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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1914
Page
10
Hundreds attended Mother's Day services as favorable weather drew crowds to Grace and First Methodist churches. Special music, readings, and sermons honored mothers with carnations worn by worshipers and floral tributes.
A Christian Science lecture by Col. Williams Fell of Leeds England will be given at First Methodist church Fourth and Randolph streets Friday May 15 at 8 o’clock Admission is free and no collection will be taken The lecture is under the auspices of the Christian Science church of this city
Dr. D. D. Davies was formally installed as pastor of East Park Presbyterian Church at a special afternoon service. The rite featured Rev. W. B. Sandford delivering the installation sermon, with scripture read by Rev. Frank Schroeder and prayers by Rev. Genung. Davies, ordained in 1887, has served varied churches and immigration and business roles before accepting this call.
Fred Faulkner of Winnibeg, St. be, became dizzy on the C. G. W. bridge at 4 30 Saturday afternoon and fell into the river. He struck his head and was knocked unconscious before a fisherman nearby rescued him. He complained of shoulder pains but refused help and was taken to a friend's home on Sycamore street.
Waterloo Motorboat club members meet at the clubhouse to finalize arrangements for a grand motorboat parade on the river Friday May 29. Ed Chapman has donated Chinese lanterns for decoration and fireworks and illumination plans are in progress. Cedona, the Manahl Brothers fast boat, may lead if kept slow enough for others to pace. Five more boats were launched last week amid ideal boating weather.
A group of local Progressive Leaders met yesterday in the office of W. Leon Belt at the Syndicate building with J. H. Wyllie of Sigourney, state party chairman. They discussed the local situation but released no publishable information. Wyllie left for Eldora and may return Friday night for another conference.
Notices prepared for members of the Retail Merchants Association remind them of a regular meeting to be held tomorrow evening in the Waterloo club rooms. Some important matters are to come up for consideration.
Funeral services for Melvin Vaughn were conducted at the family home 1826 Lafayette street at 2:30 this afternoon. Rev. F Q Brown of St Pauls MHL Church officiated. Interment followed at Fairview Cemetery.
Harry Morey of Waverly visited friends in the city yesterday. Several residents and visitors are named, with notes of travel and health. The item lists multiple social calls, small-town movements, and minor local business notes from Waterloo and surrounding areas.
Dr F Q Rrown spoke on On the Banks of the Ganges at Grace M church last evening. The lecture is part of a series of travel talks he has prepared, with strong demand as he plans to devote most of the coming summer to chautauqua lecture work, sharing observations from his world trip.
A brief note reports that a large number of curios were collected by an individual in India. He delivered a slimlar talk at the annual bank offering service held at St. Paul’s M. E. Church on Sunday morning.
Col Mayo, John C Calhoun Mayo, Democratic national committeeman from Kentucky, died this afternoon at the New York hotel where he had been staying since April. He had been brought for further treatment after a Cincinnati blood transfusion failed.
Hon H W Pattengill of Lansing former Michigan state superintendent delivered an address on The Greater Tomorrow last evening at the First M E church before a large audience.
A New York Globe excerpt presents Professor Swigga asking if there are sweeter words than I love you. A pessimistic observer counters that some authorities credit there’s money owed to you as a prime sentence.
An advertisement urges women workers to use Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound to restore health and ease labor. It touts forty years of recognized efficacy in women’s diseases and calls on readers to try it.
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