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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1914
Page
12
Society editor notes upcoming meetings and socials at First Congregational and related groups. Includes Tuesday afternoon and evening gatherings, bride and club entries, and church announcements detailing May breakfasts, receptions, and postponements at K of C hall, Universalist church, and local lodges.
A broad Iowa venture named the Greater Iowa association was formally launched in Waterloo. A 24-member executive committee will govern for twenty years with $5,000 capital stock, one share per person, and annual meetings in May starting 1915. W. W. Marsh acts as temporary president and Ralph Bolton as secretary treasurer.
Brit tania lodge Sons of St George held a Saturday event at Galloway hall with nearly two hundred attendees. Master Jack Leonard played Walt Caprice and sang Alice Where Art Thou, Albert Overton performed Mother Machree and Sing me the Rosary, while Greta and Enid Hall sang nursery rhymes. George Hall chaired. Reverend G W Hinkle was absent. Waldrom spoke as grand organizer and H G Rogers thanked William Galloway for hall use. Dancing ran from 9:30 to midnight. The first St George’s Day celebration was deemed a success and will become annual in Waterloo.
The Cedar Falls district of the Upper Iowa Methodist conference will hold a two day meeting at St. Paul’s church in Waterloo on Tuesday and Wednesday May 5 and 6. Delegates from many churches are expected to attend and participate in the sessions and program.
Methodist societies from nearly all churches will attend a two day session with an interesting program planned. The travel lecture on India by Rev. F Q Brown was postponed two weeks due to rate issues and will be rescheduled at Grace Methodist Church. Brown’s substitute sermon on The Growth of the Soul drew interest from those unable to attend.
The Walnut Street Baptist Church reports a strong three month period in its quarterly financial statement published in Live Wire. The church notes higher cash on hand at the opening of the quarter and an unusually steady flow of income.
A financial ledger notes quarter totals of 2399.19 to 2906.69 with 1904.78 paid out and 1062.96 remaining. Des Moines resident Mrs Lara Cockerham requests police help locating her sister Nora Perry who was last heard from in Waterloo in December and has not communicated since.
Three new smallpox cases were reported by the city clerk. The count had recently fallen and officials believed the spread was halted. Named patients include Lloyd Trewery at 216 Edwards, Carl Ferguson, Kimball and Frederick at 306 Vermont, Belleville.
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