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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1914
Page
10
Deputy Auditor Welker traced an omission in district name counts that caused a false total of men of military age for Black Hawk County. East Waterlog district data were left out, inflating the county figure by about 1,700 men. The error will be reported to state officials and corrected. Also: civil actions on crop payments and naturalization fee rulings.
Washington reports to Senator Hitchcock details on shipments of war munitions from the United States. Secretary Redfield notes 15,000 firms could export, preventing full investigation. October exports totaled 1,104,744 dollars in cartridges and 539,360 in firearms, plus 1,114 in gunpowder, with no records to Germany, Russia, Belgium, or Serbia since the war began.
Funeral services for J. H. Williams will be held tomorrow afternoon starting at 2:30 from 633 Fowler Street and again at 3:00 at Walnut Street Baptist Church. Rev J B Smith will conduct both rites.
Feature praising wartime women for nursing and supporting the home front. It highlights women’s labor from nursing to farming and mining, and extols Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a remedy for maternity pains and women’s ailments, promising restored health and motherhood happiness.
Notice invites readers to obtain The People s Common Sense Medical Advisor by sending this notice and 20 cents in stamps to Dr. Pierce at thevelds Hotel Buffalo New York for a prepaid return copy.
Geneva dispatch reports winter snows securing Switzerland’s frontiers from violations until spring. Demobilization orders issued for three frontier divisions, with more sent home before New Year. Alpine passes deemed impassable after the first heavy snowfall. a reduced guard remains on duty along the boundary.
A dispatch from San Antonio reports the Villa garrison at San Luis Potosi revolted and surrendered to Gen Samuel De Loss Santos loyal to Carranza. Several thousand troops defected, joining Santos to abandon Villa. Carranza loyalists also report Carrera Torres’s Tamaulipas command switching sides.
Washington reports Col. Goethals governor of the canal zone informed the British embassy and state department that the British collier previously deemed to have violated Panama canal zone neutrality did not have wireless equipment. The supposed message was likely sent by a different British vessel outside the three mile limit.
Revivals continue as interest grows at United Brethren church. Dr Williams preaches on The Years That the Locust has Eaten and A Royal Guest with services at 7:30 tonight and Sunday. Mrs Williams sings Somebody Knows and afternoon lectures aid Christian attendees.
Ann Arbor December 19 Science stood aghast at Michigan as Mrs. Charles Little of Detroit asked professors to declare if she is white or a negress. Her husband, a Detroit druggist, seeks a supplementary divorce bill claiming she is Cincinnati oilman’s daughter. Dr Victor Vaughan advised. experts shook their heads. Mrs Little vows to persist in asking America’s greatest scientists for a verdict.
About 1 45 this afternoon George W Hoy a butcher was found overcome by gas in his shop at 1266 Sycamore street The store was not open as usual today and by noon neighbors became suspicious and notified the police Hoy was found in a room adjacent to the shop unconscious it is thought he will recover
The Good Fellows club received 33.36 from charity night receipts at the Majestic. The event attracted a large crowd and will be repeated tonight to benefit food, toys, and clothing for Waterloo’s poor children at Christmas.
Berlin reports Aviation Lieut. Kaspar, an apprentice jurist by trade, back from a bold mission over Calais where he dropped ten bombs without hits. He faced heavy fire on arrival, fired again at Dover and Paris, and returned with his aircraft riddled by over 400 bullet holes, marking a dramatic display of daring.
Malmoe Sweden Dec 15 three kings Gustave of Sweden Haakon of Norway and Christian of Denmark arrived for a conference to align their interests during the war. The meeting marked a rare reunion since 1905 with cordial greetings as crowds cheered the royal party at the market place headquarters of the lord lieutenant.
The Cornell Prohibition league of Cornell college Mt. Vernon sends ten students and one professor to the Intercollegiate Prohibition Association national convention in Topeka Kansas December 29 to January 1 inclusive. Six Waterloo students will join the delegates Elmer D Sherrill Craig Arbuckle Hulbert Cheever Dorothy Wilson Kathryn McIntosh Jeanette Huff. More than a thousand students from U S colleges will attend to hear speakers of national fame.
Detectives seized 32 quarta of liquor from W. HM. Mahran at 1714 Jefferson Street on November 27 and deposited the bottles at the courthouse. Attorney W. B. McMurray ordered the return of the liquor after ruling no evidence showed sale. Fire at Boone bank building causes about $10,000 in damages to bank and tenants.
Casualty lists published today show 22,601 German dead wounded and missing along the Yaer, with total losses across the Yaer area amounting to zero thousand. Verlin reports from Amsterdam and London dated December 19 noting the figures.
Des Moines December 19 Special reports list supreme court decisions including State vs Montivilla Woodworth in Jones county for assault to commit rape affirmed. L K Deal versus Power and Light Company Link county reversed. State vs Otto Vochosii and Leon Careell in Jones county assault to commit rape affirmed. W A Sullenbarger versus G H Aherns Benton county affirmed. Augusta Miles versus Matt Miles Linn county affirmed. Plymouth county certiorari leaves county without saloons.
A collage of late classifieds includes For Sale items such as a modern room house at 218 Mulberry with phones 1442 Black, six white wyandotte cockerels at $1 each, 50 Rhode Island Red pullets, a high grade Weaver piano for $75, and various furniture pieces. Rentals list furnished rooms with steam heat, a suite for light housekeeping, a six room modern bungalow on 1214 Leavitt St, and a warm modern sleeping room at 302 Walnut St. Also noted is a first class automobile garage business for sale in Watrous, Sask, and employment ads for a salesman and for piecework at Erina Specialty Co. in Toronto. An executor appointment notice for Henning Ehlers estate in Black Hawk county is included.
The Commercial National Bank in Waterloo invites all to join the Christmas Savings Club for fifty weekly payments in nine classes. Members may begin with one cent to one dollar weekly, with payouts from $12.50 to $63.75 next December. The bank backs the plan with $3,000,000 in resources, claiming no losses, and offering added benefits like life insurance alignment and tax payment help.
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