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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1912
Page
3
Cedar Falls Iowa Aug 6 crow damage hits a watermelon patch owned by George Bishop near Cedar Falls nearly 300 melons ruined in a single incident. He compares crow damage unfavorably to hungry boys as they devastate the crop.
Reports From Sick Rooms and Notations of Minor Accidents detail visitors and travels in Cedar Falls Iowa on Aug 6. Rev. and Mrs. Chas Ensign of Bathgate North Dakota visit Des Moines on return from New Hartford while Rev Ensign reflects on campus changes. other locals plan vacations and discuss crops and logistics.
Iowa Falls hosts a six day Bible School assembly led by Prof Z A Lapham of Des Moines. Music directed by Guy Churchill of Central College. Samuel Zane Bolton of Des Moines College speaks on The Lord's Prayer in Modern Life and The Bible Mortgage About Land. Evening lectures feature Dr John Runyon Smith of Waterloo on Tete in the Orient and others on Life in Africa and Life on the Frontier.
Cedar Falls Iowa August six special Edward Short moved from Hamilton county to Cedar Falls to provide educational access for his family He bought Mrs Florence Andersons West Twenty second street residence for 3600 dollars Mrs Anderson and her daughter Florence will soon move to Lewiston Idaho where Florence will teach Latin at the State University Miss Anderson a recent graduate joins the Lewiston post Mr Behrens a farmer near New Hartford bought the Eckhart property at Seventh and Franklin for 5500 dollars Possession set for November first Mrs Eckhart will winter on the Pacific coast Oats crop in the area to average between forty five and sixty bushels per acre threshing shows 79 bushels on a Virden forty acre oats field and 62 on a Campbell oats field with expected regional average around fifty five to sixty bushels per acre.
Fred Clausing and family relocate from Parkersburg to Cedar Falls. Clausing becomes yard foreman at Townsend-Merrill Lumber, succeeding Thorva Mylund who resigned and plans to move with his mother and family to California. Clausing brings extensive lumber and contracting experience from the region.
Cedar Walls school board reports difficulty securing commercial teachers for the high school. Grace Somerville of Livingstone Montana and Nora Chapman of Ashton Illinois declined contracts after receiving offers above 80 dollars monthly elsewhere. The board had expected them to accept the named salary. Mrs I D Corning remains under surgeon care after recent operations in Chicago and a new abscess prompted further treatment. She previously showed partial recovery and could walk at home.
The college auditorium rapid work on the $22,000 pipe organ set for completion by the opening of the fall term in September. Alumni funding and a state appropriation finance the project with a major dedicatory recital planned featuring a nationally known organist.
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