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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Reporter
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1908
Page
3
Community notes from Clarksville and nearby towns recount visits, illnesses, travel to funerals, and social events. People from Mason City Cedar Falls Waterloo and Algona attend services, dances, and family gatherings. reports include illnesses such as grippe, injuries, and a few deaths with funeral details.
Reverend Smith of the M E church plans revival work at Frederika this week. Albert Brandt and family moved to a new place. Dan Keplar and family are in Oklahoma and report all well. Spring plowing begins as farmers prepare crops. Mrs G A Bilis and Miss Gertie Bilms will attend a china shower for Miss Chambers. Measles reappear locally. Geo Hills and family plan a move five miles southwest. Mrs John Russell slowly improves after doctor consultation. A valentine social at Mr and Mrs Plumers Friday night, hosted by the league and aid society with a small program and refreshments.
A stream of small items lists residents and visitors in Shell Rock, Greene, Cedar Falls, and surrounding towns. Names include Mrs. Kate Carter recovering, Miss Mabel Trotter visiting her sick sister, Jas Haynes, Algra ven gon, Ed Walker of Fuller ton, A R Walker, and Cant Speer. Teachers Mary A. Faint and Prof. Bender presided at a county teachers meeting with about sixty teachers attending. Local birthdays for Henry White and H Boyd. political visitors Chas Harmon and D Cousins. and several sickness reports appear alongside social visits and travel notes through the week.
Feb 12 Littleton with notices of visitors from Waterloo and Jesup, a birth in Budzine family, health updates including Mrs Melrose and Mrs Herron, plus local shoppings, farm sales, and community gatherings. Mentions G Ford Triumph shipping hogs to Chicago, Valentine party plans, and church activities with upcoming services and Auxiliary meeting. Includes birthday surprise for Roy Masters, a fire-related incident involving August Krantz, and various travels among residents to Waterloo Mason City and Chicago.
Winthrop reports residents returning from visits and travels including Laurence White and Mrs. Braden while Will Bucher visits Epworth Seminary. Measles quarantine at James Gallery’s house and preparations for local auctions dominate town chatter. In Readlyn updates, Emilie Jesse leaves for Jesup to run a restaurant, school contest preparations, and multiple visits to Waverly and Cedar Falls mark a busy period.
Feb 12 report from La Porte says E B Losse shipped one car of cattle and Mullen Aros two cars Sunday, prices weak. L E Current returns from Kangas and predicts Iowa prospects. Mrs H R Smeiser and Nora improve after illness. G N Manwell back from Dysart after two weeks. Yarrow sale draws large crowd with good prices. Farmers Mutual Telephone company starts Tuesday amid talk. Many residents return from Waterloo. Water issues: district Knights of Pythias convention planned, hoboes’ gathering noted. Creamery institute at Opera House poorly attended due to Yarrow sale. expected larger crowd Friday. G D Kern of Waterloo visits to survey land and prospects.
Readers are informed of a $100 reward for any catarrh cure failure. Hall's Catarrh Cure is advertised as a constitutional remedy that acts on blood and mucous surfaces to destroy the disease’s foundation and bolster the patient’s stamina. Testimonials are requested, with F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo promoting sales via druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The New York Sun quotes a certing playwright and press agent academy graduate who, standing before a Broadway billboard in driving rain, laments the wreck of a lithograph and laments never escaping the business he was raised in. He recalls waking to think of good paper downtrodden by night’s agents and notes one cannot outgrow the industry.
A historical note describes a Mexican cook relieving a mistress of worry by daily budgeting one dollar for provisions. It claims the cook can supply meals for a family of three or four and even feed servants, often negotiating better prices with market vendors and stretching funds to cover beans tortillas and chile.
Hundreds sufferers report long lasting piles cured in weeks using Pyramid Pile Cure. The ad claims operations rarely cure and boast home use with a free trial sample. It urges writing Pyramid Drug Co in Marshall Michigan for a no charge sample before purchasing a 60 cent box.
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