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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1925
Page
10
A Moscow dispatch notes prison life in Soviet Russia has liberalized since the Bolshevik era. Most inmates share well lit rooms, minimal solitary confinement, and freedom to pursue hobbies, with limited work and ongoing concerns over food.
Iowa tops the United States in telephones per one hundred people, with over 566 000 phones on January 1 1995, a 300 percent rise since 1902. The state also ranks highly in farm wealth, bank value and farm improvements, reflecting broad prosperity alongside its telephone and auto developments.
Iowa boasts the lowest illiteracy rate in the nation and ranks near the top globally for telephone development. Des Moines Davenport and Cedar Rapids have about four times as many telephones per 108 population as major British cities, triple that of large French centers, and exceed principal German cities in telephone density.
W J Rechtfertig, Morris wit tell Rotarian, will discuss Sand Cave Kentucky where Floyd Collins was trapped last February at noon luncheon in Hotel Russell Lamson. Plans for annual ladies night Monday, in Univ States government departments. Women employed as chemists, microanalysts, assistants, lab workers, plant pathologists and geologists.
Dubuque Ia July 11 contracts totaling 390 907 20 for reconstruction and repair of Dubuque county bridges damaged by floods were let by the board of supervisors. Fifteen bridges were washed away. Successful bidders include Belsar company Worthington Olson construction Waterloo and John Beede Waukon.
Dr. Clinton F. Smith pastor of First Evangelical church and Mrs. Smith returned Friday from a Colorado vacation by automobile. Rev. Mr. Smith spoke at a denominational Sunday school and young people's state convention in Denver. They then visited Mrs. Smith's father, pastor of an Evangelical church near Colorado Springs.
Lila Colegrove, 71, resolves a long dispute over a $56,000 estate after loving a cousin and discovering competing wills. She will receive $28,000 from the estate while Leona Colegrove, a 2 year period schoolteacher, gains control of the remainder. The case followed a half century of loyalty and betrayal amid shifting fortunes. A prior judge had granted Lila the estate, with a life income from $10,000, and the final settlement ends the dispute with Leona. The story centers on family ties, a love pact, and wills that changed lives.
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