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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1913
Page
6
Waterloo west schools launch a campaign against the house fly with students urged to keep premises clean and garbage cans monitored. Superintendent Anson T. Hukill distributed rules to all students, emphasizing sanitation and removal of breeding sites.
Cedar Falls marked 81st birthday of Grandma McGowan with 25 visiting ladies at Mrs. W. H. Burk's home. She has lived in Cedar Falls fifty years as the town grew from village to city amid many friends and well wishes.
Advertisement notes a Western play titled The Moonshiners' Last Stand in Crystal Today. Supt. C W Kline met alumni to discuss a June 6 banquet, but officers were out of town, delaying plans. A hardwood flooring closeout from Iowa Lumber Co. is advertised.
Mrs. D. C. Carpenter died at her Cedar Falls home from a bowel illness after a Sunday onset. Born March 23 1883 in Maine she married D C Carpenter and moved to Cedar Falls in 1854. Surviving daughters include Mrs Joseph Jennings and Mrs Wm Fowler with several grandchildren and four local siblings, funeral plans pending.
The May fete at the Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls featured a grand parade from Twenty Second to Washington Streets and back on Main. Floats showcased May Queen, college clubs, and departments in artistic paper flower embellishments. The event included a campus cafetella lunch to fund the Memorial Gate, the crowning of May Queen Blanche Walters, and a maypole dance praised by President Seerley. Afternoon ball game and evening band concert capped the day amid town sidewalk ordinances. Mr and Mrs Arthur Nasson noted at 126 West Twelfth Street.
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