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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1912
Page
4
Dr Loren B Doxey born in Washburn and raised in Black Hawk county died in the Tennessee river yesterday. Authorities consider it either accidental drowning or a possible intentional end to life. He graduated from West High and Waterloo was among his ties.
After medical training in high school and college, Dr Doxey practiced in Hennessy lawn and Washburn before moving to Nebraska several years ago. There his wife was arrested in connection with the death of William J. Elder. The deceased was about 48 years old. It is unclear whether the body will be returned for burial. The report of Dr Doxeys passing follows.
Patch from St Louis dated June 19 reports Dr Laren B Doxe wife Dora Doxey acquitted in St Louis of murder of William J Erder. Doxe y body recovered in Tennessee river at Clifton Tenn after missing hours. Suspected suicide due to failed medical practice at Savannah Tenn. Doxey had been under trial for murder related to Erder with arsenic evidence.
The well known photographer Willard Spurr and Miss Anna Sander of the Sander Sisters millinery were quietly married Tuesday evening at the groom's mother's home in Vinton. The couple returned to Waterloo by auto and kept the news secret until late today. Spurr has been in Waterloo business seven years and Mrs Spurr five.
Judge Hiram C Flack of West Liberty cites Cashel voters as an example of widespread vote selling. He notes reform sermons shifted the market from two to four dollars per vote, implying eternal perdition awaits those who sell. The Rehoboth Sunday Herald quotes the remarks.
A Montpelier hospital treated a drunken man believed to be a cholera suspect. After a night of observation he left cured, then returned demanding care or risk of vagabond charges as his house was quarantined by four fen carmes for seven days.
An old soldier laments the world after four Union years. He recounts sixteen battles including Antietam Gettysburg Fredericksburg and the Wilderness. He describes wounds illness and hunger endured from Andersonville to bitter marches and misfiled discharge papers from private to corporal.
On Sunday June 28 the National Anti Cigarette Day will be observed by the Waterloo Sunday School union with Miss Lucy Page Gaston of Chicago as speaker at 3 p.m. at the MCA. Mothers and teachers are urged to attend and a 7:30 p.m. program for boys at the YMCA will feature speakers and stereopticon slides. The league seeks five thousand members and a coupon appears on page 3.
Chicago reports William Jennings Bryan, in town for the Republican National Convention, refused to comment on the Democratic convention's temporary chairman. He urged “One convention at a time please,” saying he was too occupied with the Republican event and would discuss the Democratic matter after adjournment.
With 6000 people to watch, the Carnival Queen will be crowned tomorrow at 10 pm after the final ballot boxes are collected at noon. Contestants include Jessie Wolfe Joyce Pyle Raymond Egan Stewart Mercurio Longman with votes listed on carnival bulletins. A theater note invites patrons to see Every Husband's Opportunity at the Lyric tonight.
Yesterday’s high reached 70 with today’s low at 70. An earlier hot spell began last year and lasted until July 4. Mrs. W H George and her son William from Montreal are visiting Mr. and Mrs. S I Carpenter at 100 Wellington Street for several weeks. Don’t miss Tonight’s performance of Every Husband’s Opportunity at the Lyric.
Cedar Falls IA June 20 Special J C Aldrich aged 93 died at Des Moines yesterday while visiting his son Harry and family He had been ill most of the winter The body will be brought to Cedar Falls at 930 tonight funeral Monday 120 from the Methodist church He lived in Cedar Falls fifteen years ago and earlier on a Butler County farm He had a son Perry and a daughter Mrs Foy in Sioux City Judicial Tolerton area noted in reference to the family.
A double wedding took place in Waterloo Tuesday with Rev. W. F. Spry of the First M. E. Church uniting George E. Frederick and Beulah G. Gladwin, and Earl Cole with Mary L. Gladwin. All are from Strawberry Point. The brides are sisters. The couples honeymooned in Waterloo and will live on farms near Strawberry Point after returning home.
Courier patterns offer four sizes for child rompers 2 4 6 8 years with 2 12 yards of 36 inch material for the 6 year size. Submit coupon and 10 cents per pattern to the Waterloo Evening Courier Fashion Department. orders ship within ten days after sending.
Ledeson endures two weeks of feminine company before a new intrusion at the golf club. Cousin Stella, naive and cheerful, bursts onto the scene and shocks him with a prodigious golf shot that fuels his growing resolve to tutor her all afternoon, despite his wish for solitude.
Harpers Weekly notes that Hiaca plants placed in tightly closed cages near ether and kept in a warm hot-house enter torpor after thirty six hours. By the fifteenth day they may show abnormal development, though roses resist. Carnations and hyacinths fare poorly under the intoxication risk.
Joe Raymond, veteran Waterloo furniture dealer, will own and run a new furniture store in the Fowler block at Lafayette and Fifth streets. The shop, in the newly completed room adjoining Stroebel Music House, is due to open around August 1 as Raymond departs for markets to buy stock.
A terse dialogue recalls a tense street moment as a mother warns Norah to keep her child from fighting a German boy on their block. The exchange hints at lingering wartime tensions and protective instincts in a close-knit community.
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