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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1911
Page
5
Chicago traders saw short sellers cover amid a strong wheat market on April 5. May wheat rose to 5 1 2 per bushel with exporters driving gains and May corn and hogs also moving higher amid firmer demand and weaker farm movement. Weather remained unsettled in Iowa and Illinois with cloudiness and colder snaps.
Liverpool closes for Easter on April 4, 18 and 17. The Chicago Anvil A Botter Steady dairies and creameries report 14% to 21% changes while eggs and cheese prices move. Hog, cattle, and sheep receipts and prices in Chicago and Minneapolis cash markets are listed, with wheat corn oats futures and New York stock results noted.
Waterloo lodge No. 744 Fraternal Order of Eagles votes to build a three story home with a 4191 seat auditorium on a 120 by 141 foot site at Fifth Avenue and Commercial Street. A 60000 to 76000 dollar project funds via a stock issue, with several sites under review and a committee meeting this afternoon to select the location.
Real estate transfers show Waterloo properties changing hands including lot 4 block 1 West Park Waterloo for 512 dollars. Other transfers cover land in sections 6-90-11 5-90-11 and 23-88-13 among listed owners with sums mostly at $1 and varying larger payments.
In Omaha Nebraska on April 5 authorities used bloodhounds to trace dynamiters who damaged the unfinished Douglas county courthouse. The explosion heavily damaged the building, causing thousands of dollars in repairs, with photos showing the dogs following the scent at the blast site.
Extreme south states suffered record rainfall and high winds that disrupted train and wire service and damaged crops. Mobile reports show record rainfall the heaviest since 1906 with hundreds marooned in river districts.
J R Kirkland from Columbus joins Corn Belt Auto as salesman. Col Berkley of Spirit Lake visits. Fred Fernan of Osage passes through en route to Los Angeles. Joe Fox travels to Portal North Carolina on land business. Harry Bower of Des Moines, Great Western claim agent, in city on company business. Mrs C A LaBarre off to Chicago to visit brothers Harry and Deli Quest. Peck Harrington joins baseball squad. Rev Walter H Rollins returns from Des Moines after two days. Talk of uniting First M E with First Congregational due to fire. Licensed to wed Adolphus Quimby Cedar Falls and Mildred E Ellis Waterloo.
Seventy ministers attend the fifty first annual Evangelical association session at Emanuel church. Bishop Spreng delivers the convention sermon tomorrow on the functions of the modern minister. The meeting promotes unity and aims at organic union among church bodies with talks by Rev. Walz Lang and others.
G A Liniger and his family have purchased a residence at the corner of Hammond and Burron avenues in Waterloo. The former owner A F Glenny will build a new home this spring and stay at the Irving hotel with his family until completion. Liniger is brother of Louis L Liniger of the Corn Belt Telephone company and will start a local business here.
Bruno Steindel the cellist of the Thomas Orchestra arrives from Chicago to close the Artists Course in Waterloo. Prof Scott B Prowell arranged the winter program to begin after 8 30 at the church with stems by Steindel Miss Georgiella Lay and Mr Prowell and solos by Steindel. Dairy butter 21 cents a pound at Fightney.
Rowdy Hendricks, a key addition to the Boosters baseball squad, welcomed back by fans as he reports after spending winter in Seattle. Last season he won 12 of 18 decisions in the Three-I league and fielded his position well.
A smoke alarm at the Sixth and Washington corner caused extra bustle in the west business district at 1:40 PM. The fire involved the Mary E Wood home at 715 South Street where trash in the eaves trough likely caught from a chimney spark, but no damage occurred.
May term 1911. Catherine Yapp files in Black Hawk county Iowa district court seeking personal judgment of 1961.90 plus interest on a note dated January 12 1807 and mortgage foreclosure on north half of lot BE Cedar Dale Waterloo. Defendants E M Storm Juliaette Storm J V Gregory and Henry Iblings must appear by May 2 1911 or default will be entered. attorney fees 65 plus 6.80 insurance noted.
Frank Huddleston described his dramatic conversion from gambling and drinking, aided by a miraculous perceived presence of God during a life threatening illness. Homer A. Rodenheaver and J. E Bates spoke and led songs as strong listeners were moved to tears. Bates elected the new president.
J. W. Mercellus returned from Chicago with new equipment and furniture for the Orpheum theater. New chairs will fill the first floor while the new gallery is seated, balcony curtains and divans for the lodges are secured. The refurbished and enlarged theater will have a formal opening next week.
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