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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Reporter
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1907
Page
3
The column records numerous social visits and travel across towns including Peterson, Waterloo, Waverly, Tripoli, and Denver. It notes engagements, church events, and community happenings such as a golden wedding celebration, a cemetery fundraiser, a basket social, and a runaway buggy incident with minor injuries.
In Jesup on October 26 farmers finish corn cutting. Families note ill health with several cases of pneumonia. Local clergy visits and returns mark the week as Rev. P O Dowd and Rev J J Horsfell meet. H L Hawkins recovers from a recent injury and Father Craney stays active in Independence. Store openings, birthday surprises, and high school plans for a Halloween event are announced as residents share news and greetings.
In Littleton and nearby towns residents recount visits by Mrs Diehl and relatives, church attendances, and health concerns. Rev. H Reeder is slated to return to the pulpit with Rev. Bredow and Rev. Lord taking pastoral duties soon. In New Hampton, May Clark and M A Rogers wed in Portland, where she worked as a seamstress and he leads a souvenir card firm executive.
Miss Earth Hayes of the Iowa Publishing Co Davenport arrives to collect data for a comprehensive Waterloo city map. She will search records for about two months gathering material for a final map slated to be the first in years due to many additions and alterations in recent times. The engraving phase will start after verifications, with extensive attention to accuracy and usefulness for buyers.
Rev Loebeck visited relatives in Denver on Friday. Miss Lillian Clark of Waverly is set to teach the Deadlyn public school for eight months. Threshing is nearly finished in the neighborhood with decent oat yields priced at two market levels. B Auspach traveled to Omaha for a trip.
The Odell family and several Waterloo residents bought land near Las Vegas New Mexico and left Waterloo on a land company train named Lag Vegas. The modern coach includes a private office for F C Edwards and apartments for land seekers. The journey covers about 1200 miles with another car from Chicago joining Des Moines departures. FM Merrick of Waterloo accompanied the buyers.
Work began Tuesday on a new storehouse and an old building for the W C G B and Ny railway at the shops beyond the Litchfield plant. George Scales holds the contract for 4000 dollars. The two story concrete block structure will adjoin the shops and serve the street car company. Brick car barns will follow. West Ninth Street line extension reaches Forrest Avenue, with construction paused due to labor difficulties.
J F Klingaman overseer of the poor and Associated Charities notes seventy dependents now but expects winter need to rise to about three hundred as cold weather approaches. He warns the winter will demand extra effort from relief services. The work is lighter in summer but strains grow with the season.
Parkersburg residents report the Louis family is pressuring Des Moines papers to discredit Robert F. Camp the Butler county attorney and Parkersburg mayoral figure. Camp is praised for enforcing liquor laws and pursuing druggists slot operations and gambling devices amid a feud sparked by Louis family claims and press attention from Des Moines outlets.
The Waverly sugar factory, built for over $500,000, will start slicing beets next Monday with beet deliveries already pouring in. Initial tonnages and carloads indicate a cautious but hopeful opening campaign as managers push for better roads and local growth. Visitors will need a permit to enter once machinery starts.
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