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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1926
Page
7
Fragmentary listing shows brash halibut and fresh salmon items alongside oysters and smoked fish. Phrases are garbled with likely references to seafood cuts and prep items. No clear events or entities beyond typical market seafood offerings emerge.
The document contains legal actions including a mortgage foreclosure against J. T. Silfsgard and Agnes Silfsgard, notice of renewal of Waterloo Theatre Company as Waterloo Postal Advertising Company with its business scope and capital stock details, and a public notice from Rural Independent School District Cedar Heights regarding issuing 37500 school refunding bonds with a meeting time set for December 27, 1926. The text specifies court timing, attorney names, corporate officers, and planned corporate actions in Waterloo Iowa.
Legal notices announce action appeals to the director of the budget and objections by voters of Rural Independent School District Cedar Heights Black Hawk County. Executors named for Christian Hagen estate and NELLIE OM. GHEEN as executrix listed with filing, debts, claims, and probate procedures in Black Hawk County Iowa with court clerks and attorneys named.
Remodeling of the building at 1095 Fifth Street east, now home to East Fifth Sweet Hardware, will start after Jan 1 by Perpetual Building & Loan asso ciation. Standard Sales company plans to occupy about March 1. Improvements cost 3000 dollars. G. P. Benston signed a five year lease. 60 girls expected to be employed.
East High and all East Schools close for Christmas program led by Rev Edwin Boardman of First Brethren church with a talk on Christmas significance. Schools end activities today and will reconvene Monday January 3, starting a shorter vacation this year and a one week earlier summer break next June.
A 14-pound fresh salmon for Mir Tut Marg Lea Wiltse at 1325 Leay Ith street arrived this week, delivered by Santa Claus in disguise. The fish was caught and sent by Mr and Mrs W A Garland of South Bellingham, Wash, a popular local holiday gesture.
A family letter recounts a child named June Frances asking Santa for a desk, books, games, a blackboard and a toy piano, while Bobby seeks a watch and a toy car and Paul desires an electric train. Ruth and Minn Vaughn request underwear and shots, preferring basic needs over toys, in a plain businesslike appeal.
M J Breitenstein arrested Tuesday night for check fraud in Sioux Falls and linked to a fake automobile service scheme. W M Shirley of Watertown chamber of commerce warns Breitenstein promoted the Motorists Service Association of South Dakota and swindled many, with some deliveries made and others promised. Breitenstein faces pending checks in Watertown and a $176 fake-check charge in Sioux Falls. extradition details unresolved as a diamond ring found on arrest is returned.
The jeweler testified he bought a ring for ten dollars as a first payment. Breitenstein claimed the ring was not a Christmas gift for his wife. Papers show his wife resided in Stevene Paint Wisconsin, with Chicago listed as her home.
John J. Foarde has been appointed captain of Company B in Waterloo National Guard infantry, succeeding Capt. Clyde W. Davis who moved to the unassigned list. Adjutant-general notice from Des Moines was received by Capt. Allan Johnson, with Foarde having trained at Fort Snelling Minnesota and been commissioned a lieutenant.
Defendants Fined for illegal possession pleaded guilty in municipal court today. Judge Gwynne suspended $75 of the fine on good behavior with $25 and costs due. Det. Crumline Det. Davis and Officer Buckley testified. The report notes rice cultivation in South Carolina began from Madagascar in 1695.
Mrs William Thrower of 414 Sev ranth street west donated to the memorial hall a collection of two framed cases of historical currency. The display features Confederate money from the Civil War Cuba under Spanish rule and German notes. The collection was once owned by her son Walter Thrower, a Spanish War veteran, who died recently.
Louis Huntington, 16, Cedar Falls, was ordered committed to an industrial training school after a municipal court found him guilty of forging a $10 check. Police found a .22 caliber pistol and 1,000 rounds of ammo among his belongings following his arrest by Marshal Nathan Enlow. The court noted Huntington’s aim to join a feared gang of oldtime western "bad" men.
Police recovered a .22 rifle traded by a boy to a Waterloo merchant for a shotgun. The shotgun was reportedly disposed of in Cedar Falls. A dagger borrowed by Huntington was also disposed of, with no record of weapon use in crime.
An investigation of court records shows two actions in district court not yet dismissed. Plaintiffs include S. 7 Price and Cyrus Meyers of Grundy County against Ivan G. Londergan and the Medical Life Insurance Company. The suits concern sale of steel and related financial matters.
Des Moines Insurance company took over Medical Life last winter. George C. Claassen of Cedar Rapids filed trial notices for the September term but the suits were not reached for unknown reasons.
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