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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1927
Page
4
Social notices describe a busy New Year weekend with family reunions and many parties. Local figures including Ralph Izard and Miss Beulah Myithaler host gatherings, while open houses and farewell activities mark the change from 1927 to 1928. Frequently named hosts, guests, and hosting homes populate the listings across Waterloo society circles.
Tonight features a dinner dance at Hotel Russell Lamson and a dancing supper at Elks Club. Numerous gatherings follow through the week including Sigma Chi dance, Linden M E Church programs, Kilkare Club, Beecker chapter and Elks banquets, plus lectures, picnics, installations, and a Riviera Theatre outing.
Waterloo Women's Club promotes Tom Skeyhill to speak at West High School auditorium next Thursday on Mussolini and the Black Shirts. Skeyhill’s career includes Paris and Geneva conferences, a 1920 Soviet trip, a 1925 Italy tour studying fascism, and witnessing Mussolini’s near assassination. The club’s schedule shifts include a Tuesday board meeting and a Friday literary department event.
A vintage beauty guide offers practical cleansing cream and shampoo formulas using white wax spermaceti mineral oil rosewater and borax. It explains steps to blend wax with oil heat and pour rosewater slowly to a creamy texture and suggests olive oil alternatives and massage tips for clearer skin pores and circulation.
Members of the Business and Professional Women's club meet at the Elks for dinner at 6 30 pm Tuesday. Bruce Gates will give a travel talk and Kathryn Barton will present as leading member’s daughter. Plans include a large Keokuk delegation to the May state convention with Elizabeth Kenney presiding.
D O V will hold an open installation at Memorial Hall at 2 p.m. Tuesday led by Gene McMasters and Cedar Rames, with a 190% stall of office. A picnic supper for members starts at 6 p.m. Light refreshments will be served to the public after the installation.
A noon community family dinner will be held Monday at Linden M. E. church instead of the evening. Sir Margaret's guild of St. Mark's Episcopal church meets Thursday at 2:90 Ppm at Mrs. Walter Johnson's home. Rev and Mrs Whiteside entertained the Sunday school board of the Free Methodist church lash evening at home. A three course supper was served. Daisy Kinkle of Maquoketa was special guest.
A large delegation from Waterloo attended the Bethany White Shrine of Jerusalem banquet and Christmas ceremonial at the Masonic temple in Cedar Falls. The hall was festive with small Christmas trees, tapers, and smilax. Mrs. F. E. Lehman and Mrs. Jesse Wood sang, Stanley Wood read, and about two hundred people attended. no seating will be held Monday due to the holiday. next regular meeting is January 16.
Waterloo temple of the Pythian Sisters contributed about 3000 to the grand temple home and education fund aiding youths pursuing higher education. The group sent a large box of clothing candy and toys to Perkins hospital Iowa City. New officers include Mrs H A Duke as chief and Mrs Paul Burgess senior among others. officers to be installed Friday night Jan 9.
Flood control will be the theme of the Iowa Engineering Society annual convention to be held in February. The Waterloo Technical Society announced the program at its monthly meeting in the Iowa Public Service company rooms. Features include a campfire smoker banquet and dance. P M Woodworth of Chicago, Portland Cement Association, spoke and demonstrated cement mixing. State convention chairmen named: Barber general, Fairbanks reception and registration, Miller banquet, Sieg entertainment, Lonhiecker inspection trips, Plowman exhibits, Slippy campfire, Wilson finance.
Myrl J. Barr aged 38 a nephew of F. L. Benedict and FL J. Eightey formerly of Waterloo died from a skull fracture after an automobile accident in Sioux City Indiana last Thursday night A telegram to relatives gave no details Barr had lived with a sister in Waterloo and previously worked for Waterloo Saddlery and Charles Eighmey Brewery Funeral arrangements were not announced.
Chicago reports that library buildings fail to meet needs of universities more than other campus structures. Frances Warner and Charles H Brown of Ames Town state college library urged delegates at the American Library association in Indianapolis to note that the University of Chicago building from 1911 and Ohio State library from 1905 illustrate enduring inappropriateness. In the last 16 years new structures have sometimes proved unsuitable and unable to adapt for satisfactory future use.
Public libraries will be closed all day Sunday and Monday for New Year holidays. Waterloo Co-Operative Dairy moves its office to 814 Wacker and Big. Streetcar service extended to 145 a m for New Year festivities. Y M C A to hold open house for all city boys Monday morning. Various residents and visitors noted in brief items from Ames and nearby.
Frederick Mills Ross announces the Melody Way club offering 12 easy piano lessons using the Otto Miessner system, taught in Waterloo public schools. Classes of 20 pupils start next Monday with materials printed by the Courier including a piano keyboard guide and enrollment forms at no cost.
Burr G Lichty a member of the Izaak Walton league filed a petition asking Waterloo city council to release wild rabbits in Riverview addition and declare the area a city game refuge. He cites local wildlife such as quail and pheasant and urges stronger enforcement of the fire arms prohibition within city limits. Police recently arrested two youths for shooting rabbits there but they were released after stating they did not know the area was inside the city.
Kenneth Miller, home for holiday vacation at 242 Sheridan Road, active at Rider College Trenton N J, leads Philomathean Literary society with 75 members. He is junior editor of the Rough Rider college paper, ex West High graduate 1924, ex Ti club secretary, French club member, Radia club secretary.
A minister shares a story of a five year old girl who resists visits by crying and screaming. His counsel to her mother urges quiet discussion about happiness tied to good behavior and temporary loss of privilege as a second punishment proves effective. The mother reports continued improvement after two punishments.
Frank E. Baker, president of Milwaukee State Normal school, states that kindergarten shifted classroom focus from subjects to the child, recognizing the power of interest and satisfaction in learning as the first step in educational reform.
December closed with a record cold wave and subzero nights as Ralph B. Slippy records note the month featured eight subzero nights, a high of 43 above, and lows of 13 below and 11 below. December 1926 comparisons show 41 and -11, with 14 clear days and 12 cloudy. Rainfall totaled 1.39 inches and snowfall 4 inches.
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