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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1915
Page
3
Market news shows steady curves for hogs cattle and cattle products, with receipts around 6500 hogs and varied prices for calves cattle and sheep. Local notes include the Big Brother mission opening in Waterloo with midnight watch service and a stockholders meeting for the Home Building association plus a film showing at the Palace.
In Mooreville Macoureville on December 30 farmers prep for summer lea planting and harvest soon. Mrs. Geo Ell is poorly. Joe Hut visits Humboldt. Mrs. C Z Hayward visited friends in La Portelas. J Itasward shipped a carload of bons to Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Meeker moved to the A J Meeker farm. A J Meeker and son will live with Roscoe Meeker in Geneseo. Grover Thomas and wife spend holidays in Independence with Mrs. Thomas's relatives.
Allison and vicinity report a series of deaths and family visits. Mrs. George E. Martin was buried after funeral services at the Congregational church with Rev. E. A. Roadman leading music and pallbearers named. Jacob Stebrands wed Helen Rottink at the bride’s home with Rev. James Rowe officiating. H. T. Conn dies after long illness. funeral planned for Allison cemetery. Also noted are visitations by Roberta Ray, Lillian Hogan, and Olive Dailey, plus a charity ball and Epworth League watch night event.
Dumont notes record numerous local events and obituaries. Hr Handorf and Wiley family visits, Jennie Miller and Guy Jackson marry at EB A parsonage, Frank Schuler and Lela Hanna to wed, and residents’ visits to Des Moines and Redfield. Funeral for Oscar A. Chambers, burial in Harlan, Viola Witte’s death at seven twelve, and families planning moves to Bristow and South Dumont.
Mrs. N Goodrn visited Waterlon then returned last week. Trev Hamkammer and wife were summoned to Andrew Indiana by his mother’s illness. Harold Coverston and wife from Benton Harbor visited. Jan 1 opens a new lecture course. ladies orchestra to entertain. Mrs C Eichman Jr ill with pneumonia. Stillwater visitor Arthur Nelson Jr and parents Christmas at Wilhelm home. Births: August Thies son Dec 28 and Chas Gudlow daughter Dec 20. Panzer family from Baraboo visited. Dorothea Kirchhoff dies May 26 1843 Prausen Germany after paralysis Dec 20. Funeral Tuesday Rev M Kleinan. interment St Peters cemetery. Kammoerle family to Chicago next week. Dick Law of Maple Leaf visits.
The Farm Crop Improvement Association of Black Hawk County holds its first officer and director election Monday at 1 30 p m in the Commercial club room Cedar Falls. Membership costs 1 and grants access to the crop doctor and privileges of the county wide organization open to all residents or landowners. Directors and officers listed. Members must pay before voting. certificates available from current officers.
Sixteen young people enjoyed a sleighing party to Centar Falls last evening returning about 8 40pm. They went to Miss Elizabeth Coggan's home at 3154 Williston Avenue for games and music where refreshments were served by the Coggan sisters until dawn as the new year began.
Word from Independence says Mrs. Mary Pattee is very ill. A funeral drew many out of town guests including Mound Dakota visitors. The Jolly Bunch plans a Christmas tree gathering at Dan High’s and a New Year’s Eve mask party at the rink. A teacher Miss Roberts announced her marriage and resignation to the school board.
Geneseo relatives and visitors are listed amid holiday gatherings. Nelson McElhinney suffers rheumatism, Misses Fairbank of Mt Vernon visit the R. M. Gunnhone residence, and Robert Mitchell Sr. has been ill. George Speer and family join Andrew Speer and others in Geneseo, Mrs. C. E. Merritt remains sick, Frank Meeker moves to A J Meeker farm, and Mrs. B. F. Newell cares for her daughter Mrs. Henry Strohbehn’s new grandchild in south Black Hawk County.
Saturday's Finchford meeting reappointed Dilly as buttermaker for the coming year. Nearby, Northwood visitors arrive to spend holidays with the Clark family, while Walter Page hosts two Mason City nieces. The funeral for Henry Geisler Jr.'s infant son, buried here, is noted with others planning moves to Cedar Falls and a New Year’s dinner at Immerman’s.
Dec 30 notes list of residents and students visiting or returning home for the holidays. Leah Stankard Ruth Treon Glenn Shackelford and Truman Schackelford are among those mentioned as scholars at Coe College Liberty Mo. and Cornell Mt. Vernon yok. Details include Joseph Zabokiteky’s Chicago homecoming and George Smith buying a farm near Cedar Rapids.
Rev William A Kunkel attended the funeral of Rev Sullivan in Cedar Rapids Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Ray Stocks of Dubuque Ja visit. B J Corral, returning from Hot Springs South Dakota, is improved. Homes of Lynn Smith and Chas Turner welcomed two births this past week.
Christmas was spent with relatives as Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Berger and children and Miss Edna Klein of Waterloo visited the Klein family. J. B. Schaefer visited Jesup, Una Goodrich stayed with the Hesse family, and Mrs. Oscar Mullen underwent a serious operation at St. Francis hospital. Ida Frost of Waterloo visited the Wm. Brown home, and Maynard brothers James Joe and Alf celebrated Christmas in Omaha while Max Gleagon lost a valuable horse Monday.
Clarksville notices list several illness updates and family visits. Frank Coldren fell critically ill Sunday night while residents report relatives from Minneapolis, Cedar Rapids, Missouri, Milwaukee, Fairbault and other towns visiting kin. A tenth wedding anniversary dinner featured Victrola music and Christmas decor with eleven guests.
Frederika news reports a paralytic stroke affecting Chas White’s wife prompting a trip by John and Fred Rourke to Belgrade, with Willie and John Ager heading to Pine River to visit F. Ager. Wedding of Cecil Henry and Will Dilley at Finchford follows a Frederika upbringing of the bride, while Wm. Burke dies at the county home from tuberculosis and cancer. Albert and Mrs. Anderson plan Minnesota visit to consider relocating long term.
Jesup notes a home talent play titled Husking Bee to be staged at the Grand Opera House Tuesday evening January 12. Mentioned are birthdays, visitors from Des Moines and Waterloo, travel plans, weather reports, and local social updates including a Lyceum lecture by Mr. Clarke and church society officers elected.
Hershal Harbaugh and Jay Summy attend the short course at Ames. Miss Hazel Miller of Big Lake Minnesota visits relatives. Elder A P Blough filled the pulpit in Orange. Mrs Johnson of Montana visited Mrs I J Kough. D F Schrock marketed a car of hogs this week. Clarence Tau is visiting in the vicinity. Morris students spend vacation at home. Church of the Brethren annual business meeting set for Tuesday Jan 5. Clarence Burkholder from Harmony Minnesota visits with Uncle Glen Lichty. Mr and Mrs I M Forney celebrate their fifteenth wedding anniversary with friends and a generous dinner. The second number of the Orange lecture course will be given Saturday evening at the township hall.
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