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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Reporter
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1907
Page
3
Local items from Gunkerton report a fall term start and farm moves in Barclay for 1908, along with threshing delays, corn crop prospects, and hog purchases. A wedding at the Erpeliding home on August 20 united Pearl Erpeliding and Charles Fransham with about 55 guests and a festive reception.
In Plainfield Aug 26 updates tell of Mrs Drinkwater visiting relatives in Chicago before returning to California. Waterloo visitors include Mesdames Jones Kitchen and Master Douglas, Miss Townsend, Charlotte and Daisy Foster, Mrs McCoy, J.W. Empson, and Miss Mae Reitz. Residents and guests visit from Oelwein Nashua Charles City and Waterloo as well as Cedar Falls. A newborn arrives to Mr and Mrs Harrington. Mae Reitz returns to Chicago. several locals travel for university and church events.
The column notes a marriage announcement for Miss Amsode Huebner and Mr Jobo Webling for September 6, and mentions Readlyn Uttleton and family traveling to Des Moines for the state fair. It reports the death of Mr John Timmerman after surgery and the recent marriage of Mr and Mrs Timmerman two months ago, with condolences to the bereaved husband. It also records local visits to Waterloo, tent meetings led by Rev Brereton and Mr Crane’s upcoming guest.
A Tuesday rain was a welcomed relief for local farmers as crops needed moisture. The community saw a flurry of social visits with Miss Martha Schutte staying with Mrs. Fred Dickman, and many residents listed visiting relatives and friends in nearby towns. Reports mention drops in health like Danleig’s blood nourishment issue and various travels to Kansas Nebraska Dakota and Waterloo for family visits.
Ming Eva Logan of Dumont visits the Dunlay home in East Perry. The infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Francis Krome is improving. Blanche Miller visits her uncle near Hazleton. Epworth League and Jesup Littleton Sunday schools picnic in Searls grove. John and Ed Alexander of Waterloo visit Littleton as their father James Alexander recovers. Laura Stevenson rallies. Debating club considers a tobacco smoke etiquette motion. Readers hear of various local visitors, travels, and family notices across Jesup, Littleton, Waverly, and surrounding towns with multiple relatives and neighbors named and described.
Bremer county reports warm weather with no frost until after October 1, aiding sugar beet growth and a potential two million bushel corn yield. A $500,000 sugar factory planned to begin accepting beets as they ripen, while a Kell y Canning factory aims to start canning corn next week and a new bridge project uses Bremer avenue plankwork. Local markets show hogs around 95 to 96 per cwt, eggs 16 cents a dozen, butter 28 cents a pound, potatoes 76 cents a bushel, and hay around 9 dollars a ton. Marriage licenses were issued to Nelson Bucklin and Hattie Hough in Cedar Falls. Ernest Grottharass and his daughter visited the beet and sugar factory scene with German government interest noted.
A long prose piece portrays Miss Mason teaching a class of twenty young housekeepers, Mary Brannigan’s defiant meddling, and a rector who admires her. Romance blooms as Tessa and Mary clash before a gentle moral resolution. A second column ponders the origin of the name strawberry and mingles humor about poetry and business with social commentary.
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