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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1913
Page
6
Waterloo Motor Boat Club members voted at a special session to hold a stumping party on the Cedar River to remove submerged tree stumps that obstruct the channel and pose danger to motor boats. President John Jago urged all Waterloo residents who use the river to help clear the riverbed.
Supreme Director L. Kern will attend a session conducted by Queen Council No.123 of Waterloo in the Pythian temple. J. C. Murtagh will describe his trip to Fraternal Union of America offices with talks by twenty other leaders. Fred Winslow, Waterloo manager, notes rapid lodge growth with about 600 members. W. Young, former Waterloo resident, leads as supreme president from Denver, with 350 new councils launched.
Five young men including Hol Pond Charles Wagner Harry Webber Irving Mussett and Harley Willard face arraignment for malicious mischief after damaging R N Cowin s car in an east side garage. Hiquor selling charge against Will Mealey colored arose from a police search finding beer and whiskey at his home. Mealey released on 100 bond awaiting grand jury action. A separate case postpones the preliminary hearing for Jess Taylor colored on larceny charges. Five men on a passenger train were jailed for thirty days after beating their way and refusing to depart.
John Hansen buys Walter Clark’s interests in the Corn Belt Auto company and takes over management. Operations will continue under the old name until June 30 and then become the Waterloo Overland company. The Fifth Street East address remains the president location. J. H. Hadley of Hidora joins Hanson. Hanson has long been with Corn Belt. The firm handles the Overland car.
Waterloo firemen battled multiple calls yesterday ending with a late night blaze at the Schultz junk yard on Seventh Street West near the Cedar River. A shed storing paper burned, crew work halted spread, flames not fully out until about midnight with substantial damage. Earlier fires at 415 Park Avenue East and Mulberry and Fourth streets east caused only slight damage. A grass fire on Parker Street followed with minimal impact.
An elderly Waverly resident, Mrs. A. E. Ellis born in 1839 and 74, died after two months of illness at her niece’s home 1202 Columbia Street last evening at 8. Funeral plans are unsettled with burial planned in Waverly. Survived by three brothers Richard Walker Anoka Minn John Walker Portage City Wis Tom Walker California and two sisters Helen Owens Portage City Wis and another in South Dakota. Dr C M Wray left for Minneapolis for a medical association meeting.
The author urges quitting cosmetics to improve skin by using mercorized wax as a nightly application to reduce roughness, pores, and wrinkles. A week or two of treatment aims to bring a clear underskin to the surface with gradual, natural tint. A face bath with saxolite and witch hazel provides a quick astringent tonic effect.
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