Waterloo girl reserves honor society plans and awards
The second Thursday monthly will be honored by Waterloo Girl Reserves and Friendship clubs in a service drive across home, church, and Sunday school. Estella club won the satin banner with 292 merits, Comrade corps 250, Whittier 112. Miss Eben Weatherwax led individuals with 143 merits. Plans include uniforms, processions, candle marches, merit books, and a general staff to promote projects. Events span January through July with meetings, lectures, and activities for girls and youth groups. Prices for books have risen, but gifting remains a focal point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
Friendship Clubs
Estella Club
Satin Banker
Comrade Corps
Whittier
Eben Weatherwax
Comrades
Seneral
Service Committee
Friendship Club
Girls’ Work Council
A. E. Hoffman
T. T. McManus
F. R. Asquith
Blanche Stewart
W. C. A. Hall
Alliay Vocational Conference
Riverview Park
Councelor
Lake Okaboji
Christmas Spirit Drives Public Library Gifts
Public libraries celebrate a holiday season with gifts of magazines books and newspapers including a set on State Historical Society donated by F C Platt and volumes from 30.2 Wetlaufer. A Christmas reserve of new books draws attention as assistants offer party ideas programs for church school and clubs. November circulation rose to 20130 surpassing most months except March 1919, with gains in fiction and juvenile reading while cataloged materials trend downward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Historical Society
F.C. Platt
F. I. Highsmey
Wetlaufer
Isisure
Black Hawk Country
Library West
East Station
Maria Brace
Tatelog
Waterloo Chapter Hosts Regent of Iowa D A R
Waterloo chapter entertained state regent Mrs. Frederick E. Frisbee at luncheon and dinner in Black's private dining room. Out of town members attended, gifts were planned for Hindman school and Armenian pupils, and the chapter outlined patriotic projects including constituting copies of the Constitution and the American Creed for public places and schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
Frederick E.frisbee
Sheldon
Daughters of the Revolution
Black's
C. A. Emerson
Jesup
Scott
Oelwein
Warren Gilbert
R. G. Taylor
Frisbee
Cecil Bickley
Mines
Bickley
H. Hall
Fred Pattit
George C.kennedy
A. B. McQuown
Elizabeth DeWald
Hindman ‘School
Kentucky
International ‘Academy
Springfield
Mass
America
China
Frenchburg School
Laverne Beal Covell
Wana
Naneen Davis
Maybeth Mack
Patsy
Ibe
Thelma Haynes
Women’s Relief Corps charts work for 1921 in Waterloo
Officers and committees for 1921 were chosen at the Woman’s Relief Corps meeting at Memorial hall. A class of 10 was initiated in front of about 200 members. Plans for charity work included a Christmas party, oyster supper, and an oyster supper. Delegates to the department convention will be Mmes. Stull, Fairbank, and Miss Sohner. Gifts and supplies for the hospital and Ola Soldiers Home are being prepared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman's Relief Corps
Memorial Hall
Baker
Grundy Center
G. Alr
Cedar Falls
Anna M. Kistner
Iowa
Anne Jlorg
Mary Shirley
Ida Alderman
Marr Merticle
Carrie Leckington
Olive Stevens
Lydia Miles
Anna Glas
Mary Bartlett
Department
Waterloo
Ethel Stull
Sarah Fairbank
AnnaSohner
Maude Brayton
Stella Shirley
Rose, McCord
Stolking
Mmes, Sarah
Street and club life notes plus nuptials in Waterloo area
The Friday Study club hosted about 60 women at Mrs August Glenny's home for a guest day with talks and music including poetry by W H Bickley and a violin solo by Helene Glenny. Miss Arloine Hallett wed Edward A Pratt of Eagle Grove at St Mark's Episcopal Church with a small gathering in attendance. A Christmas party hosted by Ideal Dozen Club featured a fishpond gift exchange and Good Fellows fund pledge. Various other teas, dinners, and entertainments followed for Mrs W D Ives, Mrs A H McCutcheon, and Mrs E F Daw son among others at Black's tearoom and the Waterloo Savings Bank building. A Bible class picnic and a Farewell party for Mrs E F Daw son were also noted with dancing and music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gueat Arty
A. E. Glenny
W. H. Bickley
Craig Ellyson
Mmes
F. A. Howard
J. S. Forrester
H. J. Parks
Ideal Dozen Club
L. R. Swinehart
Good Fellows Fund
Maxine
Minerva Burton
Charles Weigand
Claude Cass
Helene R
Balliett
Ben- Hard
Jah Bickley
Lke Solomon
Waterloo Evening Patterns and Coupon for Courier Patterns
Coupon to obtain up-to-date Waterloo patterns from the Evening Courier Fashion Department. Enclose 15 cents per pattern and send to Waterloo, with orders filled as soon as possible. Allow ten days for delivery after sending. Patterns allow for seams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fashion Department
Evening Courier
Waterloo
Brethren class to meet at Mrs Van Pelt home
Chapter FE P E O will meet Monday at 2 o clock at the Colonial apartments home of Mrs H G Van Pelt Members to come prepared to sew Plus Ultra class surprised Mr and Mrs W W Hayes at their home with games music and refreshments Natural Music Club B will meet at Miss Martha McCormick home for a Christmas party Monday evening
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. G. van Pelt
Colonial Apartments
Church of the Brethren
W. W. Ha‘yen
Natural Music Club
Natural Club
Martha McCormick
How to live on time and find its hidden costs
Ruth Cameron laments time slipping away and urges systematic scrutiny of daily expenditures of time. The piece notes common drains such as morning paper bursts, telephone calls, lengthy dessert making, shopping for pennies gained, elaborate hair, and routine household annoyances. It invites readers to audit time use and decide what truly matters.
Extra Henna Shampoo Promises Gray Hair Covering
Paris columnist Edna Kent Forbes describes an “extra henna shampoo” to cover gray hairs. She explains mixing Egyptian henna with hot water to form a paste, applying after washing, leaving on three minutes, then rinsing. The result appears after a few days with lighter, golden yellow hairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
London
Iowa Teachers Push Seven Bills for School Funding
Des Moines delegates from the Iowa State Teachers association draft seven bills for the winter session. They seek raises in per pupil tax limits to 100 dollars, higher high school tuition caps, a 6 percent bond interest rate, three new normal schools, a 4200 dollar annual starting salary for qualified teachers, a retirement annuity study with actuary funding, and stricter entry prep requiring a four year high school diploma after September 1823.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
General Assembly
Iowa State Teachers Association
Tight Money Hits Income Tax Payments in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids December 11 scores of businessmen farmers and corporations face penalties for late payment of the final installment of their income tax due December 15 due to tight money conditions. The 5 percent penalty is described by B D Ramsay Iowa internal revenue deputy chief field. Ramsay notes widespread borrowing limits and bank reluctance to lend until March 1 with few prospects for relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
B. D. Ramsay
Field
Iowa
Internal Revenue Department
Ramsay
Dubuque
George E. Hancock
Federal
President Emeritus of Cornell College Turns Ninety
Mount Vernon Ta December 14 William F King president emeritus of Cornell college will celebrate his ninetieth birthday. Dr King served as acting president 1868 to 1865 and president 1865 to 1908 a 45 year term the longest for an American college leader longer than Harvard and Michigan rivals. King spends winter at 1228 24th St San Diego Cal
Mothers Visit Dates for West Schools
Dates on which mothers of children in the west schools are asked to visit the various grades follow: Monday and Tuesday Washington Irving, Tuesday and Wednesday Edison, Wednesday and Thursday Central and Kingsley, Thursday and Friday Lowell and Emerson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington- Irving
Edison
Central
Kingsley
Lowell
Emerson
Parent-Teacher Programs Planned at Central and Whittier Schools
Mrs. Charles Davis notes that those unable to attend on set dates may come at another time. Whittier will skip the week’s plan as it had a prior celebration. A parent-teacher program is set for Friday at Whittier and Thursday at Central.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Davis
Whittier
Central School
Y M C A Activities Reach High Point in Past Month
November gym attendance at the Y M C A totaled 4720, up 1050 from November 1919 and 1075 from October, with S A Cohagan noting 3439 boys touched by Bovys' work. The department promoted father and son week, Bible classes, a 17 boy trip to Des Moines, an Inter Sunday School Basketball league, and east west Hi Y clubs. 159 students are in advertising, public speaking, salesmanship and engineering classes. October membership drive filled the building. over 300 boys and 500 men expected to be registered by year’s start. The Y financial committee led by H B Plumb is drafting next year’s budget.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. A. Cohagan
Bovys
The
H. B. Plumb
Dinner and Kitchenware Ad with Fractions and Prices
Fragmented ad lists dinnerware items and prices including knives with modeled handles, dessert sets, fruit preserves, and carved steak knives. Mentions a large 5 piece set priced around 9 75 and a 4 5 set at 4 500 in a dense catalog-style sale.
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Society News
W.C.A
Remy de Gourmont
Jawelst
Regent of
Women’s Relief Corps
Newton
Addie Decker
Mary Hickey
Minnie Walter
Mary Wright
George
Averill Gilley
Dennison
Peppo
A. H. McCutcheon
Cedar Heights
W. F. Parrett
P. AL. A. Ferguson
Jennie Haffa
Jane Edwards
United Presbyterian—Berean
W. W. Lytle
William Graham
J. K. Jaggar
W. H. Taylor
Waterloo Savings Bank
E. F. Dawson
Los Angeles
Serving
Marian Horner
Mildred O'Conner
E. G. Anderson
George Krueger
Carl Hemsworth
California
Forbes
Ruth Cameron
Edna Kent Forbes
Cornell College
United States
Brooke Bond Tea
Brooke Bond
Europe
Japan
del Monte
Lakeside
Lippincott
Runkel
Souders
Delicia
White House
Fowler Co
Waterloo, Iowa
Cwensee City and Stere
Tae Egee
Wereweeen
Y.M.C.A
Englewood Hospital
60Th & Green Sts
Chicago
Ludwig
Jeweler
Commercial Street
Paul Davis
Eas
Desi
ADAM
Sheraton
Patrician
FOX
Olyster
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