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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1910
Page
4
Readers are invited to identify missing words in several page ads. The first correct entry wins one dollar, mailed by Courier. Submit on one page, stating the word and the firm’s ad, with name and address, in a plain envelope to the Missing Word Editor at the Courier office. No phone entries, winners announced later.
J A Townsley becomes Advertising Manager and publicity expert for the James Gardiner Company of Waterloo. The move follows a strong track record in newspaper and land sales work. Gardiner says Waterloo is a strategic base for their expanding operations in Canada and the valley states with a new farm department and robust city realty business.
The Iowa Corn Show offers twenty thousand dollars in premiums to Iowa farmers for exhibits at the Des Moines Coliseum December 6 to 17. The event honors corn with rewards also for wheat oats and other grains, plus cash, silver and gold medals. Details available from secretary Prof. M L Bowman at 1125 Fleming Bldg Des Moines Iowa.
Sunday school schedules at the chapel while Charles F. Hepler battles stomach cancer with Prof. S. C. Hepler assisting. Mrs. Hepler and Mrs. Hunt visit and join Sunday meetings. J. W. Low family attend infant funeral. Herman McVey plans interior work on a near-enclosed 24 by 26 foot house corner Cottage Grove and Indiana. Fred Luter demolishes an old cement block factory to build two six room houses on a new street from Lafayette to Butler avenue.
Frank Shaub former outfielder for Marshalltown in the Iowa League and ex-husband of Miss Gertrude Strand was sentenced to two years in a Wisconsin penitentiary for perjury. He allegedly testified falsely during the divorce proceedings after the couple, then living in Rock Island Illinois, separated.
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