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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1928
Page
9
Classified ads for sale livestock poultry machinery and misc items. Listings include Holstein heifer calves Shorthorn bulls incubators and gears with contact details and locations in Iowa and Missouri. Also notices of estates appointments bankruptcies and stockholder meetings.
In the United States District Court Northern District of Iowa Eastern Division case No 188 In re William T Messingham bankrupt notice to creditors of Waterloo Iowa in Black Hawk County Iowa that on January 19 4028 William T Messingham was adjudicated bankrupt and a meeting of creditors will be held at the bankruptcy court in the Mersh Place building Waterloo on February 1 1998 at 10 a m creditors may attend prove claims elect a trustee examine the bankrupt and transact other business
Aurora January 21 former president John L. Esser of the Aurora Trust and Savings Bank received a sentence of three to 30 years in the penitentiary after confessing embezzlement of 430000 from his bank. He, known as the model boy banker, said his gambling mania drove the speculations.
Judge John K. Newhall of Kane county circuit court imposes three consecutive sentences of one to 10 years on the defendant across three indictments. He withholds sentence on a fourth indictment and grants until May 1 to disclose full details of bank funds disposal.
Marshfield Missouri January 21 a coroner s jury postponed ruling on the death of Mrs Melicia Drake 80 shot at the family home. The hearing will resume next Thursday with a decision expected. Her fourteen year old grandson Troy Davis was held by the sheriff after his father James Davis left him at Mrs Drake s home while he hunted. The youth said he left to inspect rabbit traps and returned to find his grandmother dead.
Rock Island railroad outlines 1928 improvement program under Roadmaster John McNulty for Cedar Rapids to Minnesota division. Plans call for 23 miles of new rails and equal ballast, with 163 miles of roadbed under his jurisdiction. In 1927, six miles of rails and 12 miles of ballast were laid near Waverly Junction. Over 350 miles of new and rerolled rail, 1,500,000 new ties, and nearly one million cubic yards ballast were installed historically.
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