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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1921
Page
5
Waterloo notices list demands for repairs and services from furnaces to piano tuning, plus multiple Wanted ads for jobs government posts sales and housing. Readers see offers for sewing tailoring driving carpentry and handyman work alongside rental listings and small ads.
Classified notices show numerous Wanted autos for Ford models and other makes with cash offers. Rentals list furnished and unfurnished apartments including heat and water, plus large real estate ads for Waterloo listings and nearby towns with prices and contact details.
A jumble of ads and legal notices appears for trade opportunities real estate storage piano and household goods plus executor appointments and court summons. Names like Mary Hurxer Harry A Sargeant and Elbert Nibblett surface among filings in Black Hawk county Iowa with addresses to file claims and attend hearings.
Charles City Iowa December reports show a Raymond Y M C A membership drive surpassing expectations as canvassers convert indifference into enthusiasm. Early claims that funds for any purpose would fail prove false with many pledges and renewed energy across the city. A separate note mentions mild weather and spring sap hints from Cedar River area trees. Christmas club savings distribution of about $60,000 boosts local spending. A distressing incident: Jim Hayes found in his barn with a self inflicted throat wound and wrist injuries. hospitalized and slowly improving.
Daily brief items report residents visiting, moving, or traveling including Mrs. B. F. Wilhelm near Conrad, John Clemons in Marshalltown for cataract surgery, and the Younker family relocating to Nevada. Community notices cover deaths, farm changes, and local visits across Grundy and nearby towns with multiple named individuals and places.
A Sunday opera program in Waverly drew a large audience, with proceeds for a new boys home. Fr. Anan led the event, and attendees included families from nearby Waterloo. Local clergy and veterans planned activities, while a collision victim received care and L. J. Patterson recovered.
A young woman notes talk of political machines at precincts and believes they will come in time as she casts her first vote marked with two lead pencils.
Leal sought the sale of 10 acres in section 15 to satisfy a judgment. The notice requires appearance by January term 1922 at the Waterloo courthouse, Iowa, or default will be entered and judgment rendered for the plaintiff Pickett Swijmor Farwell, attorneys.
The annual Tree meeting at the Legion post elected officers including Commander George Aiewice and Vice Commander Vern Neal. Other positions went to Hugues, Stevenson, Isgad Bipkey, and an executive committee led by Hurl Johnson, with local members from Kansas City and nearby.
Mt Auburn notes list Frank Struve and Herman Wiest traveling to Waterloo for Irene Christopher s Epworth League convention. Local residents Mrs Henry Welgord and Mrs At Wiens shop in Waterloo. Several visits and travel plans described among families including Clements Walken Smalley Bramhall Todd and Livingston.
The Finchford Cemetery association will host a New Year dinner in the consolidated schoolhouse on December 31 with the public invited. Local residents, including Mr and Mrs William Beaty of Cedar Falls and Mr and Mrs F J Bo Waterley, attended events and visits over the weekend. The school presented a Friday evening play That Awful Letter with a late audience. various locals visited Cedar Falls and Waverly. teaching, calling, and illness updates are noted among residents.
Mitchell notes recount visits and travels of residents to Waterloo Duluth Cleveland and Portland with social gatherings, a school cantata and minstrel show had 25 cent admission, high school girls attending Dr Throckmorton lecture, a fundraising lecture course netting about 57 dollars, Lola Honaker's eighteenth birthday, Fred Steverwald's family visit and return to Huron, Willam Brogmus buying poultry in North Dakota, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs performed at the opera house, and town engineer W. Crawford leaving for Clarian Illinois with planned return in March. Littleton items mention Mary Bechter visiting and local Jubilee visitors and an oyster supper at C G DeMill with burial of Ed Hovey noted.
Cedar Falls reports Black Hawk lodge A F and A M elected officers A S Brodie worshipful master Earl Etler senior warden George Doran junior warden H Camith treasurer James Whillis secretary A S Lotta trustee in a closed session
McCallsburg Ia welcomes Rev. and Mrs. Genung as he takes a new pastorate at the Presbyterian church after 12 years in La Porte City. A farewell party in La Porte City honored the couple with a purse gift and best wishes for their relocation.
Mr and Mrs Ernest Taylor and Mr and Mrs Ea Strausser visited Waverly after mail carrier exams. The Cemetery Society met with Mrs Ole Rove and served about 80 lunches. Miss Clara Croys returned from California with her sister. Families from Buck Creek and Nashua visited Mish Slee’s home and attended Borglum’s funeral in Nashua.
Names Anna Waverly Myrtle Green and others appear in a Nashua social snippet noting Thursday and Saturday events with Miss Green's chopper activity. The fragmentary report lists Mr Layelov Enson and Mr and Mrs Erne among attendees in a vague timeframe.
Obituary notices report Mrs Robt Swanger died December 3 in Fredericksburg with services at M E B church led by Rd H Gillam and Rev A M Sharp. burial at Maple Grove cemetery. Also listed are the deaths of Mrs James Freem, Mr Warton presiding pastor atop Rose Hill service, and veteran Harry Parks with funeral plans Tuesday. Other items note a Parent Teacher Association meeting attendance, a new baby boy, Mrs S H Van Gorden in Eau Claire hospital, and Kate Schumacher injuring a leg at lodge open house.
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