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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1917
Page
4
The readable fragments describe a meeting with firms in a coal industry context, noting a merger or purchase outline and potential regulatory or operational actions. Details are fragmentary, but imply discussions among business entities about consolidation and reform.
Cedar Falls notes list Mrs. N Israel and Miss Catherine planning an auto trip to Chicago for weeks, Florence Boehmler vacationing in Springfield Nebraska, and many local residents visiting relatives, undergoing hospital care, or attending church and club events including a Kensington gathering and W C T U meeting. Dr J B Snowden marked his eighty third birthday with a Sunday sermon and reception noting his long Iowa career from Oskaloosa to Cedar Falls.
A cryptic fragment notes bids open as sealed for certain farm or agricultural items. Details are unclear due to damaged text. The brief suggests a formal auction process with bidders submitting sealed offers.
A. T. Whittle of Morris Motor Car proposes to work on a Black Hawk county farm for two weeks. He will take any farm job asked and, after the term, pay the farmer for board and lodging he did not earn. Interested farmers should contact him at the Cadillac garage.
Fines totaling 129 were levied in police court this morning on 23 violators arrested Saturday night and Sunday. Charges included speeding, no tail lights, drunk and careless driving, fighting, larceny, vagrancy, violating traffic rules, and transporting liquor illegally. Bud Howard and Fred Brundage were named in separate cases involving threats and theft of a check and cash.
Carpenters Local members are summoned to gather at Carpenters' hall Tuesday at 1 30 p m to attend the funeral of Brother William C Krueger at the family home 327 Cottage Street.
Washington Aug 6 United States cable reports to the bureau of insular affairs show Philippine foreign trade for the just closed fiscal year totaling 122,700,000 dollars. This marks an increase of about 16,006,000 dollars over the previous year.
At 6:40 a.m. the fire department responded to 4945 Mulberry Street where a kerosene stove ignited materials in a barn used as a laundry. The structure was destroyed. the family planned weekly washing. Advertises Herman C. Miller and the Miller McCartney Insurance Agency with phone 2404.
Miss Hinman longtime principal of Waterloo East High School will be guest of honor at a lawn party Tuesday at the J. H. Howrey home. The event honors alumni of her schools with many former students from 1892 noted among attendees.
An Illinois license holder rammed a car driven by Alford Barens of New Hartford at Halla avenna and McKinley street Sunday evening. Barens’s baby was thrown out but unharmed. The Halley family on La Porte road were in a bogey hit from the rear by Alfred Bedard’s car. Halley family taken home by police ambulance. Bedard booked for drunken driving and careless operation.
Homer Short, a suspected bootlegger, was arrested at 11 30 p m for illegal transportation of liquor. Twenty seven pints of whisky were found in two grips carried by Short, who allegedly said the supply came from Rock Island. The confiscated whisky is kept at police headquarters. Howard Gilmer seeks his wife Ida Gilmer who, aged 34, is said to have run off with another man. Dr H E Gibbs reports a $13 50 check and a $5 bill stolen from his safe just before 6 30 p m Saturday while two youths were in the office. Detective McSweeney is on the case. Alfred Bedard faces drunkenness and careless driving charges after crashing into a buggy with the Fred Hailey family aboard.
The notice advertises Courier Patterns to accompany designs, with four patterns available by sending to Pashios Department of the Evening Courier Waterloo. Ten cents per pattern requested, orders filled promptly and to arrive within ten days after sending.
Thirty four students of the Waterloo Business College will graduate at the semi annual commencement exercises at First Congregational Church Thursday evening. The principal address will be delivered by C. Colegreayve, president of Upper Jews university, who will speak on Preparedness. Music will be provided by Van Doran's.
The event featured diplomas sealed under A. F. Gates as college president during a period of unrest linked to ROUMANIAN GRAIN. A sermon titled The Nay of Battie was preached at First Congregational Church by Rev. H. L. Goughnour, pastor of First Brethren Church. A reception is planned for tomorrow night at the Gates home.
An Aug 6 report from Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung says corn stocks found in ftoumanta after the German army invasion have been distributed among the central powers, including 29000 tons of property formerly belonging to the Bureau Britannique.
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