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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1913
Page
6
Charles E. Pickett plans a new one story brick garage adjoining the Waterloo Kissel Bar at 603 Fourth street west. The proposed site fronts sixty feet on Fourth street west and extends 100 feet deep. Owners W. R. Donaldson and M. J. Perrin say lease on the current building will end when the new garage is finished.
Bank clearings total 1,726,952.89 for the week ending July 3 per Black Hawk County Abstract Co. figures. Daily totals range from 271,137.00 to 345,247.64 with May and year-to-date comparisons and instruments recorded including deeds mortgages and chattels.
The Iowa Dairy Separator plant will suspend operations for ten days to complete an inventory. All kinds of manufactured articles demand remains good, and the plant will reopen after finishing the inventory on Monday, July 14.
A formal instrument attests H R Moses as Woteary Public in Black Hawk County. The document is signed and sealed by directors Emmons Johnson A J Edwards and L Johnson, establishing official attestations and responsibilities in the county.
Waterloo residents and visitors are noted in casual Fourth of July travel, a wedding, funeral, and several town updates. Insurance broker James Marshall of Omaha and Mrs Cordelia Folsom funeral services are mentioned, with fire department visitors from Freeport and local shifts in business hours. A planned amendment to the Business Men's Temperance association increases capital stock to $100000.
Frank R. Bryant head of Bryant Motor Car Co sold to Col. C. L. Kingsley president of the Chamber of Commerce and Irving hotel proprietor one of the six cylinder seven passenger Chalmers cars. Report notes the autos cools weather and Chalmers gains popularity in Waferlon.
London reports state three officials of the Women's Political and Social Union, locked by hunger strikes, were rearrested after being released on license on June 21. Annie Kenney, Rachel Barrett, and Harriett Kerr were seized again, while Laura Lennox, briefly freed, was also released again after worsening illness.
Chicago July 3. The government demanded forfeiture of Jack Johnson's 30000 bond in the Mann Act case. District Attorney Wilkerson and assistant Parkin filed the motion before Judge Carpenter, citing eleven new alleged violations and Johnson signing the bond himself on June 28 to cover them. Johnson had been sentenced to a year for trafficking white women and had traveled to Europe while under sentence.
Daddy Wells a longtime Illinois Central locomotive engineer died of heart failure at his Butte Montana home on June 23 at age 72. Born in Bradford Pennsylvania he served in the Union Army including Gettysburg Antietam and Shiloh and was awarded a Colonel Mulligan medal for rescuing Colonel Mulligan’s body under Confederate fire. He fought in 38 pitched battles, was captured at Missouri, imprisoned at Andersonville, wounded several times, and later worked as a railway engineer in the Midwest and in Butte. He is survived by his wife two sons Roy and Rennie a daughter Gertrude Black and an adopted daughter Mary Howe.
The three day aviation meet under St. Francis Hospital association begins Friday at 10 a.m. Avian Ralph E. McMillen will make his initial flight in a Curtiss machine testing new propellers. Special car service from Waterloo Cedar Falls Northern and La Porte trains will handle crowds expected to be large.
C E Johnson, six years representing Sears Roebuck Co at a local cream separatory plant, departed last evening for Minneapolis for a few days then plans to go to Chicago to work for the firm. In Waterloo he made many friends and was a substantial citizen.
Arrangements are complete for the Pharmaceutical Association annual meeting in Waterloo next Tuesday through Thursday. Headquarters at the Ellis hotel with wine and orange colors. Reception committees will meet trains, rooms for rent urged to notify George W. Dankenbring. Thursday barbecue at Elk Run park. city doctors invited as guests. Finance committee: J. K. Joder H. W. Taggart L. Wangler G. W. Daukenbring. Entertainment committees listed by day with multiple members.
Miller Motor Co plans a July move to a new 1100 24 Sycamore street garage to better serve a growing business handling Lozier and Maxwell cars. Lozier to discontinue Big Six for a season while adding a Seven passenger body, price 3250. Maxwell stock dwindling with only 126 Six cars at dealers and 24 in factory, total 150 remaining.
The New York Stock Exchange close lists prices for key issues including Canadian Pacific, Reading, Rock Island, Chicago Great Western, Northwestern, Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe, American Smelting, Union Pacific, Baltimore and Ohio, Southern Pacific, Southern Railway, Brooklyn Rapid Transit, United States Steel, Amalgamated Copper, Northern Pacific, Great Northern, Illinois Central, St Louis and San Francisco, Missouri Pacific, New York Central, with varied figures and percent changes across multiple rails and utilities. Data reflects mixed movements and fractional shares, typical of early July trading.
The report notes yesterday’s low of 70 and high of 81, with past data showing last year’s minimum 72 and maximum 94. Markings indicate Buchanan Optical Co. on the ground floor Syndicate block.
Newport July 3 The Progressive national conference closed with talks on conservation and social and industrial justice. Speakers included Gifford Pinchot Herbert Knox Smith and Oscar S Strauss who argued conservation underpins shelter and clothes and frames equality of opportunity through fair access to natural resources.
New York city adopts a summer plan to fingerprint all those found guilty of intoxication. On the first trial, police court magistrates report a shortage of fingerprint experts. Over forty drunks were processed, with prints filed in the police court to distinguish professionals from occasional drinkers. Professional offenders face workhouse time on Blackwell's Island.
Charles Herren a painter of 809 Baltimore street fell from a ladder while painting Miss Susan French’s residence on Wellington street near Mullan avenue. He sustained a badly bruised vertebra and possible fracture. Louis Huck of 1708 Jefferson street was also injured and recovering more quickly.
M H Kelly, recently recommended for Waterloo postmaster by Congressman Connolly, said he has received no word on when his commission will come. Connolly indicated about thirty days may pass from recommendation to appointment.
A. P. Waynes of Chicago Buick general sales agent for Iowa was killed in a car crash four miles south of Washington Ta this morning. He rode with driver O. P. Easley who was uninjured as the car struck a railing and plunged over a bridge.
Washington July 3 The area of cotton under cultivation July 1 was 34 622 000 acres the department of agriculture announced today The condition of the crop July 1 was 81 8 percent of a normal
Helmet lodge No 89 of Waterloo honors eleven local Pythians for twenty five years of membership at a banquet in the K P hall next Monday. The event lists Moss Frank P J Martin J E B Bragdon G F E Lichty C G Crabtree H C Schultz C B Pickett W W McFarlane E L Johnson J K Joder and C L Kingsley among inductees.
At the World’s Christian citizenship conference in Portland the commission on Mormonism urged federal authorities to investigate the Mormon church and to bar its mail circulation for alleged treasonous literature. It also urged Congress to bar polygamists or supporters of church leaders from seating and to place Utah under direct federal jurisdiction via constitutional amendment.
D. M. Kelly, the Montana attorney general, and his wife stay at M. H. Kelly's home in Waterloo seeking a Washington trip to represent Montana on important legal matters. Kelly, a former Black Hawk county boy, is cousins with M. H. Kelly, Waterloo's soon to be postmaster selected by Congressman Maurice Connolly.
The auditor reports Waterloo Savings Bank closed June 28 with over three quarters of a million dollars in deposits and total assets up by 889575.31. The bank shares in the city’s growth and prosperity reflected across financial and industrial sectors in Waterloo.
A. J. Busby, manager of Wa terloo, will depart tomorrow for New Iowa to assume delegate duties. Busby is slated to represent Wa terloo in the forthcoming conference and will return after completing assigned tasks.
Des Molin may see the conclusion of an exciting chase today as twenty horse teams vanish from Mullins near Waukee across Polk County. Dallas county sheriff at Adel sent a posse in pursuit after the theft was reported early this morning.
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