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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1912
Page
5
Open market auction for the Carey Farm owned by Joseph Kaufman of Keota Indiana. Sale Saturday at 2 30 PM at the Horse Sale Pavilion 112 miles east of James Black farm. Terms include $50 prize, with payments arranged for a high dollar sale and immediate possession.
Special quarterly services start this evening at Emanuel Evangelical Church and continue through Sunday. Rev. E. Nolte, district presiding elder, will preach tonight in what is his farewell sermon before leaving the district this spring.
Waterloo YWCA building fund gains traction as Austin Burt of Citizens Gas & Electric announces a $7000 gift from Philadelphia gas interests. Mrs. C. M. Woods is re elected president as plans include a April fundraising Baset and a March visit by Frances Crittenden.
Fort Worth Texas February 29 Jury of seven for acquittal and five for conviction discharged in the murder trial of John Beal Sneed a wealthy Amarillo banker. The defendant accused Capt Boyce of aiding his son in abducting Mrs. Sneed and fired in a Fort Worth hotel. The jury had been deliberating 112 hours.
Des Moines February 29 The department superintendent of the state fair board and President C. E. Cameron of Alta meet here to review plans for several new buildings. The premium list totaling 65 000 was nearly completed after a late session yesterday. A highlight this fall will be a baby health contest for children ages 1 to 2 years assessing physical well being.
Governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey will be the guest of honor at a Des Moines University club banquet at 6:30 tonight. He will be escorted to the caucus for his principal address after the dinner, with more than 1,500 out of town guests expected. He has also accepted an invitation to Davenport for a 6 o clock dinner of 250 business men at the Commercial club, followed by a non partisan address.
Meetings under Burley Tobacco Society direction are held in forty six Ohio Indiana and Kentucky counties to promote a ten year pooling pact. Officials estimate about 40 000 farmers will sign to pool their entire crop with the society for a decade.
Advertising manager A. E. Haswell of the William Galloway company oversees extensive recruitment of female workers to distribute advertising material for the Waterloo firm. Already seventy five girls are employed for a three month period and more help is sought.
Hone C. Martin announced plans to improve the Lane property behind the Commercial National Bank on Sycamore Street this season. He did not specify building size or type. Also noted, cement pipes were shown as novelties at a lumber dealer meeting in Waterloo, a gift from Universal Portland Cement Company via Arthur W. Wilby.
The noted playwright Henry Guy Carleton, residing in Atlantic City, used to tell a tall tale about Madras mosquitoes. A Breton émigré warned by a friend that their long suckers would drain life, then arrived in Madras to see three elephants on the pier, exclaiming that these must be mosquitoes.
The quotation urges faithful, brave service in every role from shop and kitchen to office and school. It frames daily labor as a moral duty integral to mankind's welfare, comparing it to fighting for a great cause and praising the thoughtful, skilled effort of ordinary workers.
A 10 cent Cascarets box ad touts cleansing of stomach and bowels, claiming purging action, no griping, and elimination of bile and toxins. It urges nightly use, promises morning well being, and notes mass use by men and women and children.
In Talanquera, Monte Christi province, Santo Domingo, on Tuesday a force of revolutionaries clashed with government troops. Twelve revolutionaries were killed and many wounded while government forces suffered twenty two casualties.
All furnished and doing good business with immediate possession. Call 2492-Black or contact E. L. Hildebrand, Syndicate Blog. For Sale New Gas Range never used. Call 581-Black or 507. Lost Baby’s White Muff between Eighth and 601 West Eleventh. Call 1296 Black.
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