Roumanians Battle Bolshevik Army Near Kishinev
London reports Kishinev surrounded by Romanian forces with fighting ongoing between Bolshevik troops and Roumanians. Other dispatches note released Social Revolutionaries, a dissolution of the peasants congress, and a Russian workers and soldiers delegates congress organizing under Trotzky and Lenin. An ultimatum from Finland to Russia over arms to Finnish rioters is cited, plus thrift stamp drives by churches and Metropolitan Life Insurance with agent commitments and a rubber stamps sale led by Donald Graham.
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London
Kishinev
Petrograd
Exchange Telegraph Company
Constituent Assembly
Reuter’s Limited
Congress of Peasants
Proletariat Petrograd
Congress of All Russian Workmen's and
Europe
America
Congress of
All Russian Workmen’s and
Proletariat Organization of
Great B
Britain
Sweden
Norway
Switzerland
France
Germany
Austria
Italy
Ctoos
Russia
Nikolai Duenine
Teon ‘Trotzky
Marie Spiridon
Lenine
The
Kaledines Petrograd
Congress of Cossacks
Kamensky
Kaledines
Ultriastum
Finns Y Welsingfors
First Congregational
Central Christian Churches
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
New York City
Waterloo
W. ©. Mayne
Donald Graham
James Graham
Steamer City of Wilmington reports boiler trouble at sea
An Atlantic Port dispatch notes the steamer City of Wilmington reported being disabled by boiler trouble with provisions nearly exhausted. Naval authorities kept its position secret while ships were ordered to assist the vessel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic
City of Wilmington
Vessal
Forces Ready for Smileage Campaign in Waterloo
City forces finalize preparations to launch a campaign selling 1,500 smileage books in Waterloo. Local committees will canvass districts and unit members, ensuring every enlisted man with Waterloo ties receives a book, which funds nationwide military entertainment efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
L. Kelark
WC. T. U
John Wright
W. C. Lang
W. GC. Renner
Snileaga
M. Wallace
West High School
Catherine Lumry
Reba Kelly
Jake Schultz
Clarence Wilson
Fred Debe
Elizabeth Forrester
Bruce Miller
Kenneth Peterson
Dorothy Lumry
Max Levingston
West High
J. E. O'Keefe
Highland Addition
M. J. O'Keefe
C. A. Morris
Hen Schuneman
C. J. Cass
L. E. Strouse
Agatha Braniger
Julia White
Lore Alford
H. BR. Lichty
Leo Alexander
Military Council
Liberty
National Military Entertainment Council
United States
Rock Island rail changes trim trains to aid war effort
Rock Island announces schedule revisions and train eliminations across the Minnesota division. Trains 61 62 66 67 19 and 63 face alterations or discontinuation with no. 66 ending at Burlington via Waterloo. Supt Holdeman says changes save fuel and free locomotives for freight and war service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Island
A. L. Holdeman
Minnesota
J. G Farmer
Des Moines
Rae
Manly
R. Ti. Johnston
Waterloo
Minneapolis
Minneapoli
St. Louis
Burlington
Minneapol
Holdeman
Colors
East High Debating Team Defeated by Independence
East high negative debating team lost to Independence at Independence by two to one. The winning affirmative team included Marion Smith Lois Senior and Glenna Curti. Judges were Supt Hillard C G Yoran Cedar Falls and Prof McKittrick. Local team members were Jeffrey Sullivan Joe Sage and Glenn Marsh with chaperones F J Miller Miss Buda Keller and Roger Gales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East High
Independence
Marion Smith
Lois Senior
Glenna Curti
J. S. Hillard
C. G. Yoran
Manchester
McKittrick
Cedar
Jeffrey Sullivan
Joe Sage
Glenn Marsh
F. J. Miller
Buda Keller
Roger Gales
Beef Cattle Men to Meet at Ames Fan
The Jow2 Beef Producers' association will hold their annual meeting at 9:00 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, at Agricultural Hall in Ames during the short course and Farm and Home week. The event overlaps with Aberdeen-Angus, Hereford, and Shorthorn breeders meetings and will not conflict with beef cattle day events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jow2
Associaton
Ames
Aberdeen-Angus
Jereford and
President Urged to Seek Mooney Retrial in San Francisco Outrages
Washington reports the president's mediation commission urged Wilson to seek a new Mooney trial in California, arguing the four trials collectively undermine confidence in the convictions and recommending delaying Mooney's execution while indictments remain untried.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Wilson
California
Thomas J. Mooney
California Supreme Court
San Francisco
Mediation Commission
Mooney
Warren K. Billings
Mia
Rena Mooney
Israel Weinberg
Industrial PD
Feu
Engineering Society to Host Convention and Gov Harding Talk
At its regular meeting last night Waterloo Technical Society elected J. P. Jones president to succeed George A. Mills, with HM. E. Maine named vice president. Plans were laid for the Jon e Engineering society convention at Hotel Russell Lamson Feb 29 21 featuring a banquet and a talk by Gov W L Harding and a U S Army engineer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. P. Jones
Citizens Gas & Electric Company
Waterloo Technical Society
George A. Mills
Winnipeg Electric Power & Railway Company
HM. E. Maine
N. A. Maine Company
Jones
Jone Engineering Society
Hotel Russell-Lamson
Waterloo
Ft Im
W. L. Harding
United States Army
Nethen B. Berber
G. H Kilpatrick
W. C. Johnston
Ralph B. Slippy
George W. Miller
O.T. Wilson
HD MH Carl
Austin Burt
C.T. Wilson
J. P. Berry
H. E. Mat Bpubbekt
C. W. Ebr
C. F. Reaner
J. E. McSweener
Sent Up for Larceny by Embezzlement in District Court
G D Anton pleaded guilty before Judge H B Boles to larceny by embezzlement from a county attorney's information. The La Porte resident admitted taking a $32.50 groceries order and misusing the funds. Reported as the salesman who collected $3.70 for sugar that never arrived. he was sentenced to up to five years in the Fort Madison penitentiary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. D. Anton
H. B. Boles
Anton
la Porteity
Tie
Waterloo
Fort Madison
Relatives Sought for Man Dead at Keota
Inquiry seeks relatives or friends of B C Anderson who died in Keota this week while he was a traveling salesman for a Des Moines nursery. The body is held awaiting funeral instructions from connections. Anderson had Waterloo HQ when not traveling. locals may know more. Contact Rev. Mr Serrilf.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B.C. Anderson
Keota
Ray
G. TD. Serrill
Serrilf
Special Sermon Series at Central Christian Church
Rev. G. D. Serrill will launch a sermon series titled Seven Scriptural Searchlights starting tomorrow morning. Topics include The Fickle Church The Untempered Church The Changeable Church The Scandalous Church The Tread Church The Unconquerable Church and The Nauseating Church. Evening Endeavor day will be observed by senior and junior societies with a special program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. D. Serrill
Central Christian Church
Tominr- Tow
Christian Endeavor
Y W C A Budget Needs Seven Thousand for 1918 Drive
The Young Women's Christian Association plans a Tuesday to Sunday subscription campaign to raise seven thousand dollars toward its estimated 32,281 dollar budget for 1918. Receipts from departments total 27,428 dollars, leaving seven thousand dollars to be contributed. Ward leaders met afternoon to map plans. Mrs. J B Bragdon leads Must ward, Mrs. J W Henderson Second, Mrs. J L Stevenson Third, and Mrs. J C Trumbauer Fourth. Speakers will present the drive for consideration at churches tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Women’s Christian Association Witl
Via Eaths
Mra. J
Bragdon
Mustward
J. W. Henderson
J. Stevenson
Mird
J. C. Trumbauer
Court Supplies For Dr. W. B. Riley And Revival Notes
Dr. Frank Willard Court spoke at the union revival service at Walnut Street Baptist Church. Dr. W B Riley was away at a conference. Harold Philpotts returned after absence for his wife’s illness. Dr John Robertson Macartney substituted for Riley yesterday. Riley plans to speak on The One Astray tomorrow at 2 for young people. seats are restricted by age. Tonight is family night with service at 7. The sermon will be The Whole Family. Ministers will meet Monday at 10 for devotional, lunch at noon at the W. O. G. A. not the church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Willard Court
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Walnut Street Baptist Church
Riley
Court
Harold Philpotts
Anamosa
John Robertson Macartney
Five Thousand Two Hundred Children Enrolled in Junior Red Cross
Waterloo reports 5200 children enrolled in the Junior Red Cross. Weekly work includes layette items from Emerson School and donations from John Glas and others. Pupils from Himerios Lowell McKinley Tiska and Alcott contribute blankets, scrapbooks, gun wipes, knitting, and other comforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross Society of Waterloo
Himerios
Lowell
McKinley
Schoals
Tiska
Emerson School
John Glas
Jimerson
Alcott
Walter Brown
Kathleen Smith
John Wiske
Whittier
Central
Turns His Assets Over to Creditors
A. C. Siewers, a druggist, filed a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, naming Nick Federspiel as assignee. Liabilities total about 20 dollars with numerous creditors led by Churchill Drug Co Cedar Rapids Puller Morrison Co Chicago J D Dowd New York and Anna Nittelsby Decorah among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A.C. Siewers
Yeaterdy Afternoon
Nick Federspiel
Siewers
J. K. Joder
Fourth Street West
Churchill Drug Co
Cedar Rapids
Puller-Morrison Co
Chicago
J.D. Dowd
New York
Western
le Ieaga
Dioder
Waterton
Anna
Nittelsby
Decorah
George W. Lyons
National Cash Register Co
Eastman Kodak Co
Detroit
Reservations Open for Green Stockings Play
Reservations for Green Stockings, a Drama League production, are available Monday at Schuner Finn’s west side store and Hansen & Hansen’s. A theatre plan by Cecilia Stanton of the public library staff will be at each location. War tax of 5 cents applies to all attendees and must be paid at reservation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green Stockings
Drama League
Schune-r
Reno R. Reere
Canadian Factory Town Swept by a Notorious Fire
A severe blaze rages in Teterboro, a bustling inland manufacturing town four miles north of New Jersey, disrupting railroad telegraph links as nearby towns rush to help. Teterboro houses iron, woodenware, woollen goods, and ore industries with a large export trade in pork and timber. The population stands around 19,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teterboro
Tare
Vandsa
Polerbero Ina Portel
Olodabae
Closing Hours of Business Houses Will Be Observed
Waterloo fuel board rules on business hours affect barbers who protest 7 p.m. close. A committee may request further study as barbers fear late shifts will spoil dinners. Board says hours set after barber consultations. potential shift to 8 p.m. close if majority agrees. Additional changes: clothiers and shoemen 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. grocers 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
Fuel Board
J. B. Sedgwick
Waterloo Fuel Board
Clothiers
Shoe Men
Waterworks Board Re-elects Officers
Waterworks officers were re-elected at the annual meeting. Secretary George E. Shoemaker reported gross earnings up about 8,800 but net earnings down 2,606 from 1816 due to higher costs. Operating expenses in 1917 rose 11,000 over 1921 with coal labor meters and pipe costs up. Officers re-elected: J. B. Sedgwick president, J. W. Rath vice president, Shoemaker secretary, D. P. Berry superintendent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George E. Shoemaker
J. B. Sedgwick
J. W. Rath
George Shoemaker
D. P. Berry
German Airdrome Hit by British Bombers in Belgium
The Admiralty reports naval aircraft bombed a German airdrome at Warsse n aere in Belgium on Friday with direct hits. All planes returned. In patrols on Wednesday two enemy aircraft were damaged and two shot down or driven off course. One British aircraft missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Admiralty
Warssenaere
Nyine
Community Center Takes Firm Root in Greencester
More than 190 residents of the Washington school neighborhood visited the library last evening as Godfrey Messer and the district librarians develop the community center idea. Adult book borrowing ran high and weekly entertainments are planned with lantern displays and photographs as future features. Union services will be held at First Congregational Church with Rev. Harold G.B. Parr preaching. A recount of Greencester municipal election votes shows errors in every card wad from each precinct, with tenths varying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington School
Godfrey Messer
First Congregational
First
Methodist Episcopal
Harold GB. Parr
First Congregational Church
Greucester
Mass
Cify
Society News Notes and Gatherings Reported
Monday afternoon society items detail benefit efforts for St Francis hospital raised 500 dollars, plus sewing, piano, and art activity by members. Relief corps and Lincoln circle members met for installations, programs, and planning. Various parties, teas, thimble bees, and dances noted with hostesses, guests, and charitable aims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Branes Andiary
St. Francis Laespites Austiary
Mra
M. J. Cweefe
Maes
J.T. Muldoon
Qacar Brown
M. J. Butterfield
St. Prancia Hospital
Uneile Bruner
Technical men badly needed for wat work
New York January 26 The failure of technically equipped men to aid the government delays war preparations. Excellent positions are open in finth artillery ammunition steel inspection and allied branches. Metallurgical chemists inspectors of cartridge cases shell forgings powder loading and ballistic inspectors are in demand with good salaries. Civilian assistants inspectors of feather equipment and other skilled roles are sought nationwide including harness makers and leather cutters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
VL Meserole
Ordnance Department
Meserole
Finth Artillery
Ammunition, Steel Inspection Department
Exyi
United States
SHER TO EVADE DRAFT BY PASSING AS ALIENS
A letter read to the district draft board claims the Russian consul in New York issued citizenship certificates to foreign born men at 80 cents each. The aim was to help holders gain deferred classification by posing as aliens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sher
New York
District Draft Board
Charles E. Hughes
Amended Stance by Vigilance Committee Sparks Debate
A local Vigilance committee meeting at the courthouse examined alleged unpatriotic remarks by five individuals, with three cleared of grounds for disloyalty. One farmer facing harsh scrutiny admitted owning land and cattle and relying on war measures, agreeing to drop Red Cross members and buy Cherry bonds. Dempster warned of careful summons going forward, stressing free expression while guarding against injustice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Dempator
W. P. Hoxle Ani I
Waterloo
Red Cross
Eae
Dempster
Beffore
Fire department log notes three calls and a plug for insurance
At 3 45 p m yesterday the fire department investigated a burning chimney at Edwards and Columbia streets with no damage. At 9 86 p m a false alarm at the Smith Lichty and Hillman building triggered by sprinkler low pressure. At 10 a m today crews checked 159 Prospect avenue for an overheating furnace with no damage. Advertisement urges insurance from Fows Manufacturers Fire Insurance Company of Waterloo. Home office 622 Commercial street, telephone 415
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwards and
Columbia Streets
Smith, Lichty & Hillman
Prospect Avenue
Fows Manufacturers Fire Insurance Company of
Waterloo
Commercial Street
Slippery Lloyd Jackson Arrested by Cedar Rapids Police
Detective T J Mors arrested Lloyd Jackson known as Slippery after authorities learned of his wanted status. He was found in a small building at the old market place intersection of Fifth and Lafayette streets. Police offered no statement on the reason for the warrant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
T. J. Mors
Lloyd Jackson
Cedar Rapids
Old Market Place
Fifth End
Lafayette Streets
Singer Oil Drive Helps Junior Red Cross Members
The Singer Sewing Machine Company allows pupils to sell machine oil and keep half the price to help families pay Junior Red Cross membership. The policy has been adopted by all schools in the city, enabling full pupil representation and easing fees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aiip
Red Cross
Singer Sewing Machine Company
Emerson School
President to Issue Food Proclamation
President Wilson completed a proclamation calling Americans to save food to aid the army and allies. It outlines the 1918 food conservation program and will be issued from the White House with regulations limiting wheat flour sales and distribution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Wilson
Food Administration
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Workmen's Congress
Lowden
Buchanan Optical Co
Svack
OtTawa
Ont
A. B. Proven
Rock Island Road
Tolesgen Trains
Louisauneaponis
Mooney Cage
Gov. Harding
Reota
Y.W.C. A
Tts
WB. Riley
Angelist
Curoma Conference
Peterboro
Ontario
Waterworks Board
Bignteen
Central Life of United States Insurance T Company
Stussell-Lamson
T. C. Denner
C. L. Lunt
G. M. Buck
Belgium
M. J. Nevdlisclut
Weatlardis
Relief Corps
Wahomen's Relief Corps
Memorial Hall
Dennivan
Transfar
Florida
Julia Kerr
Olive Stevens
Mary MecKetlar
Board of
Lincoln
G. A. FL
W. J. Hohl
George DoWald
Eirelo
Episcopal
Daughters of the King
F. F. Strayer
E. Wright
Ladies’ Guild of
Christ Church
H. C. Harper
Mins
Viola Stur
Philathea Clase
First M. H. Church
Gladys Amick
Christ Episcopal
Bar. M. K. W. Walcher
Cadar Falls
Japan
Russell-Lameon
H. A. Boggs
C. W. Ellyson
George Meredith
J. J. Haston
Hotteaux Dance
TioBeaux Dancing Club
Knights of Columbus
Red Grass Society
R. L. Penne
Minerva Club
Ed. Gindt
K. of C.j Hall
WAT
Red
Hamilton
Bridge Street
Palace Theatre Blig
Sycamore Street
Lilone
West Fourth Street
Y. Clement
Iowa
Gead Leck
Des Mowes
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