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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1913
Page
5
A local sale advertises Monday discounts on framed pictures and landscape prints. “All breakable goods must be sold” with paintings offered at less than glass cost and hats in the millinery department cut to 50 percent or half price to close.
A Cedar Falls dispatch lists visitors and local entertainments. Flora Overman from Chicago arrives Monday for several weeks before California. Local residents attend church programs with Rev. J W Holland and speakers E W Cable and Prof J J Tobias.
Peter Juhl in Cedar Falls received a letter from son Chris who had left home years earlier. He and his wife now live on a ranch in Oklahoma, news that brightened a long awaited family Christmas. The page also notes local notices and visits over the holidays.
LaPorte Daily Bulletin lists local residents and guests visiting in La Porte City and Waterloo during Christmas and New Year holidays. Names include Spalding from Portland and Haven. Grehant from Wyoming. Grabe from Minneapolis. McGoger from Ashland. Firestone, Sither, Manwell, Mears, Smelser, Mertz, Fultz, McQuilkin, Trost, Fosselman, Oretzmeyer, Strubel, Leslie, Keith, Clark, Gifert, Saylor, Lauer, Smith, Lusenhop, Wigton, Harre, Brooks, Carer, Rust and others visiting or traveling.
Waverly beyond the holidays sees Mrs Walter Kramhotte from Des Moines visiting friends. Cedar Rapids guest Miss Amanda Schulsi visits her mother Mrs Schulnecht. Nora Clay from the state university visits holiday friends. Harald Campbell of Mason City spends time with the Grassfields and others. Mrs Krank Meyers hosts Christmas with Wooff Moore family plans a New York trip. Prof J Sheldaht and family move to California after Wartburg link fades. Dr Howard Risk visits his Gelwein home over Christmas.
Fred Hubbard and Laster Morris visited Waterloo for the weekend. Stacy Walrath the Arlington visitor. August Kramer returned to Welcome Minnesota for Christmas. A Koseki drove to Harpers Ferry Ia. Irva Snyder visited Osage. Neva and Rose Titus stayed with W Tilton. Ethel Cromer returned from Sibley to enjoy holidays. Tracy Craft left for Elkton Minn. Fern Anderson visited Mason City. Dr F Taylor left for Charles City.
L. E. Park reports a letter from R. F. E. Wilson formerly of Waterloo now in Glen Flora Texas describing the flood as the worst in the state’s history. Wilson and his wife took refuge on the second story of a brick store as Glen Flora flooded for four days. The river ran 45 feet deep and 30 miles wide in places with trains halted and communication cut off for two weeks. Wilson, once connected with the Waterloo Glove company, still owns property in Waterloo.
A job notice in Waterton offers a male band leader and instructor at Sherman Institute California with a $720 yearly salary. A civil service exam is set for January 12 alongside exams for topographic draftsman copyist junior lock fitter medical assistant and other staff roles for the institute and related duties.
Mr and Mrs William Brandhorst near Hudson entertained 28 guests on Christmas Day. Attendees included family from Hudson and vicinity and guests from Waterloo such as Mr and Mrs Henry Tewitt and daughter Ruth, Mr and Mia Ben Briscow and Lois Walker.
Several petitions filed yesterday afternoon reveal widespread marital strain. Claims include cruelty adultery desertion and neglect among couples such as Clara Quest and George Quest married 1904 Waterloo. Cufford D Minearva and Jennie Minear. Muntson Pond and Elsie Pond. Clint A Palmer and Ada Palmer. Maud Widows and Harry J Widows. Lulu L Smith and Harry L Smith. Custody and support requests appear in the filings.
The column lists numerous locals and visitors arriving and calling on relatives in Winthrop, Brandon, Independence, Dubuque, Waterloo, and nearby areas. Individuals named include Miss Mattie Sheffer, Miss Ruth Lewis, Mrs. Ray Postel, Alfred Uhl, Mrs. Belle Bucher, Mrs. Patrick O Connor, J. Metcalf, John Callan, Mrs. Reheera Bucher, Miss Clara Lenderson, F. B. Parker, Miss Brooks, Mrs. A. J. Cummers, and others visiting for holidays and medical reasons.
A traveler recalls visits at the William McFarland residence and travel to St Charles Illinois to see Mr Bryant and his parents. Mrs Bryant is identified as Miss Ruth McFarland in remembrance.
Plainfield picks up Christmas news with visits from Porter Hinmon and family, marriages and moves on Main street, and revival meetings set for Jan 1 at the M E church. Notables include Chas Brooks of Chicago as singer and Ruth A Smith earning a top 100 national ranking at New York Life Insurance Co.
The natribonal guard of Iowa members from companies L and IR anticipate a joint drill next Tuesday evening at the armory. They have prepared for some time and will take extra effort to put on a good display.
Card of Thanks expresses gratitude to friends and neighbors for kindness and sympathy during illness and death of husband and father MRS H BE TAYLOR AND CHIL DRE remains not fully legible but conveys thanks to community for support.
Funeral services for the late Mrs. Coates were conducted at 426 Manhard Street Inst evening. This morning the remains were taken to Elkader, Iowa for interment Monday. A large number of friends attended the services.
A Christmas celebration at the Silas L. Klingaman home on Fourth Street West saw five children receive $500 each totaling $2,500. Mrs. Klingaman also gave linen and the couple supplied gifts for twenty two grandchildren, with several Klingaman families named among the recipients.
With the final two performances of The Funny Moon the Majestic ends its current run. Holiday crowds filled the house as vaudeville resumes tomorrow afternoon featuring The Schoolmaster headlining Hendrix-Belle Isle Co. plus acts by Remare and Riley, Junie McCree and Eddie Clark, Clara Williams, and the Minstrel Four. Three New Year shows and an amateur contest with cash prizes offer yearend entertainment. Seats on sale for New Year’s Day.
A short marriage notice lists Purley M Click of Waterloo and Severine Krough of Hudson as the couple licensed to wed. The fragmentary record provides names and locales without additional dates or ceremony details.
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