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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1912
Page
5
Cedar Falls Iowa January 20 Special It is believed by Sunnyslope Fruit farm owner Charles Watson that prolonged cold will not injure fruit if the ground remains snow covered. He cites thawing freezing and sleet as the main damaging factors and expects good crops unless conditions worsen.
John Giegold reports Kansas City Commercial club bought 10 000 rabbits from Kansas parties and ships carloads daily. Rabbits are given free to the poor lowering costs while providing meat. The effort aims to feed the hungry and curb crop pests. other cities follow, pledging hundreds of thousands of rabbits.
The Chicago Great Western has been tied up for three days due to a disabled locomotive and a shortage of spare power. As demand for rolling stock surged, a second engine could not be spared, delaying the overland limited and disrupting car switching. A wheat car arrived after a week’s delay, routed via Illinois Central to the Great Western.
A team of horses and crowbars moved a car to the mill to convert wheat into flour for delinquent shipments, while Violet Buehler’s past as Violet Buehler is recalled by Mrs Sheffield of this city. Selected debaters from Tenn prepare for a triangular meet with Waterloo East and West high schools, with six town team members named. A Weart Prissy Lumber Co. vehicle dashed for several blocks without a driver, causing no damage. Miss Myrtle Negley reports a packing job in California orange packing, after eight years in the records office. Township trustees set February road-supervision and April November meetings. Professors Bereman Wolf Kadesch and Peterson hosted thirty friends at Burr hotel for a dinner.
Chicago grains edge higher as May wheat nears 1.00, oats lift with light trade. livestock markets in St Louis Kansas City and Omaha show mixed receipts and price changes with cattle and hogs mostly steady to lower. cash wheat and corn prices listed. New York and St. Louis closes cited for wheat and corn.
Daily market wrap notes Minneapolis Wheat May at 1.06 and July near 1.069 while New York Stocks close with mixed results including United States Steel Amalgamated Copper and Northern Pacific among decliners and gainers. It also lists Waterloo market prices for flour oats and corn with scattered figures.
The Morgan brothers, sugar cane growers, sold last season’s sorghum from 18 acres yielding about 26 000 gallons at an average 47 cents per gallon for roughly 80 000 dollars gross. Three carloads of cane seed shipped to Kansas and the southwest added value, with seed sold to dealers for fodder use.
A dense OCR row shows farm staples and livestock prices including barley hay straw cattle hogs and various hides and dairy items with scattered figures. A New York bank statement notes reserve levels loans deposits and cash in vaults for the week ending January 26.
Rice and Dayton Manufacturing held its annual meeting and elected BE Rice as president Gaylord Dayton as vice president F B Miller as secretary and treasurer and James Ford to replace TS Gilkey on the board. The Presbyterian Brotherhood organized a boys society The Knights of King Arthur and plans to fit up a gym in the church basement. Rev Nathan Gist son of Prof Gist was chosen as state lecturer for the Odd Fellows. The Great Western train first ran to Cedar Falls junction after several days rain connecting with the southbound line.
The Melchoir Jaurt No. 8 Tribe of Ben Hur under W X Steele staged eight life scenes at the Orpheum in Crawfordsville. Nearly all local members attended the Waterloo event with music from the Tien Siur orchestra and quartette. After the program, participants gathered at Leash hall for a social finale.
A family group including William Bates and Frank Bates thanks friends for kindness during their sorrow. The notice lists directors and mentions safety deposits and a Waterloo Savings Bank reference, with a brief ad style note.
Berlin reports an engagement likely to be announced on January 27 the birthday of the German Emperor. Princess Victoria Louise, daughter of the Kaiser, is connected with Grand Duke Adolph Frederick of Mecklenburg Strelitz in a betrothal expected to be announced in Berlin.
City council may provide offices for officials and move I N G guardsmen from the third floor of city hall to the armory on Sixth street east. The space freed on the third floor may house crowded city offices and engineers staff with new quarters to be arranged.
Local obit notes George W. Dopp, born Oct 12 1828 in Rome NY, died at 11:20 AM at daughter Mrs. B J Brewster’s home in Waterloo Iowa. Survived by several children including Mrs. Brewster and Mrs. H E Willard. funeral Sunday at 2 PM at East Park Presbyterian Church with Rev Frank Schroeder, burial in Osceola county.
Several hundred traveling men from Iowa Nebraska and Illinois gathered in Des Moines for the annual Iowa Travelingmen's Association convention. The state group reports 45000 members and slated morning talks with an officers election set for late afternoon.
Rev. T. J. Bergen of Westminster Presbyterian Church Dubuque has been elected president of Albert Lea College in Albert Lea Minnesota, announced January 20.
Last evening at about five firefighters responded to a welfare call on Fourth Street East where a man shoveling snow from the Palace clothing company roof was stranded on the ice bound cornice. Fire Chief A A Dunham and Ira Garrabrant coaxed him to safety through a skylight trap door after threats of being dropped. The man, frightened and frozen by the sleet, was rescued without injury.
The United Spanish American War Veterans lodge held an installation of recently elected officers with Hon. Guy A. Feely as installing officer. A luncheon was served by the auxiliary ladies after the business session. Four new members joined and seven other applications were favorably considered.
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