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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1911
Page
5
Promoted sale highlights boys school suits built from tested materials and wear resistant fabrics. Garments feature stylish cuts, strong seams, reinforced weak spots and overall durable construction aimed at lasting use.
A local retailer advertises a 200 suit sale with one third off on boys' suits. Prices listed include options from $9.00 down to $1.66, highlighting substantial savings to clear stock within 30 days.
Mrs Elizabeth FE Hubbard of Waterloo ages about 88 deeds the northwest thirty feet of lot 9 and part of lot 8 block 32 to daughter Mrs Eliza E West in exchange for lifelong care and support. West, sole surviving child, must provide board nursing medicine burial and monument after Hubbard’s death. Hubbard, early Waterloo settler, details of cedar falls farmer name Maplehearst noted for renamed rural homestead.
The First Congregational church and Sunday school will hold their annual picnic at Elk Run on Friday July 28. Free autos from the church at 10 o'clock. Basket dinner races games and a good congregational time. All members of the congregation and Sunday school welcome.
A mass meeting of organized labor bodies in Waterloo is set for Thursday at Labor Temple. Prominent speakers include Wm A Olivey of the United Garment Workers of America and R F E Perrin of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers district council No 6. Public attendance invited. bring your wife.
Friday evening Electric Park plans a elaborate fireworks program featuring bombs, high displays, and a Merry Widow fan. The show includes a battle in the skies segment, a monster searchlight, and runs about half an hour, drawing crowds to the park’s rides and concessions.
Pittsburg, July 26. President Dreyfuss announced a life policy for $25000 on pitcher Marty O'Toole and planned a large accident policy. O'Toole, bought from St. Paul for $22500, had been linked to the Giants by a New York manager. Lennon of St. Paul confirms the deal to Pittsburgh.
Mrs Celia Kruse a Waterloo pioneer resident for fifty four years died after months of illness at her home 303 Bluff street Surrounded by four generations she was born Celia Mohr in Strehoe Schleswig Holstein Germany March 16 1826 She married Detlef Kruse in 1856 and moved to Waterloo in 1857 Funeral services Friday at First Lutheran Church with Rev Mueller officiating Interment in Old Waterloo Cemetery
Boston reports Romane Giaemette, an East Boston short maker, captured the season’s largest Chelsea beach turtle. Turning it over, he found a copper penny minted in 1774 bearing George Third. Residents debate if the turtle is 141 years old or unearthed Captain Kidd’s alleged chests beneath Messschusetis waters.
Miss May Van de Grift, a Howard hotel waitress in Sioux City, inherits $19 000 from Ada Scales of Lake County California. She plans to stay in Sioux City until estate affairs settle, then travel with her mother and men friends. The will includes a Clearlake summer resort. Her mother Jane Marvin was once an artist and actress.
Des Moines July 26 Mayor James R Hanna will mix speech making on grocery combine inquiries with selling vegetables on the city hall lawn. He will outline plans for a permanent market house to ease the high cost of living. A market day yesterday drew a large crowd but no vegetable vendors were present. The ordinance allows three market days weekly Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays at city hall.
Philadelphia reports the installation of Archbishop Prendergast in a ceremony attended by high dignitaries and church leaders. The event marks a key moment in the archdiocese with formal rites and acknowledgments from clergy and city officials.
The Most Rev Ed Mund Francis Prendergast was enthroned as archbishop of the Metropolitan see of Philadelphia at St Peter and St Paul Cathedral succeeding the late Archbishop Patrick John Ryan The ceremony drew the clergy and the city’s faithful and the church was richly decorated with flowers and palms.
Des Moines reports John Langley a Negro wanted for wounding Henry Pontius a street car conductor on April 23 1909 has been captured at Plairsville Missouri. He will be returned to Des Moines by a local officer.
The new passenger engine No. 1069 left yesterday noon with train No. 6 under Engineer Riley and reached Freeport without incident. Officials decided not to place the engine on the fast westbound No. 1 until further testing. Engine 1032 then pulled in train No. 1 with Engineer Riley aboard.
A large Bush family four miles northeast of Dows Iowa faced turmoil after a July incident in which C P Bush allegedly beat his wife. Neighbors later testified in Justice Green's court as the oldest son injured the father during the altercation. The affinity from Kentucky was blamed for provoking the family strife, and Mr. Bush reportedly left town after giving a bank bill of sale to cover debts while the affinity hid in a granary.
Two new locomotives Nos 1071 and 1072 undergo load tests today with 650 tons of coal each. The trains are checked for speed and load while Illinois State University investigators conduct engine tests at the local Illinois Central shops, proving the expertise of the local shop staff.
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