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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1919
Page
3
George H. Twaddle, resident news representative for the Waterloo Evening Courier and Daily Reporter, Cedar Falls route based at West Fournes Street, contact numbers and office hours listed for readers seeking local updates.
Cedar Falls records show January set arrests near two for traffic violations and no city jail detentions. bank and business groups report a prosperous year, with real estate activity and several minor to major purchases, including Cedar Falls National Bank acquiring Main street property for a new modern office. Fire calls total four, with one house fire causing about 31,800 damage. Weather showed January extremes from 24 below to 70 above, with a generally fine month. Several local people traveled, and church and fraternal groups held meetings. Rev Heicher is expected back to resume duties. Local social events included school plays and music performances by student groups and local choirs.
Students at West High School English department staged two plays, Feet First and 11:45 And Alls Well, in the auditorium. Admissions totaled 83.50 with hopes to donate over 70 to the war orphan fund. Performers included Pearl Hartleip, Dorothy Scales, Evangeline Powers, Fritz Leimer, Vern Jay, Thaddeus Mil ter, and Russell Stevens.
Birth notices list new additions for several families. A son born January 29 to Mr and Mrs Orin Peregrine of 1302 Jefferson. A daughter Roberta Mae born December 2 to Mr and Mrs Wellington 6 j8rmnp of 327 Webster. A son born January 25 to Mr and Mrs Alfred Wideman of Cedar Falls. A daughter Jeanne Tuchel born January 30 to Mr and Mrs Harold Scrogsey of 2417 Sunnyside.
In New York farmers at the Le Gale farm near Gaffney Falls observed a green growth on the roof of an abandoned house. It reached five feet in height before witnesses, including Jabez Monton who watched it for four weeks, reported the phenomenon despite being laughed at.
An advertisement references a Sunday night party with a pat and guest fat joke, noting the Iowa Cash Market carrying fresh and smoked meats and groceries. The item also highlights Mrs. Gourley Dunn-Webb as the only woman golf professional in America after she laid out a fine California golf course.
The village president H. F. Shoots and two others accepted an invitation to a house for an investigation. A ladder was secured from the engine house, loaded onto an automobile truck, and the men proceeded to the location.
In a garret they discovered two corn stalks six feet tall with two large ears each. The hill of corn lay amid years of soot and dirt. The stalks measured eight feet with two feet beneath the roof. Each man took an ear of red variety for seed next season.
Fragmentary OCR yields a brief note mentioning Bronx City Tribune and a reference to German women participating in a legislative assembly to help frame a new constitution. The readable text is incomplete and lacks clear dates, names, or locations to specify a full factual item.
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