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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1927
Page
5
Clarksville boosters promote establishing an airport to provide time schedules for planes and to support railroad facilities. Local firms have surveyed Clarksville but lack of suitable sites has hindered new business locations this year. The note mentions a medical association meeting and social updates in the town.
Delhi honors 58 local World War I servicemen with a bronze tablet set on red granite. The ceremony on Armistice Day featured Mrs. Bertha Swineburne leading the dedication, unveiling by Carmine Vesey and Kenneth Billings, and mayor A. L. Clark accepting the memorial for the community.
Rev. Charles G. Lusted spoke at La Porte Armistice Day program addressing high school pupils and citizens. The event, run with the American Legion, featured songs and a flag ceremony.
Fifteen members host guests including Mrs Andrew Gonnerman and Miss Irene Johnson at a recent gathering. The next regular meeting on December 1 will feature the Elgin Gates sale with homemade candy and pies for sale.
Allison IA November 12 annual meeting of the Butler County Schools association to be held Friday November 18 at Shell Rock. Supes and coaches meet at 2:30 to outline activities. 6 PM banquet for officials and coaches and their wives. Hazel M Black toasts. talks on sportsmanship and county music contests. girls game at hangout. boys game at 8:45 with captains versus coaches. Armistice dinner draws 100 at Allison hotel. Whitaker farewell party as Eastam Star meets in Shell Rock. Kirkpatrick family visits Pawnee City Neb. Mrs Owen's replacement at post office.
Reinbeck high school held its fifth annual homecoming with 360 alumni gathering in the cafeteria after the Reinbeck Grundy Center football game tied 6 to 6. The event featured greetings from W. V. Sibert, Waterloo high school orchestra music, community singing, Bess Johnson solo, and the one act play A Matrimonial Venture.
Births reported for numerous local couples and addresses. Entries list parents, street addresses, and newborns with first names such as Lars Marian, Albert, Donald LeRos Mant, Marilyn Jean, Beverly Mae, and Rhea Mae, among others, all dated around late October and September. Some entries mention hospitals and routes, with multiple households across the region.
Services for Bernard Garrison, accidentally shot while coon hunting, will be held Sunday at 2 pm at his parents home four miles northeast of Cedar Falls. Interment will be in Oak Lawn cemetery in New Hartford. The article also notes church services and Armistice day observances in Cedar Falls with various pastors and programs.
Mrs Edna Copley entertained ten guests for birthday anniversaries of Mrs John Holmes and Mrs J Strayer with guessing contests and needlework. The Service Star Legion hosted an Armistice themed gathering with decorations and refreshments. A local school will reopen November 24 after a brief corn husking vacation. Dorcas Rebekah lodge plans to donate a barrel of flour to the Mason City Odd Fellows home for Thanksgiving. Local residents Hart, Tom Strayer, and Dewey Garner arrived from Canada reporting three inches of snow there. Mrs Emma Gain remains under eye infection treatment in Iowa City. A Danish dance drew a large crowd at the I O O F hall. Mr and Mrs George Gillespie of Anoka Minnesota departed for Florida after attending a funeral.
A farmer narrowly escaped injury when his clothes became caught in a tractor near Alvin Ten chert northwest of Tracr. He freed himself and was not seriously hurt, according to local reports.
A Holstein bull that killed farmer A. E. Veline south of Eldora broke from stockyards near Northwestern tracks Thursday night. It roamed streets for hours before Jerry Protheroe shot it dead with an army rifle around 10 pm. The animal had been bought by a local dealer and was to be shipped to Chicago.
W RC to hold social meeting at Shell Rock with hostesses Mrs. Elliot Sparks Mrs. William Conrad Mrs. Mabel Schmidt and Mrs. Emma Sweitzer assisting. The M E B ladies Aid will meet Nov 7 at the church with chair Mrs. Millie Benning. Walter Epley returns home for convalescence after stomach illness and six operations in Chicago. Mrs G V Williams Mrs GW Rowley Mrs S Neal Mrs Lil Man Larkin and Miss Mand Terrinton attended the W C T U convention at Waterloo.
Funeral services for Will Rouse, who died when a shotgun accident occurred at his Colwell area farm, are planned for Monday at St Cecelia church. Relatives arrived from Titrs to attend.
Buchanan’s broken leg duplicates, two years’ Waterloo residence. Lon and Mrs Dean and son Robert return to their Bay River farm after two years in Waterloo, leaving tomorrow. St Mark’s parish meeting 7:30 pm Monday to discuss rector. cottage meetings next week listed with hosts and times. Vern Dale Mullarkey estate goes to Miss Mary Gaynor Waterllle as executrix. bond not required. Mrs Lou Wilson Algona visiting relatives 308 Lindale Ave and 926 Columbia St. Marilyn Jeanne Covert, infant daughter of Robert S. Covert, injured in Halloween night auto accident.
Garland S. Ferguson Jr. of Greensboro, North Carolina was named a member of the Federal Trade Commission by President Coolidge in Washington D C on November 12.
Prospects for hard surfacing the Treer Dysart road No 3 fade as the contractor works from Dysart eastward with crushed rock from La Porte City. No finish this year. An extra coal of gravel will be laid spring on No 5 from Traer to Toledo and on the Waterloo road north. No 8 east of Traer graded. Blythe to Tama. Coon creek bridge near Traer experiences cement abutment error delaying work. Toledo county road gravel project 2.68 miles from Toledo to county home estimated at 6750 with bids Nov 19.
Reinbeck Iowa November 12 Grundy county officials urge hunters to kill pigeons due to overabundance around the county capital. Pigeons have become a nuisance and hunters report severe good bags from efforts to reduce flocks.
Worth Hillman writes to Fire Chief Ray Tiller from Rome after visiting the Reverend Legion convention. The card shows the Via Sacra and notes that some old Roman roads are too rocky for fire trucks. It was mailed on October 20.
The Farmers Mercantile company of Traer Iowa will add 2000 of 3000 to the insurance payout for remodeling its store after a recent fire. Changes include a 20 foot rearward balcony extension for shoes and apparel and a women’s restroom. New electric wiring and lighting will be installed. A fireproof tile annex for moat and feed storage is planned for spring.
A new steam heating plant was installed at Grundy County jail in Grundy Center and in the adjoining sheriff's residence. The old plant was worn out and relied on coal waste. Prisoners from Black Hawk County helped dig the cellar deeper and lay new cement floors and perform other rough work.
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