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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Reporter
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1906
Page
4
A simple recipe for small hot biscuits to serve as a light dessert. Mix and bake just before the meal using Royal Baking Powder, then enjoy with butter and honey marmalade or jam. Royal Baking Powder Company, New York.
Local reporters note Ars R A Elis and daughter arriving from Waverly after a visit with relatives. Davey Green, shot Saturday, is recovering well. Lillian Dera travels to Monticello to assist at her aunt Sadie Harrison’s newly purchased millinery store opening. The Fay sisters returned home to Byrtherville as Mrs Fay recovers and expects to depart soon. I C Magee of Fayette visits his daughter Jessie Magee at the First National Bank. Judge HBlafr adjourns court to Wednesday. two days of trial cubes remain unsettled with negotiations for settlement. HLS Warner of Dunkerton seeks medical care after breaking and resetting a damaged left arm. Ren G H Gable of Des Moines to address fraternal insurance at the A U U W ball. Mrs C A Dodson of Gladbrook, arrested after creating a disturbance, released and allowed to go to Laporte. Frank Foster of West Fourth Street operated on for appendicitis with guarded hope for recovery. Mrs James Wilson at 1019 West Fourth Street gravely ill with stomach cancer. children, including Henry Reinbeck resident, James Cumming, and Emmeta Bre, in city. Mary Wilson returning from Denver.
Peter Smith of Winton leaped from a moving midnight Rocksland train near the old paper mill Sunday night. He suffered severe scalp wounds and arm injury, was knocked unconscious for hours, then found refuge at 329 West Tenth Street before being taken to the Germania hotel for medical care. He sought work at the Lone Dairy Separator Co. and rode the baggage car to the city with little money.
Benjamin Brackenbury died this forenoon at his daughter Mrs. W H Bisbee’s home after a long life born in Lincolnshire England on July 13 1818 came to Blackhawk county 29 years ago leaving three children Eliza beth Disbee Benj Brackenbury and William Brackenbury Funeral will be held 2 p.m. Wednesday at the home cor Logan avenue and Parker Street Also notes Arnold Rosgen ill with appendicitis and Josephine Duke in serious condition with possible surgery.
Mr and Mrs F R Gardner former Eagle township residents now of Ree Heights South Dakota are visiting Waterloo and their old Blackhawk county home after twenty five years They remark on development from sparse settlement roads prairie swamps and capitalized land to a modern hive of industry with familiar spots recalled by friends and relatives in Waterloo and Ragite township.
Elks Lodge No. 250 in Waterloo elected officers for the coming year led by Exalted Ruler B. B. Cliver and Secretary J. W. McMillan. The group expects the new hall in the H. M. Reed building on Sycamore Street to be ready for occupancy at the next meeting in April, with dedication hoped early next month. The lodge has met in the Knights of Pythias hall since prior fire destroyed the old Bridge Street building. Foley & Co. Chicago promotes Honey and Tar as a throat remedy amid many imitations, sold locally by C. W. Bitner and Wangler Bros. & Todd.
Mr and Mrs Chas Gipus celebrated their sixty year wedding anniversary at 202 Mulberry Street on Saturday with about sixty guests from Cedar Falls Janesville and nearby areas. Reverends Miller Phillips Trimble Skinner and Calter attended with poems and remarks marking the occasion.
Pleasant Hill school district No. 8 Lester township votes to replace the echoing old building with a new one costing 500 dollars. Bonds carried for 600 dollars. Estimated savings from the old structure to cover 300 additional. Directors plan spring start and completion before term ends to avoid interruption. Will be among county's best school houses.
Centerville figure Hammond, active in Waterloo with the W. O. T. U. and ministerial supporters against saloons, relocates to Cedar Rapids. Campaign plans remain uncertain but temperance work is likely. An unrelated ad for Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea at 5 cents by Wangler Bros. & Todd appears.
A mix of medical claims and personal testimonials promotes Foley's Kidney Cure for women and a Chicago doctor Dr Shallenberger praised by Mrs Emma Hazlewood. The item also lists a small marine engine for sale via Rabt Parratt of Waterlog Iowa.
A Wilbert Shallenberger page notes a one day only event with a return after twenty eight days and brief hours from 8 09 p m to 8 00 pm. The listing lists timing details and a recurring pattern.
Estimated receipts for hogs cattle and sheep listed with bid prices for mixed, good to choice heavy and light quality hogs. Opened several cents lower than Saturday's averages, later closed down about ten cents. Cattle and sheep opened slightly lower with mixed results. steers prime beef priced high, other cattle ranges shown. Market notes include numerous price quotes for commodities and dairy items, with a closing line about M. H. Will confined at home due to illness.
In an impromptu address the speaker congratulated Mr and Mrs Gibby on their anniversary and presented a formal marriage certificate book bearing the names of all wedding guests. The Gibbys are early settlers with many friends in Watering and Blackhawk counties.
Mrs Blanche Cook wife of M B Cook died Saturday evening at 8 15 from peritonitis at 116 East Fourth street in Waterloo. She was born August 1 1838 in Pennsylvania and married in October 1862. The couple had two children Abs and a daughter. Funeral plans await burial in New York after the service at A D Woodruff parlors. The family had moved to Waterloo two weeks ago from New York City.
A Wood Indiana resident recounts years of severe lung hemorrhages cured by Foley's Honey and Tar after failures with several doctors. The testimonial claims the medicine halted coughing, healed the lungs, and prevented serious outcomes from colds. Refuses substitutes, sold by C. W. Bitner.
Chester C Bennett died Saturday evening at the home of his niece Mrs G N Lee 216 Courtland avenue Waterloo after a yearlong fight with Bright's disease The funeral was at 2 30 pm from Grace M B church and burial in Fairview cemetery Members of the GAR attended Bennett served in the 1d4th New York Regiment The Waterloo resident for 29 years was born July 25 1844 in New York He enlisted in the Civil War and later moved to Nebraska before settling in Waterloo He worked 28 years as an engineer at the A W Morrill soap factory His wife Mary E Morrill died four years ago He is survived by brothers L S Bennett Alvah E Bennett and Nathan Bennett all of Waterloo and sisters Mrs Hunice Willard Springville IA and Mrs W C Faynsworth Waterloo One sister Mrs Lucy Welstead died recently Bennett belonged to Grace M B church and the Modern Brotherhood of America lodge
William B. Hom resigns as West Side office manager and S. H. Pinkerton assumes duties at 926 West Fourth Street Waterloo. Pinkerton, long in groceries, brings wide experience to oversee company affairs while Hom moves to his farm for the coming season. Mrs. John Allen on Saxon Street is reported very sick with pneumonia.
Little Adella Theies and her sister Marvna were stricken with ararlet fever simultaneously. Marvna died from the illness, while Adella survived the quarantine period.
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