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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1913
Page
6
Waterloo post office reports last quarter receipts of 74407.17 dollars, nearly 3000 more than all of 1906, with a 12811.80 dollar gain over the same quarter in 1912. A table shows state plate and monthly totals. Chicago election under way with aldermen bond issue and Cicero annexation votes.
The first fiscal year of Mayor Thompson's administration ended with 2,184 arrests by Chief Leighton's force. Judge Meyers set a new fines record at 5,291.25 dollars, more than doubling his predecessor. October saw 260 arrests, many for drunkenness or disorderly conduct, with numerous other offenses listed.
Waterloo realty dealers pushed a plan for uniform textbooks in all city schools. West side President Carleton Slas and East side President John E. Arbuckle favored forming voluntary committees to study and gradually implement a uniform plan as new books are purchased. West side committee members named. east side to appoint one if movement solidifies.
Berlin April 1 The German emperor's dispute with his tenant Helmuth Sohst is settled amicably after months in court. The tenant agrees to vacate the farm voluntarily though the lease runs five more years. He will receive the order of the Royal parawa as a token of the emperor's retraction of the claim that he had ousted a resident for inefficiency. Buy onion sets at Kighmey's grocery. Mrs. W. D. Ives travels to Chicago for Vet ter & Waters millinery orders.
Almon EF Gates of the Waterloo Business Men's Temperance association says no let up in anti liquor campaign. He notes prosecutions stalled by pending injunctions and a recent murder trial taking priority while committees continue quiet investigations and plan closer cooperation with the county attorney. New garden sheets advertised.
Chicago April 1 Twenty additional indictments were returned by a special grand jury probing the arson trust. No indictments were handed to Judge Burke yet and Assistant State's Attorney Johnston said more than fifty indictments are anticipated as the probe continues. Confessions from arson trust members have been reviewed by the grand jury.
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