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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1911
Page
1
Auction note: Several seven room homes offered with rents and prices. Properties include a double house rented at 584 dollars yearly, non resident ownership, within 412 blocks of the post office. Other listings show 7 room houses on car lines, paved streets, and near parks with prices from 2900 to 5500 and a new 7 room on Locust Street for 4000.
Waterloo suburban realty ads invite quick action with numerous bargains. Listings include 7 to 10 room houses with modern features and prices from 1 750 to 5 000 dollars, plus several lots and 1 to 15 acre tracts near Waterloo and nearby suburbs.
Real estate ads offer 3220 acres in Sunny Southern Alberta Canada with 605146 lot in Home Park corner 93120 feet and two story house plus barn and pump. Land priced at 25 dollars per acre with cash or four yearly payments. Also listings for Waterloo homes, 61x140 lot and 40x120 lots with easy payments and land in trade. Rental ads include three modern houses for rent.
The Waterloo theater sells advance Ben Hur seats for four performances next week with about 200 people in line at box office opening. Demand includes out of town groups from Denver and Cedar Falls, with total sales near $5,000 and a potential extra Friday matinee. Davis Towle praises management and press cooperation amid anticipation of a spectacular production.
W I Griffith departs East Waterloo High School after three and a half years to take the Waverly public schools superintendency. His replacement is Flel Kline, a Kansas man with prior high school principalships, set to begin April 11 as Griffith moves to Waverly.
In a crowded South State Street store near Fourteenth Street, Lary A. Raven an elderly eccentric horse doctor and money lender was murdered in a robbery attempt. Raven’s shop resembled a dark cave, aiding the assailant as onlookers passed by unaware. His old dog was present but unable to help.
The National Commission will meet Monday to review the Waterloo case after a heated Three in Chicago meeting. Frank Boyle reports a verbal clash with Tearney and denies derogatory language about Waterloosn, while northern and southern factions clash over refering to the full commission or a three man committee with Johnson casting the decisive vote.
In district court Judge Platt grants custody to Rose A. Roof, the adoptive mother, finding the child Gertrude Roof legally adopted on October 10, 1904 and wrongfully detained by the real parents Louis J. and Sylvia Zach of Cedar Falls. The child, seven years old, had been visiting from Minnesota. A further bill for board may be filed against Mrs Roof.
A telegram from the Sheffield choir reports Ottawa and government house events with Earl Grey and Lt Governor. The Waterloo plan to close Sunday post windows and registered letters, with mail still processed as usual. patrons may pick up important mail by notifying the main office or station A before closing tonight.
Charles Harriss reports the Sheffield choir on its world tour generating enormous enthusiasm. Tickets sold out on opening day in many locations. Waterloo arrangements are being finalized for an April 27 appearance with ticket sales opening April 18.
A 16 year old boy giving the name John Rahner admitted to police he is the youth wanted for the theft of 38000 dollars and valuable papers from Union Hill National Bank in Union Hill New Jersey, with the incident linked to an arrest late last night in Fort Wayne Indiana.
St Louis, April 1 Four thousand carpenters walked out over a demand for a five cent per hour raise. Five hundred woodworkers warned they will not work unless a seven cent increase is granted. Employers say they will not attempt to fill the striking positions for now.
Ira Hoover returns from Chicago on business as T. W. Place visits Chicago with his sons F. E. and D. M. Place. Mrs. H. E. Kiester goes to Chicago, H. E. Ashbaugh family moves to Waterloo, Mrs. John Joseph Brown returns from Oak Park. Fox squirrels saved, wreck news from Hampton and Dubuque, engineer Stearns improving, Patrolman Farley takes vacation in Chicago.
Cincinnati, April 1. George B. Cox faces a new perjury indictment after the grand jury returned it on the eve of mustering out. Prosecutor Henry T. Hutt moved for a venue change sending Cox toward Clermont county to avoid Hamilton county politics. Cox’s third indictment follows prior defects and a court battle and will continue in court.
A committee led by William A. Moore Alfred G Vanderbilt and about a dozen other noted horsemen will purchase and donate horses from America to the United States army for display at the international horse show in London next June regardless of cost, to ensure proper representation.
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