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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1912
Page
8
Roy A Jarnagin, editor of the Cedar Falls Daily News, is listed in a corrections notice. The item notes an amendment to a previously published report involving staff changes and office duties. No further details are provided in the fragment.
Cedar Falls Iowa March 26 special The Commercial club plans features to boost prestige. Delegates to the WY MIA state convention will receive badges with a Verdial greeting from Cedar Falls. A dinner for ministers and a note on religious work by Site Teachers College are also listed.
Cedar Falls readers learn of J M Thrall recovering after a five month typhoid siege in Dubuque hospital and his upcoming home return. The column notes the death and planned burial of Mrs J P Deyoe in Sioux Falls and a Winnebago Indian visitor named Joe Walk-on-the-Ice in Cedar Falls. Also mentioned is John Bentz and wife seeking admission to Marshalltown Friends Home and the birth of Forrest Wilson and Mrs Wilson's son.
Milton Fairchild of the National Institution for Moral Instruction lectured in the college auditorium to a fair sized audience. President and Mrs Seerley hosted the annual faculty reception with about 400 in attendance.
A Georgia woman reports rapid relief from indigestion and heart palpitations after using Grape-Nuts and Postum. She says her stomach and heart troubles disappeared, her mind cleared, and she gained flesh and strength, crediting the products and a testimonial from Postum Co. with Battle Creek Michigan.
Waterloo voters yesterday chose RC Thompson to move from auditor to mayor, praising his deep city knowledge and promising a clean economical administration. Other races elect L L McDermott city treasurer, RC DeGon city auditor, Charles A Roby city engineer, F J Wacker park commissioner, J Arthur Young river front commissioner, Kaseht named city assessor, and Nicholas Webber councilman at large.
The Courier advertises up to date pattern coupons by mail with ten cent price per pattern and ten day delivery. It notes Waterloo business figures like Mr. Nurner in shoe interests and Mr. Burk joining city council from the Fourth ward, linking manufacturing to local governance. James T. Kenyon elected city solicitor discusses his legal background and ties to the Galloway-Gibson Investment Company.
Wide reading and civic ideals mark the elections. T R McElhinney takes the First ward seat after years in business, while J P Burtner wins the Third ward post. R M Dewey, age 68, secures re election and remains a leading council figure. Dewey and McElhinney are Republicans. Dewey serves as dean of the council with long service to Waterloo residents.
W H Eason a former Waterloo resident now living on an Oklahoma ranch near Winfield Kansas writes to the Courier asking to be remembered to all old Iowa friends. He and his family are in good health and the region anticipates a good crop this season despite a notably cold winter.
A good crowd attended the seventh monthly recital at the Water Jan Conservatory of Music. The program featured high character music from the vocal standpoint and piano pieces by Jas ... Geis.
The new ordinance fixes yearly pay for city officers effective April 1, 1912. Mayor, city solicitor, city engineer, police judge, city auditor, city treasurer, East side street commissioner, East side superintendent of sewer construction, West side street commissioner, West side superintendent of sewer construction, thief of police, and councilmen receive specified salaries, with several figures listed. A separate social event featured performances by Myrtle Valentine, Gladys Bennett, Esther Nuss, Maxwell Case, and Maybeth Mack.
Relatives announce that Jerry Holdiman will arrive Wednesday night to attend his mother Hannah Hafta Holdiman’s funeral. Services are set for 2:00 PM at the family home and 2:30 PM at Emanuel Evangelical Church with Rev. J. H. Bauernfeind officiating. Pallbearers include Warren Brown W F Parrott Andrew Striegel Daniel H Brown Henry J Wickelberg and Wm C Hickelberg.
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