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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1912
Page
10
Cedar Falls Democrats Continue Loyal to W J Bryan. The Commercial club in Cedar Falls Ia reports August to December receipts of 1 497 79 with disbursements 717 leaving a balance 780 79 Profits on aviation day 255 18 on aviation night 345 The minstrel show proceeds 482 47 The club shows growing strength and usefulness.
Sheriff Shores brought Fred and Phil Neuman of Mt Vernon township to judge Cummins. Fred Neuman was found guilty of assault upon George Whitson from near Janesville and fined $5 with $12.60 in costs totaling $17.60. Phil Neuman was released.
A birthday observance for Bobby Burns will be held tomorrow night in Ames and nearby. The lead soloist is Mrs. W S Bowen of the city who was born in Scotland and will sing in the Scots dialect to honor the occasion.
Cedar Falls hosts the Cedar Valley short course February 5 to 10 with Miss Knowles leading domestic science and Professors Bliss and Moser discussing crops and livestock. A county school exhibit and spelling contest will engage rural students while premiums and cash prizes attract attendees. a new armory adds display and lecture space near other buildings.
Arthur Cook, who barely escaped a streetcar tragedy, failed to pay a fine for intoxication on time and was brought before Mayor Merner. He received a strict lecture on keeping promises and was sentenced to three days in the county jail.
Rev Frank E Higgins known as the Lumber Jack Missionary spoke at a Congregational church event under the Christian Endeavor societies of the Congregational and Presbyterian churches. He shared a vivid recital on the Trail of the Woodsmen detailing life and character in the pine forests of northern Michigan and Wisconsin to a large attentive audience.
A new time card goes into effect on Sunday July 28 for the Chicago Great Western. The Des Moines evening train will depart Cedar Falls at 5 40 instead of 3 55. No trains will run on the Cedar Falls Junction branch on Sundays. Cedar Falls residents must use the interurban to Waterloo. tickets will be valid on the line.
Mel Olney, rural carrier on route 4, faces typhoid illness in his household with three children down and the father suffering erysipelas. Substitute Austin Phelps handles mail duties during Olney’s indisposition.
Cedar Falls reports include Sergeant Dixon praising Company M, Fifty-third Regiment I N G after a school and inspection. Local movements note J L Bailey's business trip to Estherville and land holdings of I L and S O Bailey, plus Forest Wynegar traveling to Eugene after his father Col S P Wynegar’s death.
Three car loads of hogs wait in Ili nois Central yards for transport as no cars are available. Last week five hog cars and one cattle car were shipped. Hogs bring 5.65 per hundred, yet corn at 0.50 and hogs at 5.60 yield less profit than selling corn.
Cedar Falls Iowa officials review Dr Dole and City Engineer Streeter reports on water supply. Streeter favors replacing a wooden tank with a steel standpipe and replacing 1100 feet of wooden conduit with concrete or iron pipes to reduce contamination concerns. Full reports to be published Thursday.
Alonzo Riches nicknamed Fatty shows remarkable progress under Miss Bolton at the Western Union office. The post boy, living with crippled East Cedar Falls resident Miss Tillie Rosinia, demonstrates pluck and determination in mastering the telegraph system.
Washington January 24 A House subcommittee chaired by Rep Lever of South Carolina agrees to a tentative bill to equalize butter tax at five cents a pound and require sale in sealed original packages. The measure aims for rapid passage with dairy groups opposing ten cent taxation on oleomargarine while favoring a higher uncolored tax and sealed packaging to curb fraud.
Detroit January 24 The government criminal case against the alleged hathub trust was set to start January 30 but is postponed to February 6 at the defense request.
George Soush eight, of Waterloo and recently at Soush Texas, was hurt Monday when he fell from the second floor to the tiled hotel lobby floor in Des Moines. He struck twice on the way down, unconscious briefly, but saved from fatal injury by the landing. He later recovered with only bruises and expected to recover fully.
Plank plans for a modern $40,000 flat building on the triangular block bounded by Walaw Town and Hine streets in Mississippi would house several families amid heavy demand for apartments. Miss Etta Shilliam, a Waterloo native, was aboard a Central train near Central when four railway officials were killed in a crash. she sustained bruises but was unharmed, later describing the incident in a card to her parents. She works for Bellows Reeves Publishing Co. in Chicago and had been visiting New York.
About 35 youths, mostly young women, appeared at County Superintendent Moore's office for the uniform state examination for teachers certificates. The test will run tomorrow for second grade subjects and Friday for first grade subjects as rural schools resume in the winter term.
Mr. and Mrs. Solon Thomas attended the funeral of Mrs. Frank H. Welden, a Waterloo resident, whose sudden death occurred Friday. Rev. Hardcastle officiated as services were held at the Congregational church. Mrs. Welden’s mother, Mrs. J. Roberts, returned from Arkansas after the service was postponed to allow her arrival. Mr. Welden will live with his parents in Iowa Falls. the two children remain with Mrs. Thomas in Waterloo due to typhoid concerns.
Members of Company B Fifty third regiment of the National Guard assembled for the first time in the new armory on Sixth street east. Since the floor was unwaxed, no regular drill occurred. A gallery school of instruction and shooting practice were held. Dedication date not fixed but hoped for mid February after Governor Carrol and dignitaries attend in Waterloo.
The W C A will skip a vesper service Sunday afternoon and join the M C A meeting at 3 44 PM The topic is Child Labor with Rev Mffie McCollum Jones as speaker.
The gun club will hold a practice shoot at its grounds in Prospect Park tomorrow afternoon.
The body of Mrs. Louisa J. Jones, who died Monday morning at her son E. T L. Jones's home, 247 Fremont Street, was taken to Shell Rock for the funeral held this afternoon. Waterloo relatives attended the services.
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