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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1917
Page
9
Mrs Frank Jackson hosts Murray club with guest Inga Stranson who spoke on Norway. Triple Four and others plan sympathy flowers. Royal Neighbors and C E B G hold socials. High Noon wedding for Dollie Anton and Marian Hager with 40 guests. Birthday tributes for Andrew Sutherland and Mrs Kirsey noted amid busy social calendar.
Tonight Burden Bearers class hosts monthly gathering at Calvary church with Mrs W M Wilkins. Various groups include XX club Mrs P B Griffin Philates club Mrs N L Wolfe Presbyterian Hospital auxiliary Mrs C F Green Social band Mrs A E Smith Silent club Mrs George Ferge mab Crescent club Mrs J H Stewart D O club Mrs H J Chapman Woman's Foreign Missionary society Mrs J H Lizer Blue circle Mrs L Farnum Mrs Kerin Card and Needle club Mrs J A Limbert Selest Six Drs Edward Lynch Norpa club Mrs Vern Myara Arla club Mrs T J Sills Lomita club airs Wright Rholenda society Mrs Etta Lovell.
Last evening Hemaworth hosted the usual gathering with Mr Howell performing a violin solo and Mrs Gould accompanying on piano. Old fashioned games were played and refreshments served. Fred Willier reports camp and Uelen Gould auxiliary plan a sociable Thursday in Memorial hall. All Spanish War veterans and wives invited. Sons of Veterans auxiliary held an initiation and business meeting with a supper planned for March 17. Knights and Ladies of Security to meet tonight in K of P hall third floor to address important business.
Alpha chapter of Westminster guild met at Mrs. Charles Van Vieck home elected Mrs. Edmund Miller president Mrs. Van Vieck vice president Miss Marguerite Fowler secretary and Miss Irene Knapp treasurer with Mrs. J R Macartney Nettie Pine and F W Gregory as patrons. A usual study followed by a social time. Daughters of the King at Christ Episcopal church were entertained at Mrs. J E B Currie home with Mrs. Guy Edwards assisting hostess. Rev M L Tate spoke.
Fire departments answered 60 alarms in February, a monthly record with 32 losses ranging from 25 to 1000 dollars and total losses staying under 1,000. Most calls came from roof sparks and chimney fires, with a few incendiary or unknown-cause blazes. Chief A A Dunham collects the loss reports as insured coverage is urged by Miller-McCartney Ins. Agency.
New York February 28 Citizens Food Supply committee reports opposition to its eat rice campaign especially among east side poor. Speakers say rice cannot substitute for staples yet committee notes growing citywide retail demand for rice.
One tenth of the amount asked by the Young Women's Christian association for its 1917 budget was subscribed yesterday the campaign opened. Mrs Stevenson is general chairman with captains Mrs Howrey and Mrs Altstadt. Workers note small contributions show broad support beyond firms. Traps to net 500 in Hood River report by D E Stanton. son George W Stanton plans winter trapping in Lake county with coyotes his main profits. He has trapped 85 coyotes and killed six bobcats.
Washington February 28. President Wilson told peace advocates who pressed him to protest the steps he proposes in dealing with Germany that the country faced a momentous problem. He said he had always been for peace and would do everything within his power to maintain it. The president received their suggestions systematically and told the delegation members he appreciated their views but that the country must realize the magnitude of the question.
Linn county prosecutors oppose a petition for continuance in the Harold M M Jirka blackmail case. Jirka’s Chicago attorney claims illness and danger to life if he travels to Cedar Rapids. A temporary continuance was granted as the district court weighs the petition.
Washington, D. C. Feb 28. Secretary Baker orders that distinguished colleges designate 10 honor graduates from the 1917 class and 10 from the 1916 class to be examined in April for provisional commissions. Under prior rules colleges named one honor graduate yearly. These men, after examination, are to be accepted into the service ahead of other civilian candidates for commissions.
Chicago readers learn that beginning tomorrow the largest Chicago ice company will raise retail ice prices by 20 percent to 37 1 2 cents per hundred pounds. The firm cites rising production costs as the reason for the increase.
Washington February 33. Further efforts to reach an agreement on the postal bill today met with failure. The resolution to continue last year's appropriation was referred to the appropriation committee.
At a farm near Orchards S. J. Pettit shot a large horned owl that had been stealing hens. The bird measured 4 feet 8 inches from tip to tip. Pettit had missed several chickens and was relieved to learn the culprit, which will be mounted.
Rockford report states Frank Zaminato received 23 years and Philip Caltagerone 14 years for the January 2 murder of Joseph Tarantello. In Chicago John Sitman, city clerk, was renominated without opposition but died suddenly today.
Offensive by Austro German forces southwest of Kimpelung yields captured Busasian Hill positions and over 2,300 Russians imprisoned. Italians attack near Pardloro in Macedonia but Berlin says the effort failed. Verdun sees sharp fighting as British and French press toward Baghdad and push German trenches along the Antre river. Allied naval losses total 3,520 tons in 26 months. Washington awaits Congress on response to German unrestricted submarine warfare and U.S. deaths including two American women.
Waterloo theatre listings highlight Al Gorrell in The Soldier's Sweetheart with drum cornet and trombone, The Majestic presents The Wife Saver with Franklyn Ardell, and other acts. Plaza screens The Girl of the Timber Claims with Constance Talmadge, Crystal features All Man, and Waterloo hosts The Garden of Allah adaptation with a large company.
Commercial club committee discusses methods to obtain nearby vacant lots for a Vacant Lot Farming club. Residents and nonresidents near Waterloo may be contacted to secure plots while warmer weather increases citywide interest in farming the lots. George Williams acts as secretary contact.
Theodore Ort, 63, died at St Prancy hospital at 2 10 p m after a weeklong illness of pneumonia. He lived at 90 Franklin street, born in Pennsylvania in 1854, moved with family to Waterloo and earlier farmed near Moline. Survived by wife Anna and four children Alfred L Florence Verna all at home, with Harry in Knoxville hospital. Funeral pending word from Illinois relatives. Governor Harding asked to grant permission for funeral attendance.
Senate resumes debate on revenue measures as a military committee orders a report on an army bill carrying 377 million dollars. Republicans threaten to block defense bills to force cuts. The sundry civil appropriation covers 139 million for foreign affairs and defense. Efforts continue to resolve a 390 million postal program. Prohibition fight escalates with anti prohibitionists lining up for final action over the District of Columbia ban.
A Philadelphia museum correspondent notes the ongoing Australian transcontinental railway linking Brisbane to Perth, boosting national development and uniting the five capitals. The piece also mentions a moving picture library for history, and a humorous scene with a shopman and a graphophone where a visitor is teased into hearing a disk labeled Alice, Where Art Thou, before choosing to sell the flute instead.
London reports British aircraft raided German iron works beyond Saar about 60 miles from the border on Sunday. One hostile machine was destroyed.
A lengthy ad extols S S S as a blood antidote for catarrh, arguing disease lies in blood and sprays and douches fail. Testimonials from C F Venatta of New Kensington praise cure after using S S S. The Swift lab offers free medical guidance and invites readers to write for information.
An instruction advises using four ounces of ordinary liquid urgon at night to moisten and rub into the scalp. After one or two applications, dandruff is said to dissolve and disappear, itching stops, and hair becomes fluffy, lustrous, and soft. liquid arven is suggested for the job and claimed inexpensive and effective.
An advertisement extols Nux Iron Fepsin with Hood’s Sarsaparparilla and Peptiron Pills as an effective blood purifying and nerve-building tonic. It warns that without this combination blood depletion can lead to invalidism and ruin, urging readers to use the product to sustain health.
An advertisement offers Kellogg's Brown Tablets as a free 50 cent package to treat bladder weakness and restore restful sleep. It cites a Washington physician noting aged sufferers pay nights and days due to symptoms, urging a six cent stamp coupon for a free trial box from Frank I. Kellogg Co., Battle Creek, Michigan.
A reader requests a Kellogg free box of Brown Tablets from Frank J Kellogg Co 523 Hostmaster Battle Greek Mich promising 6 cents to cover postage and packing. The note provides name street and city fields but lacks a full address.
A rheumatic convalescent states Cadomene Tablets relieved his pain after months of illness. Letters from Needham, Atlanta, and Pittsburgh praise Cadomene, urging readers to try the tablets. The ad promises satisfaction or money back and notes wide distribution by druggists.
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