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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1920
Page
9
Society notes show Chapter 7 of P. E. O. Sisterhood with Mrs. W. E. Cowan and Chapter FA of P. E. O. Sisterhood with Mrs. J. W. Henderson mentioned among Monday evening activities.
Ross Conservatory of Music launches a subscription driven concert series headlined by pianist Josef Shevinne on October 24, with the Fleazaley String Quartet on December 11, Florence Hinkle on January 24, and Albert Spaulding on March 2, all dates tentative. patrons urged to contact conservatory officers for subscription costs and seat locations.
Edna Kent Forbes recounts a Chicago story about a city program that reduces 24 corpulent women through strict dieting and exercise. The piece notes daily routines, diet limits, and a similar effort for 26 men led by Miss Antoinette Donnelly.
Ruth Camelon discusses self conscious goodness and its undermining effect on generosity. She notes how boasting or withholding judgments harms virtue, and contrasts Christianity with simple good breeding. The article urges humility and restraint to preserve the value of generous acts.
A motion picture titled The World at Columbus contrasts Christianity and pagan creeds and highlights the Methodist centenary program to spread Christian belief worldwide. It traces Methodism from England to American origins, the growth of missions, and centennial events, ending with scenes from The Wayfarer and mission work at home and abroad.
Rev M L Tate rector of Christchurch church resigns effective June 15 with a July 15 extended leave. He accepts a call to Holland Michigan and will relocate with his family, citing housing shortages in Waterloo and plans to build a rectory. He leaves Christchurch debt free and plans two years of mission support. active in local ministry and diocese.
Cedar Falls Daily News summarizes the May 22 meeting of the women’s club chaired by retiring president Mrs. J H. Robinson. Activities include maintaining Main street stove boxes, aiding 74 French orphans, $1500 to Far East relief, and support for YMCA work, city playgrounds, school nurse, and a hospital pantry. Other items mention community sermons, visitors, and travel for officials and pastors.
Central Christian Plymouth Congregational and other churches list Sunday services with multiple sermons and meetings. Rev F L Roberts from Kingsley Milwaukee will speak at Christ Church during morning and evening sessions as Rev W McCoy and Dr G H Puimort also preach. Westminster Presbyterian follows with morning and evening messages on spiritual growth and Pentecost.
City Boy Scouts held a campers roundup led by Ray Short at Third Street West. Scouts gathered at 6:45 p.m. and hiked into the woods for a campfire, songs, and a marshmallow toast concluding the evening as the best of the season.
The club completed a second dues payment at the scout office in the L. and J. building at 10 a.m. to tay.
Miss Elinor Stafford Millar evangelistic mission worker speaks at Walnut Street Baptist Church for the Sunday evening service at 7 30 p.m. She has preached in Australia Europe and America over 30 years and appears by special request of Pastor Rev J B Smith with a musical program by Prof G W Sampson. Rev Smith will deliver the baccalaureate sermon for the Orange Township consolidated schools.
Funds from the YWCA Industrial clubs federation will finance 25 Waterloo delegates to the Lake Pepin conference. A $422.40 trip and camp stay is needed, $100 already raised at a carnival. Tickets sold in advance fund the federation, with members receiving admission cards at the YWCA office.
A forecast predicted fair and warmer conditions but a thundershower between 4:30 and 6:00 a.m. drenched the area. About 0.80 inch of rain fell with most of it in the last 20 minutes. Gardens were submerged and gutters overflowed.
Fragmentary OCR describes roads, tools, and alloy steel bureau mentions. It notes mud and corn planting, sun brightening conditions, and a forecast of fair weather enabling new steel production.
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