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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1911
Page
9
Attorney G E Pike and H Litt Jestrand attended the closing session of the district Christian Endeavor society at Waverly. The district convention will move to Cedar Falls in 1912 and the 25th annual convention will be in Waterloo in 1913 marking a quarter century of the district organization.
Plan merges all charitable groups under the city council with ten bureaus including Inspection, Emergency, General Sanitation, Medical and Surgical, Publicity, Investigation and Record, Aid and Relief, Care of Delinquents and Defectives, Law Enforcement and Legal Aid. It envisions city county cooperation and a central office in City Hall to manage health and social services.
Miss Clara Maynard daughter of Mr and Mrs H B Maynard will leave Saturday for Chicago visiting relatives there and in Ohio before going to New York City. From New York she sails June 24 on the steamer Cretic for Naples Italy to tour the old countries. Accompanied to Chicago by her brother Robert who may attend the Marietta College graduation before returning to Waterloo.
The Waterloo Building Trades council held its first meeting in the new Labor Temple. Delegates will attend Central Labor Union meetings and vice versa to foster closer affiliation. Also notes a short aside on a limit for a friend in need, set at six dollars.
Angloria Neapolitana, jailed in Saurie Ste Marie for chopping her husband’s head, faces execution after birth of her child on August 9. Letters of sympathy flood in from across Canada, with petitions for clemency and calls to reconsider a punishment deemed barbarous by many. She stays calm, reading the Bible, and says she is ready to die and meet her Maker.
Washington June 7 The finance committee favors adopting the Root amendment to the Canadian reciprocity bill in modified form. The plan calls for delaying wood pulp paper and boards duties until the US proves exports to Canada are duty free. Vote is expected 10 to 5 with bipartisan support. final action anticipated July 15.
The convention opens with a Get Together meeting at Ellis hall at 7 p m with addresses by C H Pickett N E Kendall and others. Sessions proceed at the court house June 8 and 9 featuring papers on postal economy rural delivery and parcels post plus a banquet and theater entertainment.
Community groups reveal June meetings and events across clubs lodges chapters churches and socials. The Coterie welcomes Mrs Grady, Waterloo Lodge No 328 holds regular meeting, Woodmen banquet at Seash Hall, Silver Circle hosts Mrs Robertson, Tabernacle Chapter convocation, Philates club and XX club picnics, First Baptist Sunday school rehearsals, Christ Episcopal picnic at Elk Run, Sons of Veterans special meeting and initiation, G I A class at Elks hall with Mrs Murdock visiting.
Robert Alphonse Taft son of President Taft was denied admission to the Ohio bar examination beginning yesterday because he did not register when he began studying law. He informed the court clerk earlier and was told he could not take the exam this year. He likely plans to try again in two years.
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