Marion social notes honor Miss Catherine Dickey at shower
A Marion misc shower honored Miss Catherine Dickey who will wed Lester Webber of Alburnett October 11. Guests included Ruth Henry Cedar Rapids Mrs Miles Sutera Robins and many local residents. Other items mention arrivals for funerals, travel plans, garden club meetings and upcoming social events around Marion Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catherine Dickey
Lester Webber
Alburnett
Alberta
Lillian Voorhies
Lee Voorhies
Miss Dickey
Ruth Henry
Cedar Rapids
Miles Sutera
Robins
Harvey Trimble
Floyd Dickey
Arlene Starry
Gweneth Knight
Bernita Sebern
Alice Wallace
Helen Wescott
Eleanor
Elsie Nelson
Mary
Maxine Elkin
Dorothy Drake
Lois Mollenhauer
Marjorie Tower
Marion
West Marion
H. W. Erwin
Irvin Scott
Erwin
Elwood Mott
South Pasadena
Calif
Jay Albaugh
Claude Scott
Florence Scott
Bob and
Jack
Osceola lodge 18 to mark 90th anniversary dinner
Osceola lodge No 18 I O O F will celebrate its ninety year anniversary with a 6 30 p m dinner guests include lodge wives Grove City Rebekah lodge No 35 members and their husbands program of music and talks by grand lodge officers follows the meal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Osceola Lodge No. 18
Grove City
Rebekah Lodge No. 35
Grand Lodge
Rebekah Lodge
Marion Lions host Mount Vernon Lions at Marion Golf Club
Social column notes Marion Lions will host Mount Vernon Lions Tuesday afternoon at Marion Golf Club with afternoon golf and a 6 30 dinner followed by a program. Laura Bailey Auxiliary meeting at Carrie Reichert home with H M Titus assisting. Dinner guest Mary Helen Sloss to visit Dr and Mrs E A McLeod at Central City. multiple club activities and hosts listed with addresses and times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LeRoy Weeber
Albia
The
Klatter Klub
Marley Clark
Mount Vernon
Bertha Williams
Colville
Wash
Nelle Hazen
Los Angeles
Marion Shakespeare Club
C. B. Vernon
Twelfth Street
Harry Snell
Marion Lions Club
Mount Vernon Lions
Marion Golf Club
Laura Bailey
Methodist Church
Carrie Reichert
Tenth Street
H. M. Titus
Marie Cline
Mary Helen Sloss
E. A. McLeod
Central City
Iowa publishers to speak at UI short course
Eleven Iowa newspaper publishers and a Wisconsin representative will address the University of Iowa short course on profitable publishing. About 150 publishers and editors will attend October 14 and 15 in Iowa City to discuss circulation, revenue sources, promotion, overhead, and weekly story formats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gazette
Iowa City
Iowa
University of Wisconsin
University of Iowa
William A. Sumner
Mount Pleasant News
Iowa Press Association
Leon Barnes
Northwood
L. W. Hartley
Pella Chronicle
W. N. Kueneman
Grinnell Herald-Register
D. E. Dewel
Kossuth County Advance
Algona
Home Ec Group Elects Leaders in Buchanan County
Mrs Roy Bienfang named chairman of the Buffalo township home project group in Buchanan county Mrs Walter Potwin elected vice chairman Mrs Carl Potwin publicity chairman
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aurora
Roy Bienfang
Buffalo Township Home Project Group
Buchanan County
Walter Potwin
Carl ‘Potwin
Twenty One Vocational Ag Concepts Represented In Tipton Meeting
Twenty one southeastern Iowa high schools were represented at the Tipton vocational agriculture conference. Agricultural teachers listed include Ernest Watthauer Bonaparte and Adam Miller Denmark among others. State agriculture officials Fred Sievers Audubon and Herbert Pike Ames spoke. others from Des Moines and local superintendents attended. Similar regional meetings are planned for October 8 at Decorah and October 15 at Grinnell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spccini
Tipton
Southeastern Iowa
Ernest Watthauer
Bonaparte
Adam Miller
Denmark
M. Z. Hendren
DeWitt
Earl Stephenson
Donnellson
Harry Storey
Fairfield
R. L. Amsberry
Marengo
Everett Clover
Mediapolis
Marvin Lind
Montezuma
J. Heppner
Montrose
Lindley B. Hoopes
Muscatine
L. N. Rahn
Lisbon
W. B. Hammer
Mechanicsville
O. A. Dakin
Leonard Davis
Fred Sievers
Audubon
F.F
Des Moines
Decorah
Grinnell
Miss Pangborn Marks Eighty First Birthday In Maquoketa
Miss Adelaide Ellen Pangborn observes her eighty first birthday in Maquoketa living in the same early home built in 1848 by her father Jason Pangborn. She recalls growth of the town from farm to city, preserves century old furniture and a rosewood piano gifted at birth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maquoketa
Adelaide Ellen Pangborn
Miss Pangborn
Jason Pangborn
Essex County
New York
Mr. Pangborn
Iowa
North Western Railway
The
Bon Ton
World Wheat Supply Near Five Billion Bushels
The 1938-39 world wheat supply is estimated at 4.94 billion bushels by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. It is the second largest on record, 585 million bushels above last year, with 595 million bushels carryover as of July 1 and 4.345 billion produced this year. China and Soviet Russia are not included in the estimate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
China
Soviet
Russia
Sorority Rush Referee Recalls System Under Pressure
Attorney Leff, now rushing umpire, collects preference cards by Wednesday night and cross checks names until early morning. He matches rushees to sororities with hours of careful review to avoid exclusions. Formerly Thomas E. Martin, now a congressional nominee, did the refereeing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leff
Sorority
University of Iowa
Delta Theta Phi Legal Fraternity
Thomas E. Martin
Congress
Cornell Orchestra and Choir Add 27 New Members
The Cornell college symphony orchestra directed by Prof. Lloyd C. Oakland adds twenty seven new members with detailed rosters for first and second violins, violas, cellos, basses, winds, brass, percussion, and Juba. The A Cappella choir also announces new members led by Prof. Eugene Devereaux with extensive lists of names and hometowns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ark
Keith Fate
Fargo
N. D
Fred Smith
Zearing
Robert Grundwald
West Chicago
Norman Stevens
Lupe City
Neb
Dick Bentley
Polo
Ill
Eugene Ferris
Des Moines
Lois Mitchell
Wilmette
Dorothy Beach
Mount Vernon
Althea Goodrich
Hazleton
Lois Wilson
Fenton
June Mathison
Nevada
Arline Battershell
Pocahontas
Dorothy Dysart
Dysart
Marjorie Littell
Lois Campbell
Emmetsburg
Phyllis Rathbun
Preemption
Mary Miller
Sharon
Wis
Jean ‘Norman
Nashua
Jean Dunham
Atlantic
Betty Laughlin
Freeport
Florence Marr
Ainsworth
Margaret Pierce
Charlotte Reinke
Spirit Lake
Winifred Chamberlin
Clarence
Neva Sweet
Lois Reitzel
Sterling
Flavis Richards
Neva Klass
Postville
Alma Moots
Esther Jones
Toulon
Pauline Trezona
Brandon
Gwen Nolan
Cedar Rapids
Dorothy Collins
Knoxville
Margaret Anderson
Denison
Mary Jane Jones
University City
Louise Parry
Scranton
Laura Halvarson
St. Ansgar
Priscilla Lane Breaks Free to Chase Film Stardom
Indianola Iowa born Priscilla Lane urged by family to pursue talent. She joins studios after early singing with Rosemary and Leota, later starring in Four Daughters and becoming a rising film actress with Orin Haglund romance and a country-house plot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
HoLrzwoop
Lane
Priscilla
Mama
Martha
Leota
Lola
Rosemary
Indianola
Iowa
Waring
Warner Studio
Fred Waring
Hollywood
Wayne Morris
Morris
Priscila
Orin Haglund
Retired Lisbon Smithy George Patterson Turns 88 This Month
George Patterson of Lisbon marks his eighty eighth birthday October 12 and reflects a life in blacksmithing across Iowa and Oklahoma. A charter Lisbon lodge member, he has held all offices and served as tiler for twenty two years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ISBON
George Patterson
Kent County
Michigan
Fairbank
Lisbon
Masonic Lodge
Patterson
California
Oregon
Oklahoma
Iowa
Guthrie
Okla
Edna St. Vincent Millay to Lecture at Cornell College
The Cornell College lecture series features Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet, who will speak and read her verse on December 13. Other headliners include Melchior the Prince of Teners on November 17, H. E. Willcox on November 10–12, the Pasquier Trio in January, Nadine Shepardson in February, and Ted Shawn with his dancers performing O Liber Me on March 14.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Vernon
Melchior
Ted Shawn
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Cornell
H. E. Willcox
Pasquier
Nadine Shepardson
O. Libermee
Moline Editor M W Campbell Dies at 59
M W Campbell associate editor of the Moline Dispatch died Saturday after an operation. A Davenport Daily Times alumnus and former Rock Island Argus city editor, he later served as Des Moines Capital and Council Bluffs Nonpareil reporter before joining the Moline Dispatch in 1916. Born in Hopkinton he will be buried there after funeral in Moline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Island
M. W. Campbell
Moline Dispatch
Palo Kieper homecoming party and dinner notes
A Palo homecoming event honors the Kieper family with 71 attendees including Mr and Mrs Otto Kieper and relatives from Los Angeles Winona Beardstown Waterloo Marshalltown Cedar Rapids Atkins and Atkins residents. Monona reports Marvin Jarms wedding to Marcella Wilke at the Lutheran parsonage officiated by Rev H W Siefkes with attendants Wilson Wilke and Gertrude Leuth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palo
Kieper
Fred J. Kieper
Otto Kieper
Bernice
Los Angeles
August Kieper
Winona
Minn
Val. Kieper
Beardstown
Oswald Kieper
Waterloo
Fred Il
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Allamakee
Allamakee County
Waukon
PWA
Marion News
G. W. McElwain
Long Beach
Mrs. L. E. Howell
Riverside
Mr. Howell
Austin Howell
Blanche Kerr
Pasadena
Burlington
Effie Coenen
Don EF. Kassner
C. L. Wiley
R. C. Booth
Toronto
Mable Whittaker
Amesa
Mrs
A. A. Hardin
Ralph Preckel
Gertrude Varns
Coe College
Evanston, Ill
Northwestern University
Fred Preckel
Stanley Thomas
Clinton
Eighth Avenue
Kensington of Marion
Masonic Temple
Carl J. Kassler
Harlan F. Knight
Sixth Avenue
William Carter
San Diego
C. E. Gordon
Edyth Gordon
R. F E. Strayer
Minneapolis
Raoul Strayer
Shat Owens Drug Store
Oxford Club
Johnathon
Dickey’s Foods
Seattle
Anna Jackson
H. Allen
R. N. Marsh
Littleton
E. W. McKean
McKean
Ora. Crowner
Ida McCoy
Ed Allen
Marsh
Marion Tater
Linn
Order of DeMolay
Mable Alexander
T. R. Alexander
Detroit
Mary Lowe Dickinson
King’s Daughters
Michel
Electa
Fidelis
C. C. Carpenter
Reading Circle
Fred G. Holsinger
Eighth Street
Marion Garden and Nature Club
John A. Clay
Fourth Avenue
Clementine Schminke
Lillian Bleakly
H. N. Strader
Book Club
H. G. Stitzel
Ivanhoe Club
Andrew P. Munson
Morris Sanford
D. B. Storck
W. B Carpenter
W. W. Lary
Minnesota
J. W. Scott
Walter Hall
Donald Roberts
Mrs. J. L. Roberts
Chicago
A. E. Fairhurst
George T. Austin
Excelsior, Minn
Mr. Austin
Frank Austin
A. FE. Fairhurst
Frank Houston
Thomas Manton
Oliver Fahey
Glenn E. Kinser
Tenth Avenue
George A. Kindler
King Solomon
Kinser
Iowa U
A Gazette
Adelaide Pangborn
Cornell Symphony Orchestra
Wubbard Keavy
Ytowa
Waring Outfit
Lola, Priscilla
Cornell College
Moline
Dead
Burial At Hopkinton
Farmers' Market
Towa
Cedar Rapids Gazette
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