Body Found in Pond In Tragic Local Death
Velma Leone Gregson sister Nellie survive with mother Mable Gregson. born Kimball South Dakota November 15 1948. She wandered from 551 Wellington street around 2 pm and drowned in a backwater of Black Hawk Creek. Body taken to Hileman Gindt mortuary and burial planned in Kimball.
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Velma Leone Gregson
Black Hawk Creek
Homie
Wellington Street
Velma
Mable Gregson
Kimball
Nellie
Curtain lowers on draft boards nationwide
A national curtain falls on draft board activities as district and local boards close. The Des Moines area reports show 241 000 registered with 8 759 inducted locally. Waterloo inducted about 70 000 at $4.05 per man. Delaware lists the highest cost at $10.94 per registrant.
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Myra Lumry
District Board
Louis
Burk
Unis
P.L
Billings
Iown
n-Dées Moines
Waterloo
Iowa
Florida
Oklahoma
Delaware
Lore Alford
Dollar banquet for traffic men echoes old days
Waterloo Commercial club invites express and freight shippers to a good old fashioned dollar banquet at Hotel Ellis Hat on April 2 stage. A. J. Knapp is secretary for reservations. Meeting aims to discuss traffic troubles and seek cooperative improvement for shippers in 1910.
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Ellis Hat
The
Waterloo Commercial Club
A. J. Knapp
Cedar Falls School Board to Raise Teacher Salaries
Cedar Falls March 31 The school board plans to raise teacher salaries by about 10 dollars per month next year, risking a tax increase of 4000 to 6000 dollars. New members Bailey and Latta are expected to join committees and oversee finance and textbooks.
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Cedar Falls
Samuel O. Bailey
John
Latta
Leclair Martin
Joseph B. Clay
J. Latta
Bailey
Stephenson
Cail
Iowa
State Teachers’ College
Arene
Samuel J. Neviin
LeMars
Eerenly
M. G. “Clark
Sioux Aly
Evangelical ministers leave for conference and local notices
A Cedar Falls city report notes Evangelical ministers J A Huehlen Edward Nolte Scheurer A L Houser George Knoche and W C Lang depart for the annual conference with William C Nuhn as Zion church layman. Also announced are veterans returning from overseas and at least one pastor’s move to Hampton. The Commercial Club starts a membership drive aiming for 200 new members and a noonday talk by Dr M K W Heicher on Argonne experiences.
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Eerie
Forl Radcliffe
J. A. Huehlen
Edward Nolte
Scheurer
A. L. Houser
George Knoche
W. Co. Lang
William C. Nuhn
Zion Church
Jacob Hachlen
Cedar Falls
Garden spots of world in Cedar Falls and Black Hawk townships
Assessors report Cedar Falls township leads county in milch cows and cattle, with 1,935 cows and 4,425 cattle total. It lists crops including 293,041 bushels of corn and 206,946 of oats, 81 silos, 8,314 tons ensilage, and 5 tractors. Black Hawk township is lauded as a garden spot with crops of 249,781 bushels corn and 197,940 oats, 18,941 farm acres, 72,268 dozen eggs, and 76 silos, eight tractors, and various livestock totals.
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Cadar Falls Township
Cedar Falls
Black Hawk
Black Hawk Township
Sims Receives Rousing Sendoff in London Farewell
Vice Admiral William Sims, who led American naval forces in the war zone, was given a ceremonial sendoff at London naval headquarters. He announced he would sail from Southampton for the United States aboard the Mauretania that evening.
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Pritise
Sims
Associated Press
London
Naval Headquarters
Simes
Southampton
United States
Mauretania
Home Demonstration Directors Open Year in Waterloo Meeting
The home demonstration board of Black Tank county met in Waterloo with Mrs. W. F. Parrott presiding. Township directors reported on social ventures and school districts while new directors were appointed to ensure township representation at future gatherings.
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Home Demonstration Board
Black Tank County
Waterloo
W. F. Parrott
Thitiran
Cedar Falls
la Porte City
Dunkerton
Hudson
Clara M. Sutter
International Harvester Company
Victory Loan Rotary
J. K. Ridevour
Annette Tial Casapa
Miss Sutter
Rotary club discusses improving attendance at Hotel Russell
Members met at Hotel Russell Lamson for the regular session. A Gates led a blunt business talk on boosting attendance with a goal of 100 percent. Leach also spoke on methods to increase turnout and sustain club vitality.
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Rotary Club
Russell-Lamson
Noom
Gates
Ag Leach
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Waterloo Evening Courier
Courier
Tiffany
Mioresco
Warwick
Black
George. H. Twaddle
Coser Falls
Waterloo Evening Courier and
Daily Reporter
West Fourth Street
Lox
Chicago
City
James Bergstrom
James Pierce
Corporation
West First Street
General Assembly
Ded Moines
TeLaealine
Sonm
Walter Metcalf
First Congregational Church
Hampton
Herbert McDougal
Commercial Club
Greene
Shell Rock
Lou Shepperd
West Twenty-third Street
Bhick Hawk
East High
Golden Rule Gift Shop
East Fourth Street
Daul Davis As
Dry Goo
Coats
Dolmans
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