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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1929
Page
6
Fire destroyed the Illinois Central Depot at Parkersburg on Sunday. Mrs. L. J. Kirkland entertained about 40 friends Saturday evening.
Advertises Resinol Soap and Ointment as a thirty year standard treatment for blemishes pimples rashes and rough skin. Claims the ointment heals while the soap cleanses and refreshes and invites readers to order samples from Resinol Baltimore Maryland.
Fire Sunday afternoon destroyed the 1867 Illinois Central parkersburg depot. Roof flames spread from rubbish pile, disabling Telegraph and telephone service. A temporary depot car arrived from Waterloo, and IC officials planned a meeting with local businessmen to discuss a new depot.
Cedar Falls June 24 Ray Marr of Wisconsin and George Putnam a Cedar Falls pioneer renewed friendship after fifty years. Marr drove to Putnam’s home to spend the day and both recognized each other instantly despite half a century apart.
Funeral services for George M. Miller, 69, held at the L. S. Ostrander farm home in Mt. Vernon township with Rev. F. W. Smith presiding. Burial in Geneseo cemetery. Mrs. Eunice Smith, 91, died Thursday. services led by Dr. W. G. Rawley at Harry Brown chapel with interment at Greenwood. Other items note social events and picnics in Cedar Falls and surrounding areas.
A Presbyterian Missionary society meeting in La Porte City Iowa features a play titled Two Marsters directed by Mrs H D Kilne with cast including Mrs H S James Mrs A M Thompson Miss Dorothy Morgan Miss Hallie Henry Miss Sylvian Kober Miss Hackett and Mrs Lloyd Kober among others A vocal solo by Miss Kober a monolog by Miss Grace Lyle and a yora duet by Mrs F P Lehman and Mrs W G Rallheim are also listed. Also noted are Methodist events with W O W Little elected lay delegate and J B Walden as alternate to the upcoming annual conference in September. The congregation clapped after Sunday service. Miss Linda Hilmer of Allen Memorial hospital Cedar Falls will become night supervisor at Allen Memorial hospital July 1 currently visiting her parents.
H M Nichols of Osage has been awarded the contract to replace the Bee Hive building with a one story store front leased by the Scott chain for 10 years. Moon Construction Mason City and J J Wagner Austin Minn also bid. Nichols began clearing debris in the burned basement. Funeral services were held for Mrs Marie Heins, cousin of the Gardners, who died after an operation for appendicitis and a separate death from blood poisoning. Mrs Eric Sleman son, 80, of Rudd, funeral held at Rock Creek Lutheran Church. Al Grover hosts a 20th wedding anniversary dinner. Miss Winifred Duxberry travels to Minneapolis for a church youth conference.
The Ladies Aid Society of St John s Evangelical Church meets today at the home of Mrs Mary HeeHand. Henrietta Hilbrand hosts the Crescent club this evening. The Young People s Missionary Society of the First Presbyterian Church meets at Mrs Frank Moreland s home. Sunday schools of the First Evangelical and St John s churches hold annual meetings tomorrow at Blake s Grove and Island Grove.
Mrs. Melvin Denlinger was taken to Cedar Valley hospital with a badly lacerated hand after a car crash four miles west on the Rockford road. The Denlinger vehicle veered and rolled twice, top torn off, occupants bruised. Cause cited as a blown bike tire.
Fredericksburg reports Mrs William March and Mrs Harold Uthan hospitalized after a truck driven by Louis Balfley of Williamstown rear ended the car north of Williamstown. Mrs March suffered head lacerations while Mrs Uthan had leg cuts. The husbands and Kenneth Uthan were also injured.
Urbana June 24 Mr and Mrs Samuel Brody marked their sixty fifth wedding anniversary at home with a dinner and all day program attended by 75 relatives and friends. He was the county's first white child born, and most children joined in, though Clark Brody of Jackson Wyoming could not attend.
Forty-one relatives gathered at the Ackerman residence near Littleton for Ole Ackerman's birthday celebration. A picnic dinner was served as family members from Riceville and surrounding towns joined in the event.
A fragment ad describes Phillips Milk of Magnesia for feverish, colicky babies and upset children. It claims quick relief, suggests dosing by age, and promotes an information book from The Phillips Co, 117 Hudson St New York.
Grundy Center Iowa June 24 I N Shirk suffered a light stroke while driving with Mrs Shirk to Des Moines. He was taken to an Ames hospital, later improving. Grundy county supervisors tabulated votes in a 1 230 000 good roads bond issue. A young woman Miss Lauffler of Gladbrook was injured in a collision near here involving Ralph Chaves of Gladbrook and a car driven by Mr Ferguson of Reinbeck.
Axel Lange plans to move his barber shop haberdashery and soft drink parlor to a new location this week. Stella McDowell to relocate her stock to the McBride building this week. Both buildings have undergone extensive repairs. A series of entertainments will honor Miss Annette McMillan ahead of her upcoming marriage. Blue glassware and bridal showers scheduled for several residents with gatherings in Nashut and at local homes. Sunshine Country club postpones meetings until fall.
Rockford announces July 4 celebrations featuring a band concert an address by a prominent speaker music baseball game and other sports events along with a display of fireworks. Boldt and Meyer drug store changes hands as Brincken repurchases the store. Boldt relocates to Jesup with his family.
Funeral services were held Saturday in Vinton for William Crager former mayor of Garrison and long time justice of the peace. He died at his daughter Mrs Bert Lanes home from stomach cancer. Surviving daughters are Grace Crager Mrs Lane and Mrs Jack Lynch all of Vinton. Clarence Simpson 38 a lifelong Vinton resident died in a local hospital Saturday evening from ulcers of the stomach after falling ill that morning.
John Yerkes 88 died at home after 60 years in Benton County farming then living in Vinton. survived by two sons William and Elber. Barber niem Mr Simpson died, survived by widow and two sons, funeral at St Marys. Mrs Saurer hospitalized in Virginia Gay. condition serious. Elizabeth Williams and Mr entertain forty.
Traer Star-Clipper emerges as top weekly paper in Iowa state contest for news and editorial writing. Osage News places second in news. Hawkeye Beacon takes third in news while Toledo Chronicle earns second in editorials. Fifty news stories and seventy five editorials were judged by forty Iowa editors.
A Waterloo advertisement touts Konjola as a cure for stomach, kidney, bowel, rheumatic, neuritic, and nervous troubles. It cites Mr. J H Fuller of Oran near Waterloo praising relief from chronic knee swelling and amply asserts rapid, thorough results with Konjola sold at Wangler Bros. drug store on East Fourth Street in Waterloo.
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