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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1913
Page
13
Cedar Falls IA December reports show residents visiting and entertaining guests. Miss Miriam Light hosts a house party with Miss Grace Light while Dr. F N Seerley visits to lecture and address Methodist church events.
Cedar Falls Ia Dec 12 This evening Highland Park college of Des Moines will debate at the college auditorium. Speakers Karl Hauser Arthur Fortsch and George Zimmer man headline the home team with Harry McDonald Harry Shedd and Clark Wilkison traveling to Des Moines. The topic asks for a state commission to fix rates and outline public utility service. Judges are Rev Sandford Attorney Tullar and Superintendent Kline. There are allied market notes on a parm sale and Cedar Falls real estate moves involving S Oleson Chris Anderson Nels Falis Karl Petsch and others.
A Illinois bulletin states that clergymen on Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific trains within the state must pay full fare. Western railroads grant reduced rates for religious workers, but Iowa law restricts such reductions to unpaid public or religious service.
Enoch S Wheeler of Waterloo, formerly from Centralia Washington, patents a sanitary cold-handle frying pan with round high handle and no grease cavities. He aims for 3000 pans daily if local factory starts, with Waterloo Gasoline Engine Co to manufacture. Six smallpox cases raise Waterloo quarantine to 18, plus scarlet fever and diphtheria cases.
Milwaukee authorities say H. C. de Bruton was fined $25 in federal court yesterday for sending a receipted bill for shoes in a dummy parcel marked C. O. D. The case centers on alleged violations of postal laws in the footwear purchase dispute.
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