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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1915
Page
9
British aviators uphold old knightly code in wartime: flyers report enemy loss and communicate fate of comrades via dropped message bags. A dramatic Belgian crash survivor lands despite fifty wounds, guiding his crippled craft to safety with nerve and skill.
Emmanuel Panos, a Greek resident living in Waterloo four years with Litchfield Manufacturing, will arrive from Samos Island, Greece. He will serve as priest at the local Greek Orthodox church and stay at 808 Randolph Street with his family joining Emmanuel’s brother and sister. His father John Panos announced the arrival in a telegram and noted Panos’s twenty years of service at a church in Samos.
Waterloo ex-postmaster W R Law visited Des Moines recently and voiced hopes for a Republican governor candidate like Charles A Thawson. He warned against nominating a candidate tagged by the wet-dry fight and predicted a Republican year next year if signs hold. The piece also notes county supervisor turmoil in Taylor County with resignations and retractions.
The preliminary county accounting report from Des Moines dated August 27 notes no fund shortfall but cites technical irregularities. The highway fund shows road foremen paid workers directly rather than the county paying, and a supervisor used his own car to transport the county engineer at 10 cents a mile. No graft found, but process not per law.
The La Porte City Co-Operative Creamery will shut down the plant and suspend business after Sept 1 following a directors meeting. The move stems from insufficient patronage as farmers favor Cedar Rapids and Waterloo centers that offer higher prices, despite some stockholders using those plants. The plant, one of the last small creameries, cannot operate at a loss given current costs.
In Yama August 27 two children of John Godfrey aged 5 and 11 and Gaylord Douglas 2 were sent to Iowa City for Pasteur treatment after bites from a dog owned by Mrs. Gadbury. Earlier Godfrey children were bitten, and last Thursday Douglas child was bitten on the head. The dog was killed and its head sent to the Iowa City lab where brain analysis confirmed rabies. The Douglas baby won first prize in a baby health contest at the Chanlanca fair.
The body of 36 year old Joseph Considine was found in the Wapsie River about five miles northeast of Jesup, eight feet of water. Authorities believe he died by suicide after a prior July razor attack, with a search lasting about an hour before recovery.
Minneapolis Aug 27 Trenton Gov W L Barding of Iowa blasted American law making as a factory system that creates dead letters rather than living statutes. He ridiculed South Dakota’s dance ban and warned laws often pass through legislatures as moral regalia while big insurers gain unchecked power.
A speaker argues that after examining the statutes, their power resembles that of a limited monarch, implying constrained yet decisive authority. The remark frames legal authority as bounded but potent within established rules.
In Waterloo the plan to revive a white power source for the festival parade prompts debate. The editor favors a white mule as motive power, while the general committee on arrangements considers the idea, with H J Kiester guiding parade oversight. A mush and milk day committee, chaired by W H Cropper, met to discuss visitor refreshments.
Mr Parroté is invited to address the reunion of all settlers on Saturday September 1 during the Homecoming Festival. Early county residents can likely supply many farmer residents invited. The corn meal donation will be provided. Turn to the Want Page.
An advertisement extols GETS-IT for corns, warning against imitations and urging buyers to choose the widely used remedy. It claims past painful methods failed and promises easy removal with GETS-IT, priced 250 per bottle and sold by TE Lawrences & Co in Chicago.
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