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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1911
Page
12
Charles I. Munger, superintendent of the postal savings bank, slowly learns his duties as depositors rise. With no official depositories named, funds stay in the post office safe, or are kept in a safety deposit box, while inquiries at the window increase.
Clarksville items report the marriage of Clyde eGregor to Lela S Bucklin at Clarksville and a Salem Oregon birth of a girl to George Shaw and family. Local socials include tea for Mary Graham, Kensington party at the Webber home, a Christian church fried chicken supper with a music program, and a three course dinner for ladies at Mrs J C Smith’s home. J Hall, a pioneer resident, edited a temperance poem “The Curse of Our Nation.” Union temperance services were held at the M E church and Mrs J P Neal spoke of the W C T U convention. Three emigrant wagons with thirteen passengers passed through town.
Des Moines coroner concludes BH Poland died from self turned gas jet at Columbia hotel. A letter from a Stockton, Indiana woman indicated she wished to avoid his visits, suggesting despondency. Poland and John Campbell, found unconscious, had registered from Stockton and may have planned the act.
Des Moines Iowa hosts the annual county superintendents of schools meeting with about 6000 delegates anticipated this week. C M Miller of Iowa City to speak. education council to discuss proposed legislation under a new constitution. Officers elected Friday. reps named by departments for nominating committee.
Mrs Loretta Mossman and son visited her parents Mr and Mrs John Burns in Geneseo last week before returning to Vinton. George Funk left for Bartlett Oklahoma after working for C B Lambert this season. A D McKay was knocked down and run over by a buggy while leading a team, breaking a rib but not causing long-term injury. B F Newell shipped cattle to Chicago with a companion. A Geneseo Sunday school convention featured an address by Mrs Barrett of Raleigh on work among white and colored prisoners in her state. McKay Bros received a fine Holstein from Mr Irvine of Wisconsin, a notable blend of Komdyke Ormsby and Hungerveldt De Kol blood.
District court resumed after a brief adjournment with many civil cases settled. County supervisors plan November session starting next Monday. Residents and visitors from New Hartford Iowa Falls Shell Rock Waverly and surrounding areas appear in local social notes.
Miss Bessley Holland has been on the sick list. Five pheasants were seen Thursday in L Whitner's yard. Pearl Enlow and family will occupy the Cass Free house soon. Mrs Emma Clark of La Porte City visited her parents Mr and Mrs John Maldzahn last week. Mr and Mrs Amos Elderkin of Cedar Rapids spent Sunday at the Charles Elderkin home. Mrs G A Evenson and daughter Ethel spent Sat and Sun with friends in Shell Rock. Mr and Mrs P D Finch of Des Moines are visiting at the Frank Dewey home. Ancil Cassaday Elmer Strand and Harry and Earl Cortright agreed to Charlesville Sunday. Mr and Mrs Fred King and Miss Margaret Westmeier of Waverly spent Sunday at the Charles Dorman home.
Local items from Mount Vernon Township include Mrs. Frank Thomas and her son Leslie visiting relatives in Waterloo, Wheaton birth news, weekend visits by Leo Wangler and Edith Sarsett party, a Schuneman family reunion with Ed Schuneman of Monarch Typewriter, and upcoming Hillside Cemetery association dinner. Other notes cover dances, visits, and health updates, plus death of baby Lewis Jonnaon marked by the parents.
Passed away Monday morning, outliving his twin brother Lennard by about two weeks. Mr and Mrs Johnsen have the sympathy of their many friends. Henry Webster and Amanda. The man were married Thursday at the DJ parsonage at Janesville. Saturday evening a party of friends, young and old, gave them a rousing charivari and stayed to evening with them. The company was happily treated to vigors, apples and randy by the happy couple. A good crowd attended the Tae social and play at the senant house, District No. 4, Friday evening. Receipts were nearly twenty dollars for an organ purchase for the school. Mrs John Morrison returned home Tuesday after time at Mrs Rintz in Cedar Falls for treatment. Mrs Morrison is greatly improved. Edith Callahan returned Friday from school work at Raymond. Herman Bolte and wife of Waterloo spent Friday and Saturday with Mr and Mrs Claudia Brideén.
Annapolis Md Nov 8 A fourth classman at the Naval Academy severely beat an upperclassman in Bancroft Hall on Monday night the aggressor’s roommate nearly collapsed from exhaustion The beaten student required treatment for a black eye and cuts at a dispensary Authorities have found no conclusive evidence of hazing amid recent investigations but midshipmen say the practice continues with harsh drills for newcomers
Arthur H. Jones and Miss Virginia Harris fled to Trinity Methodist church to wed after her father opposed the match. They sought the minister, found five aid society members sewing, and were married by Rev. Webbell in front of the group who promised not to tell. The secret lasted a week before public notice.
Stockholm reports Mme Marie Sklodowski Curie of the University of Paris wins the Nobel Prize in chemistry. She is chief professor of sciences at Paris and co discovered with her husband Prof Pierre Curie radium and polonium. The prize totals $40,090 and is shared with the era’s other laureates. The article also notes Spuzzello buying a local meat market at 621 Commercial Street and census data on cotton ginning as of November 1.
Ada Miles of Lake City Minnesota travels to Midway Island to wed Horace Wyeth, a cabin base tender. The ceremony will be led by Rev Rex, a missionary returning to the South Seas. The island, coral and sand, has only three years’ residence bringing blindness, and mail comes by a single schooner every nine days.
Announcements on account of entertainment by the Cedar Falls club women state the Waterloo club ladies are invited. Dr. Clark postpones the meeting to Nov 11 and the program will be combined with Tee. 9 meeting in the east side library club rooms. Robert Anderson post 68 G A R will hold a regular meeting Friday evening Nov 10 at 7 30 with important business and full attendance requested. Tabernacle chapter 62 R A M will hold a stated convocation Thursday at 7 30 for the annual election of officers. All members are urged to attend.
Providence reports Rev. Joseph Lambert resigning as pastor of Flinwood Temple Congregational church after criticism of his Newport marriage to Colonel John Jacob Astor and Miss Madeline T. Force on Sept 9. Lambert says he cannot continue in ministry amid unkind remarks from fellow clergy and will leave the ministry to pursue business. He has not yet been officially replaced. The piece also notes a Thimble Bee event hosted by Mrs. W. Ballengee for Cedar Hive Lady Maccabees No. 37.
Yesterday afternoon at her home on Eleventh Street East, Mrs Charlea Burch hosted a gathering. Guests enjoyed needlework and piano selections while parlors displayed lodge colors red, black and white with chrysanthemums. Mesdames Sauter and Roberts assisted, serving a two course repast at the close.
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