Waterloo Courier, The (Newspaper) - July 19, 1893, Waterloo, Iowa VOLUME 16 WATERLOO IOWA WEDNESDAY JULY 1893 WHOLE 1777 Hudson W M Sherratt had two new porches put on his house and a new fence built which greatly improves the ap of his place H C Clapper returned from his trip to southwestern Iowa last Tuesday There will be a Columbian entertain ment July 22nd at Sergeants Hall by the young people of the U B church The program will consist of dialogues music and tableaux Those taking part will be appropriately costumed to represent colonial characters Everyone interested should turn out to the caucus Friday evening July 21st to nominate candidates for town officers to be elected August 1st Bert Hall and Chas Severance re turned from the worlds fair last week W J Harding and family of How ard Miner county S Dak are visiting Mr Hardings parents Mr and Mrs L H Harding Mr Harding is the associate editor of the Howard Press and a very pleasant gentleman to Miss Annie Wilbur of Gladbrook visited her sister Mrs J R Harding the past week returning to her home last evening where she charge of the while the postmaster visits the worlds fair G W Strayer went to Waterloo yes He has not fully recovered yet from the shock caused by the giant fire cracker explosion on the 4th inst The Ladies Aid Society of the Bap tist church will meet with Mrs Popp August 10 postponing one meeting E E Lumbus is reported very ill with typhoid fever at his fathers home Mr Samuel Lumbus The carpenters have the frame of L R new residence on Washing ton street up and partially enclosed J K Schnecks team ran away yes afternoon while the teamster was unloading some lumber back of D M They were stopped by running against one of John hitching posts knocking down both horses No damage was done other than the wagon being somewhat broken Harry Gardner of Waterloo Sun dayed in Hudson J H Wasbburn returned from South Dakota and western Iowa last week He reports crop prospects good in the parts visited by him Miss Nellie Smith of Rockford 111 came last Friday to visit relatives and friends in this vicinity Williams had a two year old steer killed by lightning last Saturday night Mr H B Eighmey is building a fine residence on the farm he bought of Daniel Carl last winter just south of town D A Burton editor of the Hudson Herald sent twenty pearls to kee that he had found L Death by Drowning Brief mention was made yesterday of the death in Bremer county of Clar ence Rousselow Clarence had been staying with Charles Colburn working on his farm Sunday forenoon he and another young man neither of whom could swim thought they would go bathing in the Cedar They went in where the water was very shallow but above them were a number of other boys and they asked Clarence and his companion to come to them The boys started but had not gone far when both sank The fellows above tried to rescue them and did succeed in getting out Clarences companion when he was about drowned Clarence however sank to rise no more alive and his body was about two hours afterward in 20 feet of water The fellow who was rescued is still very low and it is doubtful if he ers Clarence was about 19 years old has lived for a long time in this city with his uncle C H and was a bright dutiful young man highly re spected by his associates and all who knew him He was a son of A selow and formerly lived in Lincoln township His father and mother are dead but he has three brothers living His remains were brought to the home of Mr in Lincoln town ship and the funeral was held today from the Lincoln church Spring Creek Sjarks Haying is now the order of the day Oats will be ready to cut in a few days Bion Ham of Shady Grove will do the threshing in this vicinity Mrs Wm Kobe visited with her sis ter Mrs John Shinier of La Forte last week Mr Buechele our Superintendent is spending a short vacation with his brothers at Jubilee Miss Carrie Emert of Dewar spent Sunday with Miss Grace Standish G W and W G Hubbard began work Monday on the inside work of Mr house Benj Wilds of Kaymond has been taking an inventory of the repairs needed for our bridges some of which are in very bad shape A young lady from Denmark arrived at Olo Sunday The voyage occupied 27 days Miss Johnson of is re medical treatment from our German doctor TRUSSES BRACES SUPPORTERS Of Interest to Hunters I The Traveling Mens EAST July Editor Courier The time of the year has nearly arrived when parties most of whom hail from town I am glad to state come out into the country and shoot young prairie chickens For one the writer is heart ily tired of such business and to aid in discouraging the same you will find enclosed my check for which you may hold subject to the order of any person who will furnish any justice of the peace in with information that will secure the con viction of any person killing a prairie chicken before Sept 1st A close ob servation of the habits of this nearly extinct game bird extending over a period of twenty years has convinced me that the prairie chicken is of ines timable value to us destroying insects worms etc that work injury to crops and every farmer should join in a movement to protect the birds at least until the law is out PIONEER The received and we consider i our correspondents move a laudable one MARENGOS El the bright littte boy who disappeared from his home in Ma rengo on the afternoon of Friday May 12 is still missing The parents and people in general are quite certain that he was kidnapped by gypsies or other roving people Heartbroken over the loss of their little one the parents are unable to prosecute a vigorous search for him and therefore ask the news papers of the State and elsewhere to aid them in running down his tors by publishing the following des of the missing boy He has white hair cut short at the time of his light complexion blue eyes face considerably freckled and a gray dress black plush cap and shoes out at toes Knows his name well and will give it if not intimidated by his abductors Send any informa tion to E E Elverson mayor Maren go Iowa famous Brooklyn divine will occupy the platform at Cedar River Park next Thursday after noon and it is hoped that there will be a very large audience It is not nec essary to say anything in regard to the speaker He is recognized everywhere as being the foremost divine in the country and the management of the Chautauqua is to be congratulated upon securing him Reports from all neighboring points indicate that there will be a large number of strangers here on that day and should turn give the distinguished lecturer a big audience They willt bus not only benefit themselves by hearing one of the best lecturers but will be aiding the Chautauqua Association which is deserving of so much credit for the fine program which they have furnished THE BRIDGE The com of the board of supervisors in charge of the construction of an iron bridge on the road to Fairview ry are engaged this afternoon consid ering the bids Ten different bridge companies bid on the job and the com found it quite a job to decide who was entitled to the contract Low prices move furniture and we know how to do it TlIE HOSTETLER FURNITURE Co Saturday afternoon there will be another matinee at Wat Driving Park The races will be firstclass and among the attractions will be the freeforall pace in which Richard J Don Payne and possibly other speedy goers will participate A j small admission fee will be charged Closing Concert Thursday evening the last session of the Chautauqua a grand concert will be given A good program has been prepared by Mr Keck Hattie Brush and Alice Ettinger will assist EARLY Mosher re FINALE o n Thursday ports having tickled his palate with at the Park Hattie Brush and i j j i From Daily All the hotels in the city were the gainers largely by the coming of the traveling men Saturday Quite a num ber of the boys came Friday night and some of them remained over Sun day One of the hotels had to turn away guests all their rooms be ing filled The visitors were all highly pleased with Waterloo and they will take every occasion to speak a good word for our city and people The Waterloo traveling men expect to hold another picnic next year at which time they hope that the railroads will feel that they can give the boys a rate that will draw a large crowd to Wa COMPLIMENTS ABROAD Yesterday mornings DesMoines Register contained the following very pleasant notice of the day Mr F E Haley secretary of the Iowa State Travel Association returned last evening from a days stay at Waterloo Speaking of the gathering there he said The traveling men of Waterloo yesterday celebrated their first picnic given by Council Xo 3 Commer cial Pilgrims of America The picnic grounds are about one and onehalf miles north of Waterloo and in one of the most beautiful groves on the north bank of Iowas prettiest stream Cedar river steamboats made trips from the downtown landing every thirty minutes and each boat was crowded to its utmost capacity The traveling men of Waterloo and their wives and daughters did themselves proud yester day The picnic WLS a success in every particular Every detail of arrange ment had the personal supervision of some member of the different commit tees and nothing was left undone About 500 people were present at the grounds About two oclock the pa villion was filled with traveling men visitors and citizens and an excellent program carried out The Waterloo band a male quartette and several solos composed the musical portion of the entertainment Dr Chase delivered the address of welcome and W H of Oskaloosa responded The principal speaker was Hon S P Leland of Chicago His production was a masterly one in every detail and was well received after this portion of the program the day was pleasantly spent in social intercourse boat riding ham mock swinging getting better ac with each other etc The committee on arrangements composed of J W Richards C A Hoffman and John Rush felt that the success of the day repaid them for the bard work which they have done for the past week The Marshalltown can says of the picnic The traveling mens picnic at Wat on Saturday was a grand success in every way no pains being spared by those having it in charge to make it so Few of Our boys were present on ac count of being unable to get any re duction in rates from the roads run ning into Waterloo Traveling men who patronize the railroads all the year round and pay full fare are not led it seems to excursion rates when they want to have a picnic once a year Xo other disease is as fatal to chil dren as worms They are seldom with out them and the resemble those of almost every other compliant and often produce alarming without being suspected Dr T W Woods Worm Destroyer effectually de the worms and acts as a gener al tonic All druggists sell it A old men of Coggon are arranging a most novel race to the worlds fair and one which promises to attract as much attention as did the famous Chadron cowboy nice A number of old men who have passed the three score mark propose to pay an entrance fee of each thus raising a purse When all the arrange ments are completed those who have entered will start from Coggon to walk to Chicago and the one first arriving at Buffalo Bills wild west show is to take the entire purse green corn last Sunday the first of the season If was of his own raising and proves that in addition to being a rus tler as a justice of the peace he is a firstclass gardner also Alice Ettinger will assist Mr Keck in the closing concert Hear the Bridal Chorus by Cowen and Jerusalem by Parker Result In Trouble GUTHRIE O T July in departments decision to the offset that any person who lias been upon the Cherokee strip since March 2 has forfeited his right to a there will result in thou sands of contests and much serious trouble as nearly every boomer on tho line bus been upon the land within that time and has his claim picked out for which ho will fight if any attempt is made to contest or dislodge him Gasoline Stove Exploded ST PAUL July Charles Baker wife of tho proprietor of tho North Star laundry met n horrible fate at 1 p in She with her husband runs the laundry and works there every dny 1 went into the buck room und Ht tho gasoline stove preparatory to beginning work Tho suddenly exploded and n sheet of flume enveloped her person la nn in She was so badly burnod that she dod nt 3 oclock Wo business with good values and low prices CO little ones of is never en by the children for a medi cine that tastes bad This explains the popular i t y among 9 Scotts Emulsion a preparation of oil almost as palatable as milk Many mothers have grateful knowledge of its benefits to weak sickly children br Sontt A Y All OF Being part of the Estate of J G HOFF deceased In order to close up the business of the late J G the managers of the estate have decided to sell the firm J G II Son property and to do so at once they have directed that prices be put 011 the goods aswill sell them quick The quotations given below are only a sample of prices the entire store scarcely any regard being given to the original cost so that in NEW PRICES the managers have been controlled by one idea Prices that drive the goods into that will induce people to buy for far future as well as present needs o a c o o co co to ri X O Tt O CM O O O O O 32 Z fK o CDS re jO 1C O O O Black Faille for 98 160 127 265 1 25 Peau De Soie 150 140 100 75 Figured India 1 100 1 135 5 Black Quality for 200 Striped for i Quality Fish Net for tL m 01 io o ti a c o c hh o a V M O O O U ui o cT O c c c Red Table for GOc Cream Bleached Bleached Napkins for 225 325 150 450 500 250 325 362 lOc Towels 13c 85 Lace 150 62 I 200 Lace for 400 700 Irish for Irish for 924 1335 GINGHAM Sc Gingham for 12 Ac Gingham for Gingham for lOc Gingham for TICKING Fancy Ticking for ISc Fancy Ticking for CARPETS Extra Super Ingrain all wool wide 20 to 21 oz to yard and ends best made At aoc Worth Same goods in Cotton Chain worth Best Body Brussels Worth Sl Lower Grade Body Brussels Worth Sl 15 Best Tapestry Brussels Worth SI 00 Nine Wire Tapestry Worth Mfi Eight Wire Tapestry Worth FLANNELS Twill for GOc Checked GOc yard 1080 iSc ooc 17 c lOc JEANS Jean for lOc Jean for Jean for MUSLIN lOc Bleached for Sc Bleached for 6c Unbleached for Checked Flannel White lfc Outing uc lOc and put on sale July 54 Table Oil Cloth NOTIONS lOc Best Pins for oc Common Pins for lc Nursery Pins for Coats Thread for Knitting Cotton for lOc Spool Silk Oc Linen Thread for Gc Perfection Steels for Sc Coraline Steels c Bulance of Notion stock equally cheap DENIM AND DUCK Denims Denims forlie Denims CASSIMERES 75 Cassimere for 100 Cassimere for 125 Cassimere 100 100 125 100 125 50 100 CORSETS R No 611 for II for Smith for Warner for Ferris No 220 for Ferris Waist No 230 for 11 T for Summer Corsets for Duplex Corset for 75 65 90 70 90 55 41 62 LININGS Best Glove Finish Cambrics at best Silesia Silesia forlie Linen quality quality quality HOSIERY Socks for Socks for Sheeting Sheeting Pillow Case for 42 in Pillow Case for lOc SHIRTINGS Shirting for Shirting for 50 doz Socks a pair Samples worth up to 25 doz Ladies Hose a pair up to ISc 10 doz Black Hose Worth COc Silk Hose 135 Silk Hose 1 lot Ladies Fancy Cotton and Lisle Thread Hose at worth up to 1 lot Ladies Black and Solid Colors at at worth up to GLOVES Colored Silk Black Silk GOc Black Silk Black Silk Black Cashmere MITTS Black Silk for v Black Silk Silk OURS IS THE STORE AND THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY FOR EVERY ARTICLE IN THE STORE HAS BEEN REDUCED FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE BUSINESS OF 693 605 STREET WATERLOO OWA soon as risible At the prices named every dollars worth of goods OUGHT to be sold in a month and it will be to jour interest telp do it Spot Cash Sale begins July 5th 1895 Store closed all day Monday and Tuesday July 3d and 4th to As to help THE
