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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1913
Page
10
Cedar Falls May 1 7 Special feature of commencement week introduces alumni day at the college inviting graduates to revisit Alma Mater. Literary societies plan entertainments and a senior dinner stunt by alumni and seniors. President Seerley grants more special days as the college grows.
Frank Hazlett, born in Cedar Falls around 1860, died Thursday afternoon at his Salt Lake City home from paralysis. He leaves a widow, two children, a brother Charles Hazlett of Cedar Falls, another brother Lou Hazlett of New York, and sister Carrie in Baltimore. The Cedar Falls paper notes local deaths, sales of land, and community moves including a Scotch American society effort and local social updates.
Minors Central yards workers overheard a puzzling talk by two Wanderings Williams, interpreted by Waterloo police chief as a warning to tramps. The slang hints at avoiding work, begging, and lodging in churches, with emphasis on staying outdoors until old age.
Springfield May 17 plans for organizing the insurgent Modern Woodmen of America were perfected at yesterday's convention. One member from each state will be elected to a national federation with officers a president vice president secretary and treasurer and a board of directors. The convention demanded restoration of representative government in the order removal of head officers investigation of financial transactions and the Colorado sanitarium plus bylaws limiting terms to two years and a referendum on rate changes. It also called for repeal of the Mobile law in states where applicable and recovery of all money.
A statement calls for disbursements halting special dispensations, strict economic measures, reorganization of the deputy system to bar deputies from serving as delegates in county city state or head camps, dismissal of all useless employees, and a complete bylaws revision.
William Anthony McGuire author of The Divorce Question stages The Pool Room a six actor drama about crime and moral warning. A three day vaudeville bill opens Monday featuring Burt Dalno Troupe Kaufmann Hager and Sullivan Carita Day. First Presbyterian rummage sale at the church Wednesday May 21.
Wortham and Allen present Callis Cabaret with Charles A Farmer in the lead supported by Jack Dalworthy and the Paris Belles. The show features Pollits Coney Island Slide Shows and a Playa Theatre chorus, aimed at women and children, with one admission price for all. Whittaker's Motordrome offers daring rides as part of the carnival lineup.
Washington May 17 1911 bulletin from the bureau of the census shows black cooperage stock production by 1,183 mills totalled 1 328 968 000 staves 106 407 000 heading sets and 352 215 000 hoops down from 1910 levels. Headling and hoops rose 9.7 and 19.4 percent while staves fell 9 percent. Slack cooperage covers materials for non liquid barrels.
Mt. Auburn Illinois May 17 Mayor B P Windsor was shot in the stomach and dislocated shoulder in a fight at the C H and OD railroad depot with F B Slate editor of the Mount Auburn Tribune. Slate was arrested on assault with intent to murder charges.
The Ladies' guild at Christ Church hosted a three course dinner for forty choir members in the church basement. Cedar Falls friends attended and mutual city choir ties were praised. Mrs. Matt Parrott thanked the congregation for supporting the choir and rehearsals, noting the choir's improvement and future support plans.
John Staffa of Minot shoots through an end of a barrel to kill his wife who hid inside after a quarrel. The woman moved the barrel away to conceal herself and crawl head first inside. Ottalalla averted a lynching after a mob formed. Staffa surrendered to authorities.
In Atlanta on May 17 a 300 member African American choir performed old antebellum pieces at Pat Presbyterian Pantacost union services. After last night’s psalm, a special program was planned for tonight featuring these melodies and spirituals.
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