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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1926
Page
12
County Treasurer Sd. Madigan ordered 500 additional automobile license plates for Black Hawk county 1926 registration. Only 905 sets remained unsold from the original 14,300. No. 13,396 was issued yesterday.
Des Moines May 13 On the pinds thet Verda Nederhiser of Linn county used due caution when crossing Rock Island tracks at Dy Indiana and was struck by a passenger train July 24 1933. Iowa supreme court sustained a Linn county jury award of 5000 against the railroad. Evidence showed she skirted a freight locomotive on the siding and lacked whistle or bells to warn of the oncoming train. Justice DeGraff held the plaintiff had right to presume trainmen would signal and jurors could find warnings were not given. The victim spent three weeks at St. Charles hospital at Odor Rapids before returning home. toes and fingers permanently injured.
Three Cedar Falls men Roy Benham Dick Johnson and Hinar Madsen were arrested near Cedar Falls on Red Ball road for illegal transportation intoxication and possession. They were to be arraigned at 4 p m before Justice Murray. arrest occurred about a mile north of Jetsquille. All residents of Cedar Falls.
Memorial Day committees from the G A R Spanish War veterans and American Legion posts and auxiliaries will meet in Memorial hall at 7:30 p.m. today to finalize plans for the Memorial Day observance. Byron Leighton, senior vice commander of Hubert Anderson post, G A R, serves as general chairman and urges a large attendance.
Police notes report Ida Maskins and two other defendants charged with operating a disorderly house in municipal court and set to be tried tomorrow at 9 am. The Waterloo liquor party case against Edward Crawford and Rose Jalingon is likely to be dropped, with Crawford out on bail. Two Waterloo youths, John Stohn and Walter Tonp Kin, were arrested in Omaha and charged with car theft. Butler County deputies moved Allison suspects Charles Mitchell and William Bangus to face larceny charges for leaving work without reporting.
Judge G W Wead designates claim classifications for Waterloo Bank & Trust Co receivership. Preferred claims totaling $1 720 89 go to Frank P Peterson and family. another preferred claim of $1 072 66 is allocated to W L Garvin and wife, Mary Woodring, Peter Woodring, and Alex Woodring with related parties.
The record lists multiple preferred and general deposit claims including G. E. Farnsworth with 799.10, GF. McCleery 475.16, E. M. Taylor 148.86, G. I. McCleery on a cashier's check for 250, Inland Supply Co on a cashier's check for 903.27, and Jane and H. A. Crawford with 440.3, alongside a general depositor designation for McCleery.
McElhinney, age 76, of 714 Third Avenue West, will renew his annual civility with the fish at Lake Okoboji later this week. He secured hunting and fishing permits today from County Recorder Jennie Bird in preparation for his reunion with the finny tribe at the northwestern Iowa lake.
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