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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1915
Page
3
A chaotic classified fragment advertises a big home furniture sale at 621 Molverry Street with items described as creamed, priced low and some items ready for trade. It hints at security concerns and a large selection including beds chairs and tables.
Classified real estate and trade notices from Waterloo area including Howard County farms priced from 40 to 4000 with terms, acreage bread, Emmett county land, and exchanges. Bankable listings show 160 to 720 acre tracts, various payments, near stations, railroads, and markets. Multiple trade offers include furniture, hotel property, and auto exchanges amid miscellaneous notices and public notices.
General Markets report notes steamship Armenian sinking aiding wheat demand in Chicago. Prices moved from slight declines to gains of up to 7-5 over last night with July and September leading. Corn and oats followed wheat, while provisions stayed narrow. Livestock saw uneven bar market with cattle firm and sheep and lamb arrivals at their most liberal in weeks. Kansas City and Omaha markets show higher opens for hogs and cattle, with cattle prices for prime fed steers and western steers listed. lambs and sheep receipts around 4,000.
Chicago July 1 livestock receipts show hogs at 20,000 and cattle 6,000 with mixed and heavy hogs dominant. Hog prices opened up to around 7.20 to 7.90, cattle steady to strong, sheep opening lower then steady. Butter eggs potatoes and poultry prices varied with mixed regional quotes.
Grain prices show Wheat No 2 H at 1.31 and various corn and wheat futures across Duluth St Louis Kansas City Minneapolis and Liverpool with spot Winnipeg Manitoba and Duluth readings. Waterloo markets list flour oats barley butter potatoes Hens old roosters hay and cattle prices with farm entries and wholesale remarks.
Tripoli notes show Mrs. Cora Riden and daughter Sadie of Denver visiting at John M. Hazlett’s home. Clara Martens returned from Waterloo and Vaverly. William Malstead visited Waverly. Fred Buchholz had surgery at Mercy hospital and died, burial in Sumner. Albert Waterman of Brooten visited sister Mrs. Ladd. Henry Timm of South Dakota visited Gust Felke. Engelbrecht, Mrs. Engelbrecht, Hans Nelson and Miss Nelson made a day trip to Reinbeck. Mrs. M. Adams returned to Clarion after caring for her sister Mrs. D. Ladd. Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Cook and niece also mentioned.
Veal prices are listed for various weight ranges with premium hogs also priced. Local social notes report Mildred Guosalus and visitors at multiple homes, a bed confinement of Mr. B. Kelsey, and several townspeople visiting in Waterloo, Denver, and Bristow. A marriage occurred at the home of the bride's parents in Strawberry Point between Lydia Neunkirk and Henry Gipper, who will reside in the newly vacated Moekling house.
Ackley notes a week of visitors and departures. Mrs. Badgley and daughter visit from Des Moines and plan Chicago departure with Karl, a White Sox member. James Scourick relocates his barber shop to the Journal building. Several local residents travel or plan schooling, including Miss Milne Zimmerman taking a teaching position, and Theodore Roosevelt of Clarion visiting. Minor accident as butcher Mr. Krotin breaks his arm cranking a car. Mrs. Albert Schultz hosts Fort Dodge visitors, while regatta attendance and motor boat plans feature in local travel.
Geneseo June 30. Henry Lubean's family welcomes a newborn son. Ruth McMullen of Des Moines visited O. J. Hayward's this week. Mrs. Wm. Curtice, formerly local, called on friends here. Brown of Waterloo spent Sunday with O. E. Mer Titte. V. Yupska building hollow tile ell and icehouse. Lightning caused cattle losses. B F Newell Harold Speer Gunn & Harmon Claud Mitchell and Frank Lockard all report cattle losses, clover-bloat cow of Harold Speer. C. E. Lambert's aged parents visited from Ohio. Helen Wilkinson returned from Illinois after visiting parents.
Friends and neighbors in Mount Vernon Township held a surprise party at Earl Prosser’s home Saturday. A Fourth of July celebration is planned July 8 at De Witt Briden grove. Notices announce July 1 gatherings and local visits as residents attend events and share news of burn injuries, family visits, camping, and local society meetings. An advertisement promotes Foley Kidney Pills for kidney health.
June 29 snapshot lists farm visits and travel by residents Elmer Palmer visits Waverly M D, Charley and Howard Holt and Mrs Birdie Holt Richardson visit town, family travels to California. Funerals, farm updates, and farm help noted. Strawberries fetch $3.60 per crate. Janesville chautauqua ads highlight Italy dates and local banner promotions. Boy Scout speakers announced for next Sunday evening.
Clarksville on June 29 records Weiltis Sut cliff of Sioux City visiting town. Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Phillips spent Thursday and Friday at Greene with daughter Mrs. Will Buehhels. Mrs. M. S. Davis visited Mr. and Mrs. James Stoddard at Gelweln over the weekend. Mrs. Geo. Haney conducted the drawing for a free sewing machine.
A jumble of names and events from Waterloo area social life. Helen and Roland Smith visit grandparents, others attend visits and travels. Miss Dorothy Carr and Mrs. Carpenter entries, birth announcements of a girl to Mr. and Mrs. Jam Young, and a death notice for Mrs. Favour in Healdsburg, Cal. Mrs. Charles Hunt hosts a party for 86 ladies with guests from Allsan Union, Waterloo, Milwaukee, and other nearby cities. The Evening Courier remains a frequently read paper in Waterloo households.
An advertisement extols Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a remedy for pimples eruptions and impure blood. It claims purification of blood heals skin blemishes and improves liver stomach kidneys, with free advice and pellets advertised and emphasized as pure vegetable medicine from American plants.
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