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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1915
Page
9
Assessments were raised for many property owners after city council finished equalizing late last week. Tonight the board of review will hear protests. after its final session the assessments cannot be altered. Controversy centers on Waterlond valuation and larger merchants facing higher personal property taxes amid weather and municipal scrutiny.
A. B. Chadwick returned to Minneapolis after attending the funeral of his sister Mrs. Rachel Ray held Monday at Hast Park Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Ray was buried beside her husband in Fairview cemetery. she was born July 11 1850 in Cottingley England and came to America at 20. Walter L. Ray of Helena Mont is her son.
City residents report visiting travelers and business matters with A J Diebold Cedar Rapids and W L Myers Palace Omaha among those in town. A marriage license issued to Troy Fisher and Florence Sandusky of Waterloo. Ivan Mowrer’s remains likely to Corydon Indiana. Jubilee singers to perform in Hudson. telegram from Kingsley notes birth of a son to I B Lind. Miss Mary Horstman to return from Reinbeck.
Mrs Van Metre leaves for Kingsley to visit daughter and grandson Esther Slippy returns from Cornell for an over Sunday with her parents at 1021 Fourth Street West. Women of the W A G meet at the In. c. waiting station Friday at 2 to attend Nathan Roebuck funeral at 2:30 at 222 Lafayette. Fowler improves after grip illness at Russell-Lamson Hotel. Laurence D Kitchell speaks on Glacier National Park to Waterloo Commercial club crowd. Dr A Gabelein to address Walnut Street Baptist class then First Presbyterian. Town Criers Ad club members to speak after luncheon at Commercial club tonight. weather dampens event turnout.
The Superior Smoker opened this morning at 181 Bridge Street under Edward Strayer and Kay Sweitzer. The shop offers cigars tobaccos can dies and magazines and will carry baseball scores and bulletins on other athletic events.
A fragment indicates a trip to La Parte City was delayed, with the new date set for a week later. No additional details available.
Peterhead Scotland May 20 The British trawler Chrysolite was sunk by a German submarine thirty miles off Kionaird's Head in the North Sea yesterday.
At a home on Fourth street east last evening Peter Stallman hosted the marriage of his daughter Lena Stallman to Julius Mexdorf of the city. Rev J Lang officiated before fifty relatives and friends. A two course supper followed. Mrs Mexdorf has lived in Waterloo all her life. Mr Mexdorf works as a machinist at the Galloway factory and they will reside in Home Park.
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