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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1911
Page
8
Market reports show produce prices tumbling with butter at 30 cents a pound and dairy varieties 25 to 29 cents. Eggs range 17 12 to 20 cents a dozen in several establishments while oranges 20 to 40 cents a dozen and apples 30 to 60 cents a dozen. Fresh pineapples sell at 25 cents each as strawberries arrive from Florida at 40 to 80 cents a quart.
Blaine Kennison buys half interest in I A Utter's barber shop at North Waterloo forming Utter & Kennison. Railroads and shop men from Waterloo plan Mardi Gras trip to New Orleans next week, leaving early week for several days. Mr and Mrs Charles Shafer travel south extensively and Otto Stuffiefield starts as vipe fitter helper today. Master Mechanic J A Bell returns from Fort Dodge trip. R W Bell and party pass through en route to Chicago. F M Fuller and wife plan Mardi Gras trip. H B Jones resigns as manager.
East Waterloo senior class brings reader Leland Powers to the school for an evening in the manual training auditorium on Friday March 3. Powers, famed for his oratory from the Leland Powers School of Oratory in Boston, will read and impersonate The Prince, a new production praised by listeners. Proceeds support the senior class annual Orange and Black publication expenses.
Real estate transfers show multiple 1880s transactions including Geo H Hilton to F B Miller for land in 1889 13 valued at 1, W N Birdsall to Pearl Westhoff part of lot 14 Buckingham Place Waterloo 900 dollars, J Gates to Waterloo Cedar Fale and Northern Railway Co part of lot 14 DuBois addition Waterloo 4416 dollars, Elizabeth McClellan to Thomas Skillman land in 1589 13 2500 dollars, Thomas Cascaden Jr to Ulysses G Kramer lot 9 block 18 Westfield Waterloo 300 dollars, J E Sedgwick to A G Kramer lot 9 block 3 Woodlawn Waterloo 265 dollars, D W Clayton to W L Carpenter part of lot 1 block 1 Grand View Place Waterloo 1500 dollars.
The Salvation Army seeks to acquire the late M L Newton home at 1 G19 Mulberry Street Waterloo for 10000 with 5000 due by June 1 1911. Ensign Burkeman leads the Waterloo company. Brigadier McMillan and Adjutant Sheridan visit to discuss plans and remodeling for worship reading and sleeping quarters. The project aims to aid the homeless and involve local business groups for support.
Waterloos blind man W B Duncan runs a weaving plant at 515 Dane Street, weaving carpets and rugs with several looms. He manages repairs, color harmony, and knows every city street well enough to walk home unaided. He has a team of ponies he feeds and uses to secure business, having been blind twenty years and in weaving eleven years after losing sight blasting rock.
The seventh annual Western Fruit Growers convention concluded in Sacramento with St Louis chosen as the 1912 convention site. Officers elected include John M Walker of Denver as president R H Pennington of Evanville First vice president J E Stewart of St Louis Second vice president E H Emery of Ottumwa Iowa Third vice president William Roylance of Provo Utah treasurer EB H Roger of Des Moines and William Tidwell of Denver named directors and secretary respectively.
On Saturday a baby girl arrived for Mr and Mrs Ezra Tharp. Beulah Reinvill won the gold watch and chain at the Waring entertainment at the opera house. J G Murtagh and Charles Murtagh visited town. Lizzie Haynes and Ed Furgerson were noted visitors. Mrs W Fi Smith went to Green Bush Wis to a telegraphed death notice for Frank Hall. Luther Metzger from Omaha and a car salesman named Lute asked for potato orders.
Mrs Maria Conger aged near 76 sustained a fracture of the left hip when she slipped while walking between her Park Avenue home and her sister-in-law’s Washington Street residence. She was assisted home for treatment after the 6 o'clock accident and rested well overnight. Folay Kidney Pills ad follows.
New Hartford residents host visitors from Randalia Des Moines Reinbeck Dike and Chicago. Society group New Hartford Chapter 126 0 BE S meets with four new members Rev H A Essex and Mr Mrs Harry Sherman. A piano purchase boosts lodge work and valentines mark the gathering. Other entries note Mr W H Adams moving into town and travels of Chas A Morrison from Salina Kansas.
The Ladies Aid of the First Presbyterian church led by Mrs Ida Cooley organized a Sunday surprise by cleaning and redecorating the church. Work began Monday with heavy renovations and the ladies completed the project, spending around 200 dollars entirely funded by church members.
A community event by St Marys church opens next Thursday Feb 23 at Elks hall in Elks hall. The three day bazaar features German style meals each evening and music by Old Sauerkraut Fritz Meyers and LaRue orchestra. A platinum portrait exhibit of Seraphic Heights hospital is displayed. Also includes health notes and a parcel post protest by T P A Waterloo Iowa.
A resolution from the Travelers' Protective association of Waterloo Iowa urges Congressman Pickett to oppose the parcels post bill. Signed by H Weatherwax John T Rock George Hammond C R Rohde and Charlies H Bingham the resolution states parcels post would be detrimental to the association members and the public interests.
A local hotel clerk admitted he did not know Water Street location and directed two commercial travelers to the waiting room for a streetcar to Walter Street. They walked six blocks to ride six blocks, then learned Waterloo Street was near and that they had almost boarded the wrong car.
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