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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1929
Page
3
Waterloo Woman's club hosts annual luncheon at Hotel Russell Lamson with Mrs T M Buchanan in charge and Mrs J B Jones directing ticket sales. Other events include Junior auxiliary luncheon, dances, and multiple card parties across community groups including Hadassah PEO and BPW clubs.
A banquet will be held Thursday evening May 15 at 7 oclock in Brick s tearoom in connection with the district conference of chief operators of Northwestern Bell Telephone Company to be held at Hotel President May 15 and 16. Guests include G A Drew traffic manager from Des Moines and F W Carpenter and A Bergeson also of Des Moines. Thirty six will attend representing 22 towns including Cedar Rapids Dubuque Marion Mt Vernon Anamosa Waverly Debvein Independence and others. G A Bowlsty district traffic superintendent Waterloo will preside. Card Party Rosary Society Sacred Heart church entertained 75 at a board party. Honors in bridge went to Miss Mary Kelly and Mrs Otto Stegman. A door prize was awarded to Mrs Mary Waanan. Another party will be held Tuesday May 21 in charge of Mrs Louis Glaza. Becker Chapter a business meeting will be held by Becker chapter O E S Wednesday evening in Masonic temple with entertainment and refreshments after. Kitchen committee members named. In charge of dining room listed. Literary Society banquet set for Iowa State Teachers College at Black s tearoom next Saturday evening.
Mrs. Herman Miller was re elected president of the Kingsley Parent Teacher Association at a Friday meeting in the school. Mrs. H W Kendall was named vice president and Mrs. W H Buxton secretary treasurer. Gail Gore wrote a play performed by the sixth grade. Lincoln P T A will meet Tuesday evening at 7 30 in the school building with Brice Gates as speaker and refreshments to follow.
In this beauty column Edna Kent Forbes advises on gaining weight by increasing daily calories with richer foods. Suggestions include thicker bread, extra cream in coffee, dense soups, malted milk drinks, and frequent small boosts to digestion. The piece blends diet, skincare advice, and simple exercises for a fuller figure and healthier complexion.
Wild Reée club will meet all day Thursday with Mrs L Rickard at 1314 Seventh Street West. Fandora club plans a picnic luncheon at Mrs J W Thompson's cottage Casebeer Heights. Happy Hour club will be entertained at lunch Tuesday by Mrs James Black at 242 Prospect Avenue. T T D club to dine Monday at Black's tearoom with Mrs George F L McGuire and Miss Rita Tritz. bridge at 1225 Fifth Street West. New Century club hosted by Mrs R I Gray with luncheon Friday. Elmer Or was guest. music provided. Luncheon planned next Friday afternoon with Mrs Robert Ingersoll at Sherwood Park.
An informal open house at Sunnyside Country Club showcased clubhouse improvements for the coming season with apple blossom decor and hosting by Mrs. James Parrott and Mrs. R. Lommel. Delegates were elected to the Veterans encampment in Yankton for June, with alternates named. Numerous society notes follow including Shrine, card parties, and Mother’s Day programs.
Standard Bearers of First MEB church meet Monday at 7 30 with Mrs W A Burton 60 Baltimore street Division 1 Walnut Street Baptist church meet Wednesday afternoon with Mrs T K Farnsworth 258 Western avenue First United Presbyterian Ladies Aids meet Wednesday at 2 30 with Mrs F F Campbell 1100 Hammond avenue Members of Group 1 hostesses Unity Guild First Mt church to meet Monday at home of Mrs A W Bills 402 Rebel avenue Prenic supper at 6 30 followed by business session Married Falks class Central Christian church met Friday evening at the home of Mr and Mrs Davidson 1222 Forest avenue 20 members present Mrs R vg Grover elected trader evening spent socially
Mrs. A R Lovejoy was conferred Regent of the Waterloo D A R chapter at the annual election held Friday evening at Black's tearoom. Officers for 1929-30 include Vice Regent Mrs. O Krefe and others. retiring Regent Mrs. Ben Hesser named honorary. Forty-five attendees. Maypole decor and iris flowers noted.
National Hospital Day, observed on Florence Nightingale's May 11 birthday, will be recognized tomorrow at Allen Memorial St Francis and Presbyterian hospitals with special courtesies for visitors from 2 to 4 pm. All are welcome to visit and inspect the hospitals during these hours.
Instructions describe preparing a potatoes and ham casserole with layered sliced raw potatoes, ham, milk, and flour, baked until tender and browned. Also outlines a beet dish with onion browned in butter, stock and vinegar, poured over hot cooked beets. Includes Jellied Strawberries with currant juice and strawberries served with whipped cream.
A dense schedule lists social gatherings across many venues including Sunnyside Country Club Black's Tea Room and Hotel Russell Lamson. The week features dances, banquets, card parties, and guild meetings hosted by groups such as Theta Ps, German Freundschaft, YWCA chapters, PTA Lincoln school, and many local auxiliaries. Entities include University women associations and workplace clubs with dates scattered through Monday to Saturday, indoors at libraries, churches, and community halls.
A string of May weddings unfolds in northeast Iowa with numerous couples tying the knot from Wellsburg to Des Moines. Notable unions include Anna Okones and Ben Murray at Wellsburg’s Reformed church installment and multiple ceremonies across Ackley Waterloo Osage Nashua Charles City and nearby towns with families planning home farms and continued ties to local churches and colleges.
The marriage of Miss Harriet Slutts of Cedar Falls to DeWitt Spensley of Waterloo will take place at First Presbyterian Church in Cedar Falls on Wednesday evening May 22. The bride-elect has hosted several prenuptial affairs during the past week.
In St. Tonis Missouri area marriages are listed for Genevieve S Greeley and Willis L Arter, both of Hudson, at Linden M E parsonage Waterloo. Mildred Froelich and Irwin D Masher wed at Little Brown church Nashua, at home in West Liberty. Bernice Graham and Lee Bolstetter wed in Osage, the couple to reside there. Florence Sassman and Victor Mack married in Denver Indiana, to live in Denver. Other weddings by Rev J L McCorison at Little Brown church Nashua include Margaret Ayers and Ralph Morse, Netlie Denger and R L Gulman, Sara Logsdan and Glenn Flora, Myrtle Peterson and Enoch G Sampson.
Mrs. James Eliott of 213 Lafayette street traveled to Iowa City to join her son James Jr. at a Mother's Day banquet. James Jr. is a student at the University of Iowa.
It lists corrections across multiple categories: the fifteenth instead of the fourteenth, once elected, the eldest son of the queen, Corsica instead of Sardinia, east or southeast of Cuba instead of west, and Wales in place of Ireland. These items read like a riddle of corrected facts rather than a single event.
Canopus Club defers luncheon to 6:30 p m at Hotel President Waterloo with Optimist International officials as guests. Hurlington Wood of Optimist International will speak on merging Canopus and Optimist clubs. officials from St Louis and a district governor attend. West High School orchestra to provide dinner music.
Local notes list Mrs Louis P Bolinger from Chicago visiting her parents while Carl Dixon of Spokane visits his sister Miss Dixon. Various residents from Centerville Buffalo and Jeff last travel or host guests. Emma Howard, 2, heals after buzz saw wound with 70 stitches. Emily Ellis of Ida Grove wins meat story contest for University scholarship and $50. Mary Kudack seeks interpreter in divorce case with temporary alimony hearing set May 15. Daylight saving time begins in Chicago April 24 with theatre reservations available.
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