Around the Town: wartime letters and odd notes from home
A ten year old correspondent reports life aboard ships and visits to Scotland and Ireland amid war talk. The column recalls radio quips, inventive homecraft ideas, St Helena as a health retreat, musical history riffs, the Ernest Curtins goat caper, and a light police court bargain bid ending in a full payoff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Susan Shaffer
England
Scotland
Glenis Hopkins
London
Great Britain
Frances Eby and Johnson C Greedy Wed in Cedar Rapids
The Cedar Rapids wedding of Frances Eby and Johnson C Greedy featured a gown with decolette neckline and pastel jewel clips. Attendants wore varied colored gowns and velvet bows while guests gathered at the Cedar Rapids Country Club for a reception with corsages, flowers, and an orchestra.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Miller
Miss Wadsworth
Miss Fryer
Mrs. Samuelson
Miss Bloomhall
Miss Blaise
Miss Larimer
Edward Orr Greedy
Robert N. Eby
Richard R. Proctor
Peter L. Topic
Frank IL. Phelps
Cedar Rapids
Thomas C Jackson
Fairfield
Robert T Miller
Waterloo
Cedar Rapids Country Club
Eby
Greedy
Quarton Family Heads To Harvard And Stanford
Miss Betsy Quarton daughter of Mr and Mrs Sumner D Quarton 514 Indian Road SE arrived Friday after summer study at Stanford University Gard ner Quarton son leaves Tuesday for his senior year at Harvard College of Liberal Arts in Cambridge Massachusetts
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald Laird
St. Joseph
Bonnie
Mr. Laird
George Laird
Vernon Drive
Frances Eby
Johnson C. Greedy
Katherine Hae
William G. Isom Saturay
Betsy Quarton
Sumner D. Quarton
Indian Road
Leland Stanford University
Quartons
Gardner Quarton
College of Liberal Arts
Harvard
Women Voters To Meet In Cedar Rapids At Montrose Hotel
The Cedar Rapids League of Women Voters resumes regular meetings with a guest day luncheon at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Montrose hotel. Attorney Loretta Vraoman of Des Moines will discuss A Legislative Look Ahead. State president Mrs. L. V. Phelps of Grinnell attends, with other officers to be present. Reservations with Mrs. J. T. Taylor or at the Montrose. The board meets at 11:30 a.m. prior to the luncheon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids League of Women Voters
Montrose Hotel
Loretta Vraoman
Des Moines
Department of Government
L. V. Phelps
Grinnell
J. T. Taylor
Montrose
League of Women Voters Organization
United States
Hulda Rice
Weaving Course To Open At Y W C A September 18
The Y W C A fall program begins September 18 with a weaving workshop guided by Miss Marguerite Stein. Two looms will be used to teach weaving, knitting bags, luncheon sets, silver jewelry design, and related crafts, alongside gym and health programs and varied clubs for business and industrial groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marguerite Stein
Yw.c.a
Earle G. Nichols
Meadowbrook Drive
H H Bennett
Blake Boulevard
Y.W.C A
Mareguerite Stein
Newtar
Onamner
Also Mentioned on This Page
Europe
Hitler
Sunday
New York Times
St. Helena
South Atlantic
Africa
America
Germany
Larry Clinton
Tschaikovsky
Debussy
Fox
Maurice Ravel
Chopin
Rimsky-Korsakov
India
Paul Whiteman
Ernest Curtins
Mr. C
Mrs. C
Thomas B. Powell
P. S
Powell
the Killian Company
Johnson
Ethel Ryan
Eldora
Margaret Bagley
Guy E. Hillier
W. E Peschau
Horace G. Hedges
L. J. Storey
R. D. Hunting
Lurton H. Stubbs
Mary Bell
Don Barnes
Roy E. Curray
Marry Morehouse Gage
W. J. Brown
Hillier
Peschau
Ozarks
Third Avenue SE
Junior League of
Coe College
University of Iowa
Kappa Kappa Gamma Soror
O. F. Fryer
Packwood
Robert Eby
Woodbine
la von Buchanan
Dows
Halle Tuttle
Sioux City
John G Wadsworth
Council Bluffs
Lester Horn
Ames
James
Donald Lairds
George Lairds
Gardner
Ron
Killian
Killian News
Y.W.C.A
Lorraine Nelson
LaPlant-Choate and Speeder
Emma Mitchell
Paul Ammons
Catherine Crane
Grace Gordon
Elizabeth Ely
Evanston
John M. Ely
First Avenue E
Evanston, Ill
Willard Hall
Northwestern University
University
John Fletcher
Chicago
M. M. Ogden
Tacoma Wash
William M. Deacon
Knollwood Drive
Nat's Institute OF Dyers and Cleaners
Marion
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