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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1922
Page
6
Waterloo Courier advertises numerous wanted positions and secondhand items across Waterloo. Listings include sales, machinists, housework, cooks, bookkeepers, real estate, auctions, and used autos with prices, contact details, and locations scattered through Waterloo and surrounding areas.
Notice announces a stockholders meeting at the Waterloo Iowa office on Sunday May 128. Attendees will number 14 for voting on amendments to the articles. Amended provisions rename the company Cole Bros. Electric Company and set capital stock at 50 000 dollars divided into 500 shares of 100 dollars each. Secretary of State certificate confirms authorization. Harry F Core, President.
An advertisement from Austin T. Lewis promoting Gold Transfer and Storage and other storage companies. It highlights moving and freight services for household goods, furniture, and autos, with nationwide destinations, reduced freight rates, and motor truck service. The notice invites estimates and notes services in Northfield Minnesota and surrounding areas.
Five year old Marcus Whipple son of Macry Whipple was knocked down while playing with a coaster wagon. An automobile driven slowly by Charles Fowler passed over him but he sustained only bruises. Local notices report residents and events including legal notices, a boxing match, and a county official expense filing.
The item compiles local happenings from Tripoli Iowa including multiple tonsil surgeries for Bennett siblings and Edvard Bennett, a newborn son of Meo and Dr. Henry Schmidt, a Des Moines return visit by Mrs G W Hawkins and son Gerald after weeks away, numerous visits and trips among residents, a tuberculosis patient Mrs Win Strackmeter to Fort Dodge for treatment, the deaths of Mrs EW Pettie and others, and a 1922 wedding ceremony in Denver with family present.
Ura engaged in restaurant business details list Aletus McCaskey Leroy township and others. Miss Jen Schenide wed John Berlin Jr at St Veter Evangelical Church with Rev B Stech presiding. About 160 guests attended a reception at the bride’s parents’ home. The couple to reside on a farm east of the city. Also notes on Tripoli High School alumni banquet at the opera house with 1922 graduates, elections of officers, and a three course banquet.
Nashua Iowa items report L L Crawford leaving for Economowoe Wisconsin to visit sister Mrs Sarah Padterson and daughter Mrs Rose W Carter a pioneer settler, who moved to Charles City in March with her daughter Mrs Harry Stis sonnette is ill. Also Mr and Mrs Jack Conduin Des Moines guest at Nashua home of her parents Mr and Mrs D J Sheilds with Mrs Eugene Ogbin Plainfield visiting Nashua relatives.
Plainfield and Waterloo residents share visits and moves. Families such as the Thompsons, Orcutt, Krieger, and Senter are noted in gatherings in Wa terlongf and Nashua. Mrs. Eva Walker travels to Russell Minn to care for a grandson ill with flu and rain fever, then to Minneapolis for hospital care. Several families relocate or visit relatives, including Mr and Mrs Beechare moving to Winthrop and Mr Watts moving to Soar Rapids for a bank job.
Readlyn June 2 The Headiyn choir from Mana church attended Oscay Poll house Monday evening. Straw berry short cake and whipped cream were served by Mrs Werner Grissi and other women. Mr Fred Mauser and family from Ames are home for vacation. Rrek Rapids visited Rome.
A jumble of social events, visits, birthdays, and travel from the region. Mrs Flor ence urns hosted classmates for an eleventh birthday. Leila Niemaier visited Pred Judas in Andrew Indiana. Mr and Mrs Harold Grayhill welcomed a son born June 8. Willam Belarey and Viola Miellag spent a Sumner visit. Luther League attendees traveled to Mason City for a church event and sermon. Henry Dittmer accepted a position at Clupax creamery. a crowd watched a Waverly vs Sumner ball game 12 to 4. Grandma Oltrogge honored at relatives gathering. Henry Bockholt and Ledix Mosiler soon to wed at Alon church.
Denver Wisconsin notes eight weeks with relatives in Baraboo. Otto Bushrer and family vacation plans. Foreman John Soxs resigns. W. Meser to succeed. Local fishing trips, ball games, and social gatherings reported. Special election for new city hall set for June 30 with cost not to exceed 137000. Obituary and accident notes accompany community updates.
Mitchell notes a visit from Mo J Reynolds and daughter to Brownville and a recovery update for Mrs Reynolds. Mrs Voight travels to Hampton to see her sister in law as another visitor group arrives in Ripley and Green, Wisconsin.
Cedar Falls slated for July 20 vote on issuing bonds not to exceed 140000 for a new schoolhouse. Special section notes include a planned seven day Chautauqua, with the last evening likely Cedar Falls’ final such event for some time. Citizens face varied local items from motor thefts to staff changes at Cedar Falls High School.
Funeral services for Joseph Martin, born Oshkosh Wisconsin February 14 1873, who died Sunday at his home in Vinon were conducted Monday at 2:39 a m at his La Porte City residence with Rev T E Sherman of the Presbyterian church presiding. He is buried in Vin ton cemetery beside his wife Harriet Peart. Surviving are four children three daughters and a son Mrs Milo McBride and Miss Martin of La Porte City and two younger children, plus one grandchild and his widow./Mourners from out of town included Miss Alice Peart ter and Miss Sadie Peart, and Mrs Joe McBride. The article notes his early life and move from Wisconsin to Mendota and later to La Porte City.
Mrs 3 G Larson from Minnesota visited her mother in Minneapolis area with Chautauqua events spanning Sunday to Monday. Sunday guests at F I Cady home included Miss Lottie Zenamek and M A Probert others from Waterloo Kandee. Obituary reports Mrs Bronson, Mrs Card, and Miss Bertha Cordes undergoing surgery in Milwaukee. health updates and relatives noted.
Marble Rock Iowa items report Henry Lane selling drug store stock and jewelry, Joy Idnel Clay moving to Duluth to take possession, family visits over the weekend, Ruth Woods returning from Horton, Mrs Parks and Charles Smith wed at Algona, other local visits and a church convention in Nashua mentioned.
Sumner residents report a Monday business trip to Waterloo by C W Pennington and W M Farnum. A Sunday ball game favored Sumner over Tri. A large family reunion was held at M J Messerer’s home with several families attending. Miss Ethel Schuknecht and Miss Luthmer are back from Lew University. Robert Lauterbach of St Paul visited Sunday. Verla Farrand and Marion Colgrove married in Los Angeles. Mrs Lillian Banzer of St Paul visited with her son’s family. Mrs Henry Schult underwent an operation last week. Dr Theron Pease and his wife plan a vacation with mothers in town. Gladys and Lillian Schott from Waterloo visit relatives here. Arden Young left for a vacation trip to California. Mrs A D Allen Libby Allen and Mrs George Hammnetes Jr spent Thursday with Mrs O B Littsen. Floyd Allen of Waterloo visited with his wife at Mrs Wred Moenht’s home on Sunday.
Real estate transfers list shows multiple deeds in Black Hawk County. Frank F. Knanp transfers to Merbert Pett a portion of lot 6h Whitney plate. Several parcels pass between Waterloo Bank & Trust Co. and Cedar Falls or Cedar Falls area entities. Names include John J. Jones trustees and Anna O Connor among others, with several lot and plat descriptors.
In St Ansgar June 24 Tiette Gaiman dived Friday during a visit at a Fort Dodge brower's home. Rev. Wook Buel transported his mother's body to a New York home. Prof. Van Doren arrived from Iowa City and will lead the summer band. Mrs. Frank Canea underwent an operation at Presbyterian Hospital Wateros for an unspecified condition. Rey M. R. Waldeland and K. O. Hendrickson visited Minneapolis for the East Secorch convention. Miss Alina Brandt, trained nurse at Hamnton hospital, is done.
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