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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1911
Page
1
Buchanan and Waterloo society items list visits, travel plans, illness, recoveries, and notable arrivals. Mrs Lichty and daughters enjoy California winter. several residents plan trips to Chicago, Cedar Rapids, Benson, or Boston. A divorce case, revival plans, court terms, and civic notices are noted along with engineering society sessions and a railway police convention.
Mrs W L Bumgardner a longtime Waterloo resident dies at 12 10 PM at 22 Ninth Street West after a two week pneumonia battle She was born Elizabeth J Satchett September 26 1840 in Cambridge Ohio and moved to Iowa in 1857 She was converted at 12 joined the Methodist church and remained active in First M E Church and the W C T U Her survivors include husband M J Bumgardner daughter Mrs C N Carters two grandsons five brothers and one sister Funeral is set for Tuesday at 2 30 PM from the First M E Church with Rev Frank Cole officiating Burial will be Elmwood Cemetery.
A Jackson County recap recalls A J Edwards, a staunch republican, delivering a maiden speech in Bennington township on reciprocity and tariffs. He stunned farmers with blunt truth about farming as Iowa’s chief vocation, prompting a change in view for local voter John Burk and a shift toward the Democratic ticket in subsequent elections.
Washington reports Theodore Roosevelt will not join the National Progressive league nor back Taft. He will campaign as an independent, advancing his own progressive program. Close allies see clarity in choosing self direction over joining Bourne La Follette leadership, avoiding being swept into a party cohort.
Funeral service for the late Thomas H. Greens was held at St. Joseph's Church with Fathers Slattery Mulcahy and Hanley officiating. A large crowd attended to honor the departed, whose life was marked by kindness. Pallbearers included Thomas Hayes and others. out of town relatives joined friends from Watertown Reinbeck Fort Dodge Vinton Garrison.
The First United Brethren church of Christ committee met at the Irving hotel and ordered five ply quartered sawed white oak pews to be delivered May 24. Plans are being made to dedicate the new church edifice early in June.
Georgetown Kentucky February 18 Caswell Meeatten a negro was sent to the Penitentiary for life yesterday for stealing a turkey This being his third conviction for similar offenses he was given the life term under the habitual criminal act Also notes about the habit and a local advertisement for Chamberlains Cough Remedy and a brief social item about Miss Nellie Rosencrans of Independence staying in Water tos with Miss Nellie Wallace on Saxon street
An old advertisement touts Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs colds croup bronchitis hoarseness and grippe coughs. It emphasizes no opiates and refuses substitutes from J. K. Joder and Son.
Davenport Iowa February 18 Qacar Bowker seventy of Oxford is believed first flood victim in Maquoketa river and Wapsie bottom lands. Bowker has been missing since Thursday after going to the river to watch flood. Mississippi water at Davenport up a foot in 24 hours. A large steel bridge washed away near Wheatland. Milwaukee bridge at Neels holds but trainmen and passengers distrust it. Trains run to the bridge, passengers alight and walk over, engine starts, fireman jumps on after it is safely levered.
H J Phelps division passenger agent for Illinois Central at Dubuque is named general passenger agent of the Northern and Western lines with Chicago headquarters. He succeeds G Watch, appointed traffic passenger manager. J M Morrisey becomes district passenger agent at Indianapolis to fill the Dubuque post. change takes effect in March.
The First M. BE Sunday school held a pleasing program in the church parlors last evening. A boys band led by T. B. McMurty and children's ad displays drew laughs. Success credited to Mrs J. Miller, department head.
James M. Bergstrom aged 26 and Gertrude M. Hanson aged 19, both of Cedar Falls, were issued a license to wed this afternoon. The report notes a period of damp gloomy days with sunbeams appearing, and mentions Sidney Simon of Palace Clothing returning from New York with his wife for a visit. It also thanks Black Hawk Abstract for a county wall map and reports George Paw's return from Chicago where his daughter Elizabeth is recovering at St Luke’s hospital. Miss Paul’s hospital stay, and W. W. Wyant’s commission as city and state milk inspector for Waterloo.
Joliet Illinois February 18 The noted woman pickpocket Fainting Bertha Libbecke was released on parole from the state penitentiary. The parole board met in Joliet last Tuesday and notified Warden Murphy that the petition was favorably considered. Relatives took charge and she will reside in Iowa.
Washington February 18. The department of agriculture reports a new equine breakfast food made from cocoanut and peanut meal as a substitute for oats to curb high grain costs. Ten Morgan yearlings and four work horses tested at the bureau farm near Middlebury showed overall good condition. yearlings fared less well. The test saves 15.75 per ton compared with whole oats, with mixture costing 38 per ton versus 43.75 for oats.
Seven members of the YWCA board met at the Ellis hotel parlor. Mrs. Paul Davis reported on her Cedar Rapids trip. The group visited the Century building to view new rooms and decided to hold a banquet for all members next Monday with plans to be announced later.
A jumble of old classifed ads lists sale items real estate and employment offers. Entries mention Sandalswood fans for sale a Waterloo Lumber Co listing, farm worker wanted near Clarksville Iowa, mirth in a pitch for a home based business, driving horse for sale and land for sale near Canton South Dakota with 36 000 price along with lost and found open face golf watch reports and help wanted for stenographer positions.
Inter Ocean reports bullish sentiment among corn traders with orders to buy on declines as wheat drops. Liverpool and New York futures show mixed moves with wheat steady then firmer, corn softening. Lamson Bros notes May wheat at 1.028 and corn at 0.50 in earlier trades, with heavy receipts and strong cash demand. forecasts suggest lower receipts and higher prices if weather worsens. sheep market and New York butter also listed. Rae Muirhead Girls club meets Monday at First M. E. church, 7:45 PM. Edna Dey leads.
Weather remarks show Illinois Indiana Missouri unsettled with rain or snow tonight and colder. Michigan snow tonight or Sunday, colder. Iowa Nebraska unsettled with snow. Wisconsin fair tonight and Sunday, colder. Minnesota North Dakota fair and colder. Kansas rain or snow tonight and Sunday. South Dakota cloudy unsettled tonight and Sunday, colder. Estimated receipts Chicago Feb 18 hogs 012,000 cattle 2000 sheep 2000.
An original notice served on David Brown shows Maude Brown through her attorney seeking separate maintenance of 50 dollars per month in district court. The petition will be filed for the May term. Also served an original notice in International Mausoleum Co. vs J L R seeking 4750 dollars on a promissory note.
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