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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Reporter
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1908
Page
4
Local items report the Tripoli Canning Co beginning operations on Tuesday and a roundup of community happenings. Residents visit relatives, travel to nearby towns for fairs and events, and attend the Ringling circus in Waterloo.
Mrs Kete Orlas expects her sister Mrs Mary McArthur of Sioux Falls. The Ladies Auxiliary meets with Mrs Harry Gates Sept 10. Social time and dinner planned. Many local residents visit relatives in Gatesville and Waterloo. Weather brings rain easing plowing and pasture, apples win a fair premium. Local fairs praised as clean and well managed. farm accidents described with medical attention. School opens with nineteen upstairs and twenty four primary pupils.
Mr and Mrs D K Smallug traveled to Colorado for a cousin s golden wedding. Gaye Ostrander died at her parents home Friday. Funeral at home Sunday and burial in Janesville Cemetery. Chris Braun family hosted his mother from Lakeport. D A Finley razed Worcester house. new residence planned. Grace Phelps at Shell Rock caring for grandfather Taley who is poorly. Janesville cemetery association men moved the cemetery. Mrs George Bush recovering from operation. Mrs John Callaghan hosting sister Miss Sheridan from Elowa. Chera Crete Newell to teach in Sewell district Bremer County Monday. Edith Callagian teaching first term in center district township.
Reports from Bennington list Little Nick Wellner's illness with possible pneumonia and several local visits and travels. Mentions include Mrs. Andrew Ortner, Miss Jane Ortner, Indpendence visits, a field plowing trial on September 5, and a lightning death near N Houfnagle. Multiple residents move, visit, or attend farm tasks, weddings, fairs, and school.
Shell Rock and nearby towns report a Friday tea honoring Mrs Rachel Reaugh of Dry Creek. The village also notes visits from Mrs Geo Hammond and Mrs Mae Dowe, a 16th wedding anniversary surprise for Mr and Mrs Coster, Dr Reed Thorepson’s visit from Tripoli, farm purchases, illness, and various departures for study, work, and travel in Mason City Allison Hampton Waterloo and Chicago.
Sept 2 Readlyn items cover Koch guesting Tripoli friends and Mrs Vanderwalker hosting with daughter. Several visits to Readlyn from Clarksville, Waverly, Sioux City, and Tripoli. Weddings at Hagenow home, large family gatherings, and a cancer operation for H. O. Meyer with positive progress. City council met to arrange for the circus trip and a rainy week closed with Aug Klenzman’s barn destruction.
In Waterloo Doctor attends Mrs William as tiling boom shifts to cement tiles. Rex Adix and wife return from Readlyn. Waverly area schools repaint. Local hog buyers report 36.10 for delivered hogs. corn 80c a bushel. nuts 40c. potatoes 10c. butter 20c to 26c. eggs 19c a dozen. Can factory runs limited. sweet corn ripening slowly. weather improving. Janeville cheese factory pays 1.00 for 4 percent milk. milk intake 67,000 lb above last year. List of check recipients includes Stacy Shuman Rich and others. September district court opens with Judge Clyde. calendar large, six cases set for grand jury. 47 new cases, eight divorces.
The report details a fire and multiple local notes including purchases, travels, and gatherings. It mentions C B Roberts’s shooting case at Atlantic City, a fire with unknown cause, and various community updates from Foreman Bandy to Miss Septa Babe visiting Belgrade.
The Atlantic City shooting involving Charles B. Roberts of Baltimore remains unsolved. Mrs Williams and W S Williams claim the incident began as a robbery attempt during a wheel chair ride near Water Street and Rhode Island avenue. A masked man with a revolver demanded valuables before fleeing, leaving injuries and a tense police investigation in progress.
The ad proclaims a cure for catarrh with Hall's Catarrh Cure taken internally. Proponents claim it can cure all stages of the disease and offer $100 if it fails. Includes testimonial requests and instructions to write to F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio. Also mentions Mail's Family Pills and notes James Finley of Pennsylvania as inventor of the modern suspension bridge built in 1801-02.
Boston observes the Franklin Union trading school as Benjamin Franklin’s legacy grows with Carnegie's gift. The $350000 building on Berkeley and Appleton houses labs for stationary engineers mechanics and draughtsmen to train skilled artisans. The project merges historic bequests with modern industrial education to fit 1000-seat lecture halls and rich facilities.
Boston Aug 2 The famed white squadron of the American navy may be converted to a green scheme as tests begin off Massachusetts coast aboard the auxiliary cruiser Yankee. The Yankee will be repainted in slate green to study visibility and concealment at sea with results not released until completion. The navy aims to prove the advantages of subdued color through practical methods, extending the experiment to masts and exposed surfaces above water.
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