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Newspaper

Waterloo Evening Courier

Location

Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Nov 04, 1911

Page

6

Delightful Halloween Parties Draw Waterloo Society

Miss Marjorie O Keefe and Miss May Shull hosted a masked Hallowe en party on Mulberry Street with a fortune telling gypsy and ghosts guiding guests through a staged house tour. Prizes went to George McGuire for most masquerade and John Corden as an old maid. A joint Hallowe en social at the YM C A drew 300 guests in maroon and white, with prizes for costumes and refreshments served by the Y W C A committee.

Marjorie O'Keefe May Shull Mulberry Street Jennie McLannan George McGuire John Corden Celeste Miller Genevieve Creary Lucile Bruner Helen O'Keefe Charlotte Lamb Marie Buckley Dubuque Paul McGaheran la Porte Hallowe'en Y. A R. E. Dickinson Daisy Arnold Sanders’ Sisters C. B. Palmer Fourth Street Miss Arnold Olin Mrs. Palmer Bertha Bushing Waverly Jans Green Beloit Wis

To Quickly Gain a New Complexion

An America Family Journal item promotes mercorized wax as a facial treatment. Apply nightly like cold cream to remove dead surface skin, revealing a fresher complexion by successive exfoliation. It claims age and weather marks vanish with the skin itself.

Pretty Prenuptial Dinner Highlights Beatrice Zook Wedding

A Waterloo society note covers Miss Beatrice Zook attending a red themed dinner hosted by Miss Blanche Edwards on Lafayette Street with Miss Grace Dunkelberg. The event featured a red centerpiece, matching place cards, and a five course menu, with entertainment by Rosa Smith, Marion Preese, and Grace Hollister. Zook received a silent spoon set as a gift.

Beatrice Zook R. D. Tiffany Blanche Edwards Lafayette Street Miss Edwards Grace Dunkelberg Mise Irene Zook Belvin Dunn Rosa Smith Marion Preese Grace Hollister Miss Zook Marguerite Fowler Ira Alberts Alice Cropper Miss Marie Good Miss Cropper Highland

Social notes list parties meetings and a Grieg program

A parade of social events includes a wedding reception at 525 Logan avenue for Mr. Becker in Waterloo with guests. P E O Chapter 7 hosts a Monday meeting on South street with Talks on Pictures led by Rev Effie McCollum Jones and others. Girard court 92 Ben Hur held a dancing party for 75 couples at the A O U W hall. Rae Muirhead class meets at the YWCA Monday at 8 o'clock for a hospitality contest conclusion banquet. Grieg program set for Sunday at 7:15 pm at the First M F Church features Poem Erotique Morning and Ase's Death Amiita's Dance, followed by a five-voice motet God’s Peace Is Peace Eternal.

P. E. QO Emmons Johnson South Street Effie McCollum Jones George W. Hinkle H. W. Brown Minnie Crippen Girard Court Tribe of Ben Hur A. O. UW Myers’ Orchestra Rae Muirhead Y. W_ CG. aA

Quick Wrinkle Eraser Revealed Saxolite Lotion Plan

A new remedy claims to erase wrinkles by a Saxolite formula. Bathing the face and neck with a lotion tightens and tones sagging skin. Pure Saxolite powder is available from druggists, mixed with witch hazel for a home solution.

Temperance Service and Booster Meeting Announced

The W C T U invites members to a temperance service at First Presbyterian church Sunday night meeting at Waiting station 6 45 to go in a body. The Lady Maccabees Waterloo Shire No 22 hold a booster meeting Tuesday at Labor temple with initiation refreshments and a lodge member to receive a dollar. Every member urged to attend.

First Presbyterian Church Lady Maccabees Waterloo Shire Labor Temple

New Quarters For Waterloo Mission

M R Hughes superintendent of the Waterloo Rescue Mission has moved headquarters to rooms over the Casebeer sandwich house at Fifth and Commercial streets in Waterloo. Elks regular session set for Saturday evening November 4 1911. Meeting at 8 15 sharp. Full attendance desired. Co G Stearns Ex Ruler G E Funston Secretary.

M. R. Hughes Waterloo Rescue Mission Casebeer Fifth Commercial Streets B. P.O. Elks Co. G. Stearns G. E. Funston

Hit the Tiger

Colliers urges New York voters to reverse last year’s Tammany control and curb the Tiger by defeating Tam many backed candidates in the upcoming November elections. The piece warns of poor governance and calls independent citizens to act, urging active participation to remove power from Tammany Hall.

Colliers New York State Tammany Hall Theodore Roosevelt Tammany

Licensed to Wed Prompts from Harmony and Waterloo Pair

An advertisement notes Nels Bowen of Harmony Minnesota and Bernice Dodson of Waterloo as a couple to wed. It touts Foley Kidney Pills as a quick acting tonic to regulate urinary organs, addressing backache headaches nervousness and rheumatism believed to signal kidney trouble.

Nels Bowen Harmony, Minn Bernice Dodson Waterloo H. W. Taggart

Rate hearings at Washington for Iowa rail rate cases

Des Moines reports final arguments on Iowa shipper complaints against Iowa railroads will be heard in Washington DC before the Interstate Commerce Commission, possibly in February or earlier. Railroads will present their side in Washington during January. The Des Moines freight rate hearing concluded, noted by experts as among the most important in U.S. history. Also included is an endorsement of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for whooping cough cold and croup, and a notes about Gold Medal and Ben Hur flour sold at $1.56 per sack by N. J. Berkley.

Westminster Presbyterian Church Des Moines Iowa Washington, D. C Interstate Commerce Commission John S. Burchmore Washington

River Traffic Abandoned By Steamer Line

Fort Madison Nov 4 Local representatives of the Streckfus steamboat line received notice from St Louis that the line had decided to abandon its trade south of 81 Louis.

Fort Madison Streckfus St. Louis Louis

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