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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1924
Page
4
Waterloo Red Cross backs traveling first aid car on a two day visit to town with Sunday and Monday demonstrations. The vehicle tours the Illinois Central rail system visiting 42 cities and towns. It features a lecture room and onboard surgeons for demonstrations.
The Girls Glee Club of Coe College will perform at a 5 pm Westminster vesper service and repeat the program at 8 pm at First Presbyterian Church in the evening. The tour includes 12 northern towns. Noted for refined tone and precision, the ensemble features soloists, a reader, and whistler under Patty Risser with James W. Laurie as manager.
Needy veterans and their families will receive help through a bazar and bake sale run by the King Marson chapter of the Disabled American Veterans and a women’s unit. The sale opens Thursday at 223 Fourth West, former Yankee Bake Shop site, and runs to Saturday night. Funds come from the Forget-Me-Not drive whose balance is nearly exhausted. about 800 dollars was allocated with 200 still needed to cover winter needs. Clothing, coal, groceries and rent support are included. secondhand clothing will be sold. Call Mrs J O King at 4838-3 to donate items for pickup.
Rev. Harry O. Anderson urged at Walnut Street Baptist Church that Jesus made followers fishers of men not great preachers. He warned that 30 to 40 million Americans never attend church while stressing three church member types and a pew bound call to action. Tonight’s subject is Lions to Slay as the evangelist continues his tour.
Enrollment at East School District reached 3 993 this six weeks, up from 3 960 last year. Junior high led with 587 students, East High also 587, attendance averaged 95.34 overall with East High at 96.91 and Washington 96.85. tardiness totaled 573 cases, with Hast High 208 and John Fiske 13.
In Orange Township on March 19 Miss Sara Jane Hess won second place in Dike's dramatic declamation contest after eight contestants from local households and schools competed. Community notes report visitors from California, farm moves, new arrivals, and local society updates including a WCTU meeting planned for March 26 and other personal notices.
Wellsburg Ia March 19 J C Doren prominent merchant here for many years died at Ellsworth Hospital Iowa Falls Monday He was 70 years old Survivors include children George Marshalltown John Wellsburg Mrs Mach Chicago Mrs Reed West Bend Mrs Andrew Meyer Grundy Center Mrs Lawrence Hummel Watering and Fiorenca at home My wife died many years ago REO
Six home economics students of East Junior High compete in the national meat story contest run by the National Livestock and Meat Board in Chicago. Instructor Miss Alicia Rosenberger will select contestants in a few days. Prizes range from 100 to 10 dollars for top stories and meat recipes. Selected entrants will have their work published in books and distributed free to schools and homemakers.
We 23,000 men here are 23,000 of us building Studebaker cars. Most are partners, thousands are stockholders, and all receive dividends, vacations with pay, and after five years a 10 percent rise. The firm spends vast sums on cooperative work, and pensions await retirement. A $10 million body plant keeps the Studebaker standard with generations laboring to craft such bodies, finished with multiple coats of paint and varnish, including open bodies that are upholstered.
The legacy brand presents 13 models from 1025 to 2685 dollars, stressing in-house bodies and parts, 150000 annual production, Timken bearings, and extensive inspections. It highlights asset figures, plant scale, and cost savings driving superior quality and lower prices.
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