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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1911
Page
4
Ottumwa reader reports relief from female troubles after using Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Advertisement claims the tonic strengthens the female system and urges women to seek Mrs. Pinkham’s free confidential advice from Lynn, Massachusetts.
Mrs Richards delivered a strong annual address at the Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs biennial meeting in Sioux City with 800 delegates present. Highlights include welcomes by local officials, a concert by the Minneapolis Symphony, discussions on scholarship funds, district loan plans, and concerns about cheap amusements affecting youth. The report notes long evening sessions, ceremonies, and civic initiatives across Iowa communities.
Clarksville May 16. Residents and visitors travel for business and family. Names include Walrath Witt Scharpff Page Rev Ross and wife to Bristow, Rhoads and daughter Nellie at New Hartford, Mrs Meads with daughter at Graham, Mr and Mrs Phillips with Wil Buchholz at Greene, Clark home from Cedar Rapids, and others visiting Waterloo Allison Clermont Oelwein West Union Bristow and Bristow schools. Births include a baby boy May 13 to Lahman Bouton and Bouton families.
Wye plans a month with relatives. then travels by auto to Max North Dakota with a cousin. Mrs. Rayer stopped between trains Tuesday en route from Bristow to Greene, where her son’s wife is ill.
Emma Johnson of Dorchester Neb arrived for a few weeks with Geneseo friends. Mrs R C McElhinney was in Cedar Rapids this week with her mother after an operation. Rev and Mrs T M Evans visited R J Meeker’s. Miss Gladva Fitzgerald visited friends near Voorhies. The Geneseo and Clark township Sunday school convention meets next Sunday at the German Evangelical church in Dysart with services morning and afternoon. Rev Rodgers of La Porte preached in Geneseo Sunday morning and assisted Rev Scheckler with communion.
The Thomas Orchestra of Chicago will give its first Cedar Falls concert in the college auditorium this evening followed by performances tomorrow afternoon and evening. The program features a distinguished soloist lineup and a 150 voice chorus, drawing strong support from Waterloo and Cedar Falls music patrons in a yearly, mutual exchange that benefits both communities. J. H. Luscomb returns from Sioux Falls after a brief stint as night clerk, planning work with C. L. Kingsley surveying Kingbard Hill.
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