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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1922
Page
5
Mrs. Myrtle Barr police matron filed a year end report detailing 1366 business calls, many social welfare actions for poor women and children, and 20 families aided with food and clothing. She chaired a club committee that funded a Christmas tree for 400 poor children.
The Strand theatre repeats last night’s children’s style show at 9 p m under Mathilda Petersen of Dorothy Rae shop. The 32 young models received a cordial response and the improvised revue used no curtains or scenery. Arthur E Weld conceived the idea and a platform over the orchestra pit supported the unique program. The children’s natural staging impressed the audience, with one girl drawn to the organ and another mimicking a South Sea island dance near the footlights.
Members of the executive board Iowa Federation of Business and Professional Women clubs and local presidents arrive for the annual Waterloo B P W club board meeting tonight at 4 dinner party in the clubrooms. Helena Mitchell state president Martha Zehetner commonweal department Dubuque Gertrude Jenne Davenport and delegates from Cedar Rapids Marshalltown Mason City expected. Waterloo officers include Mrs W D Jyea national vice president Java Mary Sferner legislative chair Alice Wrykoff finance Mercy Aylesworth educational Verna Cole research Hazel Scott publicity.
St Pauls M E observes Easter Sunday April 9 at 10 30 a m with a church and Sunday school program on Broadway featuring many choirs, recitations, solos, and readings including The Gates of Easter and Come Ye to a Garden, directed by Rev C E Luce and various department instructors. The program showcases lines from beginners and junior departments and closes with Easter greetings and offerings.
The Illinois Central received ICC permission to issue debt acknowledgments to the Pullman company totaling 1,748,000 as part of a car purchase. The railroad plans to lease and buy on time payment six hundred fifty refrigerator cars.
Citizens faced a sweltering afternoon as temperatures climbed with the government mercury at 77 degrees shown by observer R. B. Slippy. Waterloo residents donned heavy wraps in cooler morn to watch a rapid rise by noon and a noticeable shift by evening.
Wind shifted and clouds gathered as Des Moines tempered record books for April. The day brought a high near 82 degrees, with a 0.36 inch midnight thunderstorm. Historical notes recalled 1899 April heat waves and late freezes that year.
Sudden high temperatures yesterday and overnight caused buds to develop quickly and lawns to shift from brown to green, signaling a sudden springlike revival.
Representatives from seven towns in Grundy, Hardin and Tama counties meet in Grundy Center to organize a regular base ball league for the coming summer. The meeting aims to perfect the league’s structure and schedule.
The districts Reinbeck Dike Grundy Center Whitten Gladbrook New Hartford and Beaman are to be included with possible later addition of Weissburg. Reinbeck is noted for a strong baseball history including Sunday games begun last season under their manager.
Large crowds attended the Sunday event signaling local support for baseball. The Woods Millinery store is noted as being in excellent condition for future business, according to an advertisement fragment.
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