Remembrances For Employees Across Firms
Firms remember workers with cash and merchandise. Litchfield Manufacturing distributed nearly $1,000 in presents to employees based on seniority and merit. Foremen earned extra for years of service, while other staff received per year cash. Company incentives included $10 top suggestion prize and departmental awards. Turkeys, magazine subscriptions, and gifts followed a season of generous giving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Litchfield Manufacturing Company
Litchfield
R. T. Phillips
A. J. Artus
James Darragh
Shiplet
Ae Universal
Agricultural College
Ames
BBC. Litchfield
H. L. Litchfield
Turkey
Citizens Gas and Electric Company
Inion Mill
William Galloway Company
Higher Up Named in Steamship Bomb Plot Scandal
New Orleans police say Hang Helm alias Hans Helle confessed to a ring planning bombs for ships of the Allies at sea. Chief Reynolds claims international figures were involved and promises disclosure that will “startle the country.” Local investigations place New Orleans at the center of the gang, with bombs intended for vessels departing from allied ports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Hang Helm
Hans Helle
New York
Felice
Reynolds
New Orléans
City in Brief Christmas travel notices and local news
Miss Irene Casey will spend Christmas in New Hampton Attorney B. F. Swisher and family will spend Christmas in Iowa City. Mr. and Mrs. James I. Kenyon have gone to Waukee to spend Christmas with Mr. Kenyon's parents. Mrs. W. F. Fairbairn has gone to Clarion to spend the holidays with her sister. Mrs. Viola Johnson is recovering after a hip fracture at St. Francis hospital. An eight and a half pound boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Gilley. Many families depart for Christmas visits in Des Moines Storm Lake Dundee Dundee and other towns. Dr. L. E. Evens reportedly joined the British army. George Sawyer and W. G. Vaughan visit Waterloo for Christmas. Leila O'Neil returns from Rowan. Stephen H. Ware named administrator of Henry M. Ware estate valued around 12000 dollars. Traveling men to attend Pythian temple meeting and banquet. Phoebe Cornell very ill with pneumonia at J. M. McStay home. Stephen Ferguson returns from a four months Cotton Belt trip. Dr. W. R. Cothern speaks on Systematic Circulation at Waterloo College. New Russian naval base planned on Aland islands with large warship arrivals and stocked provisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irene Casey
New Hampton
B. F. Swisher
Iowa City
James I. Kenyon
Waukee
Mr. Kenyon
W. F. Fairbairn
Clarion
Fred Brooks
Viola Johnson
St. Francis Hospital
R. R. Gilley
Mulberry
Harry Dunkelberg
Robert Dunkelberg
Iver B. Lund
Kingsley
Stephen H. Ware
Henry M. Ware
la Porte City
Pythian Temple
Phoebe Cornell
J. M. McStay
Second Street West
Cornell
Stephen Ferguson
Ferguson Manufacturing Co
Texas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Missouri
Kansas
W. R.cothern
Waterloo College of Chiropractic and Naturopathy
George W Abel dies from fall in Illinois Central incident
George W Abel 43 a conductor on the Illinois Central died after a fall in Freeport Indiana. His remains were brought to Waterloo and taken to O Keefe Towne to await funeral arrangements. He resided at 824 Fourth street east Waterloo. He is survived by his widow daughter Mrs Tom Sullivan father Madison Abel sister Mrs H E Boehmler and two brothers BH Abel and Henry Abel. Funeral planned for Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Abel
Illinois Central Railroad
Freeport
Waterloo
O'Keefe & Towne Undertaking
Abel
Fourth Street East
H. &. Boehmler
Ilinois Central
Tom Sullivan
Madison Abel
H. E. Boehmler
BH. S. Abel
Los Angeles
Henry Abel
Oelwein
Paralysis Causes Death of Mrs Z J Duke at 53
Mrs Belle Bunker Duke Mullarky Duke aged 53 of 1502 Washington street died at 4 40 this morning from a paralytic stroke suffered three weeks earlier. Survived by her husband of 25 years, a son Verne Mullarky of Chicago, stepchildren, sister Mrs Rose Rogers of Bristow Iowa, two brothers, former Mullarky and Duke marriages noted. Resident of Waterloo 25 years, member of First Methodist Episcopal church. Funeral plans not completed. services likely Saturday with interment at Clarksville, Ia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mra. Z. J. Duke
Washington Street
Verne Mullarky
Chicago
Rose Rogers
Bristow
Special Music at Christmas Mass at Sacred Heart
The Sacred Heart church choir presents a Christmas morning program including Holy Night with tenor solo by Chas McNulty and full chorus, Gloria from Millard, Credo from Rosenwig, offertory Adeste Fidelis by the full chorus, Sanctus and Agnus Dei from Millard, with soloists C J McNulty John S Ashe A Berend Doris Fitzgerald Genevieve Harris and organist W Go Lilly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacred Heart Church
Chas. McNulty
Fron Rosenwig
Millard
C. J. McNulty
John S. Ashe
A. Berend
Doris Fitzgerald
Genevieve Harris
W. GO. Lilly
Emperor Nicholas Greeted En Route Moscow Visit
Emperor Nicholas and the empress with their children toured Moscow hospitals run by public and private groups. In the Kremlin, Princes Logoff and Moscow mayor M. Tchem nokoff, commissioners for the Zemstvos and cities unions, reported on their activities. The emperor expressed satisfaction with the accounts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Petrograd
Nicholas
Union of All Russian Zemstvos
Caucasus
Kremlin Palace
Logoff
M. Tchemnokoff
Union of All
Lodeston Braves Acquire Sherwood R Magee
Philadelphia Dec 24 Sherwood R Magee the hard hitting outfielder of the Philadelphia National league club was traded to the Boston Nationals for cash and some players. The deal was approved at a New York meeting field by WF Baker of Philadelphia and James Gaffney of Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Sherwood R. Magee
Boston Nationals
New York
Wf, Baker
Philadelphia Club
James Gaffney
Bostons
Schwab Says Europe Contracts to Boost U.S. Prosperity
New York December 24 Charles M Schwab president of Bethlehem Steel says Europe has placed over 300 million dollars in U S contracts for supplies since the war began. He returned from England aboard the Lusitania and predicts a great period of prosperity. He notes canceled British submarine contracts and hints at new war munitions deals while avoiding specifics. He cites the coming transport challenge as crucial to handle rising manufacturing and commerce. The Audacious incident remains unrevealed by instruction and he confirms the ship did go down.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Europe
United States
Charles M. Schwab
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
England
Lusitania
Schwab
Bryan
Althose
Olympic
Dart Trucks Deliver For Good Fellows Drive
C W Hellen of the Dart Manufacturing company saw the need last evening and volunteered two large Dart dell trucks to the Good Fellows' diluting depot. He arranged four bright red banners reading Good Fellows' Courier-Reporter Ch Merry Christmas one hung on each side of both trucks. They helped deliver odtabies and clothing all day long to about a dozen automobiles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. W. Hellen
Dart Manufacturing Company
Dart Dell
Good Fellows
Good Fellows’ Courier
Belgian Ready for Artificial Limbs
Edmund De Wagenaere, a Belgian who lost both legs in a railroad accident, was taken to Minneapolis for fitted artificial limbs by Te Lux of the city. A company representative will assist in fitting and teaching him to walk and care for the limbs on the journey to and from Minneapolis. He will later attend Waterloo Business College with tuition paid by Prof. Gales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmund de Wagenaere
Minneapolia
Te Lux Company
Ims
Ian
Aly
de Wagenaere
Waterloo Business College
Prof
Gales
Japanese battleship Hizen and escort off Peruvian coast
At Tima Peru on December 24 the Japanese battleship Hizen anchored seven miles off Puerta de Pigura with a torpedo boat destroyer and several English merchantmen. The vessels came from Acapulco Mexico and remained off the northern coast as reports described their movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tima
Peru
Puerta de Pigura
Hizen
Acapulco
Mexico
German Aeroplane 18S Wrecked Near Pais
Paris dispatch reports a German aeroplane 18S bound for Paris was pursued by the French air patrol and brought down near Pontoise, 19 miles northwest of Paris, as it convoyed merchantmen to a South American port.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pais
Paris
Journal
Pontoise
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Litchfields
Leighton
William Lingwood
Emma
Schramm
Davenport
J. Kk. Rogers
Harry Hall
Dadvertizem Cay
Duchanan's
H. W. Ladage
Eugene
Storm Lake
John H. Blair
Des Moines
C. W. Mullan
Henry Junge
St. Paul
Leland Avenue
M. Buchanan
Mrs. Buchanan
William T. Goettsch
Durant
A. T
A. H. Peterson
Fifth Street
L. E. Evens
Canada
George Sawyer
Osage
W. G. Vaughan
Minneapolis
City
Emily Vaughan
Park Avenue West
Leila O'Neil
Rowan
P. H. O'Neil
George C. McLellan
Cylinder
R. A. Davidson
W. E. Clark
Fort Dodge
Joseph Scheidler
H. A. la Rue
Harold
West Liberty
Mr. la Rue
Elizabeth Barnes
London
Associated Press
Berlin
Russia
Aland Islands
Gulf of Finland
Aland
Baltic
Atand
Gulf of Bothnia
Sweden
Freeport, Ill
Ima
Gloria
Mai
Rosenwig
Loston Braves
Royal Worcester
Radford
DART
Merry Christmas
Peruvian
Erteo
Erik
West Fourth Street
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