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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1920
Page
9
A wide list of spectral legends spans English and Scottish sites from Naseby era to Newstead Abbey and Medmenham. Ghosts include Jane Seymour and Katherine Howard at Hampton Court, the Goblin Friar at Newstead, Elizabeths at Medmenham, and the Meeble ochdan haunting Highland bothies with unseen forces.
The article traces Washington social rituals from Lady Washington’s drawing rooms to Jefferson and Wilson era changes, noting the shift toward minimal White House entertaining and the expected revival under Harding. It describes the New Year’s diplomatic breakfast, the secretary of state's role, and the democratic nature of the White House reception.
The article describes the annual New Year’s breakfast hosted by the secretary of state, attended by 40-odd nations’ envoys and officials. It details the fashion, forms of entry, gendered attire, language, and strict precedence rules, plus the starched ceremony of greeting and serving, all funded by Congress's neutrality fund.
Miss Grace iTrone of Boscobel Wisconsin wed Dr Ross U Bodwell of Waterloo at the bride’s mother home at 5 P M Today The bride directed the local W C A cafeteria for about a year before moving in with her mother Bodwell is an osteopath physician
Twelve secretaries from civic, commercial, and welfare groups in Waterloo gathered at Black's tearoom at noon to survey their organizations' work, structure, and methods. Anna Eva Far is proposed to answer all questions. United theatre advertisement. Inverkip, Scotland, twins James and Winksain Ford, aged 95, share remarkable health and lifelong fidelity to their spouse.
Raymond and nearby towns report festive visits over Christmas. Families from Waterloo and Dunkerton shared meals and gifts at relatives’ homes including the O’Connell and Turner households. Local churches held services and students performed holiday exercises as residents remembered friends and kin.
Mt Auburn hosts extended family visits as Albertsen and Gaasen families travel, weddings occur at local churches, and residents welcome relatives from Waterloo and Des Moines. Notable items include the Yocum-Trivola marriage, school pageant success, and community gatherings amid Christmas and New Year celebrations.
Dunkerton residents recover from illness while families host Christmas dinners in Dunkerton and Jesup. Shell Rock hosts its annual creamery meeting with officers elected. Numerous visits connect residents of Shell Rock, Tabesville, Waterloo, Mason City, and Clarksville as holidays continue.
Aplington residents gathered for Christmas with extended relations from Ames and Tara taking over a recently bought restaurant. Education staff and students, church programs, and local visits fill the holiday notes. funerals and homecomings mark the week in Orchard and surrounding areas with multiple families visiting relatives and sharing meals.
Geneseo and nearby residents share Christmas visits as cadet Brown at West Point hosts the Meeker and Brown families and friends. Miss Francis Meeker of LatTore Cite stays with friends, while Miss Marion Brown visits in the area. The Watles Aid Society plans a New Year dinner at Mrs. J. T. Guernsey with picnic baskets invited. Floyd Meeker visits Vernon Speer. a son is born to Mr. and Mrs. Claud Mitchell on Christmas Day. Robt. Mitchell Jr. visits grandparents in Waterloo. Contractors aim to finish plastering the new school building this week.
Washington Two December notes list R Baker visiting Beaver township relatives and an all day church group meeting at Mrs Roy Sitson. Waterloo holiday visitors Pearl and Walter Renner stay with grandparents R R Ford. Husell Wildes and George Mellicker celebrate Christmas with kin. Elsie Hemmer returns from Mawarden. Marie Swift visits Waterloo relatives. Andrew Weide returns home after seven weeks in St Francis hospital.
Nancy Merrill daughter of John and Mary Merrill died at her Winthrop home on December 25 after a life spent in Quasqueton and Winthrop. She joined Hickory Grove church at 13, later Pine Creek Church, taught for years, cared for her sister Jane until her death, and is survived by three sisters and two brothers. Funeral held Monday with Rev. Hammond officiating.
Miss Ethel F. Donahue, born Hartford July 6 1895, is named special assistant attorney general in a newly created federal post. At 24 she becomes one of the youngest in the position, a Vassar and University of Pennsylvania Law School graduate noted for hard work and intelligence. She appeared modest and unassuming to reporters.
Waterloo boxer Kid Lavine scored a technical knockout in seven rounds against Pep Webster at Buxton Iowa. The bout, hailed as the best ever there, had Lavine dominating Webster, with plans for a return match on March 17 or 21 and management by Ralph Alexander of Waterloo.
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