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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1924
Page
2
Waterloo looks forward to welcoming the new year 1825 with open arms. Citizens will ring bells and cheer as youth dance, while older residents greet the future at a reception committee gathering. Police encourage decorous revelry though cafe and dice gatherings risk police action.
Sixty mothers and babies attended a Christmas exercise at Salvation Army hall on Water Street. Commander Eddie Bowe said the cradled babes will join the army's Sunday school, with a Christmas tree, Santa Claus, and gifts for all. Evening service at 8 with intermission and refreshments, gospel team to conduct services tomorrow night.
Seventy two members of G I G and I T Sunday school classes at the community church were entertained at an annual dinner in the church dining hall last evening. Serving was by girls of the intermediate department. A three course menu preceded an entertainment program with music, duets, a toast to the girl class, a toast to the boys class, and a talk by Rev A V Laugh.
Waterloo promotes its first radio show to be an educational exhibit held January 14, 16 and 17 in the Overland Waterloo company salesrooms at Fourth and Franklin Streets. The event will display radiophone receiving sets and explain operation, covering neutrodyne and superheterodyne circuits. Products from eastern manufacturers and Waterloo-built receivers are included, with demonstrations by two local operators.
Newest additions join Waterloo's industrial family as organizers state no receiving sets will operate at the event to keep focus on the show's true purpose.
County records show 694 marriage licenses issued by 1924 morning, down from 647 in 1922 and 688 in 1923. In 1924, 237 divorce actions were filed, about half the number of marriages, per J W Thompson, clerk of courts.
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