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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1922
Page
5
After the city election candidates filed expense accounts with county auditor F W Esher. Stillwagon, Rector and Wotrip led in spending among tickets while Noticp mayoral candidate L E Eickelberg notes 153.84 as his total. Expenses mainly covered campaigns, cards, ads and printed handbills.
Local items note Mrs A A Thorson visiting Chicago parents and Pauline Robinson called to Waterloo for her mother’s illness. Des Moines return for Leah Robinson. Faye Hutson spending vacation with parents. Stolen car recovered in bad condition at Fairbank sent to Waterloo. Reports of prowlers near Weatherill and Carothers homes. Sam Murphy injured by Illinois Central train improving at St Francis hospital. W W Parrott to attend University of Town extension conference on child and women welfare. Des Moines officials, election tickets and campaign expenses listed with several local names.
Mary Landon Baker reaffirmed plans to sail for Europe to wed Allister McCormick after leaving him at the church on their January wedding day. Society gossip questions the nuptials, noting she last spent two months in California and was met at the train by English actor Barry Baxter.
The Tenants' league of Chicago outlines a plan to curb rent increases set for May 1 by filing municipal court suits to forgo increases. If cities court rules against a tenant, an immediate appeal to a court of record could delay trial for two years while the rent stays unchanged. The plan, discussed with league officers, is to be carried out.
London dispatch says a faction of Chinese students has launched a bitter antichristian campaign in China. This marks the first intimation of such a movement, reported by Exchange Telegraph from Tien Tam.
Rev C Bruce of St Pauls officiated at the marriage of Miss Edna B White and Elmer W Meyer in Nashua this noon. Attendants were Miss Ethel I Cummings a state teachers college student and W B Schultz Cedar Falls.
Macy Campbell head of rural education at Town State Teachers College and president of the northeastern division misses the annual convention due to a month long illness. K D Miller will preside and deliver the president's address at East High Auditorium as 2000 members arrive. Benjamin F Simonsen, longtime Uppertown University mathematics dean, dies after brief pneumonia illness. John Hilliard shifts to Estherville. Cecil W Bangs listed among relocations.
J K Peat will replace Hilliard in Manchester effective July 1 while H M Stiles is slated to lead Anamosa schools next year. Traer veteran superintendent will be replaced by Hilliard’s successor at the same date. City districts map building programs with several new graded school houses and visits by teachers setup at Hotel Russell Lamson and East High for sessions.
About 200 Waterloo citizens and officials travel by Bishop electric special at 1 30 pm to Cedar Rapids to celebrate the opening of Bishop's cafeteria. The group tours the city by auto, with free Strand and Palace shows for Waterloo guests and a return at their convenience.
Marian Templeton is valedictorian with a 96.9 average. Lauretta McCavick is salutatorian at 95.2, Etella Thomson ranks third, and Frances Munn, Elizabeth Hollis, Gertrude Bodwell, Opal Lowe, Alice Forbes, Kenneth Knoop, John Carson, Hubert Cross, and Madge Bryson complete the top honors. The list notes that only three of twelve honor roll students are boys with one more on honorable mention, and mentions concerns about flapperitis.
An annual meeting of the Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teacher Association third district will be held at 2 am tomorrow in room 108 of the East High building. Mrs L Hemeworth will preside. Luncheon at Bhicks Tea Room is canceled due to Mrs GC Bruner’s pneumonia. Speakers include Mrs Max Mayer on American Citizenship and Mrs A O Ruste on parent teacher problems. Dr Don Griswold will discuss physical welfare.
W. H. Merner of Cedar Falls was named president of the University of Michigan Alumni in Black Hawk County at a Monday night meeting held at Black's Tearoom. Other officers include Walter Jensen of Waterloo as vice president J M Bailey of Waterloo as secretary and Bruce Gates of Waterloo as treasurer. Plans are underway to install a Cole & Sweetman wireless telephone receiver to let local alumni listen in on a Detroit alumni pep meeting in Detroit on April 29 with cooperation from the Detroit News.
Twenty of Walnut Street Baptist Sunday school’s youngest members perform a Tom Thumb wedding as the main number of Friday’s church program. Mrs N C Altland will play the wedding march, with a vocal solo by Mrs Graham Messinger a reading by Miss Fonda Mae Jameson and a violin solo by Mrs Loren J Berry.
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