City in Brief: Local Notes From Waterloo Area
Numerous short items note travel and visits by local residents. G Frank travels to Chicago on business. Thomas Fitzgerald and Wells-Randall Furniture Co. staff in and out of Chicago and Grand Rapids. Verne Drew ill at home with pneumonia. Mrs Q O Olmstead and daughter visit relatives in New Hartford. Bank officials, lawyers, and clergy attend business and church events. Sewer work paused on Blu Street. other residents travel, weddings planned, and health updates provided.
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G. Frank
Chicago
Thomas Fitzgerald
Verne Drew
Berteh Avenue
QO. D. Olmstead
Nanna Canfield
New Hartford
Thomas
Wells
Wells- Randall Furniture Co
Grand Rapids
W. W. Taylor
Plainfield Savings Bank
Phillip Saunders
Streator
Peoples’ Trust and Savings Bank
C. B. Houston
Elmer Hotel
Sioux Falls
BH. D
Fred Houston
J. E B. Sedgwick
Leavitt & Johnson National Bank
Sedgwick Island
Esther Nus
Arlington
Anna Nus
Frank Dempster
C. W. Witter
Prospect Place
Soe McGuire
Homer McGuire
Mexico
Ind
Herbert Collier
Albert Collier
Great Western Creamery
C.K. Bentz
W. W. McFarlane
Fort Dodge
Presbyterian Church
First Presbyterian Church
Christmas Savings Club Sets Record at Commercial National
A large crowd attended the Commercial National Bank on Saturday evening for the Christmas Savings club of 1914. About 2,500 members are expected with a $112,002 payment due December 10 if no lapses occur, likely keeping totals above $100,000 to be sent as holiday season checks. The effort, aided by heavy newspaper advertising, aims to boost trade as the bank proceeds to its remodeled permanent home with greater accommodations.
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Commercial National Bank
Christmas Savings Club
Funeral services for Mrs Rooney and Mrs Perry held
Funeral services for Mrs Rooney were held at 9 this morning from St Josephs Catholic church with interment at Calvary. The remains of Mrs M B Perry were buried in Fairview this afternoon. Rev John Bunyan Smith officiated at the house at 2 and at Walnut Street Baptist Church at 2:30.
Federal court schedules criminal cases including Alba sale of liquor
Tomorrow the federal court will hear several criminal matters. Julian Alba a Mexican faces charges of illegal liquor sales. Also listed are cases against Illinois Central and Great Western for violating the sixteen hour service law for employees. Temporary district attorney F A Connor and assistant G M Neese arrived for proceedings.
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Julian Alba
Illinois Central
iGreat Western
F. A.connor
New Hampton
Aind
G. M. Neese
Sioux City
Roadside car stoppage amid gale near Washburn
Two Waterloo relatives, including a small child, rode to Washburn and returned amid a fierce wind. The road between here and Washburn drifted with sand, stalling their automobile just outside Washburn. After heavy effort, the car moved again but soon stopped one mile beyond the mail station. Cold wind, no shelter, and no houses in sight worsened the ordeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washburn
Waterloo
Mardi Gras Mid-Winter Train Excursion to New Orleans
The Illinois Central schedules a special mid winter vacation train to New Orleans for Mardi Gras on February 21. It promises hotel style comforts, meals en route, berths and sleeping car space for four days, grandstand Mardi Gras parade seats, a Mississippi River excursion, guided auto tours of New Orleans, and an auto trip to Vicksburg National Park, all from Chicago for about 64.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ilinois Central
New Orleans
Chicago
Missisnippi River
Vicksburg National Park
Women braved cold for Black Dry Goods Co sale
Weather did not deter shoppers as early entries formed by six o clock at Black Dry Goods Co. The forenoon crowd filled the entryway and clerks reported the sale the store has held. A move is planned to the new eight story building around February first.
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Black Dry Goods Co
Black
Corn Show Auction Brings High Prices At Ames
Returning from Ames where they attended the Corn Show C R Mutheson and Paul Talbott report a very successful affair One bushel of corn that took the sweepstake prize was sold for 125 dollars All of the prize winning corn was auctioned off at high prices.
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Ames
C. R. Mutheson
Paul Talbott
Police Probe Unsigned Letter Over Disorderly House
Chief Leighton reports an unsigned communication about a disorderly house on Commercial Street addressed to Mayor Thompson and Judge Meyers. Past unsigned notes by the same source yielded no arrestable evidence. The chief will forward the letter to officers and seek the author while stating unsigned tips will be ignored without verifiable crime evidence.
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Leighton
R. C. Thompson
Commercial Street
J. H. Meyers
Two Small Fires Reported With Small Losses
Firemen answered two small blazes Sunday night and Monday morning. At 9 46 P M the Ritz home at 1105 Mulberry had a chimney fire with no loss. At 6 13 A M a roof fire on Elm Street caused by a chimney spark also caused little or no damage. Mr and Mrs Kenneth Runkel have returned home after months away visiting Duluth St Paul and Minneapolis where they were active in music and social circles.
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P. B. Ritz
Mulberry
Elm Street
Kenneth Runkel
Duluth
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Runkel
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Buchanan
Blu Street
Fourth
Fifth Streets
L. E. Powers
Hampton
DB. F. Swisher
Marion
Lyon County District Court
Mt. Auburn
Linden Methodist Church
Denver
Colo
W. W. Brooks
William Vincent
Galena
Jil
Mary A. Combellick
W. R. Jameson
Maple Street
F. L. Moore
Presbyteria Hospital
J. J. Gross
Minnie Starr
Minn
Shadow Love
Messaline
Bast Fourth Street
Sam Frank
Iowa
Sale
America
Majestic Theatre Thone
Jack Trainor
Henry
Halton Powell
East Fourth Street
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