City Council Faces Fire Truck Bid and Quarry Plans
Council may award the American LaFrance motor service truck bid after weeks of bids from four companies. City may buy or lease a municipal stone quarry and revise ordinances. A concrete culvert on Ricker Street will be ordered to replace the old wooden bridge. Cedar Dale plat filing by Northey Manufacturing and other routine items to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lua France Motor Service
Ricker Street
American la France
Seagrave, White
Kiseel Bar
Uitg
B. F. Swisher
Swisher
Cedar Dale
Northey Manufacturing Co
Carnival Arrives for Week's Stand at Illinois Central Grounds
A 23-car train bringing the Tom W. Allen show arrived from Galenburg via Rock Island. The carnival opens tonight and runs all week with sixteen shows for 400 people. A twenty-piece military band plays serenades on and off the grounds. The feature is a 260-foot monster shoot the chute with 47,000 gallons water tank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom W. Allen
Rock Island
Galenburg
Illinois Central
Base Ball Association
Pleasant Vale District No 3 closes a successful year
The Pleasant Vale school in Lester township district No 3 closed its year Friday with a picnic at McGee grove attended by about thirty patrons and friends. A big noon dinner followed by a pupil program. Miss Mabel Wanamaker taught the school this year. Pupils Josephine Canfield Lucy Canfield Juaniita Canfield and Philip Hattendorf had perfect attendance for six to nine months respectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pleasant Vale
Lester Township
McGee Grove
Mabel Wanamaker
Josephine Canfield
Lucy Canfield
Juaniita Canfield
Philip Hattendorf
Miss Edith Lowney Opens Private Music School
Miss Edith Lowney, formerly head of the vocal department in Waterloo, has withdrawn from her former teaching faculty and opened a private music school at 325 Independence Avenue. She will offer vocal training plus courses in fancy dancing and language programs in French and German with competent teachers and Lowney supervising all voice instruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edith Lowney
Waterloo
Independence Avenue
Mise Lowney
Misa Lowney
YMCA Swiming Campaign Teaches Boys to Swim
During June 1 to 6 the YMCA will run a swimming campaign for boys under 15 who cannot swim. Three instructors will teach swimming diving and life saving resuscitation. Registration is next Friday 4 to 6 pm or Saturday 9 to 11 am.
Sinnard Bros Advertising Closed All Day Decoration Day
Local notice announces that Sinnard Bros stores on East and West Side will be closed all day for Decoration Day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sinnard Bros
East
Est
West Side
Great Western agents to meet in Waterloo this summer
Waterloo hosts a general meeting of all Chicago Great Western agents in July or August once the Russell Lamson hotel opening is fixed. Expected attendance ranges from 360 to 400 with much business on the agenda. Division meetings occur regularly, but full assemblies are semiannual. Local officials note Waterloo’s honor as past meetings have been in Chicago St Paul and St Joseph.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Great Western Railway
Waterloo
Russell-Lamson
Great Western
Chicago
St. Paul
St. Joseph
F. J. Edwards
H. A. Benjamin
Des Moines
Doctor Shallenberger Announces 164th Visit at Hotel Ellis
Specialist Dr. Shallenberger of chronic nervous and special diseases will address patients at Hotel Ellis in Waterloo on Saturday May 30 for his 164th consultation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shallenberger
Ellis
Waterloo
Singer Signs Contract For Miss Miller Return
A committee of the Men's club at First Methodist church reports successful talks with contralto Christine Miller and has signed her to sing again in the city at the church on the evening of January 13, 1915. Miller previously performed here twice to general satisfaction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Methodist Church
Christine Miller
Miss Miller
How to Save Your Eyes Prescription for Optona tablets
A public notice urges readers to use Optona tablets dissolved in warm water as an eye treatment. It claims the remedy can relieve inflammation and improve vision, urging prompt use and declaring the treatment harmless. The ad promotes B W Schuneman & Co. stores and local druggists as sources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. W. Schuneman & Co
Wideawake Grug
Optona
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Council
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sell-Lamson Hotel
Boys’ Orchestra
Walnut Street Baptist Church
Dora Davies- Williams
Middle West
Iowa
Muscatine
Wil- Hame
England
Wales
Singer
Cheney Bros
Clinger
Floral Dept
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