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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1918
Page
9
A detailed church directory lists Sunday services across Waterloo area churches with times, pastors, and special services. It covers Catholic, Protestant, Evangelical, and other denominations, noting catechism, Sunday school, and evening programs along with locations and minister names.
Tuesday night the YWCA will start a 4 and 5 o'clock program with a rally led by Miss Margaret Sullivan. Plans include advanced Spanish lessons, Girls Reserve, extension department work, and employment services. About 30 women attended dinner. Red Cross auxiliary formed with Monday meetings. banner sale planned in downtown centers to identify Iowa war units.
A fragmentary shopping list shows items like Cream or Oyster Lar Sliced Tomatoes Sliced Cucumbers Celery Olives Pimento Olives Pickled Beets Relish and Pickles. Entrees include Baked Lake Trout With Dressing and Planked White Fish with prices implied by the garbled OCR.
About five young people gathered for a farewell party in the village, honoring Fred Pulley who departs next week to enter military service. George Garrettson and N Shane attended with Mrs. Det ja Wahus among others, as friends shared memories and best wishes.
A damaged OCR fragment mentions a proceeding with placeholder text and unclear parties. Readable items show a legal action referenced by initial letters and a generic court context but no concrete names, dates, or locations. Further legible lines are needed to identify the case type and filing deadline.
Walnut Street Baptist Burnen class to reorganize and elect officers tomorrow. A new Brotherhood Building class will form to recruit unaffiliated men as enlistments drain the active roster. First Congregational conducts a six week visitation campaign with 70 members. First Presbyterian Woman's Working Association met with 45 attendees and shared tea towels, social time, and refreshments.
In Bedford Pennsylvania on November 9 thieves blew open the local post office safe and stole about $46,600 in thrift and war savings stamps. The blast accompanied rumors of the war’s end and the burglary went unseen until the post office opened the next day.
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