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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1915
Page
3
Large Rock Island property listing offers nine rooms above a main stock area in a prime town location with small rent. Fast sale possible for cash. asking price $1,000. Contact R. P. Galbraith at 229 17th St Mack Island UK.
Market listing shows CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE with address 403 404 Marah Place Building and phone 940. G Larrabee serves as resident manager and oversees the exchange operations and market quotes.
South Omaha and Chicago markets show varied cattle hog and sheep activity. Receipts 6 000 cattle 26 000 hogs 17 900 sheep with lower openings and weakening demand. prices near steady to lower for cattle and hogs while sheep hold firm. local notes mention new shop sale and a hospital operation recovery alongside minor community updates.
Fragmentary shopping column lists various dairy products with wholesale and retail prices. Mentions Butter Creamery Orange Lard Potatoes and other items with unclear quantities. Continued on page 12.
Waverly events include Mrs Dale Gaylord returning to Cedar Rapids from her parents home Mrs W D Bailey. Mrs Van Nordstron improving at home. Ethel Turner hosting Tappa Tappa Regga girls at Furtner hotel. Mrs John Tegtmeier returned from Denver. Ellis attended canning factory. fifth dance by Waverly Dancing club with Harring Harrington orchestra tomorrow. Mr and Mrs Walter Krumbholz arrived from Des Moines after illness of Mrs Higgins mother. Retta Dean called to Greene to care for a patient. Harry Sinderson to Mercy Hospital for appendicitis. Mrs J C Hodges ill.
Mrs. B. W. Edwards leaves confinement to roam the house after a year indoors. Wm. Wachal breaks a collar bone and rib in a hay rack fall but walks to the doctor for treatment. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Smith of Sioux Falls visit Mrs. Graves. Rev. J. W. McKee to occupy Worrell residence. Sacred Heart church ladies host a chicken supper at the Walker hotel with over 1250 servings despite bad roads. A grand birthday dance for Miss Anna Donnelly at the opera house draws about eighty five guests with Kaney’s harp orchestra. Chaperones include Mr. and Mrs. Hawkinson, Aldermen, and Miller. Supper served in two courses. attendees include many from out of town.
Frank Kirach and Joe Kuhn drove cattle to Chicago Sunday. L. A. S. meets Wednesday with Mrs T B Householder. Mesdames Orr and Rehburg to assist. Frank Bilate and mother Mrs Arnold Blake visit Chicago then Maine to see Blake kin after over fifty years. Robert Elridge sells hotel for eighty acre farm west of town once owned by Mr Guile. Rev Roberts loses one pony to lockjaw during shipment. Mrs Olive Grover improving. Mrs George Simpson of Maynard visiting to care for mother-in-law Mrs Jonathan Simpson. A. E. Norton named postmaster, replacing L D Corkey who resigned last fall. Norton to move postoffice to his store around the 15th.
La Porte City notes death of Joan A. Longaker 79 at son in law William Sawyer Spring Creek township. Born Feb 23 1835 in Pennsylvania he moved to Iowa at 24 became a long time Spring Creek farmer and pioneer of Black Hawk County. Survived by six grandchildren two sisters and one brother funeral February 9 at 10 from the house with burial in Spring Creek cemetery.
Dave Popham travels to Kansas City with two feeding cattle cars. Mr and Mrs Leslie Hoadley welcomed a boy. Mrs Sam Leigh broke her right arm after slipping on ice. Prof E C Bishop of Iowa State College Ames visited his mother Mrs Mary Bishop. Mrs Hanchett and daughter Josephine of Colorado Springs are guests at the Esser home. Mrs S E Bump returned from Trinidad with Louie Bump. Harold Purdy, Ames student, returns home to help with stock during his father’s Des Moines absence. Harry Moore enters Cedar Rapids business college. W Badine suffers pneumonia.
Parkersburg residents enjoyed a large turnout for a Wednesday minstrel show in the opera house. Community notes report students from Parkersburg and East Waterloo high schools playing basketball with Parkersburg winning 15 to 12 and the sophomores adding an 8 to 6 victory.
Independence events note travels by Mr. and Mrs. G T Blamer and Mrs J B Wright to California and Deland Florida. Plans arise for a Buchanan county fair grounds rest cabin for old settlers. Agent J H Rogers marks 35 years with Rock Island Railroad. M C A gym to reopen for young men after repairs. F A McInteer aged 78 retires from Campbell McClernon and McInteer.
A local businessman plans to open at the building just north of the old location vacated by Quality Construction Co. He will operate independently. Separately, the teachers' examination overseen by Superintendent Lockwood on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday drew 28 examinees.
A May 25 1912 JAMA article discusses calcium based remedies for tuberculosis noting Van Giesen observed partial consolidation dissolution and sputum clearance with calcium supplementation and Eckman s Alterative praised for safe easy assimilation without irritants urging readers to obtain Eckman Laboratory Philadelphia.
An advertisement urges readers to use four ounces of Jad Salts with a morning dose of water to flush and stimulate kidneys. It claims relief from backache, cloudy urine, and bladder irritation, touting Jad Salts as a grape lemon lithia drink that cleans and protects kidney function.
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