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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1913
Page
8
Waterloo merchants lavish Christmas displays with elaborate windows ceilings and ready gifts for all family members. The Y M C A Bachelors club also decorates its dining room and some stores plan early closures tomorrow evening with Friday reopening.
Bank officials including E. W. Miller and Dr. F. W. Powers voiced strong support for the federal reserve bill. They said it offers a better money position and will not alter bank charters while enabling membership in the system.
Jesup notices list Mrs. W. M. Robe and others visiting at the George home for Christmas. Families travel to Waterloo and Ames for holidays. Plans include church programs on Christmas Eve and a Grand Opera House event rescheduled. Local residents retirements and visits are noted along with upcoming entertainments and dinners.
La Porte Daily Bulletin notes travel for Christmas visits Mrs J S Page and son Keith head to Central City and Mr Page plans to join Thursday. Local social visits include Mabel Bitterly Cedar Falls, Bess McCowan Cedar Falls with Tesla Mayes, and Mrs John Terry to Brainerd Minn. Skating on Big Creek, new Frank Hoyt bungalow ready for occupancy. Kalb Sullivan marriage in Geneva Illinois to Grace Sullivan of Aurora with Kalbs moving to Aurora.
Becket Mass and Jesup Iowa are linked by weddings and family ties. Flavel W Harris, 72, marries Abbie Loveland in Becket with Rev. Charles W Williams officiating. Harris and Loveland plan a Midwest tour before returning to Iowa. Pearle Miller, formerly of Jesup, wed Justus Philip Welles of Los Angeles in Pasadena before 200 guests. Both couples feature local and Christian Endeavor connections amid cross-country moves.
A New York message reports the death of Dr. John T. McFarland editor of Methodist Sunday school publications. He was born in Van Buren county Iowa and led Iowa Wesleyan College and Simpson College before serving as editor for church lesson materials. He had health setbacks including a paralysis stroke and nervous breakdown last summer.
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