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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1923
Page
1
The Iowa House passed a measure to create informal conciliation courts for disputes up to 360 dollars with district judges appointing unpaid conciliators to offer informal settlements. If agreed, the judgment is entered. if not, cases proceed to trial.
Washington D C Feb 10 Secretary of Agriculture Wallace announced the sale of Charles J Brand from New York as his special representative to investigate economic conditions in European countries with a view to increasing the outlet of American farm products abroad. Tand marketing consulting specialist will give particular attention to conditions surrounding the livestock and meat packing industry.
In Ulis county Thad the late Nathan Harrymount left a complex series of wills with a $100,000 estate. A fourth will dated April 1921 names Charles Cain and others and details provisions for a Greane county memorial hospital a Dublin bank fund for a burial plot in Ireland and support for orphans. Officials and public observers weigh how the tangled documents will be resolved.
J R Miler a former cafe man in Jowa Falls is missing after leaving for Sioux City to open a cafe and grill. Mrs. Miller stays hopeful as authorities search, noting he carried several thousand dollars and a $1800 check. Miler, a seasoned chef, was well known in midwestern hotel and restaurant circles.
In Des Moines two men were hospitalized after drinking poisoned liquor. Francis Craig, after four officers struggled to subdue him, was placed in a padded cell and later restrained in a straitjacket. James Brunos sustained a head wound and collapsed in a baggage car, while Stanley G. Griggsby fainted en route to the police station on intoxication charges.
Albert Holdiman, a 54 year resident of the county and longtime farmer, died at his Dunkerton home this morning. His funeral will be held at the Baptist church Monday at 2 30 p m. He is survived by his widow of 47 years, six sons, four daughters, 20 grandchildren, three brothers Richard Joe and Daniel and a sister Mrs John Buetner.
J C Koontz aged 82 a part owner of a local gasoline service station is believed to have killed himself due to financial reverses and anxiety over mortgage payments due March 1. He turned on all gas burners and was found dead. Koontz long served as county farm steward and had remarried only recently.
A majority of 68 backed Sunday movies in West Union after petitions for and against were canvassed this week. The city council, who had faced a long controversy, agreed to abide by the campaign’s outcome to determine local sentiment.
Gerald Gustafson of Boone, a World War I radio expert with the AEP, was killed yesterday after falling from a window at an electric plant where he worked. His body was brought back to Boone for burial.
Webster City Freeman Journal editor George G. Tucker was chosen president of the Iowa Press Association for the coming year at the noon business meeting during the annual convention. E. P. Harrison of Oakland was elected vice president O H Hull of Leon recording secretary and Hi McCabe of Logan treasurer. John W. Carey of Rock Rapids and K P Baldridge of Bloomfield were elected new board members as the convention closes in the afternoon with the new board meeting.
Ottumwa Iowa February 10 Archial Burris a Black man was found guilty of murdering Mrs Fatire Renfro Bates a 20 year old. Judge Francis M Hunter imposed a death sentence to be carried out at Fort Madison Prison on February 22 1925.
A Davenport resident Heinrich V Hein sent a letter to President Harding seeking aid to recover 50000 from former employers, though the suit’s status and details remain unclear. The brief notes multiple local incidents including injuries from a tree crush in Iowa City and a dynamite cap explosion in Monticello.
Scenic South Dakota rumor about an unmapped Badlands area called sieht makoche or bad place. The piece notes a four square mile region southwest of a town where no white man’s footprint has reached, with canyons spires and failed attempts to traverse. Chief Flaming Arrow recounts Sioux belief that a hidden rocky wall protects the area and provides water and warmth, with stories of explorers not returning.
Rainbow division veterans and Rainbow circle will entertain at a Valentine party at Memorial Hall Wednesday evening. New post and auxiliary members and all former Forty-second Division members in Waterloo and vicinity are honored. Members may invite wives or sweethearts. King Marson post awarded serial number one by national headquarters, with auxiliaries similarly designated.
Detroit manufacturer Henry Ford dominates Democratic sentiment, with farmers and laborers backing him for president. Report notes Ford could carry western and midwestern states and attract business leaders across parties, while Republicans may pursue him as a potential candidate in primaries.
Miss Mabel Gray of New York is announced to marry Viscount Exmouth, formerly Prof. Charles Ernest Pellew, who earned a British title after his father’s death. Pellew plans to travel to England to have his rank confirmed and take his bride. The article then shifts to U.S. political analysis on direct primaries, presidential hopefuls, and party leadership dynamics surrounding Ford and the Democratic Organization.
Athens reports that Greece and Turkey have begun exchanging war prisoners. The first batch of Turkish prisoners has departed for Constantinople aboard a transport.
Oklahoma congresswoman Alice M. Roberts, defeated for reelection, retires March 4 to return to her Native state and work as a milkmaid on a Muskogee area farm. Admirers plan to present her a band and she favors a bull as a gift.
Waterloo police investigate a possible murder on the Eleventh Street bridge after a large pool of blood is found. A 16 inch butcher knife and a blood sample are sent to Chicago experts for analysis while detectives interview Rath Packing officials and search for missing crew or a victim.
Three masked bandits wearing aviator helmets held up two workers at FR Me2 Farllane Co in Chicago and escaped with 4444.14 dollars. The day brought additional robberies as Edwin Brady and Mrs Hallie Brady of 413 Thompson Avenue were notified of a family illness in Dubuque.
The Rev. Thomas Nelson, pastor of an Independent church in Zion City, reopens his criminal libel case against Zion overseer Wilbur Glenn Voliva as witnesses attack Nelson’s truthfulness. Indianapolis witnesses call him untruthful while Nelson defends himself and a $2,500 furniture bill is read.
Prof William Conrad Roentgen, famed discoverer of the Roentgen or X rays, dies at Munich. Born March 27, 1845 in Lennep, he studied in Holland and Zurich, where he earned his doctorate in 1869. He later taught at German universities before his pivotal 1895 X ray discovery in Wurzburg. He received the Rumford Medal in 1896 jointly with Philipp Lenard for cathode ray research.
New York. Feb 10. Warner M. Leeds 55 wife of Warner M Leeds sister in law of Princess Anastasia fell or leaped to her death from an attic story window at No 10 East Sixty fifth Street before scores of passers by. She struck head first and died instantly.
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