with Dr Walter H Judd and Gretchen Neumann singing A Saddle horse show runs Sunday and Monday Meskwakie powwow and pageant also Sunday Monday Iowa City hosts final day of third annual archery meet Storm Lake holds Scottish picnic with Highlander demonstrations Cedar Falls sponsors outboard motorboat program Benson Cooperative Creamery plans 31st annual picnic with Gov Wilson speaking Linn County tour includes six Cedar Valley farms Marion marks Mevion Day Bel le Prairie runs Belgian Bolly tournament Cedar Rapids hunters shoot Deer Rapids Gun Club event Muscatine observes National Air Progress Week with 75 planes at the airport and breakfast
Des Moines AP report on Iowa 4-H club girls at the state fair shows their love for country life endures amid midway lights. Many teens, ages 16 to 18, seek rural teaching or farming careers, with desires to marry and balance city and farm life, and ambitions ranging from orchestra leadership to airline stewardess.
Moscow Pravda editorial says the Soviet Union remains aloof amid dirty intrigues of international swindle and provocative war mongering. It asserts the USSR is a source of strength honesty and a rock of world peace.
Lisbon Portugal announced neutrality in the event of a European war. The declaration was made on a Saturday and emphasizes Portugal will not join the conflict, seeking to avoid involvement.
Reports from Iowa City list several wedding events and engagements. Jane Gotch and Laurence Morehouse wed at a relative’s home in Art, Harriett Merritt and Halsy Stevens married in Trinity Episcopal church, and Glenna Kiser, Jeanne Hawk, Frances Maier, Mary Ruth Crumsey, and Ardys Wharton are noted for upcoming or recent nuptials with families named and ceremony details.
The parent teacher council meets Tuesday at 2 p m in the board of education building. F A Carstens police juvenile officer speaks on Ever: Child a Good Citizen.
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