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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1911
Page
7
A farm hand suffered a serious cut to a finger when cobs jammed in a hand sheller. He received prompt medical care and will need a few days of rest before resuming use of his hand. The item is part of a longer La Porte City notes column with multiple local notices and social updates.
Miss Elsie Stevens underwent an operation on Monday evening. The note mentions Mr. and Mrs. Lehman being retained by the family after a serious incident involving an uncle who suffered a paralytic stroke last Saturday. Other items reference Waterloo visitors and local residents.
Des Moines July 27 details the second day of the Town Firemen association tournament. A state chase race offers a $259 purse plus a $100 cup and $7 in cash. The paid department free for all race carries a $700 purse with $400 for first place. Other events include hook and ladder, coupler and pipemen medals, and ladder climbing. A plan to form a state volunteer firemen association was proposed at Davenport, Adel, Des Moines, Iowa City, Fairfield, Indianola, and Atlantic.
A statewide call seeks delegates from all eleven congressional districts to convene in Des Moines to draft a state volunteer firemen constitution and by laws with another meeting held tonight.
Miss Bridget McCormick, an employee at the Logan house, fell through a skylight yesterday afternoon while working on the roof and landed on a bed below. Allan W. Steeley reports winter wheat yield of 56 1/2 bushels per acre from a ten acre field, valued at about $280.25 total. Mrs. Thomas Ferguson hosts Mary Scott of Fort Scott, Kan, and Mrs. John Plantz visits Finchford with her 77 year old sister. Plantz and her brother are among the county’s oldest residents. A man named Bhi Dunlaney, from Warnesburg Pa, arrested on a warrant from a Diagonal, Ia. constable for obtaining money by false pretenses. President I. S. Cass of the W. T. F. & XN. notes feasibility of granite block paving along rails in the business district for permanence and appeal.
Articles of Incorporation for The Western Old Peonie's Home in Iowa of the Evangelical Association were filed today in Cedar Falls. The $30,000 home, funded by a $20,009 donation from Mr. and Mrs. Pfeiffer of Philadelphia, will be run by a nine member board elected every four years. Bishop S. P. Spreng is president, C. C. Pfund vice president, Walter J. Miller secretary, and A. J. Voeglein treasurer. The institution will admit all poor, worthy inmates and be financially supported by conferences west of Ohio.
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