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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1911
Page
15
Grundy Center Nov 10 The Morrison store case is settled ER Dumond returns store building merchandise and other Morrison real estate and Morrison receives Mack Hawk county farm Dumond also refunds proceeds from three months goods sale The deal ends temporary receivership and all contracts for exchange are destroyed Morrison given a store key.
Washington November 9 reports detail rival naval and army ordnance plans for aeroplane guns. Navy seeks a light seven or eight inch cannon on hydro aeroplanes to shell fortifications and trains, while the army builds a lighter gun mounted to quickly track aircraft with rapid changes in direction and automatic sighting. Commander Cleland Davis credited with naval gun design. Tests to be conducted openly, with secrecy maintained around observations.
New York reports a drivers strike in the street cleaning department causing ash and garbage buildup in hundreds of thousands of homes. With only a fraction of 2,500 carts operating, city service is limited and a 24 hour continuation could worsen inconvenience and health risk. The strike stems from disapproval of a night removal method.
Real estate transfers include A J Norris to Jennie F N Mitze for parts of lots 5 and 6 in D C Overman's addition Cedar Falls for 3000 dollars. Clarence T L Lawrence to T M Smith for part of lot 7 in Cedar Falls for 209 dollars. Waterloo Canning Corp to Fowler Co for lot 16 in Hillside addition Waterloo for 1 dollar. Alfred Schroeder to G T R Mont Framery for lots 6 in Manson's 4th addition Waterloo and 13 in Manson's 3rd addition for 1 dollar.
The Repass Automobile Co a Ford distributing office at 706 Jefferson Street Des Moines reports strong northeastern Iowa activity in November. They issued multiple car loads of Touring Cars Runabouts and Roadsters to buyers including B M Sweitzer Reinbeck W R Laybourn Grundy Center Rechkemmer Ros & Bierle Fairbank Henry Frank Sumner Bopp Brothers Hawk Eye Bono Brothers and Bopp Brothers Independence.
Harold Hoyt of Manchester High School lies critically ill at home with typhoid fever. Harry Davis, son of local residents, suffered a severe arm injury after his arm was pulled into a corn shredder on the Ray Hamlin farm near Delhi, with lacerations likely to leave him crippled.
Notice of extended existence for twenty years for The W. H. Hartman Company of Waterloo Iowa. Details include principal business newspaper publishing and printing, capital stock $100,000, board of directors 3-5, annual meeting first Tuesday in October, indebtedness limit two thirds of capital, stockholders’ private property exempt, officers John C. Hartman president and A W Petergon secretary. Date October 19, 1911.
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