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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1918
Page
12
Correspondent notes life beyond fighting in British lines with fatigue duty shaping a soldier's day. Men mend trenches, carry food, clean quarters, and build dugouts as part of essential tasks. Historically labeled fatigue, the work now includes “working parties” to distinguish punishment from routine duties.
Agnes Keegan, a clerk, waited at depot platforms for seven evenings hoping to see her brother John Keegan in the army. On the seventh day she found him among 11 trainloads of troops and shared a brief goodbye. Separately, Marine Corps trading post seeks experienced salesmen for Paris Island camp in S C with $45 monthly pay plus board and clothing. exams require references and enlistment through the Marine Recruiting Station, 31944 Fourth Street East.
Frank A. Robinson a Waterloo detective with the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railway, shot in the hip at Manly by a Mexican he was attempting to arrest. The assailant fled into a field, was wounded and captured by a posse after a cemetery chase. Robinson, 12 years in police work mostly in Waterloo, expects to leave hospital once recovered.
Turmoil erupts over work or fight orders affecting draft age men employed in a newspaper plant. Local exemption secretary P L Billings says newspaper workers were not considered, with only reporters and ad solicitors even possibly affected later. All registrants retain right to appear before the local board to contest inclusion, while clerical errors left some appeal routes intact and shop proprietors remain unaffected.
Washington August 8 The Ways and Means Committee favors a $24,000 personal income tax for President Wilson as part of the war revenue bill. The plan also proposes taxes on Supreme Court justices federal judges and state officers amid debate over constitutional limits on taxing officials.
North Carolinians observed an evening tolling of church bells at 7 o clock across towns and rural areas to pray for Allied victory. Gov. Thomas W. Bickett, a strict observer of the proclamation, led by example during a tennis outing when the bell sounds prompted silent prayer.
Relatives of John Cratsiey of Castle Hill await news from a base hospital in France. He suffers effects of a July gas attack on American forces, with no service like his that a want ad in the Courier can bestow. Sidney.
Waterloo holds a picnic at Electric Park tomorrow marking the fifty fifth anniversary of freedom for the Negro race. A 2 p.m. program features Rosco Simmons of Memphis and George H. Woodson of Buxton with Mrs. F. H. Greasham of Cedar Rapids. A big barbecue and dancing with Prof. Jackson's Cedar Rapids orchestra accompany the event.
Cape May N J August 8 The first army medical school for reconstruction of hearing and speech defects in soldiers opened under the division of physical reconstruction of the surgeon general s office It is part of Army Hospital No 11 housed in a former luxury hotel The director is Lieutenant Colonel Charles W Richardson Army Medical Corps a world first Returned soldiers with speech loss will be educated physically and vocationally The school opened with a full faculty and enough patients to begin work Richardson professor of laryngology and otology at George Washington University joined the army at the outbreak of war
Miss Eldridge, interstate secretary of the American Nurses Association, cannot attend tonight’s M C A gathering but is scheduled to address nurses at 2 30 p m tomorrow in Waterloo Medical Society rooms. All nurses urged to attend. W S Williams, former Rock Island agent, visits Waterloo en route to Burling ton to take Rock Island railway post. His three sons serve in the army including one in France.
Ray Hicok of S. W. Hicok family, age 24, serving in 1 Co. B, 168th infantry, was wounded in action in France. He is the oldest of three brothers who have seen active warfare.
News notes reveal Lieut Becker of the service suffered a shoulder wound on June 3 and remained in combat near the Marne before a July 16 letter. Corporal Harry J. Collentine wounded in France on June 28. Corporal Oliver C. Metzger killed on July 28, with families in Waterloo and Shell Rock, plus military service details.
Waterloo registrants signed up for service as auto mechanics at Des Moines College. The local board reports only two from the city will be accepted, George T. R. Shaffer and Gay Jackson, both experienced mechanics, who will represent Waterloo in the special call. No entrainment orders have been received.
Chicago reports Maj. Gen. Gorgas predicts Americans will be healthier after war with fewer deaths than in earlier conflicts. Dentists contributed to army health, aiding dental and medical advances, portable relief stations, and base hospital care. Homefront patients will benefit from peacetime use of these discoveries, including facial reconstruction efforts.
Washington forecasters warn that only temporary relief from the scorching heat wave is in sight. A new low pressure system is developing over Alberta and moving eastward, threatening to push temperatures toward record highs as it travels from the Northwest to the Atlantic, with heat to strike the region by tomorrow.
Waterloo prepares for the registration of men ages 18 to 46 not yet docketed for selective service. Mayor R C Thompson follows instructions from Louis G Lasher acting adjutant general to form a registration board in each voting precinct and appoint members. Action is heated to avoid delays when the date is set, likely in September.
Homer Rodeheaver George Ash ley Brewster and Robert Matthews members of the Billy Sunday evangelistic company will give a miscellaneous program tomorrow evening at Iowa State Teachers College auditorium Rodeheaver baritone reader and trombonist has eight years with the Sunday party and is well known in Waterloo and Cedar Falls Brewster is a tenor and appeared at the state teachers' convention in town about three years ago Matthews is a pianist who has studied and performed locally this past season
Advertisement notes Dr Shellenberger, specialist in chronic nervous and special diseases, performing under American and European masters and gaining recognition in the musical world at the Waterloo Hotel. Saturday August 22. 218th visit.
Thirty five students of the Waterloo Business College will receive their diplomas at commencement exercises in First Congregational church Friday evening, Aug. 16. The class includes Grieg A. Barkdoll, Lydia S. Berg, Nina D. Bloe, Donn Batla Hoard, Miller Modell, Elfrieda Bremar, Jane Broadie, Myrtle Crane, Anna Erickson, Lilligu L. Tharty, Howard J. Holmes, Helen L. Kungy, Lucy M. Kalent, Russell Lamson, Ruth G. Merrick, Millrrarot A. Miller, Wer a Moreland, Nellie A. Moseley, Gertrude A. Murphy, Jett Myers, Clara A. Nowh, John J. A'Conner, Edith Otto, Herman Rachut, Grayce Rechkemmier, Laura P. Tletnville, Corn M. Reitz, Carullhe Schinudeke, Yeurl Lo Shipton, Leonore H. Stifiman, Gould L. Smith, M. Erilk, Luht Warkenthein, Alberta Whitman, Jenple E. B. Whitney, Bees Wyatt, Anna E. Younk.
Chronic ont yrrh and chronic catarrh arise from neglected colds or successive colds. Acute inflammation becomes chronic if untreated. Parents neglecting children’s colds lead to lasting catarrh. For relief, use Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. it is prompt and effective.
An old advertisement extols GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules as a cure all for stomach liver and bladder ailments. It warns of kidney and bladder disease, urges immediate attention for backache and urinary issues, and claims two centuries of proven merit with a money back guarantee and brand authenticity.
Mrs W Cowswell of Andrews Indiana writes that Chamberlains Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy is highly esteemed and the best medicine for diarrhoea and bowel trouble. She notes it has been kept in the house for years and used by her mother before she was married.
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