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Newspaper

Waterloo Evening Courier

Location

Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jan 14, 1929

Page

6

Cedar Falls Church Meetings and Local Reports

Cedar Falls reports schedule for annual meetings of three church groups and two associations this week. Nazareth Church meets Tuesday, Congregational on Wednesday, and St Lukes Episcopal on Thursday. Also stockholders gather at Cedar Falls National Bank parlor and Cedar Valley Building & Loan session opens Thursday at 4 p m. Funeral notices include Miss Edna Wolfe and Alfred Mang with private rites. Roy Wyatt fractures both bones in right forearm after car backfires. Mina Marten ill with influenza in Postville. family planning Frankville teaching return. Annual M C G A banquet set for Ho tel Black Hawk with 150 at tables. Mrs Kats Johnson and Olivia Johnson depart for Los Angeles.

Courier Cedar Falls Nazareth Church Blu Street Congregational St. Lukes Episcopal Church Cedar Valley Building & Loan Association Cedar Falls National Bank Cedar Falls Association Berson Co-operative Creamery Wolfe Edna Wolfe W. T. Wolfe M. E W. G. Rowley Greenwood Cemetery Roy Wyatt Black Hawk Township

Masonic Groups at Parkersburg Get New Leaders

Parkersburg Iowa January 14 1929 new officers take over duties for the Eastern Star and Masonic lodges. Eastern Star leaders include Helen Behnke as matron and Dale Van Eman as patron with officers and conductress Frieda Rients organist Marian Tiledman and others. Masons appoint Roy Patterson as master Will Anderson senior warden and Stanley Conn as secretary among the roster.

Courier Special Service Parkersburg Eastern Star Order of Eastern Star Helen Behnke Dale van Eman Rebecca Wyle L. F. Miller Marle Miller Essie Parker Hattie Belle Reid Betty Schuck

Rural Carriers In Butler County Use Teams And Sleds

Rural mail carriers from Greene post office completed routes using sleds and horses due to deep snow drifts blocking roads. Two girls, Ethel Jensen and Ruth Shock, could not reach their schools meet on Friday. A Presbyterian Missionary society gathering occurred at Mrs. George Watters' home. George Gerhard and Chari Dalley residences were quarantined for scarlet fever.

Courier Greene Greene Post Office Ethel Jensen Ruth Shock Presbyterian Missionary Society George Watters George Gerhard Chari Dalley

Floyd Farm Family to Operate Cafe

Marble Rock Iowa January 146 The Charles May family, long at Galloway farm south of town, will move to Coon Rapids to run a cafe. Mr and Mrs Paul Bucklen head to New Orleans to reside. Gates, Smith and son Frederick Eugene head for California for the winter. Ackley family to move into Marble Rock residence of Mrs Will Ludwig. Dr Asa Wood, previously critical from heart disease and influenza, shows some improvement.

Courier Marble Rock Charles May Galloway Farm Coon Rapids Paul Bucklen New Orleans P, E Gates Mre Russell Smith Frederick Eugene California George Ackley Will Ludwig Asa Wood

Deaths Fairbank and Charles City areas recall losses

Dorothy Fratzke former Hawk Eye resident died in Washington D C and funeral held in Fairbank at her parents home. Nancy E McDaniel spent last year in Hawkeye and died in Davenport. Funeral for Ida E Novak in Charles City First M E church and for Gottfried Sell in Charles City at home with Rev Protzengeler officiating.

Fairbank Hawkeye Dorothy Fratzke Washington, D. C Lewis Fratzke Washington Nancy E. McDaniel Blunt Street Fenimore Wis First M. E. Church Cedar Valley Rebekah Lodge M. E. Church E. T. Gough Riverside Gottfried Sell Mary Elizabeth A. Reetz GC. G. Protzengeler

Sled conveys injured man to hospital after barn accident

Grant Becker of Washington township Black Hawk county was kicked by a cow while operating a milking machine. He suffered a broken bone and, with drifting snow, neighbors pulled him three miles to Janesville by sled and team before an ambulance from Waverly took him to a hospital. Becker served as township trustee with terms ending January 1.

Janesville Grant Becker Washington Township Black Hawk County Becker Waverly

Start Remodeling of Nashua Theatre

Nashua Iowa January 14 work of remodeling Grant theatre has started by Otho Laird who bought the business assisted by Claude Miller The opening is scheduled for the present week Ice harvest for Crystal Ice company Waterloo has started here Roller skating postponed due to snow blocking roads illnesse illnesses and recovered health updates on John Yanec Monona and Ira Laydon G E Elison Nashua Reporter editor back in office after influenza with family still ill

Courier Nashua Grant Theatre Otho Laird Claude Miller Crystal Ice Company of Waterloo Opera House John Yanece Monona Walter Nelson Charles City Nelson Ira Laydon G. E. Eilison Nashua Reporter

Funeral of C. G. W. Engineer in Oelwein Tuesday

The funeral for S J Foster a Chicago Great Western railway passenger engineer who died Saturday night will be held Tuesday afternoon at the M E church in Oelwein conducted by Rev A W Henke He was 60 years old Surviving are his widow three sons Craig Merle and Floyd Foster of Oelwein and daughter Mrs Sarah Plamadore of Des Moines

Gourier Qelwein S.J. Foster Chicago Great Western Railway M. E. Church A. W.henke Foster Craig Merle Floyd Foster Oelwein Sarah Plamadore Res Moines

Dunkerton Woman Undergoes Mastoid Operation

Miss Mary Muhlig of Dunkerton underwent a mastoid operation at St. Francis Hospital Waterleo this morning. The report notes scarlet fever quarantines at the Ernest Widdie and Jim Nesbit homes nearby.

Mary Muhlig Dunkerton Tunkerton Isa Mary Muhlig St. Prancis Hospital Waterleo Ernest Widdie Jim Nesbit Here

Motiver of Osage Women Very Sick In Ill

Osage Iowa January 34 Special Mrs W S Cundiff and sister Miss Nell Young were called to Nora Mia this week by the illness of their mother who is not expected to recover. Rev E B Frye pastor of the M E church will speak this evening at a Fayette County Teachers association meeting at Delwelt. He spoke this morning at the high school there.

Osage W. S. Cundiff Nell Young Nora E. B. Frye Fayette

La Porte notices honor Civil War veteran John Tripp

In La Porte City on January 14 services were set for Tuesday afternoon at the M E church to honor John Tripp, 87, Civil War veteran and retired farmer. He died Sunday after years of illness. burial at Mt Auburn follows a 1:730 p m funeral. His widow suffers a lip fracture from a fall a year ago.

la Porte City John Tripp Tripp Here M. E Mt Auburn Reinhart Will Reinhart Eldora Roy Lee Brandon Merle Boyles Mr. Boyles Good Cheer Guild Ald Society

Woman who helped found Cedar Falls church dies at 81

Cedar Falls report notes Mrs. N. P. Nielsen one of two charter members of Calvary Baptist church died at 81. She had lived in Cedar Falls until moving to Denver ten years ago. Mrs. J. P. Peterson is now the sole surviving founder. Funeral set for Calvary church Tuesday at 3:36 p.m. with Rev. J. D. Winding officiating.

Courier Ceder Falls N. P. Nielsen Calvary Baptist Church W. A. Kennedy Denver Colo J. P. Peterson Calvary Church J. D. Winding

Charles City Mayor Won't Seek Re election This Spring

Charles City Indiana reports Mayor CG Gray will not run again in the upcoming spring election. One candidate is known, with more expected to file by ticket deadlines. In North Carolina's Ocracoke a town of about 700 sustains a large cat population, many descended from shipwrecks in the Graveyard of the Atlantic. wrecks nearby bring new cats ashore.

Courier Special Service Charles City CG. G. Gray Ocracoke N. C Hatteras Atlantic

Youth Implicated in Charles City Car Theft Paroled

Charles City Iowa January 14 Lester King 21 pleaded guilty to driving a car without the owner's consent and was sentenced to one year at Anamosa, then paroled to his father William King. He was tied to a roadster theft with the MecManigle boys and Cecil Thomas and had its accessories stripped. Harold Berry 21 pleaded guilty to ge grancy before Justice John Mc Geeny and received 10 days hard labor.

Courier Special Service Charles City Lester King Anamosa William King King MecManigle Cecil Thomas Harold Berry John McGeeney

Towa Falls B. and L. Association Directors Reelected

The Towa Falls Building and Loan Association re elected BH. A. West bury W. E. Welden and Harry M. Kutz as directors. 1929 officers are President H. B. Hall Vice President M. E. Foster Secretary C. H. Warnock Treasurer S. J. Osgood. The 1912 organized group has kept the same board except for two changes due to relocation and retirement.

Courier Special Service Town Pills

Goodyear Dies Suddenly In Town

Charles H A Goodyear prominent Owa Falls businessman died suddenly at the hospital in Owa Falls Ia on a Saturday. He was about 45, formerly from Scranton Ia, co owned a cash grocery firm with A P Buchanan. Survived by widow five children parents at Hampton Ia and brother F M Goodyear. He was active in the Pythian order as a past chancellor.

Courier Town Falls Charles HA. Goodyear Scranton Colking A. P. Buchanan F. MM. Goodyear

Seed That Baffled Botanists Dies in Spite of Care

A strange Denver seed found at the bottom of an 18 foot excavation in the downtown area died after sprouting in water and weeks of care by John Russell, superintendent of City Park, ending the mystery as a possible prehistoric plant lineage.

Denver John Russell Sity Park

Onions in Idaho Net $1000 an Acre for 1928

Boise Idaho January 14 a thousand dollars an acre was the estimated profit on nearly 450 acres near Boise planted to onions on Eagle island in the Boise river favorable yield and high prices boost the industry. One grower with four harvested acres cleared over a thousand 100 pound sacks at 250 a sack. Onions marketed cooperatively reached sizes up to six inches. Some shipments were entirely five inch onions. Also pastor G C Nothdurst of Hawkeye Iowa fractured wrist cranking a car.

Boise Idaho Eagle Island

Civil War veteran Pomeroy Morehouse dies at 88 in Manchester

Pomeroy J. Morehouse aged 88 longtime Manchester resident died Saturday from influenza. He served 15 months in Co K Twelfth Town Volunteers after enlisting at Hopkinton and was imprisoned at Libby Prison six months before discharge. Survived by five children and later wife Maurice Marth. Funeral held at home with Rev. A A Rideout officiating and burial at Oakland Cemetery. American Legion members served as casket bearers.

Manchester Pomeroy J. Morehouse A. A. Rideout First Baptist Church Onkland Amer Lear, Legion Morehouse Willsboro Hopkinton Lincoln Co. K Twelfth Town Ft. Donaldson Libby Richmond Buck Creek Annette Amos Richardson Howard Morehouse Independence Catherine Webber

Woman Heads Indiana Opera School In South Bend

Mrs. Oliver Marine leads a new school of opera in South Bend Indiana offering English language classics as a stepping stone to fame for local singers. Former stage performer, she organized volunteer players to gain operatic training without leaving the country. Under her guidance a group of young artists has produced five performances.

Operatic Singers Indiana South Bend Ind Oliver Marine Ife Oliver Maine

Woman Sick Three Years in Arkansas Testimonial

Mrs TLA Apams of Little Rock Arkansas says she suffered for three years after her last baby. She could not walk or eat properly, but after seven bottles of Vegetable Compound and six bottles of Lydia E Pinkham's Sanative Wash she recovered. She now runs a large family and endorses the remedies widely.

Little Rock Ark Iydia Pinkham Arkansas

Mrs Maine Leads South Bend Opera School Troupe

Herself a former member of the Chicago Civic Opera and the American Opera company Mrs Maine trains volunteers to study operas and stage them with scenery and effects modeled on professional standards. Her troupe draws native Italian interest for a Rigoletto performance.

Elijah Chicago Civic Opera Company American Opera Company Maine Marne Ally South Bend

Cystex 48 Hour Test Promises Quick Relief

An ad claims Cystex can relieve backache bladder weakness and night pains within 48 hours. It urges readers to buy at Robert Drug Co on 622 Sycamore Street and try the money back offer if not satisfied.

Robert Drug CO Sycamore Street

Konjola Praised Inendorsement At Local Drug Store

The Konjola Man tours Wangler Bros Drug Store at 229 H Fourth Street, promoting Konjola as a safe, effective remedy. A Clinton Iowa woman, Marie Zerrien, reports regained energy, weight, and vitality after using the medicine, claiming it restored her health and daily vigor.

Maree Zerrien Nature Wangler Bros H. Fourth Street Marie Zerrien Eighth Avenue Clinton Iowa Konjola Kenny Konola Tha Konlola Wangler Gros

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