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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1914
Page
10
Local notes report arrivals, departures, and visits among Cedar Falls residents. Families host house parties, kin gather for reunions, and teachers and students prepare for term at the State Teachers College. The piece records numerous names and addresses amid social activity.
Cedar Falls Aug 31 a crowd from the city and vicinity attended the Black Hawk County Pioneer Settlers annual meeting at Chautauqua park. Elder attendees included A Bishop 90 and Mrs J C Aldrich over 80 with Henry Hammer celebrating an eighty fourth birthday. Speakers included Leavitt Snyder and C A Rowne. Rose Morrison former city resident attended visiting with family. Mrs Samson in grave condition after Saturday illness.
Illinois Central officials will build a concrete smokestack and install three stationary boilers to abate a smoke nuisance at the north city shops. The stack will reach about 175 feet, costing 19200 dollars. Merchants recently petitioned the council, and Chicago offices ordered the changes today.
A team of ponies and a bogey were stolen from the Indian reservation at Tania yesterday. The sheriff of Tania county and an Indian searched Waterloo Sunday afternoon hoping to locate the thief. A rig matching the stolen outfit was seen passing through the city, but officers could not find the team after a trip to Denver.
Four men hunted on the Johnson farm Sunday and were apprehended by an employee. Peter Camalars, George Pap, George Hrysanthos and John Kandose pleaded guilty in Justice Knapp's court to hunting on enclosed cultivated lands without the owner's permission. Each was fined one dollar plus costs totaling six dollars and forty cents.
Mr and Mrs Kaltenbach appeal to government officials for news of their two sons believed to be in a German war zone. The father says Senator Cummins has contacted an American consul near the Kaltenbach relatives to investigate and locate the boys.
Dr. A. J. Northrup of Grace Methodist Church argues loyalty must be weighed against unjust aims as he cites Pan Germanism and the German war machine. He uses Hans and Gretel as a cautionary tale of coercion, urging citizens to think beyond duty when nations err.
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