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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1914
Page
7
Des Moines dispatch details potential reshuffle as Governor may appoint Bleakly state insurance commissioner to take office July 1, clearing the way for a temporary vacancy in the auditor's office. Five candidates remain, with convention delegates to decide the nominee.
Des Moines reports railroads dropped federal court suits to block a lower intrastate coal hauling rate after coal operators urged restoration of the old rate. The move ends a long dispute over coal rate regulation and notes the 1915 Iowa Grand Lodge session naming officers at Metropolitan lodge No 49.
Des Moines June 11 The state board of control seeks a lease on a large Mississippi river tract near Fort Madison with option to buy. The land would be used to house and employ convicts from the state prison, providing labor for the facility.
In Fort Madison on June 11 fifteen St Josephs Catholic schoolchildren donated nearly 100 skin graft pieces to aid Clarence Kempker, who injured his leg distributing papers on a street car. Most volunteers were 14 year old girls, some returning for additional grafts while one fainted at the procedure.
Sioux City June 11 The 1914 touring party of the Morningside Travel club will sail from New York June 13 for a European tour from southern Italy to the Scottish highlands. Led by Prof. and Mrs. H. G. Campbell and Roger F. Gaphart, the trip includes Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Smith Shen don, Miss Eva Lewis St Louis, Miss Blanche Spratt Sioux City, Miss Gertrude Riddell Sheldon, and others from Sioux City Sheldon St Louis Mt Morris Milton and Pa.
Alma Bentley an 11 year old girl in Keokuk placed her tongue on a frost coated ammonia freezing pipe at Joseph Haubert’s butcher shop and became stuck. The tongue was removed but one side of her face was badly frozen including her right eye swollen shut and possible permanent disfigurement.
Bonds totaling 2000 dollars were signed in federal court for G H York pending appeal of a Mann Act sentence. Don Weston of Granger, son in law of York, furnished the bonds after the Colfax grocer received one year in federal prison.
An advertisement touts Foley Cathartic Tablets as a special regulator for stout people. It promises relief from biliousness constipation and digestive distress while claiming regular users will feel thinner and more comfortable.
The Iowa conference branch of the Christian Endeavor society of the United Brethren church convenes in Waterloo from Friday afternoon through Sunday. Delegates from across the state attend meetings at the United Brethren church at Fourth and Allen streets with programs featuring devotions, institutes, reports, talks, music, and a social program at Lafayette Park.
Devotional Gone by Dr KR E Graves. Exercias by Waterloo junior. Lecture Slum Work in Our Cities illustrated by lantern slides. Solo The Holy City by L R Mathers. Farewell service and convention music led by L R Mathers of Leander Clark College Conservatory.
The Iowa State Agricultural College at Ames awarded 273 diplomas this morning in the largest class yet. Among the graduates were Fred C. Fenton from Ames in agricultural engineering J L Finley of Cedar Falls in veterinary medicine and R W Dysart of Dysart in animal husbandry.
In Webb City Missouri on June 14 voters chose liquor approval by 1486 to 821 ending four years of prohibition and restoring the wet column after the dry period. The result marks a sharp shift in local liquor policy and reflects a pivotal change for the community.
Events mark the fifty fourth annual Iowa commencement with banquets and dinners across campus. Governors, professors, and alumni attend at the Natural Science Library, Barkley Imperial Hotel, Hotel Jefferson, and chapter houses. Notables include Macdonald as speaker, Dean Budden, Judge McClain, and Phi Delta Kappa hosts.
The fourth storm in days struck causing a 6.57 inch total rainfall and a live electric wire on the Fourth Bluff street intersection to fall across steel railroad tracks. A policeman guarded the scene until repairs arrived while pedestrians were soaked by sudden downpour.
Thousands suffer eye trouble from unknown remedies and high costs. A simple home prescription using 5 grains Optona with 2 ounces water, diluted and used as an eye bath three or four times daily, claims to clean and sharpen vision and reduce inflammation.
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