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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1929
Page
8
The June referendum in Vinton endorses a $5,000 municipal swimming pool project. The oval pool will be 120 by 80 feet, with shallow edges and deeper center, funded with city water and an attendant. Bids to follow. courthouse interior decorating costing about $3,000 also underway. Concert season opens with Bert White directing the summer band.
Northwestern Bell Telephone company on June 1 acquired the Western Electric system adding 19 counties and 57,164 telephones to its network. The expanded area covers nearly one third of the state of Iowa with Mason City serving as the new headquarters. Mason City resident B O Way Mason Guy, former Western Electric vice president, becomes Northwestern Bell vice president.
Oelwein high school student David Grant captured first place in tenth grade English at the state academic meet in Iowa City. The event closed Tuesday with five hundred students from 136 institutions competing in statewide competition.
Independence June 5 The Buchanan county supervisors awarded a contract for a pony truss bridge near the west edge of Lamont. Two bidders appeared A Olson Construction Company Waterloo bid 4800 plus 25 for extra concrete, but J B Elliott Independence bid 4250 plus 30 for extra concrete, and won.
In Manchester Iowa the E H Prowse stone house at East Main and Brewer streets will be moved or razed to make way for a new Philips Petroleum gasoline station. Des Moines firm plans an English cottage style building set back from the street with landscaped grounds. The site gains a thirteenth Main street station. council approved storage tanks on the Illinois Central right of way.
The Endowment Drive opens in Fayette with headquarters on the second floor of the David B. Henderson Library. The goal is 450000 to cover science building debts repairs and improvements and future extensions. A campaign executive committee led by Wilant F. Baker John W. Dickman and others will steer efforts with pledges to fund current needs and future growth.
Funeral services for Carl P. Stehr 39 longtime resident of Hazel Green township near Ryan were held at the Ryan Lutheran church. He died in Tow son Tl May 29 after a ten day illness with pneumonia. He served with American forces in France when the armistice was signed. Born April 10 1880 he attended Hopkinton schools and married Ruth Marclf at Hopkinton. Surviving are his father William Stahr three brothers Henry Hopkinton Roy Strawberry Point and George Manchester. His mother and sister preceded him in death. The American Legion assisted at the grave.
Associated Press reports Carroll county approved 1.5 million in bonds with 3 236 for and 2 607 against while Fayette county authorized a second 566 000 issue by 2 423 to 890. Oelwein 1 011 to 41 and West Union 587 to 45 approved.
Oelwein's board of education weighs establishing a junior college with the public schools. Local demand and anticipated costs are being studied as Captain and Mrs. W. J. Miehe arrive in Brooklyn after traveling from China and Japan via the Panama Canal. Captain Miehe, a former two years in the Philippines medical corps, will be stationed on the Atlantic coast.
The Epworth League at the Methodist Episcopal church held its annual old folks reception for residents 65 and older. Rev. A. R. Grant of Shel Rock delivered the principal address as the community marks about 30 years of continued tradition. Mrs. J. G. Carrier of Denver, Colorado, is visiting relatives in Vinton, accompanied by her sister Mrs. E. M. Tinkham.
In Fonda on June 5 Mrs Beem Patterson formerly Earth Dodd of Nashua was injured in a car crash when a truck sliding from a street struck her auto. Her husband and two daughters had lesser injuries and their car was badly damaged. Fred Harrison traveled to Colorado Springs after a telegram announced his daughter Clara would undergo an appendicitis operation. she has spent the year there with her mother due to ill health in a sanitarium.
Charles Hutchins the renowned naturalist and bird man will perform at La Porte City Methodist church on Thursday Friday and Sunday evening. He will sing whistles bird songs and share stories of bird craft and woodcraft. His wife, a harpist and singer, will assist.
The Frederika Methodist Episcopal revival services will run through the week with nightly meetings except Saturday. Thursday is family day. Pastor Rev. A. W. Gable urged every professor to become a crusader for Christianity as attendance remains strong.
Harold and Howard Bomhoff, sons of Mrs H F Bomhoff, will be ordained at Immanual Lutheran church in Independence on Sunday June 9. Rev. George Zeilinger of Wartburg Theological Seminary will deliver the sermon. They recently finished at Key City seminary and have been offered pulpits in South Dakota and Texas. They began schooling together in Osage.
Charles City will host a five-day Chau tauqua starting Monday June 10 with plays Skidding and The Detour. Music by the Vieiras Hawaiians and Russian Cossacks, Reed Musical Comedy review, and lectures by Lara Forbes and others highlight the program. Pottery demonstrations by Smith Damron, season ticket sales planned, and an auto collision near the Congregational church is noted.
A street crash injured a girl when a coupe driven by Vincent Ryan, carrying three others, struck a tree near the Harvey Grocery corner. The Wa-Tan-Ye club held its monthly meeting with a report on the Mitchell convention. Bobby Horst, nine, died in Minneapolis after mastoid infection treatment, leaving parents and a sister. May bank clearings totaled 2,991,085.91, down from April's 3,536,468.85. John P Gregg and wife welcomed a son at Cedar Valley hospital yesterday.
A historic ad promotes Konjola as a 32-ingredient medicine aiding Nature to remove ailment bases. It features Mrs. Sperry praising gains in her underweight children Esther and Harry Jr, with weight increases and calmer nerves. The Konjola Man advertises daily at Wangler Bros. drug store, 229 East Fourth Street, Waterloo.
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