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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1916
Page
7
The city spent about 187,871 dollars in the year ending November 30, 1923, versus 207,117 dollars for the same period in 1914. Expenses cover fire, police and street cleaning, plus salaries. January was the costliest month. February the lowest.
City records show June through October 1915 as peak months for new ordinances in Waterloo, including licensing and regulating jitney buses. Repeals and replacements followed, with the Aug 20 licensing of motor busses and Aug 23 repeal of the initial jitney rule, amid broader street and utility regulations.
Waterloo waterworks records show about 21 250 spent on improvements led by secretary George H Shoe maker. The year saw roughly 9 115 feet of six inch piping and 12 inch mains laid across multiple streets with a new deep well pumping station electric motors and drilling machinery acquired. Total activity brought approximate receipts and disbursements to 143 000 with 26 000 in bonds retired.
Inspector Murphy led a year long drive to elevate the weight and measure division, testing 7419 scales and measures, a dramatic rise from 1600 the prior year, amid equipment gaps and state takeover of platform scales. C E Pritchard logged 64 electrical inspections, $1006.45 in fees, and a drop from 1093 the year before, while W H Jennish logged 754 plumbing inspections with $1369.25 in fees, down from 1907.60.
Revenue at Waterloo post office rose by 15259.04 to a total of 221894.17 for the year ending Nov 30 1916 with postal savings up from 7066 to 16016 and withdrawals of 8880. The facility employs 73 staff including city and rural carriers and clerks with four substitute carriers and two substitute clerks. Mail schedules list arrival and departure times from Rock Island Illinois Central Great Western and other lines. The postmaster reports the office as a government money maker with net profit 141506.79.
Judge Meyerk reports city fines totaling 6,997.20 for twelve months ending Nava with 4,016.75 early in the period credited to the city. December through November values show monthly receipts, led by May at about 800, with a year total near 38,097.20.
The article reports Waterloo mortality and police staffing figures, noting 405 deaths in the year ending Dec 1, 1936, with breakdowns by month and causes. It details department composition, pensions, and a coroner’s docket of 37 calls, listing individual cases from January to November with causes from shootings to poisonings and illnesses.
Police Court statistics for the year ending November 36 show nearly double the number of prisoners. Violations of most ordinances rose, with intoxication arrests setting a new high. December 1414 was the only month below previous year’s total, while arrests fluctuated but remained high through March and May.
The missing submarine Foolkiller has been located at the river bottom in Chicago after twenty five years. Divers recovered the cigar shaped craft about forty feet long and five feet wide buried in three feet of mud. The find prompts plans to raise and preserve the vessel for historical display.
Black Hawk County becomes the first in Iowa to utilize a new statute funding a farm improvement association and a county crop expert. The existing Flack Hawk County Crop Improvement group was reorganized with A. A. Burger, a graduate of Tawa State college, serving as county agent to advise farmers across agriculture.
The Rural Improvement Association of Black Hawk County outlines a year of crop trials, canning demonstrations, and education across the county. It details corn variety tests, 100 plus meetings, over 9 200 circulars, 23 000 mailings, and a county soil survey planned with Ames and state college involvement.
The text recounts a busy year for local lodges in 1915 with major events from Ascalon commandery Easter observance on April 4 drawing Knights Templar from numerous towns, Was terloy Shriners day drawing about 1,600 members, the annual Grand Lodge OOP convention in Waterloo October 15–23 with about ten delegates, Cedar Valley Lodge 36 Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers hosting Hunter Day November 4 with visitors from several cities, and Elk activities in Waterloo hosting many from Cedar Falls.
The Waterloo school savings program, begun four and a half years ago in the east and adopted three years ago in the west, distributes penny stamps to pupils who paste them into books. Weekly deposits are banked, each child’s stamps credited to a bank account, totaling about $3,000 per school year per side of the river, or $6,000 citywide.
The Warmers Mutual Insurance Co of Black Hawk County outlines directors led by Wy Blough with Frank Klein as VP and Newton as secretary. Secretary Newton reports risks in force at 58,054,663 and additional risks to December 1, 1915 totaling 6,245,663. losses paid by Oct. 1, 1915 reached 14,700. The 1915 assessment was two mills with a 15 percent discount on rodded buildings and offers fire extinguishers to policyholders at cost as farm and city properties and autos are insured.
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