Elks Schedule Social Events And Dances This Week
The Order of Elks announces a Thursday bridge event for Elks and families from 8 to 10 p.m. Prizes, coffee, cake, and ice cream will be served. A dance is set for Friday night with punch and refreshments. Future events include New Year dances, masquerade, open dances, a New Year stag party, and the charity hall. Numerous club and church gatherings and meetings are listed at various halls and by various organizations.
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Order of Elks
Elks
Linden Methodist Sunday School Staff Named at Meeting
Linden Sunday School officials were elected at a meeting at the Speth home. O. A. Zuehike was chosen superintendent with Fred Teeter as assistant, Ben Davis secretary, Will Montgomery treasurer, Mrs. Montgomoery corresponding secretary, Miss Lillian Teeter pianist, and Kenneth Hoover chorister. Upstairs heads include Mrs. Davis cradle roll, Mrs. Graham assistant cradle roll, Mrs. Gould home department, and Mrs. Howe assistant. Downstairs names feature Mrs. Zuehlke superintendent of primary and junior with Martha Reuter as assistant, plus Miss Naomi Bandfeld and Miss Montgomery in secretary and pianist roles.
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Linden
J. B. Howe
Home Department
Zuehlke
Martha Reuter
Speth
Naomi Bandfeld
Ethel Mongomery
Elsie Montgomery
Mrs. Alfland Wins Prize With Paper-Tearing Santa Display
At a Natural club Christmas party hosted by Mrs. G H Trunkey with Miss Eudora Carey assisting, Mrs. N C Alfland fashioned a Santa likeness from paper while other silhouettes depicted monsters and lobsters. The group exchanged gifts, collected for an altruistic fund, and planned next meeting with Miss Lilian Sohner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N.C. Alfland
G. H.trunkey
Eudora Carey
Alfland
Santa Claus
Lilian Sohner
Mother Daughter Party Planned for Orange Township
Orange Township consolidated school hosts a 7:30 p m mother and daughter program featuring Miss Beth Tracy of Waterino YWCA as speaker. A girls quartet performs with readings by Miss Juanita Myers and Mrs Ed win Boardman. Ruth Homer pantomimes The Sweet Story of Old and Mrs Homer Fike and Mrs Gene Davis play a piano duet. Additional quartet numbers close with a play Starlight Time. Refreshments will precede the entertainment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orange Township Consolidated School
Beth Tracy
Waterino Young Women’s Christian Association
Juanita Myers
Ruth Homer
Edwin. Boardman
Floyd Kough
Homer Fike
Gene Davis
Past Matrons of Becker Chapter Meet for Party
Mrs A N Moller acted as Santa Claus yesterday afternoon as Past Matrons club of Becker chapter Order of Eastern Star held a four course luncheon at Mrs Lewis Hecklinger home. Gifts from Mrs G M Coykendahlong Beach Cal and Mrs Ralph Dunlavey Fort Dodge arrived. The Hecklinger home glowed with holly wreaths and candles. Each place marked by a tiny taper lit Christmas tree replica Santa. A business meeting noted donations of 26 garments and money to the Needlework Guild and plans to provide Christmas cheer for several families. Anniversary note: Mr and Mrs J H Hing 1415 Franklin celebrated silver wedding with a three course dinner for about 50 relatives and friends. Elections of officers announced: Waterloo chapter Dec 14 Becker chapter Dec 21.
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A. N. Moller
Santa Claus
Becker Chapter
Eastern Star
Lewis Hecklinger
G. M. Coykendahlong
J. H
Hing
Franklin Street
Pride of the West circle to meet with cohostess
Club Notes say the Pride of the West circle will meet tomorrow afternoon with Mrs. Lynn Clark serving as hostess. Mrs. 5. D. Clark will be cohostess. Each member should bring a 10 cent article marked with her name to be shared via grabbag distribution.
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Pride of the West Circle
Lynn Clark
5. D. Clark
P E QO Chapters Plan Special Features for December
Chapters FE and Z schedule December events with planned programs for members' children and a Christmas party. Chapter 7 met at Mrs James Graham's home where Mary Stevenson, Grinnell college student, read a paper on Recent Achievements in American Sculpture. Mrs George W Wood spoke on the Borglum brothers and the unfinished Confederate Memorial on Stone Mountain. Mrs Henry Graven of Greene visited. The group approved a gift to the community fund. Chapter FE met at Mrs Fred J Miller's home with a play Saturday's Children read by Mrs H B Boies. Charity sewing occupied the afternoon. Margaret Miller played violin pieces Meditation and Paradise.
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Chapter FE
P. E
Chapter Z
Chapter 7
James Graham
E. F. Stevenson
Mary Stevenson
Grinnell College
George W. Wood
Stone Mountain
Henry Graven
Greene
C. W. Loesbe
H. B. Boies
Fred J. Miller
W R C G Election Set and Bazaar Planned
Woman's Relief corps will hold annual election of officers Friday afternoon in Memorial hall and an all day bazar Saturday. Jellies and jams for the old soldiers home will be donated, plans to take baskets to shut ins, Christmas party plans, picnic dinner for G A R members and wives, bazar items and amusements. Proceeds for philanthropic and patriotic work.
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Woman's Relief Corps
Memorial Hall
Patriotic Missionary — Society
Viola E. Hastsell
Corps
G. A. FB
Joe Ganz
Ida Alderman
Margaret Kilgore
Fred Moore
Hints In Beauty Care Begin SING A Dean
A long, instructional fragment on weight loss and beauty routines. It advises using reliable scales, weighing under consistent conditions, and keeping a weekly weight chart. It outlines fat loss targets, calorie guidance, and simple methods for toning areas such as the bust, plus basic grooming and eye exercises.
Fidelis Class Plans Gift Drive for Alaskan Orphans
Fidelis class of Walnut Street Baptist church held a social meeting featuring reading of a Christmas story about an Alaskan orphan home. Santa Claus received gifts destined for the orphans. A community band performed several pieces, including National Emblem and Joy to the World.
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H. G. Kelber
Fidelis
Walnut Street Baptist Church
Santa Claus
F. B. Moffitt
Bagley
Fillmore
Jewell
Sweeley
Ola Oaken Bucket
Heyes
Florence Richey
Lee Bartels
Ellen B. Holley
O— M. B. A—Lodge
Lynn Clark
Church Women Gather For Meetings and Programs Across Local Churches
The Walnut Street Baptist Church and other city churches schedule multiple gatherings. Women’s groups plan parlor meetings, Bible classes, officer elections, and Christmas program rehearsals. Notable sessions include Grace Methodist, St. Paul’s M. E., First Presbyterian, and Linden Methodist Episcopal, with various hostesses, devotionals, and topic talks.
Blue-Eyed Devils Linked to City Myths in Talk
Members of the Quota club at their Shinner meeting at Hotel Russell-Lamson heard notes on blue-eyed devils in Constantinople. Mrs Nellie F Brooks of First Congregational church showed beads and talismans as safety charms. The talk linked Byzantine legends, Allah attributes, and the Turkish flag with omens and warnings as colorful cultural anecdotes.
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Quota Club
Russell-Lamson
Constantinople
Nellie F. Brooks
First Congregational Church
Gquota
Allah
Old
Byzantum
Seven Hills
Box to Be Sent to Waterloo Girl at Mountain Mission
Miss Anna Lilja, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Lilja of 910 Jefferson Street, will receive a box of gifts from the Woman's Missionary Society of First United Presbyterian Church for Christmas distribution among Paint Creek mission children in Tenn where she works. Miss Lilja is a niece of Mrs. Georgia Jones who leads the mountain mission. A society meeting to move gifts will be held tomorrow afternoon at the home of Mrs. W. J. French. Farewell Mrs. Violet Smith hosted friends at her Waterloo home in honor of Mrs. Vane White who soon leaves for Garrison, Texas. Linen gifts were given to the guest of honor. FIREMAN RESIGNS. Harold M. Gordon, fireman at No. 2 station, resigned from the fire department effective immediately. Gordon joined Sept. 2, 1923.
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Anna Lilja
John A. Lilja
Jefferson Street
Woman's Missionary Society of
First United Presbyterian Church
Paint Creek
Tenn
Lilia
Georgia Jones
W. J. French
Violet Smith
Vane White
Waterloo
Garrison
New Chancellor of K of P Lodge Elected
George W. Kimball was chosen as chancellor commander of Helmet Lodge No. 89 Knights of Pythias at the annual election in the lodge hall. The slate includes Joe Cerda as vice chancellor, W. D. Johnson as prelate, H. A. Lawrence as master of work, and other officers. The term lasts until June, with future elections moved to June under a Grand Lodge change. The Pythish Sisters and the D. C. K. K. will join Helmet lodge for a general initiation on Monday night January 8.
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George W. Kimball
East
Helmet Lodge No
Knights of Pythias
P. ‘Hall
H. W. Lawrence
Joe Cerda
W. D. Johnson
H. A. Lawrence
W. E. Burch
J. R. Chapman
N. H. Loomis
A. A. al Ien
H. J. Fisher
W.F. Malkossky
Grand Lodge
Pythish Sisters
Helmet Lodge
Bootlegging arrest in Janesville over moonshine sale
Formal charges of bootlegging were filed in Janesville Ia against Classie Force after he sold a half pint of moonshine for $1 in the 100 block on Fifth street east. Force signed an affidavit admitting the sale amid police testimony by Detectives Crumrine and Davis and Officer Buckley. Clinton voters approve $23,000 school bond for a new building in Comanche district by a vote of 133 to 69.
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Force
Janesville
EB. W. Koepke
Ralph W. Travis
Hugh Crumrine
Ralph Davis
Warren Buckley
Fifth Street
Clinton
Comanche
Lecture by Mrs. Goldie Cook at Unity Center
Mrs. Goldie Cook of Cedar Rapids will give a lecture at 8 p.m. Thursday at Unity Center 322-323 Lafayette building on The Inner Workings of the Temple. Bath Packing company applies for a building permit to remodel a garage into a dining room at 1500 Sycamore for 2100 dollars.
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Goldie Cook
Cedar Rapids
Unity
Center
Lafayette Building
Bath Packing Company
Christmas Glasses from Auchenan's for Parents
In brief notices from the city, families plan holidays and travels, with rail and business circles active. J P Carroll at 73 Lafayette is noted, C G W agent ill at home, Fred Carbiener and family depart for the Pacific coast, and freight inspectors from Chicago and Cedar Rapids visit local offices. Helen Rauth visits from Los Angeles, and L A Comics moves to Chicago for Kellogg Mackay. A smoker entertainment starts at Carpenters hall under Central Labor union, with talks, music and food. Ella Merick sues for divorce from Jess Merick over cruel treatment. Goodyear Cleaners & Shoe Rebuilders tied to Goodyear with half interest. Elks memorial addressed by B B Hunter at Iowa City and Cedar Rapids lodge visits. Dr F Heverly dentist ad. Penny supper at First Lutheran Church on Dec 7.
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J. P. Carroll
Lafayette Street
Fred Carbiener
Seventh Street
Pacific Coast
J. W. Kahl
Chicago
G. W. Railroad
L. J. Nickelsen
Cedar Rapids
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Helen Rauth
Los Angeles
Addie Sharp
Vermont Street
Rauth
Waterloo
L. A. Comics
Kellogg-Mackay Company
Combs
Ella Merick
Jess Merick
Goodyear Cleaners & Shoe Rebuilders
Fourth Street
B. Hunter
Elks Lodge
Iowa
Elks
Iowa City
Marshalltown
F. Heverly
Tos
Black Hawk
First Lutheran Church
Evangelicals Plan Religious Education Discussion
Evangelicals outline a planned religious education program as a conference of the state board of religious education met at First Evangelical church in Kansas City. Speakers include Rev. CO Fest Debouatie president and Rev. O M Yaegy conference director with Rev. R E B Kerney and others attending from Cedar Rapids Des Moines LeMars Dubuque and Story City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Board of Religious Education
Evangelical Church
John
Bramm
Kansas City
Wee
Calvary Evangelical Church
CO. H. Fest
Debouatie
O. M. Yaegy
Waterloo
R. EB. Kerney
Cedar Rapids
R. H. Aurand
Western Union College Church
LeMats
J. 8. Engel
Des Moines
L W. Schaller
Dubuque
R. C. Cramer
J. G. Jessen
Story City
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Sunshine Rebekah Lodge
Waterloo ST
F. Hall
Moose Hall
John Fiske
Lydia Society
First Presbyterian Church
Boosters Club
Linden M. E
Church School Board
Grace M. E
Church
Cicle
First Lutheran Missionary Society
Wiam Ruchesner
Golden Link Club
James Lambert
K. E.G. Club
Alfred Kies
Auxiliary and Missionary Society
Westminster Church
Grace
First
Presbyterian Church, Missionary Society
First Rhetrhenechurch
C. EB. Boldt
O. BS
Masonicaall
Linden Sunday School
N. C. Alfland
Orange Township
Becker
Order of Eastern Star
P. E. QO
W. R. CG
Bazar
Max Barg
Hadassah Society
Palestine
Gerardless
Creed
Scotch Folk
Cedar Valley Caledonian Society
George Wilson
Cedar Heights
Knute McGlain
John McClain
Edna Kent Forbes
Jess
Jose Fi
Church News
Woman's Society of
Walnut Street
Gaptist Church
Nettie Haskins
James Gray
Daughters of Plymouth of
Plymouth Congregational Church
St. Margaret's Guild
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Russell Sieg
John Chevalier
First Brethren Church
C. BE. Boldt
Lulu Mosier
Mines
Frank Klingaman
Will Klingaman
Sadie Washburn
Grant Miller
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of St. Paul's M. E. Church
Homer Jolls
R. L. Brown
Grace Methodist Church
Epworth League
Buck
Church School
Ladies’ Aid Society of
Linden Methodists Episcopal Church
John Aker
First, Presbyterian Church
Ald Socie—Ity
A. A. Sohner
A. M. Place
W. J. Egan
Luanehcon
A. Watkins
Roy Sinnard
Fellowine
Andrew Mitchell
GC. Wy. Ellyson
A. Marris
JC. A. Heath
Foreign Missionary Society
F. J. Miller
L. Whitney
J. E. Black
Aid Society
Home Missionary Society
Rab Cote
Mary EB. Lockwoodely
Lillian Rickert
Jossien Miligiud
Maude Borghart
Box
Mountain Mission
Harold M. Gordon
No. 2
Ray Tiller
Gordon
K. of P. Lodge
MY Valet, Inc. Master Cleaners
Fourth ST
Worth
Auchenan
Central Labor Union
Carpenters' Hall
Paul Davis Day
Goonsco
Miss Young
Armand Toiletries
Amana Bouquet
Armand
Sauerman’s
Armands
Arnae
Thor Brice
Evangelicals Plan
Amrad All Electric
Ihn Millinery and Cratty
Blue Star
United States
Artificial Ice & Fuel Co
East Sth
Fashion Department
Evening Courier
Wame
Aegede
Aeceuanes
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