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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1921
Page
14
The article discusses farming decisions on acreage, potential crop reductions, and the broader impact on U S foreign trade. It notes farmers face credit limits, bank tightening, and rent pressures while considering how tariffs and a revived export drive may aid recovery, with emphasis on European stability and Hoover era policy.
The piece promotes an English Gothic style house by Chas. Sedgwick, detailing an attractive two story frame home with living room, dining room, sun parlor, library, kitchen, four bedrooms and a dressing room. Exterior features include half timbering, stucco panels, stained oak trim and a slate roof. Estimated cost ranges from 7500 to 9500 dollars not including heating or plumbing.
Scout leadership training begins Monday at 7 30 P M at the Greater Waterloo association. Six meetings are scheduled each Monday at 7 30 P M at the association except the fourth and fifth sessions. The fourth is April 3 at 8 P M in East High gym with Dr F N Meade on scouting and health. The fifth is April 17 at 8 P M at the scout reservation near Elk Run with Prof Victor H Ries on eight great outdoors.
The last meeting will be in the Greater Waterloo association rooms April 25 at 7 30 p m Prof A O Fuller associate director ex tension division LS T C will talk on Scouting A Solution of Social Unrest in America Prof I H Hart director of the extension division I S T C will speak Monday night on Scouting An Opportunity for Community Service Dr George H Mount department of psychology I S T C will address the second meeting on Inspection of a Boy s Mental Workshop Prof Charles W Halsley principal of college high will speak at the third meeting on From Alley Gang to Eagle Scout The entire program is presented thru the collaboration of the extension division of the Teachers college and the Waterloo council of the Boy Scouts of America
Funeral notices for Sarah B Steinmayer aged 83 of Waterloo Decatur and Cedar Falls area list burial at Elm Wood with O Keefe Towne services, plus Sarah Downing Felkner of 203 Fisher building and Elias B Getty funeral at First Methodist Church.
In a forty years ago column the Courier recounts Webster City’s March 1881 snow blockade. No trains or mail for two to three weeks. J D Hunter, postmaster, hired Ralph A McCracken to haul letters from Ackley. McCracken was hailed as town’s most popular man on return.
Ivy Williams Jennings Bryan marks a birthday reflection dated March 19 1921 in Miami Florida. The aged statesman reviews four constitutional amendments adoption progress and highlights popular election of senators income tax prohibition and suffrage as pivotal reforms. He expresses optimism for democracy disarmament world peace and the nation moving forward with or without Democrats leading.
Associated Press report from Spokane outlines a plan to form the state of Lincoln comprising 100 North Idaho counties plus parts of Montana and Washington. Herman Taylor of Sand Point says a two year propaganda campaign will raise funds and rally support, with Spokane named as capital.
The pastor of the First Presbyterian church has been invited to open the Town senate with prayer next week. Dr. Macartney will be in Des Moines for a few days. Miss Katherine Bower Miller of Chicago arrives to be with her father Mrs. Amon F Gates who will undergo an operation at Presbyterian hospital Monday. Miss Miller recently engaged in advertising and has a studio in the Fine Arts building.
February saw a 9 percent drop in average family food costs from January per the bureau of labor statistics. All 44 items surveyed reported price decreases, though some exceptions occurred.
Columbia Pa March 19 the fire department was under arrest today charged with arson. Hight young men, volunteer fighters, confessed to state constabulary that they set at least one blaze in the Test two weeks ago. They aimed to impress Columbia girls as brave fighters and created fires to attract crowds. They started fires with oil then hurried to raise alarms while spectators cheered.
Frank H. Elliott, longtime foreman of the Overland-Hanson paint department, returns to city with family to start Eliott Auto Painting. The shop will operate in the Bradley building between Seventh and Hight streets east, after the company’s relocation to a new building on Fourth Street east. Elliott formerly lived in Detroit.
The report shows hens up to five tenths of one percent. Fresh exes down 29 percent, storage ores 35 percent, potatoes 13 percent, rice 12 percent, pork chops 9 percent, plate beef and sugar 7 percent, lamb butter lard and prunes 7 percent, round steak and fresh milk 6 percent, sirloin rib roast alcomargarine crisco onions 5 percent, nut margarine and corn meal 4 percent, bacon flour rotted oats navy beans cabbage baked beans coffee oranges 3 percent, bread canned corn peas tomatoes and bananas 2 percent, canned salmon evaporated milk wheels corn flakes macarons tea raisins 1 percent. All articles of food combined decreased 21 percent during the year.
The notice lists multiple farm tracts for sale in spring and summer auctions. Areas range from 93 to 240 acres, with prices mainly 225 dollars per acre and one 240 acre tract at 250 dollars per acre. It emphasizes good soil, fences, roads, and neighborly community.
Miss Margaret Maddigan left for Dubuque today on business and will return this evening. J. L. Burke of Minneapolis is visiting his sister Mrs. Edward F. Campagna at 104 1-2 Fourth street east. Miss Gertrude Holmes has filed her nurse's certificate for record with the county recorder. she graduated from Presbyterian synodical hospital last August. The report of warrants paid by the county treasurer for the week ending March 14 shows $1,687.22 paid out in six days to Dr. John Robertson Macartney.
Kingstown Jamaica March 19 Alastrim a contagious disease resembling a mild form of smallpox is spreading on the island. A total of 3066 cases has been reported, with the outbreak chiefly in rural parishes across the country.
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