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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1921
Page
6
Government readings show 93 degrees in the shade yesterday with 83 this morning signaling more heat to come. The last rainfall was May 18 at .38 inch. North and west areas report torrential rains flooding ground and Cedar River rise attributed to moisture from early week storms.
An eight year old son of Mr and Mrs E Kline is reported ill with smallpox. J W Arbuckle attended the funeral of Co C Wolf in Parkersburg. Ruth Gibbons is a bicycle theft victim. a Riverside wheel was stolen. Theodore C Menges left for the Society of Automotive Engineers convention in West Baden Indiana. George Union deist was injured when struck by a car driven by M J Sanquist. First fishing parties head to Minnesota lakes, J M Hileman and Jay C Hileman with others. Fred Gates of Marble Rock visited before returning home. Mrs George Peck obituary from Branston Illinois noted. Mrs Klock by her mother’s bedside at her son-in-law’s home. County Attorney Walter R French announced the Iowa Country Attorneys convention in June. Charles E Pickett to speak. Edward P Davies, Santa Fe New Mexico, underwent surgery at St Francis hospital. An information charges Georgia Anderson with assaulting Lillian Mabon. $500 bond set. Three armed holdup men evaded capture after a night pursuit from Vinton. Mrs T C Menges heads to Prairie du Chien Wisconsin for daughter Helen’s schooling. Manges celebrated 63rd wedding anniversary in Prairie du Chien. married 185. G A Williamson fined $100 or 30 days for breaking and entering near La Porte City. Mrs Williamson fined $500. Several similar cottage break-ins noted. defendants claim shelter during a river storm.
A dialect rich tale follows Tip Sams who raises twins and tobacco while trading skins and keeping a one room house. He tends dogs and a bone-spavined mare, plows with a roughed up team, and the little family endures as seven sons lie asleep in France. The father keeps tobacco trade alive as the mother bears twins again.
Mrs. Addie Wilson aged 64 died at her daughter’s Waterloo home at 2 am. Born May 8 1857 in Oswego New York she spent years in Iowa and the last 14 in Waterloo. Survived by daughter Lima Fremer and son Wilbur A Wilson, two sisters and a brother. A brief prayer service is set at 4 pm Rev F W Court presiding. Remains to Castalia Iowa Tuesday for 2 pm burial in the family lot.
Raymond A. Crawford, a Portland organist, played morning and evening services at First Methodist Episcopal church. His supreme mastery and moving interpretations drew a large turnout. Crawford, here for one day, is organist at St. Luke's Cathedral, Portland.
William Strayer a longtime Black Hawk County resident died at 5 30 p m Sunday at his daughter s home 440 Home Park boulevard He was born April 1 1828 near Johnstown PA and aged 95 He taught school and farmed in Iowa moving from Waterloo to Hudson Bremer county and finally to Black Hawk County where he ran a hotel for nearly a decade He married Susan Cain in 1860 and spent years building a life across several Iowa communities.
Obituary notes Mr Strayer a county singing school organizer and church member who lived with relatives after his wife died in 1863 and later with Mrs Gutknecht near Drinkwater. He spent summers with family in Saskatchewan from 1911 to 1918. Survived by children Moe Thompson and Mrs Gutknecht Waterloo and others in Hudson Libery Drinkwater Bengough Geneseo Kan and 23 grandchildren four great grandchildren. Funeral at First Brethren church Tuesday at 2 pm.
The Y M C A plans five programs across four Waterloo churches this week with social gatherings music readings and a motion picture. Highlights include a St Pauls M C church program tomorrow at 7 20 p m with singing readings and a violin cello duet and America s Answer shown at Union Congregational church Wednesday.
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