Waterloo Observes St Patrick Day With Dances And Displays
Waterloo marks St Patrick Day with sham rock sales green ribbons and tuneful events. K of C hall hosted a St Patrick dance while Awkumon Kitb held another. Parochial schools closed Friday and east high planned a Lookout magazine tribute in green ink featuring Irish heritage and local student writers.
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Ireland
K. of C. Hall
Awkumon Kitb
St. Patrick
East High
West High
Richard Burt
Walter Graham
Herman Cohn
Marjorie Corey
Bnappy
Bruce Barton
Percival Quackenbush
Button Hook
Richard Burr
Grace Barr
Jamey Wiley
Lotta Bunk
Sacred Heart Honors St Patrick Tomorrow Program
Sacred Heart school pupils present a St Patrick themed program Sunday at 7 45 p m in the Sacred Heart auditorium featuring two plays fancy Irish dances and musical selections by the Emerald Isle orchestra The program includes Overture Grand March Medieval Irish Arts a play The Fleptomaniac cast members include Monica McKernan Mary Alice Hannon Raose Van Vliet and Irma Cotton plus a fancy Irish dance by Margaret Dougherty and several named performers</S>
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Sacred Heart School
Sacred Heart
Emerald Isle Orchestra
Overture
Grand 3iarc—School
Medleval Irish Arts
Anna Murphy
John Burton
Monica McKernan
Noe
Charles Dover
Mary ‘Alice
Hannon
Treston’ Ashley
Irma Cotton
Freda Dixon
aAnna Murphy
Evelyn Bryans
Raose van Vliet
Kate
Cest—Pa Jackson
Lauren Bellows
Jimmy Jackson
Marcus Arend
Jack Brown
Arthur Arend
Mattie Jackson
Vernetta Conry
Molly Holyrook
Ellen Trainor
Declaimers Named for Predistrict Meets at Fayette and New Hartford
Twenty one sub district declamatory contest winners will compete in two predistrict meets at Fayette and New Hartford on March 23. Winners advance to east Waterloo district meets with 13 declaimers total, including East High entrant. Contenders from Fayette and New Hartford cover three categories Oratorical Dramatic and Humorous with contestants from towns such as Vinton McGregor Fayette Anamosa Reinbeck Mason City Eldora Hubbard Cedar Falls Thornton Hansell and Lamont plus others.
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Fayette
New Hartford
Wy. Kline
East Schools
Northeastern
Iowa
East High
Waterloo
Postville
Dorothy Payne
Honorine Otley
Russell’ Pullen
McGregor
Clyde Moose
Vinton
Robert Pollard
West Waterloo
Russell Pullen
Helen Ruffier
Anamosa
Jean Sinclair
Marion
Mariel Snodgrass
Lamont
Mary - Dorothy Daly
Nona Hamlett
Edgement
Robert Burlingame
Eldora
Maurice Stapley
Harry Utzen
Thornton
Helen Bieber
Reinbeck
Iowa Pioneer Recalls Visit to California in 1861
John Gill of 314 Seventh Street East recounts his 1861 trip to California where land could be had for a Spanish horse and mule drawn cars ran without schedules. He recalls Frisco population of 19 000 and Pony Express era riders Buffalo Bill and Pony Bob.
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John Gill
Iowa
California
Seventh Street
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Mission
Frisco
Mr. Gill
Garden State
Buffalo Bills
Meil
Pony Express
Buffalo Bill
Robert H. Haslam
Mountaingunk Plaza
Sacramento
San Jose
Civil War Era Migration From Wisconsin to California Recounted
An elderly recounting describes early Civil War era travel from Kenosha to California via New York and the Wanama canal, noting rough Pacific coast conditions, varied wealth of travelers, and widespread land control by syndicates in southern California. The narrative covers family moves from Wisconsin to Cedar and Waterloo regions, prairie schooners, 19 day journeys, and hardships including thefts and occasional murders.
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California
Sacramento Valley
Kenosha
Wis
New York
Wanama Canal
San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Bethe
Civl Wa
West High Marksmen Telegraphed Meet
West high marksmen enter a telegraphic meet with a strong team from YW O I G reserve officers and Council Bluffs high school. Seven shooters will compete on the Coln red Water team with only top scores qualified. Each man will fire 29 shots 10 prean o and 10 sittin. Scores will be telegraphed to Wraterigo.
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West High
YW. O. 1
Blur
Mityehod
Colnred Wate
Preano
Sittin
Wraterigo
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Erin
Burton M. Gotshail
Leavitt & Johnson Bank
Rhones
Liffring
Buffalo
Bill Champion
Paul Davis Taal Pee
O. D
Oair
Belding
Watera
Dept.—Courier
No-Vo-Caine
Gill
Wis- Leehsin
Matt Mier
Gull
Prairie Schooner
Cad
Owo
Bya Wryls
Marrigdk
Chiedls
Brad Strubel
Chris Aves
Fourth Street
Fred
Cedar
McQuirkin
Black Hawk National Bank
CL Beres
Herman C. Miller
West Fifth Street
Insurance Service
Russell-Lamson Hotel
Madam Beck
Park Avenue West
Lowe
Dyrnes Park
Sullivan
Park Avenue
Chicago
Oder
Waterloo and Vicinity
the Medical Life Insurance Company OF America
Waterloo, Lowa
Reed’s Transfer CO
ApAvan
Park Ave
Jefferson
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