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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1914
Page
3
The Waterloo column lists neighborhood clubs, weddings, meetings, and entertainments. Recitals at Ross Conservatory, a Kearney Wiley wedding, Masonic dances, and various circles, circles plus class parties, needlework clubs, and Elks dance reflect a busy social week in Waterloo with attendees and hosts named.
Ruth Cameron muses on the lure of other businesses and the misperceptions about newspapers. She notes many workers believe they could have achieved more elsewhere, but urges evaluating personal talents and pursuing one chosen path with dedication. The piece ends with a reflection on the appeal of imagined successes versus realized limits.
To obtain the up to date Courier pattern and accompanying design, send the listed capon with 10 cents per pattern to the Fashion Department at Evening Courier Waterloo. Patterns allow for seams and all orders are filled promptly, reaching you within ten days after sending.
Thirty citizens organized the Just Government League in the Lafayette building to aid "good" movements in politics. A. D. Sumner spoke as a congressional candidate, with P. B. Ritz and H. V. Taylor discussing school textbooks and the Capital Extension bill. Sumner was named president with a committee to secure permanent organization.
Brief notes listing residents visiting, traveling plans, bank officials in town, a lecture at the Methodist church, and meetings of local clubs. Also reports college declamatory winners and an oratorical contest inquiry, plus a basketball win by the Tigers over Independence and the upcoming Grundy Center game.
In Cedar Falls Iowa Rev O H Holmes of the Congregational church Preaches morning on Four Winds of the Mind and evening on the psychological view of Hawthornes Scarlet Letter Rev D W Falls of the Presbyterian church Preaches morning on The Sufficiency of the Gospel and evening on Faults Rev J W Holland of the Methodist church announces morning Home Missions and evening a lecture by Harold C Kessinger of Aurora Illinois titled The Bishops Candie Stick.
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