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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1912
Page
15
James Gardiner Company releases new Palate rentals amid market shifts. Officials note updated inventory and pricing structures aimed at easing consumer access while maintaining service standards. Local lenders report steady demand for decorative and dining spaces.
Sophia Krueger, age 86 and the oldest convict in Iowa, was refused clemency by the pardon board. She was sentenced in Howard county nine years ago to life for murdering her husband, a case that drew statewide attention. Krueger, German and largely unable to speak English, spends much time at Anamosa making fancy work. The board found she has no relatives to care for her if freed, and recorded the murder as ultimately proven despite her earlier claims of an unknown assailant.
Mrs GA Parkins and sons visited relatives at Waverly and Waterloo last week while Mr Up Simith from Sumner called on the 76th. Several locals and guests from Waterloo, Pottersiding, Clarion, Farley, Cedar Falls and Sumner appear in a flurry of visits, deputations, and a three weeks sight seeing trip planned to Colorado and Wyoming. A baby birth, a street car mishap, and a wedding among friends are noted in this community roundup.
Sealed bids for constructing main sewers along Wellington West Sixth Lafayette Cottage West Third Webster Dawson streets in Waterloo Iowa are due by 7 20 p m August 12 1912. Work includes 10 to 18 inch vitrified sewer pipes with manholes per city plans. Payment on completion by sewer certificates tied to property abatements. Bond required in the sum of one third.
The Waterloo city council invites sealed bids for sewer improvement work to be completed by December 1, 1812, with required $200 certified checks and bonds. Bids due August 12, with work starting by August 15, and the city reserves the right to reject all bids.
At 7 30 o clock p m the city of Waterloo Iowa issued a formal notice dated and signed by City Clerk R I Degon authorizing a municipal action or proceeding. The notice records the official action taken by Waterloo authorities and identifies the city clerk as the issuing official.
State of Iowa notice announces that an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament of Ast Owen, deceased, has been filed and read. The hearing for proof is fixed for September 16, 1912, with Fred S. Pettit as Clerk of District Court, dated July 25, 1912.
State of Iowa Black Hawk County Ss notices read that the last will of Margaret Twigg deceased was filed opened and read and fixed for hearing proof on Monday September 16 1972 dated July 25 1812 Fred Pettit
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