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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1915
Page
4
A weather distressed report notes tornadoes sweeping west of Packard Iowa damaging barns and outbuildings near Haises and warns property owners that tornados cannot be predicted. It recommends securing coverage identical to fire insurance to protect assets against future windstorms.
Fragmented classified listing offers rooms for rent, furnished and unfurnished houses, apartments and cottages with contact numbers. Also items for sale include motorcycles, dogs, tools, shingle stain, stoves, and a few jobless notices. multiple addresses and phone numbers appear, reflecting a rural or small-town classifieds page.
Real estate notices advertise 160 acre and 144 acre parcels in Minnesota and Iowa near Cedar Falls and Ridgeway. Listings tout well improved corn land in Southern Minnesota and Red River Valley farms. Also offers exchanges, quick sales, and various cottages, farms, and paper promises from Kent Estate and Quy W Campbell Company with contact prompts.
R M Payne and A W Chamberlin announce farm and real estate opportunities across Waterloo and surrounding counties. Listings include Hawk County farms at 3 percent, Howard County black soil tracts 92.50 to 135 per acre, Emmet County lands with good shipping, Minnesota parcels in Mower and Nodotman counties from 40 to 140 per acre, and Clay County tracts near stations. Easy terms, down payments, and cash options noted.
Classified notice seeking buyers or inquiries for a horse named Aetophone 745 Black. Contact E A Stanley in Tanpsyville for details and arranging a viewing or purchase.
Storage and household goods advertised as dry and safe with a fireproof warehouse claim and 65 cent insurance. Medical ad promises cure for piles and fistula without surgery with testimonials. Notices include a hog buyer in Chicago and wedding invitation printing service in Waterloo with phone contact.
The Chicago market report notes sharp wheat advances due to unfavorable southwest weather and frost in North Dakota, with exports light but firm close. Corn and oats rise amid wet conditions, while hogs and cattle show strong demand. Kansas City and Omaha readings mirror tighter supplies and higher prices across livestock sectors.
Marble Rock report notes thirteen car loads of stock shipped Sunday morning. Shippers include Julius Heft Chas Ahart Zack Maluegin James Sarr and Liwitz Brothers. Also mentions Waterloo caller Mrs F E Gates and Mrs Charles Bowman visiting.
Numerous residents travel to attend the Epworth League convention at Nora Springs last week and report a fine gathering. Local movements include Robert McBride returning from Fayette, the Farnham family moving into the parsonage on Hutches street, and George Barber relocating to Waseca Minnesota with wife and daughter. Regular updates note visitors to Charles City and Cedar Rapids, a family reunion, graduates and summer-school plans, and news of typhoid illness affecting Harry Winchell in Minnesota.
James McDonald visited Waverly on Saturday as talk grows of the big chautauqua starting this week. Mrs Rue Simbrie and son visited relatives here last week. Mrs Wm Cross traveled to Nashua Friday. Alf Smith left for Milbank with nephew Charley McDonald. A children's day program is set for Sunday evening June 20 at church. Irma and Lenora Flege were present and on time all year in the primary class taught by Mise Wylam. Horton B P A plans an ice cream and strawberry sociable Friday June 18 at A J Hall two miles NW.
Fairbank items from June discuss Miss Mayme Keeles and Mrs Agnes Collins at a W R C convention in Sioux City and other visits. Mrs James Curry hosted two friends from Town Falls. Children’s day observed at Baptist church with recitations. Wilma Walker and Daisy Ellis attend ISTC. L G Hodgin buys Pat Me O’Cuniff barber shop, rents rooms. Miss Mabel Corroran takes job at M F Leehey & Co. Father Charles Miller returns from Washington DC to vacation with parents. Genevieve Agnew closes show in Brown district with an indoor picnic. Methodist board agrees to remodel church with basement, art glass windows. After June 16 two rural mail carriers, Frank Curtis and W J King, relieved from duty.
Community notes describe contractor staffing changes at the government offices and a salary adjustment for the five carriers. Also reported are visits by Miss Mary Flock and Olive Trebon, church planning meetings, Main Street grading, Monroe family return from Ames, Frank Peters upcoming marriage to a Strawberry Point bride, preparations for a Chicago honeymoon, and Earle Walgamot’s Fayette UC I U studies plus his decision to join the West Union baseball team.
The Detroit Free Press reports the death of C. W. Harvey a Whit tier pioneer and Los Angeles county taxpayer at his Orange Orchard ranch in Whittier California. Harvey born in Missouri came to Waterloo Iowa then Whittier in 1886 and helped secure a railroad and water system. Survived by widow daughter and granddaughter his life touched many with a family tragedy linked to a Times explosion and a divorce suit involving a granddaughter.
An old advertisement touts Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy for darkening gray hair, stopping dandruff, and improving scalp condition. It claims easy, even coverage with a ready-to-use tonic sold by H. W. Taggart, avoiding home mixing and bother.
Town City June 16 notices are in for an automobils and motorcycle races at the Iowa City speedway on Thursday June 21. Thirteen auto racers join motorcyclists to vie for prizes totaling 1000 dollars in two ten and twenty five mile auto events plus two motorcycle races and two flights by Billy Robinson the Grinnell airman. A feature pits Robinson in a monoplane against the ten mile auto winner. Entries include G W Miley Clinton Duesenberg C R Parker Davenport Parker Special EB MM Lyons Algona Ford G C Monckmeier Tipton Staver Six P B Shafer Des Moines Chevrolet George B France Des Moines Ford Special Ray McDowell Hudson Regal Sigfried Maugehal Albert Lea Minn Mercer Albert Striegel Kansas City FL Millard Albert Lea Red Devils U P F Rader Waterloo Knox Pete Petersbayer Davenport Peterson Special J S Wilson Iowa City Wilson Special
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