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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1913
Page
6
A large Iowa druggists convention brings 1500 to 2000 visitors to Elk Run park activities in three days. Officials including Frank Shane and E L Beard lead plans with entertainment for spouses and a busy schedule featuring automobile tours, dances, streetcar trips, and a barbecue. The traveling pharmaceutical association also expects 100 to 200 members to attend with meetings at the Ellis hotel.
The convention opens with a 1:30 session in the armory hall where Mayor Thompson gives the welcome and W. I. Torbert of Dubuque replies. Frank Shane will speak as president and reports come from national associations state board of pharmacy and the committee on pharmacy. An evening 7:40 session features Prof. E. F. Ladd and Druggists Mutual Insurance with J. R. Chittick presenting drug analyses. Special committees for each day will meet delegates with a band and handle daily details.
Owing to the convention, all drug stores will close at noon Thursday and stay closed. City physicians are invited as guests of the druggists Thursday afternoon. Athletic events at Elk Run park precede a large barbecue with cash and merchandise prizes funded by over 100 donors. Early arrival included W. Hi. Schneider of St Paul for the Cleveland Fruit Juice Co.
Three bathers died in Minneapolis area lakes as heat relief crowds sweltered. John F. French, 25, reportedly drowned after a joke led companions to ignore his call for help. Carl C. Anderson, 22, of St. Paul, drowned in Lake Calhoun with 2,000 cooling swimmers nearby. Edward Bole, 30, of Chicago, stepped into a hole at Lake Minnetonka and sank before friends could reach him. All bodies were recovered.
Hundreds flock to Paul Davis Dry Goods in Economy Basement for a week of great July discounts and needs for present and future purchases.
C A Rownd reports Cedar Falls township district No 2 with a school valued at 150000 dollars and apparatus at 6000. The staff includes 21 teachers, 20 women and 1 man, with monthly salaries of 265 for men and 65 for women. The library holds 3000 volumes and the yard 1400 trees, the building has 13 rooms and daily attendance averages 30.74. Tuition per pupil per month costs 1.93 due to contracts with the State Teachers College at 16.35 yearly per pupil.
Grace Saxe, Bible teacher with Billy Sunday’s party, left for Chicago after visiting the Leavitt home in Waterloo. She writes a treatise on Exodus aiming for Aug 1 release and has authored books on Christ Acts and Genesis. In Columbus she organized a Bible class for 800 prisoner-students upon their request.
Mr and Mrs A J Reber and family return from a 1200 mile overland auto trip visiting Pocahontas Doon Okoboji Spirit Lakes Sioux Falls Alexandria Mitchell Kimball Platt Pukwana and Chamberlain Roads and crops praised despite dry weather Averaged over 21 mph on return. Real estate transfers list parcels in La Porte City Waterloo and Elmwood Cemetery association sale.
Aviator R. E. McMillen aged 23 soared above Waterloo neighborhoods from Elk Run park on Sunday morning and again in the afternoon circling the Factory City. The unadvertised exhibitions drew displeasure from promoters as wind halted Saturday plans. Two more ascensions were set for today as Mrs. Nancy Cutler and her daughter headed to St Paul to visit relatives.
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