City in Brief pulls in many travelers and locals
A long list of visitors and residents in Waterloo is noted including C. F. Robe of Jesup, Mrs. John Best, Harry Strong, Kenneth Maine, W. H. Bachman, C. M. Woods, M. H. Caudla, Alma Duba, and many others visiting Waterloo or returning from trips. Several travel to Des Moines, Chicago, Colorado, or the state fair. weddings, vacations, and business trips are reported alongside local arraignments and health notes. Plums at the Hamilton residence highlight a bountiful fruit year amid cold snaps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Best
Clarksville
Harry Strong
Vinton
City
L. J. Andrews
Harold
Mitchell County
John Andrews
P. B. Saucer
C. F. London
Des Moines
W. M. Shirley
Clara Gnam
Minneapolis
The
Lakes
Ellis
G. A. Bradley
C. R. Patterson
Harver Huffman
Waterloo
Dale Andrews
Ames
Andrews
Edith Jennings
Hoxie & Brunn
Barmiesville
Minn
F. J. Kelleher
American Nobles
Colorado Springs
Abram Babicz
Aron Dryka
Galveston
Commercial Street
Thompson
State Department
William Hamilton
Jefferson Street
Honor Late Head of Maccabees
Mrs J E Bienis, commander of Hive No 22 of the Lady Maccabees, reports the death of National Supreme Commander Mrs Linian M Hollister in Detroit Michigan on August 4. Memorial services will be held nationwide, with Miss Vinn West of Port Huron elected to succeed as supreme record keeper. Services here set for September 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. E. Bienis
Hive No
Lady of Maccabees
Linian M. Holster
Detroit
Mich
Hollister
Vinn West
Port Huron
Fateful Gasoline Fire Ends Life of Mrs Mergen in Iowa Township
After a gasoline explosion two weeks earlier Mrs Mary Mergen died Saturday night at 1 30 at her home in Orange township near Waterloo. Born in Baden Germany in 1872 she married John Mergen in 1893 and lived on farms in Spring Creek Fox and Orange townships. Surviving are husband five children two brothers and a sister. Funeral set for Tuesday at 9 30 am in Gilbertville with burial there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Mergen
Orange Township
Waterloo
Mergen
John Nelsen
Gilbertville
Will
Oklahoma
Kate Mergen
Beloit
Kan
Remington
Ind
Yeomen Picnic Draws Expectation at Coliseum
Yeomen prepare for county picnic next Monday at the Coliseum with speeches by Tabor Dar and a ball game between Waterloo and La Porte teams at Chautauqua park. Special events include sports and a picnic dinner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tabor Dar
Coliseum
Chautauqua Park
Waterloo
la Porte
Clean-up Day to Remove Highway Advertising Signs
New York August 28 The good roads committee of the Automobile Club of America designates next Friday as clean up day to enforce the new law making it a misdemeanor to deface public highways with signs. The club asks state automobile clubs to assign roads to members and destroy all roadside signs on the act’s effective date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Good Roads Committee
Automobile Club of America
Automonlte Clubs
Trains Boost State Fair Traffic From Waterloo Des Moines
The Chicago Great Western offered a special $3.15 round trip to Des Moines during the state fair. The 8:18 am train carried about 330 Waterloo passengers with two big engines Nos. 911 and 1919 and eight coaches. Additional trains will run from Marshalltown to handle crowds. Nes Moines departure was heavy last night. Ticket counts at the east side station reached 187 this morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Chicago Great Western
Waterloo
Northwest
Rock Island
Marshalltown
Nes Moines
East Side
Will Shopmen Go On Strike
Local interest grows over the Illinois Central shopmen strike vote at Waterloo where several hundred workers are employed. A Chicago dispatch says the central committee can only request a conference and alert international presidents if refused, who then take charge. the committee cannot itself order a strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sinois Central Railway
Waterloo
Chicago
Fins Central Committee
Iinots
Illinois Central
Mrs Bauernfeind Heads to Missionary Conventions
Mrs J H Bauernfeind wife of Rev J H Bauernfeind Emanuel Evangelical Association pastor leaves Wednesday for Holton Kansas to attend the Woman's Missionary convention and report on titheing. She is general vice president and will also speak on the Holton convention reports. Miss Amanda Rickert accompanies. Emma Landis returns from three week western trip visiting Denver Colorado Springs and Rocky Ford before resuming duties at Ellis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thelma Griffin
C. E. Griffin
Manchester
N. G. Trenchard
Rose Tennis
St. Paul
Saxon Street
J. H. Bauernfeind
Emanuel Evangelical Asociation
Holton
Kan
Bauernfeind
Menervey
Amanda Rickert
Bauernfeld
Emma Landis
West
Denver
Colorado Springs
Rocky Ford
Newspaper Men Barred From Reform School Murderer William Lee
Jeffersonville Ind Aug 28 a crowd of reporters and photographers sought access to William Lee the Booneville killer but reformatory officials imposed a ban after a court order kept Lee in solitary confinement He has offered few confessions since jail time in Evansville while claiming his parents planned to kill him He appears to enjoy the notoriety attached to his case and a gun club at Prospect Park plans to hire a gun house and practice range with open membership Merle C Strayer and Bessie E itchy apply for marriage license at Waterloo with parental consent required
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeffersonville
Ind
Indiana Reformatory
William Lee
Booneville
Reformatory
Lee
Evansville
Prospect Park
Golf and Country Club
Aged Bennett brothers hold Cedar Falls reunion
Five Bennett brothers gather in Lees Summit Missouri area for a family reunion. J L Bennett 86 G W Bennett 84 A J Bennett 82 C L M Bennett 75, all listed ages averaging 82 years 2 months 17 days. G W Bennett hosts on his farm, where the siblings attended church and planned a 150-relative gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lees Summit
Bennett
J. L. Bennett
Frazeyburg
G. W. Bennett
Lees Sum Imit
A. J. Bennett
Frazenburg
New Gun Club Organizing in Waterloo Trap Shooters
A movement to form a new trap shooting club gains momentum in Waterloo with marksmen from Waterloo East and West pledging to join. The group plans to use a city park as its site and aims to start activity soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
Waterloo East
West
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Daul Davis
Paul Davis
Buchanan Optical Co
C. F. Robe of
Jesup
Kenneth Maine
Colorado
W. H. Bachman
Dr. M. B. Bachman
Lake Park
C. M. Woods
Maxwell
M. H. Caudla
Fayette
J. E. Dempster
Alma Duba
F. P. Keane
Harriett Purtell
Dunkerton
E. Carl
Epworth
Glaydee Noggle
Ethel Carpenter
Jennie Brainard
Shenandoah
A. Nast
Denver, Colo
James A. Cook
Randolph Street
Oliver E. Cox
St. Andrews Bay
Fla
J. C. Miller
Third Avenues West
Dorothy Doerfler
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Falls
Edward A. Leighton
George B. Rowell
Lee D. Sampson
Leona Timpkins
Quasqueton
Oelwein
John Lizer
John Tennant
Independence
Thomas Burris
Corning
Cal
George 5
Payne
Fairbank
Payne Bros
Linden
Maurice Welch
Colfax
Goldie Keiser
Cedar Heights
Eighth Street
W. H. Moore
L. H. Moore
John J. Riedell
Anna
Calo
Jessie Becker
Fred G. Corwin
Lankershim
Frank T. Hartman
F. R. Siberling
W. M. Robe
la Porte City
George Clark
Delbert Cordell
Leonard Ayers
Algona
Eldora
Edward P. Leeper
Clem
Maccabees
Yeomen
Great Western
John Libby
G. W. Campbell
Merle C. Strayer
Bessie E. Itchy
J. E
Julia Strayer
NEW Gun Club
GE Boyce
F.C. Vincent
B.M.E
Ames, Iowa
Christie
Corliss
F. C. Vincent
North
Christie Engine Company
John T. Christie
Sec
Hummel
Litchfield Factory
Tilmots Central Railway
Litchfield
Waverly
Central Railway
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