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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1910
Page
4
A compact classified notice offers 36 inch wool filled cords priced at 50 cents and various staple shades. It also promotes tailored skirts made to measure with a guaranteed fit, inviting customers to shop tomorrow.
In a speech the speaker discusses immigration's growth and the difficulty it creates. The message contrasts immigrants from unfamiliar histories and governments with the make up of American society. It argues that such newcomers do not integrate easily and would burden existing citizens.
A reflective piece discusses tens of thousands arriving for work rather than liberty, noting immigrants’ languages and customs forming isolated city colonies. It warns these masses burden the nation, contrasts with founders, and urges Masonry leaders to educate and elevate newcomers while honoring past pioneers and ongoing benevolence within the fraternity.
Waterloo hosts the Iowa Grand Lodge convention featuring two of the state’s oldest Masons, A. Bishop of Cedar Falls and Rev. Elias Skinner of Waterloo, both connected since the early 1850s. Bishop, nearly 86, joined Cedar Falls lodge in 1854 and later served as state treasurer, while Skinner, instated in 1868, was Iowa Grand Lodge chaplain in 1864 and remains active at sessions. Also listed are long-time early members J. M. Griffith Des Moines 1858, Nathan Scofield Pocahontas 1858, and R. D. Minard St. Charles 1869.
Trustees and wives of Westminster Presbyterian hosted a 7 pm dinner for the church choir led by Miss Bessie Reed with about forty guests. Afterward they toured by auto to Hudson, in a show of appreciation for the choir's work.
The speaker thanks fellow brothers for support and guidance, recognizing Granger and past grand masters. A sales note invites buying Chautauqua season tickets for three dollars after next Wednesday, available in churches, banks, and drug stores.
An agreement for sale is filed for record on the Brown corner part of lots one and two, block six, Waterloo west. Grantors are Mrs Currence Brown and Charles F Brown. grantee is Thomas Cascaden. Consideration listed as 28265.69. Also notes obituary of 86 year old Mahaska pioneer William Barnhill who died at Rockwell home of his son Riley.
The Black Hawk county teachers institute opened with 108 attendees on the second day. The enrolled list includes Mabel Masters Jesup, Helen McGarvey Waterloo, Coral Shining Waterloo, Carrie Whitney Waterloo, Orra Wilson Le Porte City, Edith Callaghan Cedar Falls, Mary Oleson Cedar Falls, William Phillips Raymond, Kate Shannon Fairbank, Kathryn McIntosh Waterloo, Edith Witten Waterloo, Nora Shaw Waterloo, and many others from Waterloo and surrounding towns. The program foresees an entertainment by Mr and Mrs Karl Stine of Chicago and a lecture by Dr Betts of Cornwell.
City brief items from Waterloo cover visits by Mrs. H. Cowell of Everett with her daughter, and travel notes for Iowans returning home for summer. Local people, including Mrs. Blanche Jackson and Miss Edith Winch, appear in society notes, with divorce actions of Harry Dean and Stella Noble noted. Various residents and visitors from Cedar Falls to Des Moines are listed along with a medical ad for Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets.
Several hundred printed postal cards were sent out by the freight traffic committee announcing a freight bureau meeting at the Board of Trade rooms tomorrow evening. The committee calls the issue the most important business before the community and expects a large turnout of residents who pay freight bills or deal with freight traffic matters. Committee members are George E. Lichty H. T. Litchfield and F. L. Northey.
Mary Burns and James Lowry wed at St Patrick's parish with Father Sullivan officiating. The couple, who wore satin and lace and carried carnations, will live in Jesup after a brief wedding trip. The ceremony was reported in the Cedar Rapids Gazette.
A 415 acre stock and grain farm in the southeast Buchanan County location four miles northeast of Walker and about 16 miles southeast of Independence. The sale occurs on the farm at 2 pm. The gently rolling land is largely cultivated with about 125 acres timber and includes an eight room house, 50 by 60 foot barn for 75 tons of hay, stock leanos, several out buildings, a well, windmill and tank. The farm is fully fenced into multiple fields.
One-half cash balance and easy payments at 6 percent interest. Farm will positively be sold, no matter what it brings. K. Noland, Auctioneer, 400 Youngerman Building, Des Moines, Iowa.
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