Christmas Cheer From The Brigade For All In Town
The Brigade sends festive wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all readers. The note urges kindness, joy, and time spent with loved ones, not measured by money, and mentions Santa watching eager children. A neighbor notes Heinie Hvyll’s mother arriving early by train and working in Indiana while enjoying life. The writer asks newcomers to seek them out.
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Santa Claus
Heinie Hvyll
Indiana
Old Timers and Dutch Lace Cookies Highlight Community Notes
In a reader filled column several local figures are named while recipe details for a Dutch lace cookie appear. The writer praises Mrs. Bennet and Mrs. McAvoy with weight loss claims and mentions hospital cases and a Christmas program in town with Miss Hamilton and Don Benblossom contributing to the service. The account ends noting electricity’s impact on the holiday events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte Baldridge
Lucy Wilson Erritt
Rebekah Regular Meeting Reviews Applications and Plans
The Rebekah lodge held its regular meeting with fair attendance. Carrie Gray led the business meeting as noble grand and three membership applications were read with balloting set for the next meeting. Committees were named for auditing and installation duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rebekah Lodge
Carrie Gray
Noble Grand
Leona Kos
Marie Baker
Ernestine Kiesey
Edna Wagenknecht
Edith Weidner
Helen McCreed
Floyd Murdock
Carnation Lodge
Iowa City
Oxford
George Jarrard
Senior Needle Club Meeting At Mrs Fitzsimmons Home
Riverside December 23 Mrs C E Fitzsimmons hosted the Senior Needle club at her Riverside home. The ladies enjoyed an afternoon of sociability and exchanged Christmas gifts with help from Mrs Frank Lafourek who served a luncheon.
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Riverside
E. Fitzsimmons
Frank Lafourek
Sorosis Club
John W. Tener
Freda Allen
Bird Cress
D. C., Sterett
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Mrs. H. W. Statler Hosts Culture Club Christmas
Ten members gathered at Mrs. H. W. Statler’s Keota home for the Culture club Christmas party. Decorations from a New Orleans trip and a Southern Yule Log adorned the scene as gifts, stories, and refreshments followed a brief business period and a gift exchange. Daisy Soper attended as Statler’s Cedar Falls guest.
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Keota
Culture Club
H. W. Statler
New Orleans
A. F. Mitchell
E. C. Pulver
New York
Harriet Clendenning
Helen Butcher
Rachel Field
Christmas Concert Details Mentioned in Reading
The text lists songs All Ye Faithful and Deck the Halls with Holly sung by Mrs H Borup with readings by Mrs Maude Cress. It notes Christmas games and carol singing as part of the event.
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Owen Hayes
Carol Barrett
H. ©. Borup
Maude Cress
Dowry Offered by British Post Office for Marriage
The British post office department provides a dowry to female employees who resign to marry after at least six years of service.
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British Post Office Department
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Tonite
Pat O’brien
AVIA
Harry
Pappy Cheshire
the Kidoodlers
Dennis O'Keeffe
Hi-Jinks
A Riley
Republic We
Claire Carleton
Rocking Chair
Gidley's
THE
Candy Kitchen
Merry Christmas
Friends
Rex Frank
ROB Air Footwear
John Kennedy
MacDonald & Eddy
Minick
Cedar Falls
Elliot Grays
Elsie
Billy Sherman
Roger Sheerman
Jerry Zager
Stanley Zager
Washington
Miss Hamilton
Dick McCleery
Eastwood
United Presbyterian Church
Don Benblossom
J. C. Rolee
Mabel Gray
RKO Radio Picture
Elen Dennis O'Keefe Parrish
aLma Kruger
Kay Kyser
Ginny Simms
Harry Babbitt
Ish Kabibble
Sully Mason
College of Musical Knowledge
Donald Duck
Matinff
Paramount News
Rebekah
Winifred Mayer
O. B. Rogers
Lyle Anwy
Mediapolis
Wapello
I. A. Mirick
Anamosa
F. M. Herr
Missionary Society
Woman's Missionary Society
Federated Church
G. G. Vincent
Everett Vincent
Lulu Randolph
Burton Randolph
Shirley Ann Yoder
Bobby Gammon
Fay Fuller
Keith Hart
Charles Russell
E. V. Valenta
Archie Miller
Earl Chambers
Leila Horn
South English
Rebekah Assembly
Prsons
Miss Horn
Spivey
Irene Cheney
Mrs. L. I. Norton
Keith Norton
Pickens
Ginny
Kay
Helen Parrish
Ge Evore
Oone
Pus Jynctio
Colum Low
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