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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1921
Page
4
Want ads from Waterloo Courier list sales pitches for help wanted and items for sale including furniture, cars, and services. Readable entries show various households and businesses seeking workers, customers, or listings across Waterloo, with details on contact methods and prices.
Moeller was unanimously re elected for another three year term as county superintendent of schools by 20 delegates. A salary committee was formed to urge a 3000 dollar year max, up from 2590, with two dissenters. The county board members were re elected for six years and three years respectively. Moeller thanked the boards and teachers for raising rural school standards.
C W Helstey principal of the Iowa State Teachers College training school Cedar Falls says a leader must command respect from boys understand their problems and be sympathetic in discipline. He spoke to Waterloo scouts at the third leadership training course last night at the Greater Waterloo association. Dr F N Meade will lead the next session on April 13 at East High gym with the topic The Relation of Scouting to Public and Personal Health.
A. A. Burger county agent announced after a Saturday meeting with directors of the Co op Milk company that stock sales will begin immediately. Fifteen men are soliciting subscriptions as farmers commit milk to the cooperative, which will distribute profits back to stockholders in proportion to business done.
Cedar Falls, April 5. The city council filled two elective and several appointive offices at the first meeting under the new administration. Incumbent Huntley was named clerk and Reno R. Reeve attorney. Appointments included E. H. Streeter engineer J Bb Perry street commissioner Jens M. Peterson fire chief E M Lawrence sexton Greenwood cemetery J S Stevens wealth officer W S Raymond park commissioner. Raymond succeeds James Markussen who resigned. The mayor bought a $2 souvenir bridge warrant from 1852. Circle Has Forty-Fifth Annual Election Monday.
Cedar Heights names a three member park board led by W J Sutcliffe with W H Galloway and A J Eychaner. Sutcliffe is Sutcliffe Reo manager, Galloway owns a local firm and Eychaner is a retired minister. C R Golly resigns as city treasurer. R F Stetzel elected.
West High students celebrated Roughneck Day with wild costumes and roguish looks inspiring bystanders as they invaded East High halls. Seniors set aside a separate celebration by dressing as girls and boys for a playful good time.
The Black Hawk Feeding Company resumes residential garbage pickup under city contract. New equipment allows handling up to 10 tons daily. Derricks on Sycamore Street stations aid transfer to motor trucks bound for outside pigery disposal. Households must place cans for easy access and separate non feedable refuse.
At a Cedar Heights town council meeting acting as a board of review Mayor W F Parrott and Councilman Tuowas Eaton urged raising assessments. Assessor F C Yardho implemented the changes, noting no other divergences from the figures.
City council convened as a board of review to pass on tax assessments by the city assessor and deputies. With four members present due to illness and absence, little work was completed. Assessor GC W Hazlett has nearly finished and turned his books over. property owners may attend sessions to file objections and will be notified if valuations rise.
An unidentified man posed as September morn on an April night near First and Randolph streets, terrorizing two youths as he disrobed and danced under a gas light. Police searched but could not locate him.
Waterloo post office workers reuse old ribbon ink by soaking typewriter ribbons in water to create writing fluid. Indelible pencils are used for post office records while a supposed ink substitute contract involving ex postmaster general Burleson is questioned. In a separate report, Joseph Wilbur is accused of stealing a trotting mare near Independence, Pennsylvania, and arrested by local plainclothes officers.
Cedar Falls reports Miss Clara M. Sutter county home demonstration agent will return to duties next Monday after informing friends by telegram of her father’s death in Monona. Garland Flour Riade to Make Goon advertisement.
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