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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1929
Page
16
Migrant robins numbering about 2000 have settled in a spruce grove on Sheridan Road Prospect Hills for a nocturnal roost. Observers note the birds arrive from multiple directions and appear to rest there while heading north for summer.
Dublin reports government plans new laws to suppress gunmen linked to disrupting courts. Incidents include juror warnings and a panel member wounded, a witness shot dead, and 70 arrests later released. Opposition questions sufficiency of existing statutes.
Ames Iowa April 13 The Beta Delta Rho local fraternity at Town State college has been granted a charter in Phi Kappa Phi. The Iowa State chapter will be named Alpha Omicron and will be installed the week before May 25 by members from the Nebraska university chapter.
West end 4th St bridge and M G Building advertise optical service. J G Griswold at 242 Maple street is seriously ill with erysipelas but showing improvement today. Mr and Mrs Edwards 319 Argyle have returned from Excelsior Springs and Shenandoah visit. O E B Rensler of Edwards Longley Ransler Harris returned from Butte Montana on business. Mr and Mrs John Brugers attended Mrs Bruger’s aunt Mrs John Donn funeral and then returned to Winside Nebraska. Mrs Catherine Ellwood, sister of Mrs Dolan, has returned to Chicago. Tomorrow National Humans B Sunday noted by R E Newell, president of Black Hawk County Humane society. Reverend S…
Parkes Cadman of New York will radio an address on humane treatment of animals at 3 pm central standard time. Next week marks National Be Kind to Animals week.
March 1928 sees a drop in construction volume and contract awards as funds shift to speculative uses. The American General Contractors reports a 15 percent drop from February and 26 percent from February last year, with Dodge reports showing delayed projects awaiting steadier money rates.
Over a million boys from Boy Scouts Boys Club Federation MCA Playground and Recreation Association Vacation Church Schools Junior Achievement and 4 H clubs will join a project by the National Committee on Wood Utilization to reuse secondhand boxes and scrap lumber. Shops will be opened to make camp home and garden articles from the booklet You Can Make It. The aim is to curb waste by directing crates to those who can use them, under T J Wilcox of Eau Claire Wis leading the committee.
Assistant fire chief Martin Burke bought the Wade H. Nelson residence at 440 Vermont Street for about $10,000. Nelson, former manager of the Sterling department store, moved to Fort Dodge and plans to relocate to Mason City this fall. The two story brick and stucco home includes an attached garage.
The sale was handled through Lester Wo Miler Burke who has lived on an Acreage property on Falls Ave Hue Road and has sold that property to P Nielsen.
Readers ask how to reduce coal used by furnaces. Advice includes sealing drafts and flues, insulating basement openings with asbestos, studying furnace operation, and testing different coal amounts and drafts. Get manufacturer booklets for best operation. Costs for homes vary from 3000 to 7000 dollars. All steel frame homes are practical and satisfactory.
Budapest April 13 Count Apponyi condemned Hungary's electoral system as unrepresentative and antiquated, urging democracy and proportional representation. He argued no citizen should be excluded from government, warned against stifling popular demands, and called for extending suffrage to women.
Floyd Lad rancher reports his collie Bobbie vanished seven weeks ago. He found the dog in a deep well three miles from the ranch, emaciated but alive after surviving on frogs with no water. Veterinarians expect recovery. A note mentions the electric ray as a sea predator with a powerful shock.
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