Around the Town snippets tease Iowa city life and misadventures
A collage of light town items notes a lawyer famous for quitting smoking, a Blairstown farmer's hot night on the lawn, kindergartner Frunk day questions, golfers and clubs swapped for croquet gear, California time obsessions, a malfunctioning electric fan splattering ink, Cedar Rapids poster taunts, a wary garage salesman blunder, farmyard humor on Viola and Grant Wood, autumn street scenes, and local quips from Otto Gustafsson and Joe Dahly with turtle soup mishap at a kitchen stove.
Beethoven Club Plans Scandinavian Music Year
Beethoven club members map a year focused on Swedish Danish and Finnish music with programs led by Nelle Erwin and featuring notes by Cora Capes Fisher and Frances Bailey. Garden club hosts exhibit and talks. Cedar Rapids social events include lectures, trips, and bridge tournaments as autumn schedule unfolds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beethoven Club
Montrose Hotel
Sweden
Denmark
Finland
Lucy Bushnell Ambroz
Ruth Ebling Massey
Nelle Erwin
Flora Taylor
Helen Mokrejs
Helen Little Hickman
Lenore Stark
Constance Morse
Blomstedt
Norway
Jungman
Frank Fox
Harvey
Reppien
Clarence Hamilton
Cora Capes Fisher
Peterson-Berger Im
Wee Peterson-Berger
Inez Murray
Sodermann
Luella North
Johanna Gerhardt
Woman crafts frieze for Jackson school room theme
Harriett Swain profiles Isabelle Smith a Jackson school clerk who creates a Mother Goose frieze spanning twenty one feet in five panels. Smith details her shift from leather work to book binding and her varied crafts from wood painting to sandal making and knitting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harriett Swain
Isabelle Smith
Sixth Avenue SE
Miss Smith
Jackson School
Mother Goose
Humpty-Dumpty
Little Miss Muffet
Engagement of Edith Hersch Announced
Announcement of Edith Herschs engagement was made at Cedar Rapids Country club in a tea for close friends. The couple will marry after the engagement. he is affiliated with Sigma Nu and Chi Beta Phi. he works for Jewel Tea and they will live in Barrington Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sigma Nu Social Fraternity
Cee
Chi Beta Phi Fraternity
Jewel Tea Company
Barrington, Ill
Cedar Rapids Country Club
Miss Hersch
Myers
Mrs. Hersch
Elizabeth Clark
Jane O'Meara
Janet Coquillette
John Bates
Barbara Bloomhall
Elizabeth French
Nadgie Rohrbach
Virginia Collins
Theda Myers
Frances Eby
Helen Larimer
Robert Samuelson
Mary Winslow
Esther Yothers
Betty Meerdink
Muscatine
Local residents return from inland Canada and Wisconsin trips
Dr and Mrs A W Erskine and Miss Margaret Pratt return from a ten day vacation along and north of the Canadian border. Dr and Mrs C N Booth host their daughter Mrs Julius T Rohwer of Marshalltown visiting. W J Brown and son Bill plan ten day fishing trip in northern Wisconsin at Ballard lake. E J Lattner and spouse host bridge club on their houseboat with river entertainment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. W. Erskine
Second Avenue
Lumir Severa
Blake Boulevard
Margaret Pratt
Knollwood Drive
W. J. Brown
First Avenue E
Bill
Wisconsin
Ballard Lake
E. J. Lattner
Grande Avenue
Bridge Club
Lattner
Knapp-Houser Engagement Announced in Music City
Mr. and Mrs. Merrill V. Fisher announce the engagement of their daughter Agnes Lucille Knapp to Donald Sherlaw Houser son of Mr. and Mrs. Amos J. Houser. The couple plans a future wedding. An engagement party and linen shower were hosted by Mrs. Fisher and Miss Mary Katherine Knapp at the Fisher home Tuesday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ford Zimmerman
Conroy
Frieda
Mervin Schmidt
George Schmidt
Tadora
Trinity Lutheran Church
Merrill V. Fisher
Seventeenth Street
Agnes Lucille Knapp
Donald Sherlaw Houser
Amos J. Houser
Twenty-sixth Street
Muse Knapp
Bette Lage and Ray Wernimont Tie in Davenport
Elder daughter Bette Claribel Lage and Raymond J. Wernimont wed at four oclock in a Davenport home ceremony officiated by Rev. C. E. Snyder. The couple will reside in Cedar Rapids after a trip to northern Minnesota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Lage
Davenport
Bette Claribel Lage
Raymond J. Wernimont
Cedar Rapids
Frank Sivertson
C. E. Snyder
Unitarian Church
Herman Schmidt
Jeanette Sage
John Dostal
Marshalltown
Verrimont
Miss Sage
Sage Home
Sage
William Sage, Jr
Moline
Nancy Emers
Suzanne Schmidt
Clara Lou Sanford
Minnesota
Montrose Hotel
Delta Upsilon Delta Sorority
Wernimont
Coe College
Garden Theater
New State Theater
Bach Program By Eleanor Taylor At First Presbyterian
An all Bach program will be presented by organist Eleanor Taylor this evening at 5 30 o clock in the First Presbyterian church for the public. Program includes Prelude and Fugue in E flat minor Canzona in D minor Prelude and Postlude in D minor producing in C major Pastorale Choral Variation Passacaglia in C minor. Mrs Brown Guest In Chester Salter Home. Mrs A W Brown of Davenport visits her daughter Mrs Chester D Salter and Mr Salter at 503 Knollwood drive SE. Mr and Mrs William G Hottensen return from Milwaukee after a week with his parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olver Longueville
Blake Boulevard
Howard R. Green
Bever Avenue SE
Tuesday Bridge Club
Merritt
N. Harris
Eleanor Taylor
First Presbyterian Church
A. W. Brown
Davenport
Chester D. Salter
Mr. Salter
Knollwood Drive
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Raider
Lester Norton
Blairstown
Lester
Jimmy Bailey
Chet Baileys
John Fletcher
James W. Good, Jr
Renny Evans
Wally Lyon
John Montague
Frankie Bates
Los Angeles
California
Pacific
New York
Viola of
Pinehurst
Grant Wood
Threshers
Ladies Home Journal
Sreets
C.goth
Roby Burkualter
Edith Knox
Noth
Boies
All-Iowa
Glenn
Otto Gustafsson
Citto
Cedar River
Harry Swarp
Harry
Otto
Faerie Bridge
Joe Dahly
Waukon
Joe
Dadly
Wayne Foster
Country Club
Emternational Harvester Company
Hiss
Garden Club
John Hamilton
Cedar Rapids Garden Club
L. T. Jackson
C. R. Chandler
Isaac B. Smith
Helen Ely
Scripps
John M. Ely
Claremont
Calif
Scripps College
Miss Ely
Elizabeth Ely
Mrs. Miller
C Elaine Austin
New York City
Richard M. Miller
Second Avenue SE
Edward Sheehy
St. Joseph, Mo
van Vechten Shaffer
Fortunes
Des Moines
John H. Fortune
Bever Avenue
Patty
H C. Jensen
Country Club Parkway
A. J. Danziger
Mr Jensen
Cedar Rapads
oVo
Longueville
J. Moon
Linden Drive
Dean M. Lierle
Nathaniel G. Alcock
Iowa City
Clare R. Marshall
Brainerd
Minn
H O. Cutler
Ridgeway Drive
Russell P. Lehman
Fifth Avenue
George J. Starman
Twentieth Street
II D. Durham
Forest Drive
Frieda Zimmerman
Wapsen Photo
Edith Hersch
Dorothy Ridgeway
Carol
Jean Curran
Diane Waples
Tude Innes
Waples
Nadine
Arlene Sinaiko
Kathleen Hanson
Carol Kopel
Jean Ferguson
Shirley Nichols
Elaine Smulekoff
Janice Bailey
E. 3
Lattners
Mrs. Green
Emily T. Merritt
Waterloo
City
S. N. Harris
A Avenue
Mrs. Brown
Chester Salter
William Hottensens
Milwaukee
William G. Hottensen
K Avenue
Mr. Hottensen
W. A. Hottensen
Zoric
Marion
Osew Day Cleaners
Third Street
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