Society Notes Show Local Clubs Gatherings and Visits
The L A club met at a country home twelve miles northwest of Washington with ten members and guests, a short business meeting, social hour, and a multi-course refreshments service. Various church and women's groups held meetings and activities including sewing for an orphanage, a quilt project, and plans for fruit deliveries to a lodge home. Visitors from nearby communities attended and travel plans were noted for several couples.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bass
Rabe Turnipseed
L. A
Washington
Parker House
Harold Davis
Merle Stransky
Trene Oldfield
W. H. Anderson
Charlie Mapel
George Stagner
Ed .Teatraet
Lexington Ccommunity
Charles Bear
Prairie Flower
Roy Turnipseed
Childress
West Chester
Rebekah Club
Maron City
Myrtle Bey
Methodist Church
Edith Gates
Council Bluffs
Presterian Church
C. S. Lemmon
A. B. Schmoeler
Ella Chilcote
Elsie Bratton
Ivan Rehmel
America
Laurence Wilson
Ream
Jornoske
Ottumwa
Jay Carris
Intermediate League of the Methodist Church
Carol
Lester Jones
Fairfield
Edith Brookhart
Carol Jones
Hove
Last game for seven Hawkeyes on Iowa Field
Iowa meets Wisconsin on Iowa Field today with seven Hawkeye regulars making final appearance. Captain Griffen, Wesley Fry, Ray Dauber, Richard Romey, Paul Krasuski, Donald Graham, and John Schirmer will end their home careers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
Iowa
Wisconsin
Hawkeye
Griffen
Wesley Fry
Ray Dauber
Richard Romey
Paul Krasuski
Donald Graham
John Schirmer
Armistice Day Reveals Vast Red Cross Veterans Support
Armistice Day highlights the Red Cross role aiding 30,000 veterans in government hospitals and thousands more at home. The organization reports monthly aid to about 96,931 service members and families, with expenditures of 10.8 million overall and 4.2 million for veterans and in service members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Red Cross
Civil Fe
Army
Navy
The
Red Cross
Participa S
Latras Red Cross
Local Church and Club Notices Announced
Community groups issue notices for events and meetings including bazaar and table settings at the Baptist and United churches. Fortnightly Home Economics divisions meet at members’ homes while Legion and WCTU gatherings are scheduled with invitations to all.
Night club Demonstrates Angel Food Cake for Members
At Mrs Dr Stewart house the first division of the nightly club held an October meeting with demonstrations by Mrs Frank Stewart Mrs Kerr and Mrs Mary McCreedy on angel food cake ice cream and apricot ice The attendees sampled the desserts and lunch was praised A roll call produced favorite cake receipts including a lemon apricot frozen dessert and angel food cake with meringue volunteers shared instructions and recipes. Mrs Frank Stewart led the session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Stewart
Frank Stewart
Kerr
Mary McCreedy
Stewart
Cocoa Nut Gingerbread? (recipe fragment)
Cream sugar and butter. add eggs one at a time until smooth. Sift flour with salt and baking powder. Alternate with milk. Stir in cocoa and chopped nut meats, flouring them lightly. Bake in a shallow pan.
Date Nut Layer Cake by Mrs Ed Grayson
A dated recipe gives a date layer cake with eight eggs and two cups of Swans Down cake flour. It uses two cups sugar and one cup water or milk, with vanilla, baking powder, and three siftings of flour. Dates are cooked with water and sugar, then nuts folded in, with thin frosting on top.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed. Grayson
Sour Cream Cake Recipe Credits Edith Miller
A cake recipe lists 1 cup sugar 1 cup sour cream 2 eggs 1 level teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon vanilla pinch of salt and a little more than 2 cups flour. Cream sugar and eggs, add other ingredients, mix thoroughly, bake in a moderate oven. Mrs. Edith Miller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Angel
Frank Stewart
Edith Miller
Devils Pood Cake Clumsy Old Recipe
A fragmented recipe lists cocoa and boiling water with flour butter and sour milk. It instructs mixing butter and sugar then adding eyes and other ingredients, adding hot water and soda, and baking quickly. The text is garbled with missing words and unclear quantities and steps.
Mrs Fred Mauthe's Spiced Raisin Walnut Butter Cookies
A compact recipe card lists ingredients for a spiced cookie batch including 2 to 3 cups butter and 1 cup brown sugar with molasses. It adds sour milk, flour, cinnamon, cloves, raisins, and walnuts attributed to Mrs. Fred Mauthe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Mauthe
On Thin Ice Opens at Fox With Warner Stars
DeMovies Tom Moore and Edith Roberts headline the Warner photoplay On Thin Ice at the Fox Theatre for two days starting Monday. The film follows a bank robbery and the ruthless schemes of gangsters with a cast including William Russell Theodore Von Eliz Wilfred North and Gertrude Robinson. Darryl Francis Zanuck wrote the story and directed with Mal St. Clair and Irving Ascher assisting, and Byron Slaskins handling the photography.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Moore
Edith Roberts
Warner
Fox Theatre
William Russell
Theodore von Eliz
Wilfred North
Gertrude Robinson
Jimmie Quinn
the Texas Kid
Darryl Francis Zanuck
White Cocoanut Cake Recipe Fragment
A fragment of a recipe describes making a white cocoanut cake with sugar, flour, baking powder, egg whites and milk. It includes nut addition and layering with cocoa as part of the filling or decoration.
Harold Lloyd stars in The Freshman at Graham Theatre
Harold Lloyd heads to the screen in The Freshman a football orientated comedy at the Graham Theatre next week. The story follows the naive Harold aiming to become a campus hero by joining the Tate College football team amid rival Chet Trask's popularity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Lloyd
Graham Theatre
Harold
Chet Trask
Tate College
Kelley Attends Wisconsin Iowa Game In Iowa City
Joseph Kelley traveled to Iowa City for the Wisconsin Iowa matchup visiting the site where the two college teams faced off.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Kelley
Iowa City
Recipe for Devils Food Cake Frosting and Bake Time
A historical recipe snippet lists nut frosting and a devils food cake method. Ingredients include 1 cup flour 1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon salt 2 heaping tablespoons of sugar and sour cream 2 eggs and an oven bake of about twenty minutes. Names present include Mrs D N Anwyl and Mrs Geo Foster.
Mrs Patterson Egg Custard Style Cake Instructions
The note lists ingredients including water flour butter sugar and eggs for a cake. It instructs beating yolks until light then adding sugar and hot water, mixing in flour with baking powder, and baking in a moderate oven for about 45 minutes.
Orphanage Appeal Seeks Thanksgiving Donations
The Christian Home Orphanage in Council Bluffs Iowa appeals for generous contributions to support its work. Supported entirely by voluntary donations the institution has no endowment or public funding. Send donations to The Christian Home Orphanage Council Bluffs Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Horn
Council Bluffs
Low
Christian Home
Iowa
Daniels Fined Ten Dollars for Assault and Battery
Mayor George Maxwell fined A Daniels ten dollars and costs on an assault and battery charge. The complaint was by Leo Giovanardi. Mrs. John J. Bailey traveled to Davenport to visit her daughter Mrs. A G Wilcox. Miss Madeline Atkins went to West Liberty to spend the week at her home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Daniels
George Maxwell
Leo Giovanardi
John J. Bailey
Davenport
A. G. Wilcox
Madeline Atkins
West Liberty
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Woman's Foreign Misionary Society
Mra
Robert Clyde
V. Crull
J. St. Peet
Meas
R. EF. Brown
Ensigmas
Ezra Cardner
Carl Keck
W. E. Kerr
Carthage
Missouri
Harvey Young
Miss Lulu Kerr
Woman's Missionary Society
First United Presbyterian Church
Misa
Jennie Fleming
Egyptian United Presbyterian (Church
Mis
David McLough
Lin
Theological Seminary
Oscar George
James Hawthorne
Valley of the Nile
Cairo
Silaw Rosa
Egypt
Jennie Atcheson
Rural Woman's Club
Earnest Carlson
Orphans’ Asylum
Otha Vincent McCoy
Superior
Wisconsinn
Frank Haney
Columbus Junction
McCoy
Florida
J. WH. Trotman
Morning San
Net Trotman
Ese
F. L. Wilson
Pred Fortinas
Ben Holt
George Staller
Margaret Ieck
Ladies Aid Society of the Methodist Church
C. C. Niffennegger
New Haven Social Union
Della Neal
American Legion Amilitary
Dooster Chaib
William Bealer
Jos Maude McCreedy
Department of Home Economics
Mery McCreedy
Fortunc! Club
David McLaugh
Shalom
My E. Sunday
Hill
S. Marion Ave
Lady Baltimore
Der
D. N. Anwyl
Geo. Foster
D. J. Patterson
Chrysler Four
Chrysler
Detroit
Pacha
Hugh A. Piper
E. 3Rd St
Washington, Iowa
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