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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1913
Page
9
Cedar Falls Ia Aug 23 special hospital committee to invite bids for erecting the Sartori hospital. First bids were too high last summer. bids due Sept 15. Late Joseph Sartor left 25000 and son Joseph Sartori of Los Angeles donated grounds and 5000, funding a hospital to be built next season.
Eneas McDonald aged 89 died today at his daughter's home on Normal Street from age and complications. Remains will be taken to Solon, Iowa, Monday for funeral services. He was born March 31, 1824 in County Antrim, Ireland, and came to America as a youth. He had resided with his daughter in Cedar Falls. Harry O Onan leases Wilmek building to relocate his restaurant on Main and Sixth Streets and will add a bakery from Torbett.
Cedar Falls, Aug. 22. William Benton, after losing over 500 young pheasants, sent the remaining birds to the Des Moines game warden and will discontinue the business due to losses from rats and other causes. The birds that escaped could benefit the area if shooters leave them alone. Crossing safety improves after Rock Island Railway added flagman John McCoy at Main Street. Mrs. Frederickson and family return to Cedar Falls after an auto accident in Colo, Iowa. injuries consist of a broken collar bone and damaged ribs, requiring crutches for weeks. Transient settlers move in, boosting local trade. a water wagon run ends without damage following a run.
Prohibitionists announce a new campaign starting September 3 led by Oliver W. Stewart of Chicago. The tour covers many Iowa towns including Keokuk Fort Madison Oskaloosa Pella Corydon Centerville Moulton Albia and Des Moines with daily talks and Sunday meetings. Stewart plans to push for repeal of liquor laws and stronger prohibition statewide.
James Mullin recalls a chase ending on a road with damaged harness as the animal incident concluded. Falls showed no financial disturbance for two decades. Twenty years ago the Knapp bank closed its doors soon after the First National and Eld Brothers failures, reshaping local business. J T Knapp and Charles Fields are deceased. Knapp reportedly died abroad.
Arrangements completed for the annual gathering of pioneers at Chautauqua park a week from tomorrow. Early Settlers association provides free coffee and cream though picnickers should bring cups. Basket dinner at noon and at 7 pm A Snyder of Cedar Falls, the president, will call the assemblage to order with a program of recitations and talks by pioneers. Reminiscences from those with forty or fifty years’ memory. A J Edwards secretary and Roger Leavitt treasurer. Edwin Mesick to compile a list of deaths for the year.
Chicago August 22 An urgent call for special service to the Progressive national organization was issued from New York. Signers include Oscar Straus New York Albert Beveridge Indiana Miles Poindexter Washington and John M Parker Louisiana. Volunteers are urged to prepare for duties to begin by September 1 in over forty states. The committee withholds details of the plan saying premature reports could imperil success. The movement is described as unlike any prior political effort. Waterloo friends and relatives announce a birth of a boy to Mr and Mrs J F Wettering August 18 at their home in Heela South Dakota Mrs Wettering is daughter of Mr and Mrs F R Marin formerly Miss Jessie Mayrin.
Waterloo citizens and business leaders laud President Wilson for refusing to recognize Huerta’s regime and for pledging protection to Americans in Mexico. Emmons Johnson of Waterloo Savings Bank praises the stand as consistent with international law and calls for firm policy against a ruler gained by assassination.
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