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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1914
Page
3
Cedar Falls subscribers are asked to report any delivery irregularities to Cedar Falls Drug Co business agent at Corner Fourth and Main Streets by phone 25.
Cedar Falls brief notes report Prof. G. S. Dick and colleagues returning from the Iowa City state convention of county superintendents. Mayor Merner declines a Cedar Falls Commercial club post due to other duties. Various visits, social events, school and church activities, and a quarantine at the Hodges home are noted along with upcoming meetings and lectures.
Interest remains strong over the location for Cedar Falls new post office. Supporters back the West Third and Washington streets site near H L Weisbard's lumber mill while opponents push for Second and Washington near the Weisbard planing mill. Cedar Falls officials monitor daily dispatches between Cedar Falls and Washington where J B Newman and T B Carpenter advocate the Second street option.
Cedar Falls Iowa April 16 Mr and Mrs Sam Brown entertained the senior class of Cedar Falls high school thirty nine num ber at a banquet in Lincoln building assembly hall The dinner was served by domestic science pupils with Mrs Brown and guests included Supt Bruce Francis and Mrs Francis and high school teachers After dinner speeches toastmaster Prof John Ward president Frederick Gerkin presented Mr Brown with cigars and Mrs Brown with candy The janitor is praised for his interest in the pupils and the event marks a continuation of the class spirit
The LaPorte Daily Bulletin notes a birthday surprise hosted for Mrs W U Kilfeue with 29 friends bringing dishes for a planned supper. The evening lasted late with guests enjoying the gathering at her home.
A large, representative gathering in the Isis theatre favors forming a Cedar Falls women’s departmental club. The vote is nearly unanimous with Mrs Marian McFarland Walker presiding and a committee chosen to draft a constitution for the new group.
The funeral for 5 month old Clare Lyle Trich son of Mr and Mrs Frances H Trich 2622 Olive street was held at 8 this morning with Rev O J Holmes officiating The parents took the remains by morning train to Medford Minnesota for burial The child died of pneumonia The family formerly lived in Waterloo
At a postmeeting of James Brownell post, G A R, Commander John Call was elected to the Memorial hall committee. The Black Hawk county project has a $16,000 appropriation and will select the site amid strong competition for the honor.
Directors of the Board of Trade meet at 3 PM in First National bank parlors to approve minor changes in the new club rooms on the seventh floor of the First National building. They plan moving the directors’ room to Fourth street frontage and adding a committee room, with furnishing details to be discussed. Walter Dotson, equipment chair, will offer a cost supplement. Remodeling began yesterday and will finish by week’s end with Maine Construction Co. handling the contract.
In strained Mexico US relations many Iowa National Guard members expect mobilization orders for Texas boundary duty but Lieutenant Colonel Cotton had not received any orders by noon today. Guardsmen would welcome an 18 call to active service.
An ad touts a blood purifier said to cleanse the body by stimulating liver action and blood flow. It describes rapid body-wide effects and urges readers to obtain S. S. S. from the Swift Specific Co based in Atlanta with claims of medical endorsement.
The Cedar Rapids district quarterly meeting convenes in the Free Methodist church at Douglas and Mobile streets beginning this evening at 7 30. Rev E N Miller of Evansville Wisconsin presides and will lead sessions with speakers to be announced. A love feast at 10 30 Sunday precedes a 11 30 sermon by Rev Miller and an oil shed removal order for Hemsworth and Sons deadlines today.
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