Town Talk Highlights From Waterloo Community News
Local items report residents returning for winter from Outlook Saskatchewan and visits from relatives in Arlington and Freeport Ill. Attendees discuss temperance at Waterloo Business College. Notes include political news on Daniel Kelly’s attorney general bid, bank and theatre staff recoveries, diphtheria quarantine at Archer street, typhoid recovery at Peddi cord home, and Shirey illness. Sheriff inquiries about Shumpfer dogs follow thefts. Public note urges no saloons in Waterloo for two years.
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Ed C. Andrews
Outlook
Saskatchewan
George R. Drysdale
Citton
Ariz
W. C. Frehse
Baltimore Street
H. L. Kimball
Freeport
Ill
Waterloo
Lemley Divorce Suit Seeks Custody and Alimony
Sarah Lemley files for divorce from Frank Lemley alleging drunkenness and cruelty. She seeks custody of two minor children and permanent alimony of 30 dollars a month. Lemley, a Chicago Great Western switchman, earns about 100 to 125 dollars monthly. The couple own a 160 acre farm with Lemley claimed to own 200 dollars in machinery and stock. plaintiff asks the court to confirm she alone holds no farm interest by decree.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah Lemley
Frank Lemley
Dewar
Lemley
Chicago Great Western
Waterloo audience enjoys local operatic company at theatre
An operatic company at the Waterloo theatre delighted patrons with a strong program led by Arthur Middleton and Miss Leonora Allen. The quartet performed Toreador and Rigoletta with encores, followed by Romeo and Juliet scenes featuring Miller Allen and Middleton.
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Waterloo Theatre
Waterloo
Ohurch
Elie Quartette
Arthur Middleton
Damrosch
Leonora Allen
Chicago
Chicago Operatic Company
Madame Butterfly
Rose Vather Gannon
Quartette
J. D. Miller
Thomas Orchestra
Runaway Buggy Injures Dean and Colton at Washington
Lov Dean and his brother-in-law Dewey Colton were slightly hurt when a buggy became unmanageable near Union Station and collided with a pole at Fourth and Washington. The incident damaged the buggy front. Both men reside in Waterloo township.
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Lov Dean
Dewey Colton
Fourth
Washington Streets
Origin of the Word Quaker in London Critique
A London writer links the Quaker name to a derisive jab at George Fox and a Derby justice. The Society of Friends allegedly called themselves Serkets as a more beautiful but less colorful term. Adam’s Satisfaction notes the impossibility of a shortage of party problems as a pun.
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London
Bennett
Derby
George Fox
Society of Friends
Adam
Turks Would Eight Ut Out
A fragment reports a meeting with the imperial chancellor and the German foreign secretary, with the Austrian ambassador present. A semi-official statement claimed three parties of the Triple Alliance will pursue a common course while in the Balkans staying in touch with other powers. The Marquis Di San Guano left unlisted city.
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Balkans
Marquis di San Guano
Worlin Touny
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Sergeye
Norfolk
Bray
Burgh Bros. CO
New Fall Millinery
Gibson
Robespiere
Perrins
Temperance Forces
Waterloo Business College
Syndicate Building
M. H. Kelly
Daniel Kelly
Boulder
Mont
P. D. Kelly
Lincoln Township
F. F. McKilbinney
Black Hawk Bank
Arthur Frudenfeld
C. M. Sumption
Majestic Theatre
J. J. Gindt
Archer Street
John Briden
Clarence Triden
William Peddicord
Mrs. W. F. Shirey
Mr. Shirey
Shirey
Lillian Remmington
Mrs. Whitaker
Shell Rock
Brotherhood of the First Baptist Church
F. M. Shores
Marshall County
Waterloo Business Men's Temperance Ass'n
Carl Schurz
Herbert
Hadley
Washington
Missouri
James 5. Sherman
National Committee
Taft
Medbert Shadiey
Denver St
Independence Ave
Gafferson St
Galloway Farm
Water
Loo Township
Inaiire Heider Mfg. Co
Carroll, Ta
Philadelphia
Universal Co
Walnut St
Phila
Westing Station
Cat Line
Home Park
United Doctors
Marsh Place
W. 7Th
Howard Stove Co
Iowa Stove & Range Foundry
Ata Pla
M. M. Care Courter
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