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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1913
Page
3
Second floor cleanup continues in the Ready-to-Wear area with no move to the new building. Tomorrow every suit in the house sells at one half price to close plus discounts on coats dresses furs and fur coats and trimmed hats.
Promoters of a Waterloo dairy show and cattle congress discussed appointing a manager and nine committees to widen the exhibition and secure broad public support. Stockholders pledged cooperation and another meeting was planned to elect directors equally responsible with the manager. An advertisement for winter boucle coats followed the news.
The Majestic presents a lively bill with Flanigan and Edwards in Of and On plus Tawmeens Chas and Madelyn Dunbar White and Riener the Armento Bros acrobatics and OBrien Havel and Co hosting a hovel sketch Monday. Theo Carrillo performs a New York monologue while Jumping from New York to Waterloo headlines at the Fifth Avenue theatre. Fitzgibbons and a Xylophone act join the lineup. a Wm Gal Canadian film rounds out the week.
A local man with close ties to the situation says there is no foundation to reports that Heiman & Butterfield will begin erecting a moving picture house on Bridge street near the Y. He confirms he spoke with promoters last week and that no spring start is planned.
Allison residents and visitors are noted in social items from last week. Family guests include Mrs. J. W. C. Sheparden with Clarksville friends and Mrs. Frank Wick and children from Gary Indiana. The Allison high school boys beat Dumont 82 to 1h, the girls defeated Parkersburg 17 to 2, and more social notes follow.
Parkersburg reports visitors from Chicago Waterloo and New Hampton. Residents attend W R C events hunting contest and school entertainment. Several family health updates and parish remodeling noted with community gatherings and forthcoming district convention in Parkersburg.
Frede rika reports Mrs Ethel Barney visiting Eagle Grove then returning home. Mrs Mariel Rice and two boys reunite with grandparents in Appleton Minnesota as family gathers. Mike Mooney’s brothers visit from Rochester and Minneapolis while Mooney’s condition worsens. Mrs Hiram Hinkley comes from Oelwein to help. Lois French from Waterloo visits her parents. The Zwanzigers host Mrs Wi Zwanziger and daughter Ix Wastephens in public. Mer tle Michener of Sumner in town to visit Aunt Mrs Wer Mooney. Joli Carney returns from Owlet on business. Ths fark and Miss TLowee Sthinidt near Wil aastown assist Mrs Chas Golding. Sita Mrs Wa Stephens of Republic visits locals on Thursday. Mix: Link travels from New Humyton on Friday to visit.
Horton residents share visiting relatives in Waverly and Plainfield. School activities include Blanch Hurlbut Lucille Bord and Lynn Bogan back to Waverly duties and Mabel Bogan starting a winter term in the six mile grate district. The Baptist convention drew many Horton delegates. locals discuss church, carpenters Ward Crowl, and neighbors visiting Frank Greene and Oswald Lundberge.
New York, Nov 19. Ten years of married life with no cohabitation and the wife still using her maiden name prompts an annulment action by George Jester Lary and Lilian PD. Post known as Miss Post. They married in 1908 in New York and have never had a second ceremony. The wife asserts a binding secret marriage and asks the court to end the arrangement.
The Waterloo Evening Courier promotes its Grand Distribution of Imperial Patterns for embroidery. It highlights American women’s taste and fashion, noting thousands have applied for the offer of designs worth 10 for 68 cents with six certificates, to adorn homes and wardrobes.
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