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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1913
Page
7
The listing shows prices for HWatt Brushes, washable chamois, hand mirrors, durable rubber gloves, mechanics paste and mentholatum. Regular prices appear with discounted amounts and half price notes, reflecting a broad sale on hardware and personal care goods.
Fr Eighmer presided at Waterloo Bank Clerks association in Leavitt & Johnsen National Bank parlors delivering a practical address on daily conduct and banking ethics. Papers on savings banks trust companies mutual banks and national banks were read by Bar Cable Ned Wyant George Wentland and H H Cordes. Several local residents and visitors are noted with moves to Gordaneville Cedar Rapids La Porte City and Omaha.
In Milton Iowa the post office was robbed around 1 AM. Suspects fled toward Milton, a gun was fired at a door, and a man named Mr. Sierli reported being assaulted after leaving a Moulton establishment. A poster office guard found 200 stamps on a suspect.
In Mt Auburn and nearby towns residents are noted visiting and hosting friends. Entries include Mrs Bowser shopping in Cedar Rapids and Mrs Windmiller from Vinton visiting a local York home. Several families plan or complete trips returning home after visits with relatives.
Lamb and Mabel Lee were shop people in Vinton Tuesday. Mrs W Woodruff and daughters returned home on Vinton Tuesday evening after visiting the Chas Owens home.
Superintendent A T Huakill was re-elected by the Waterloo school board at a meeting held in Leavitt Johnson National Bank. Topics included plans for a new Galway school building and the brick contract awarded to the Minneapolis Brick Company for an extra heavy yellow brick.
Clarksville tales include many homecomings from Ames and Mt. Vernon colleges as Clarence Wyete Keats and Ethel Cook return, and Paul Graham Curtis Smith Howard Bashford and Mark Waugh visit. Town residents report illnesses travels sales and social events with weddings, funerals, and church programs noted along with several out-of-town visitors and local labor updates.
Parkersburg Iowa April 1 Chay Jones suffered another slight stroke last Tuesday night but is improving though confined to the house. Dr Blair attended the Des Moines state Yeomen conclave as a delegate from the local lodge. May has been housebound three weeks with rheumatism. Mrs Miller of Cedar Falls visited sister Mrs T A Hobgen over Sunday. Robert Fullerton of Iowa City tied his sister last week. Mrs J Thompson ill with bilious fever. Mrs Emerson Taylor of Waterloo visited friends last Wednesday. John DeVries owes his family to Independence this week. Mrs George Johnson visited Torrington Illinois last Thursday. Miss Gertende Polderboor vacationing at Sibley. Lt Caldwell and Miss Ruth Conn attended Independence teachers meeting. Conn read a paper on primary grades. Dr Buschbaum and Mauries Mead spent Sunday with friends in Waterloo. Mr Cooper visited Sunday. Mrs Cooper and Mildred visiting Dyersville. Rev Emil Maller of Pierre S D visiting Rothe family this week. Death reported Saturday of Mrs Joseph Wheeler last Friday at daughter Mrs John Conking’s Magle Grove home. early Parkersburg resident.
In Tripoli on April 2 a new five and ten cent store will open in the building formerly occupied by Jahnke Bros, with Mr. Giles of Waverly overseeing remodeling. Local residents visit relatives in Iowa City and Denver as births, weddings, and visits are noted.
The sale today hosted by Willa Helland at the Welland sale barns drew large crowds as horses priced above previous sales drew keen bidding. About 800 animals were listed with bidding closing at 1 o clock.
Four directors will be elected to serve the ensuing year at the Y M C A meeting set for May 6. Outgoing directors listed include H. G. Fisher W. A H. Howrey Austin Burt and Dr C W Bruner. The resignations of H M Lee and E J Starr remain unresolved until the board meets next.
Des Moines April 4. The Senate passed the Kimball bill giving the State board of education power to prescribe courses of study at all state institutions. Home economics must be included where girls study, with duplication allowed only to advance state education interests. The Cowles resolution seeks rescission of the October 8 transfers of engineering and economics between Iowa City and Ames as a compromise. The bill also bars board members from residing in cities with institutions.
A score of noted middle west railroad men joined service for George T. Nicholson of Chicago vice president of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe lines. The ceremony at the Friends church in Lawrence was led by Rev. Edmund Stanley, with Nicholson’s former home cited. A special Chicago-bound train carried officials to the service.
Waterloo grocers report an imminent price decline for eggs with many retailers selling a dozen at seventeen cents and some at sixteen cents. Butter holds near thirty eight cents per pound, while potatoes fetch about seventy five cents per bushel as spring increases supply.
Clarence Darrow, former McNamaras counsel, left Los Angeles for Chicago after two jury bribery trials tied to the dynamite case. He planned a visit to his son in Colorado, with a third trial pending for June 16. If not tried again, he said he would retire to a northern California ranch and take up writing.
Lea Buchanan and M. A. Parker received letters from relatives in Logansport Indiana about fleeing flood danger. Parker’s niece Mrs. McMillan was visiting Dayton during the flood and gave birth to a ten pound son the flood produced forty one births in a single hospital.
Mrs Archi Andrew wife of a Superior car conductor shot herself in a telegraph office after a dispute with a telegraph operator. The wound proved fatal and later reports say she had been riding motorcycles with the operator.
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