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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1924
Page
2
A page lists dinners at Black's dining room and reports on club activities, meetings, and social events. Notices include new officers, budget examples for business women, a marriage announcement in Hollywood, and upcoming dances and initiations.
James Black elected general president of the women’s association at the First Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Ida Cooley re elected secretary and Mrs. Hugh Patterson named press correspondent. New officers include Mrs Clair Parker president and Mrs T L Tolerson first vice president. The aid department reports over 2500 dollars raised, with 1200 toward the building fund. Refreshments were served and Miss Mary Pratt celebrated for long service in India missions.
Miss Fannie Hemenway addressed 70 members of the B. P. Wy club urging that true earning capacity is measured by talent, capabilities and efficiency not by pay. The talk emphasized opportunity for business women and personal development.
An exploration of the line between curiosity and intrusion. The piece argues that inquisitiveness defies easy definition and highlights how different people perceive questions about private matters. It advises caution, urging readers to err on the side of discretion to protect friendships.
In this column on winter care the piece laments ugly inappropriate hands and praises proper gloves for various occasions. It gives tips on glove types from long white to stout cape walking gloves and suggests methods to soften and protect hands, including soap and honey almond prep, lard treatment, and rubber gloves for protection. It also mentions hair brightening with henna and skin clarity as related beauty notes.
St Pauls NM hosts a Thursday evening 6 oclock picnic supper for all neighbors with family potluck provisions and 16 cent supper for accompanied children. Women provide coffee and trimmings while Claire Heald and Rev Williams present world service talks and Clarence Dewey directs community singing. An Evening Circle dinner at 6:30 hosted by Christ Episcopal Ladies Guild precedes a social evening. Engineers from Iowa State Teachers College to give a concert at First Presbyterian church auditorium.
Social band members meet all day with Mrs J A Hartldlp and plan a noon dinner with attendees bringing sandwiches and food. Calvary Evangelical Truth Seeker class met Ming Dorothy Jones last evening. enjoyed games and refreshments with Esther Fogel assisting.
Social circle hosts a prente luncheon at Mrs Nate Martone's home Thursday at noon. The hos tess will provide dishes. Patrova club meets at Black's femnom Thursday at 2 p.m. to play 600. Hive o'glock dinner follows games. West Lutheran Ladies Aid Society meets Thursday afternoon at church parlors with hostesses Mrs Otto Meler and Mrs John Tegtmoler.
Mrs. Ina Coleman East, noted author, traveler and clubwoman, spoke on Conserving the Country's Scenic Crown at a Kiwanis International event last night. Her illustrated talk traced the rise of the national parks from Montana beginnings to 32 parks, touring the Rockies and Denver with lantern slides.
Harman Fabian of Waterloo ages 25 and Anna Christensen of Harlan age 19 filed for marriage. Rudolph Potratz of Westgate age 26 and Agatha Delimering of Westgate age 37 listed license details. August W. Anidorf of Cedar Walls age 24 and Marian Quiknecht of Cedar Falls listed as applicants.
Barton Thomas and Blackie Andrews pleaded guilty to intoxication in police court and received perpetual separation as an alternative to 10 days in jail. judge Gwynne suspended the sentence. E R Hughes faced a deceiving a policeman charge with hearing set for 2:30 p.m. The city jail was full with 12 inmates and 45 tramps housed in the first five days of February.
John Wilson of Binghamton paid a Paris claiming physician $12,000 for a radium belt that was loaned, never delivered, and never returned. Police hunt the alleged doctor who vanished after taking the money.
Keith L. Buechele son of Mr and Mrs J L Buechele Waterloo finishing his junior year in the St Louis University College of Dentistry was honored by election to Brand Raster of Beta Zeta chapter of Psi Omega dental fraternity He serves as treasurer for his class and is a West graduate.
The fragment notes a high school figure known for athletics in 1917 and that he consistently earned football honors at Des Moines University.
Black Hawk county jury commission drawn sixty petit jurors for the March term service to start 9 p m March 16. The panel includes 44 men and 16 women from Waterloo Cedar Falls Fox Big Creek Spring Creek Cedar Halls East Waterloo Washington Marclay and Black Hawk with jurors named across multiple listed residents.
The notice corrects last evening’s report stating Nellie Reed Munger daughter of Dr Daniel Reed former pastor of First Congregational church and wife of I B Munger died in India while on M C A mission. Her body was brought to Walton for burial. Munger has retired and lives on a Wilton New Hampshire farm.
First of two programs to raise funds for Greater Waterlo Concert Band summer concerts will be held tonight at East High auditorium featuring Martin Heyde, recently arrived from Europe, with tickets priced 31. Heyde, a leading European concert star, has sung in Leipzig and Berlin operas and studied under Seydel in Leipzig and Scarlotti in Milan. C. C. Crawford directs the band and hopes for strong patronage for its new financing method.
Sofia Feb 6 Bulgaria and the United States signed a naturalization convention. Bulgarians naturalized in the United States will be considered American citizens when returning home. Naturalized citizens avoiding military service penalties are not punished. The pact runs 10 years after ratification and two years after lapse may affect re naturalization. Becker Chapman Post American Legion meets with only posting matters. A 16 inch telescope was completed for use in Argentina.
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