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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1928
Page
6
Des Moines reports the Iowa weather and crop bulletin shows corn planting advanced well last week through May 15. Southern Iowa finished or near finished, northern counties up to 90 percent planted, while oats and pastures suffer from moisture shortage. winter wheat and barley outlook deemed unsatisfactory.
Gentle showers drenched Iowa last night in what the Weather Bureau termed a million-dollar rain. Warm, dry spell earlier favored corm planting while potatoes strawberries and tender garden crops saw some damage from a May 12 freeze. Apples bloom across much of the state as tree fruits escape adverse weather. benefits reported in southern areas with more rain forecast for the northwest in the next 24 hours.
Faribault Minn May 16 a jury awarded J E Manning of Oelwein Ia 35000 damages for injuries suffered as an engineer in a collision while employed by the Great Northern railway The case was tried in Faribault with the verdict favoring Manning The local item notes a separate 4 H club program in Shell Rock with admission priced by foot length.
Lydia Trunnell, wife of Donald Trunnell, wed January 1, 1927 in Seattle, refuses to reside in Waterloo. Judge G. W. Wood grants Donald a divorce after service in St Louis. Trunnell planned a Waterloo home, but Lydia would not move. Also report: Kenneth H. Har of Marshalltown elected captain of Ames Scabbard and Blade. H. T. Graves named first lieutenant, Stephen McDonough second lieutenant, Percy Johnson first sergeant.
The Waterloo Cedar Falls and Northern Railway announces a fifty to sixty day rearrangement of interurban service between Waterloo and Cedar Falls. Starting May 16, buses will replace the Waterloo to Fosselman Siding rail leg and connect with interurban cars to Cedar Falls. Bus departures from the Waterloo Post Office corner are 6:10, 7:10, 8:10, 9:10 a.m. and 3:10, 4:10, 5:10, 6:10 p.m. No combined bus-rail service between 9:10 a.m. and 3:10 p.m. Rail interurban departures from Cedar Falls are 6:15, 8:15, and 8:14 a.m. and 3:15, 4:15, 5:15, 6:15 p.m. Some deviations from prior schedules noted. All rail to Waterloo and Cedar Falls service replaced by combined rail and bus on the described route. motor coach schedules remain unchanged.
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