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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1914
Page
10
Charles City hosts a three day fall festival and regatta September 2 to 4 with games parades talks by agricultural experts music from three bands illuminated water pageants dancing in streets and in the Bills auditorium. The Commercial club prepared extensively for a big, clean, memorable city event inviting all to attend.
A special Hock Island service is set for Friday evening September 4. Train No. 2 will pick up passengers at Marble Rock for Greene Clarksville Sho Ttock and Waterloo, with a Charles City Western connecting at Marble Rock around 12:30. The Ben Hours picnic is planned tomorrow at Cedar River park near the bathing beach. Members are asked to bring well filled baskets and attend the supreme official from Crawfordsville Indiana, Gilbert Howell, who will be here tomorrow morning and speak at the Soash hall tomorrow evening. After 9 o'clock the public may join the dance.
Temperatures show a range from 61 to 67 degrees in the 1912 1913 1921 period data with highs of 67 from 1921 and lows around 66 to 70 in earlier records. The message notes supplied by Buchanan Optical Co and a line about Courier classifieds being profitable.
London reports that Russia has occupied Task in eastern Prussia about 180 miles northeast of Koenigsberg. The garrison and residents fled, Russian postal service is established, and Russian stamps are in use as troops make captures. An uprising in Mexico City over Carranza currency was suppressed by troops with order restored.
Tokio dispatch says six torpedo flotillas ran into a typhoon causing scattering and five deaths. The navy reports no location for the fleet.
Butte Mont Aug 28 A committee representing the Butte Mine Workers new organization opposed to the Western Federation of Miners visited the St Lawrence mine and warned new workers they must join within four hours, many allowed to resume work. The Anaconda nine closed yesterday after a delegation from the new union, which seized 34 men and marched them down the hill, is not operating today. St Lawrence employs 460 men. The Mine Workers delegation posted notices at the original shafts promising to enforce the rule Monday morning. Leading business men confer as a possible shutdown of all mines in the district looms.
German ambassador von Bernstorff met with Secretary Bryan over censorship of German owned wireless stations. He described Russian fighting as outpost clashes and argued Antwerp’s defenders included women and children were not a fortress. He declined to discuss future or diplomatic aspects of the war.
Belgian wounded from Namur arrived in Folkestone via London at 4:05 a.m. They report German bombardment from Friday to Sunday and attribute victory to German long range guns. A shell disabled the largest gun at Marchevolette fort. Two hundred Belgians escaping were largely killed by shrapnel and machine guns. The town fell Sunday at midday. Belgian retirement was covered by French troops.
A Lille dispatch to the Express from Lille notes slight German movement toward Pont-a-Marq and Marchiennes with a push from Cysoing. The Germans broke the Freeh line at Marchiennes but Allied forces held and halted the advance, while reports call for experienced maids seeking work at areas including Ellis hotel and nearby streets.
A scattered set of want ads lists rentals in Des Moines and Minneapolis, a modern furnished house, rooms for rent, and an Iowa farm for sale near Farmington. It mentions a large Minnesota farmland parcel of about 2000 acres with improvements and reasonable terms, plus several builders supply mentions and miscellaneous notices.
Trinidad Colorado August 28 Cal Lockett commander of federal troops in the Southern coal strike district announces an order from Secretary Garrison. The order offers five provisions from the northern coal field and states no coal mine shall employ nonresidents of Colorado. Lockett asks the War Department to clarify that residency entitles miners to be treated as state residents.
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