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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1937
Page
16
The Community Players announce a Saturday county fair party at the Kenmore Golf Club on the twenty fifth. The event features booths, games, prizes, and entertainment by TWO-BITS with invitations issued to theater members and friends.
County fair season opens with a full slate at Kenmore club house featuring a midway games booths and vaudeville acts. Royal F McGinnis and others serve as barkers while Mrs John B Turner II and Miss Harriet Sargent headline a diverse lineup of entertainers.
The Cedar Rapids College Club begins its 1937-38 season with a 2:30 p.m. meeting at 1120 Second Avenue SE. Robert O. Bickel will present colored travel films, including trips to the Teton and Black Hills regions. The club, founded in 1911, runs a student loan fund aiding eighty women from Coe College Iowa University State Teachers College Cornell and the University of Kansas.
Announcement reports Miss Elizabeth Carey daughter of Mr and Mrs Edward Carey of 2317 Grande avenue SE became engaged to Frederick Stevens Glanville of Cedar Rapids son of Mr and Mrs Frederick J Glanville of Milwaukee Wisconsin at a Saturday evening party hosted by the Carey family.
Local column notes house numbers on Grande Avenue SE including Dr and Mrs B L Knight at 2219 and A E Chases at 2225. It jokes about dice on Ag Hoblitzell’s compact and mentions Betty Roberts relief work and Dave Brown’s bond court timing. Also recaps Community Concerts banquet fashion highlights and a mid speech interruption.
Engagement and forthcoming marriage of Miss Margaret Frye of Dubuque to George F. Dostal of Cedar Rapids announced at a Dubuque party. The couple plan to live in Iowa City after the October wedding at St. Patrick's Church.
Louis B Cullman son of Mr and Mrs Louis Cullman 428 Nineteenth Street NE and William Hefner son of Mr and Mrs T K Hefner 321 Eighteenth Street NE left Saturday to enter the University of Iowa. The Jolly Eight 500 club met Friday at Mrs Leo Slaughter 1222 B Avenue NW. prizes awarded to Mrs Martin Nelson Mrs H F Holloway and Mrs May Speeding.
Nine Clarke College alumnae met Saturday afternoon for luncheon at Clara Robinsons Colonial Food shop. The gathering highlighted alumni connection and community ties.
Employees of the Collins Radio company enjoyed a Saturday outing at the Upper Palisades with softball and horse shoe games in the afternoon, followed by supper and dancing in the evening. About 200 attended.
With one week of rushing behind them Coe college frats announce fifty newly registered men intend to pledge. Tau Kappa Epsilon leads with twenty one neophytes, followed by Alpha Delta Alpha with fifteen and Chi Beta Phi with six pledges. Names and hometowns of the new members are listed.
P O Clark of 138 Twenty-sixth Street Drive SE and Mrs Iva Thiessen of Des Moines wed Wednesday at the bride’s sister Mrs Ethel Propst home in the Chamberlain hotel Des Moines The Rev Gruen assistant pastor of St John s Lutheran church of Des Moines officiated Clark longtime Linn County district court clerk.
The past matrons of Malta chapter O E S and their husbands will meet Tuesday at 6 30 p m at Mrs Emil Petranek s cottage for a dinner. Members bring dishes and transportation calls to Mrs W D Ralston at 26657. The graduate nurses club meets Commonwealth Thursday at 5 30 p m with reservations to Mrs Henry Haegg Mrs Guy Robinson or Mrs L F Benesh via listed phones.
In a 4 pm ceremony at the T. M. Sinclair Memorial chapel Coe college Miss Gayle Schroeder daughter of Mrs Emma C Schroeder and William P Whipple son of Mrs Milo R Whipple were married in the presence of about 400 guests The Rev Robert Little officiated with Eleanor Taylor organist and Howard McLaughlin singing A reception followed at the bride's mother's home with a pink and white tea table and a white bridal cake The bridal party included Miss Marilou Walkup as attendant and Dr Rothwell D Proctor as best man The ushers were John Hann Joseph R Buss Donald Hauser and Wade Potter
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