Registration drives and exemptions shape local wartime draft
Cedar Falls authorities report the final batch of The Questionnaire will go to 1 840 registrants on Jan 9 with 22 more mailed to close the process. Courts and district boards review classifications, some shifting from fourth or fifth class to first. Traveling salesmen depart Cedar Falls as rail service concerns grow. Also news of hospital release, factory work, letters from Denmark, and local births and marriages.
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Cedar Falls
Colorado
Ed Arnett
Illinois Central
Boyd
Sartori
Graettinger
Denmark
Henry Mazanti
Copenhagen
Frank Gregg
Dallas
Texas
George C. Hearst
EH. A. Jetmore
New Orleans
Burnecate
Berdene Severin
Citizens Savings Bank
Wm. D. Ceperley
Springfield
Hileman
Camp Dodge
Martin Keller
Tremont Street
Leslie Hughes
Installation at Temple Rebekah Social and Ceremony
Members of Temple Rebekan lodge held a social hour then a regular meeting with installation of officers led by District Deputy Cora Marshall. Olive Walden was named Noble Grand with Mae Dacey as Vice Grand and Zepha Hennan as Recording Secretary, followed by reallocation of several other posts and guards.
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Emma Whitemack
Anna Lawton
Marian Smith
Sarah Clark
Catherine Wapp
Margaret Wagner
Winnifred Pettit
Annual meetings of Waterloo finance firms set on deck
Waterloo banks and loan associations plan annual meetings with the election of boards as the main agenda. Directors will be chosen at Black Hawk National, Commercial National, First National, Iowa State, Lincoln Savings, Security Savings, Home Building & Loan, and Peoples Mutual Building & Loan. Some meetings include amendments to articles and officer nominations.
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Waterloo
C. &. Kingsley
Leavitt & Johnson National Bank
Black Hawk National Bank
Commercial National Bank
First National Bank
Iowa State Bank
Lincoln Savings Bank
Security Savings Bank
BR & Js
Home Building & Loan Association
J, . Dempster
Peoples Mutual Building & Loan Association
Edwin Mesick
Waterloo Home Building & Loan Association
Perpetual, Building & Loan Association
Cheap Insurance in Local Association Report
Black Hawk County Farmers Mutual Insurance reports 1917 rate at 1.95 per $1,000, lowest in years, with $6,490,564 in active policies and total losses of $10,480. Annual meeting at the courthouse nominates three new directors to replace John Keane G. B Heinz and E. B. Newton. William Mar Jesup serves as president and O E B Kober as secretary.
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Black Hawk County
Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Association
O. E B. Kober
John Keane
G. Bheinz
E. B. Newton
William Mar. Jesup
Kober
la Porte City
Little Doing in Federal Court in Waterloo
The January term of federal court in the northeastern district of Town will convene in Waterloo tomorrow but is expected to adjourn the same day. Most cases have been continued to May, and it will likely require only a few hours to dispose of the actions on the docket. The petit jury has been told not to report, implying a brief session.
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H. T. Reed
F. A. O'Connor
Seth Thomas
E. R. Moore
United States
Lee Iw McNeely
Federal Court
District of Town
Wll
Waterloo
Juvenile Court Reports 66 Cases In 1917
Fred B Pettit, clerk of courts, told the state board of control that the juvenile court handled 66 cases in 1917. Girls outnumbered boys slightly with 31 girls and 35 boys, including noncriminal dispositions. Cases were placed with probation, state institutions, homes for friendless children, or private homes as appropriate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred
Pettit
State Board of Control
Iowa City
Big audiences at evangelical revival at Calvary church
Evangelical revival services led by Rev L C Orth of Aredale and Rev G M Yaggy draw large crowds each evening at Calvary church with special music by Sunday school classes. Orth, a Northwestern College and Garrett Biblical Institute graduate, came to town last spring from Werner Alberta to lead the charge. Prayer meeting tomorrow afternoon will be at Alfred Dyer’s home 906 Linn Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calvary
Evangelical Church
L. C. Orth
Aredale
GO. M. Yaggy
Mr. Orth
Werner
Alberta
Northwestern College
Naperville
A D Clark Dies at Home in Dewar
A D Clark dies at his Dewar home aged 89. Born August 11, 1830 in Ashtabula County Ohio, he married Mary Ann Lindsey in 1860 and had four children. Survived by wife and children Charles L Roscoe L Ellen Foullet. He served in Co 20 First Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, discharged 1864, moved to Black Mawk County before settling near Dewar, later living in Dewar until death.
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Dewar
Allyn Dexter Clark
Ashtabula County
Ohio
Mary Ann Lindsey
Prospict Hill
Wis
Ellen Foullet
Charles L
Trent
Roscoe L
Clark
Co. 20
First
Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
Black Mawk County
Registrant Seeks Deferred Class With Wide Claims
A young registrant, a clerk, told the legal advisory board at the courthouse he should be placed in a deferred class. He cited wife dependence, recent marriage, a withered hand and weak eye, and argued his industrial role was essential for national welfare. He claimed conscientious scruples against bearing arms.
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A. Young Registrant
C E Rally Planned At First Presbyterian Church
William Ralph Hall and George C Pracker will speak at a Christian Endeavor rally at First Presbyterian Church tomorrow evening. Young people from Presbyterian churches in Waterloo Cedar Falls Cedar Sleights and La Porte City will join in the program which starts at 4 pm. Sunday school workers are invited to the evening program. Supper is served at 6 pm. Talks cover Our Young People's Program Backing Up the Government Our Midwinter Drive In the Trenches In Training Camps Our Quota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Ralph Hall
George C. Pracker
Christian Endeavor
First Presbyterian Church
Waterloo
Cedar Falls
Cedar Sleights
la Porte City
Halli
Mr. Fracker
Mr. Hall
Hall
Warns on grip cough cures containing narcotics
Public warning urges care with grip and cough cures as many contain morphine heroin codeine chloroform or acetanilide and can be deadly if misused. It notes some labels bar giving to children and touts Father John's Medicine as pure safe for colds with a long history and mild laxative effects.
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Fadyard
Father John
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