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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1911
Page
10
Local notes from Hudson on November 22 mention Mrs R H Pyles of Waterloo visiting, and Mrs Sarah BE Washburn with daughter Gladys in Waterloo. Several residents travel, illness updates, and a Brethren bazaar planned for Shank's hall. Thanksgiving services at the Baptist church and a school program are announced for next week.
Mrs. Cheney Loveland's buggy collision injures her slightly after two youths racing fodder wagons struck her rear as they overtook near a schoolhouse. Report covers community goings on including ins and outs at Sunday school, local homes, threshing tales from Saskatchewan, and small town movements.
Philip Shipton lies very low with stomach cancer in Dunkerton and given no hope of recovery. Fisher unloads a beet pulp car from the Waverly factory, noting pulp as a prized stock food. Corn husking progress nears completion. Janda cribs brim with produce. Chas Clubine, Arthur Clubine’s brother of Nevadis, visits Dunkerton after years westward in cattle business. Dr Emery Magee attends Amy Mager at Frank Mager’s. she shows slight improvement. John Young of New Hartford noted for his visit and activity in town.
Mrs. Bessia Magee and Mrs. Joe l Gohishaw were noted as Waterloo passengers yesterday, traveling between trains.
A man calling himself Melvor Kindall Seemrea, described as elatrvoyant, deceived several city residents by promising land deals and clairvoyant guarantees. He rented rooms at the Tremont and Yremont hotels, obtained money under false pretenses, and fled with belongings after a spurious telegram from Des Moines claimed a $700 land sale. A warrant was issued. he left a room burning and jammed a keyhole to delay discovery.
A Waterloo city in brief column reports on local events and people. Mrs. Henry Seebers visits friends in Vinton while Miss Sadie Elsenbart ill with typhoid fever and Miss Florence Harris improves after a two week bout. Miss Edith Korinke remains home in Charles City as her mother recuperates from heart trouble. Mrs. H. S. Bunnell temporarily fills in, and Mrs. Carlson undergoes an appendectomy at Pine street hospital with improving condition. Miss Margaret Brucher plans to move to Iceland? to begin office work. she is a Remsen resident who studied at Waterloo Business College. Emily Dodson has accepted a stenographic post with Higdon Hardesty in Marsh-Place. Dr. and Mrs. Frank T. Hartman return from Philadelphia after the Clinical Surgical Congress. The West High Forum Society will present a Thanksgiving program at the sche auditorium at 2 pm tomorrow. Mrs. Win. Tinnen travels home after a hospital stay following an operation. Ten young ladies from Corn Bell Telephone visited the Majestic Theatre. manager J. Jolly Jones, Jr. treated them to rides home in autos. A northwest wind brings snow and freezing temperatures. readings include 2 below zero at Qu’Annelle and 18 above at Devils Lake, while Edmonton and Los Angeles show varied temperatures. Murders in Mack Hawk county are noted as rare. Henry Philps killed by J. T. McCaskill marks the third such crime in two decades. Charles Burns of Cedar Walls convicted seven years ago for patricide. The prior murder occurred in Lester township. When in doubt, go to the Majestic.
Community notices from Vernon Township including land interests in Crookston Minnesota, crop reports, births, weddings, anniversaries, and weekend visits. Names mentioned include Henry Briden, Mrs. Mary Ellis, Mr. and Mrs. David Tiller, Wm. Tims funeral, Howard Holman, Mrs. Smith of Duluth, Fred Tuthill, Mr. and Mrs. Tons Jensen, Edith Vanahan, Miss Mary Trallan, Lt. A. Finley Thame, Edna and Margaret Garton, Mr. and Mrs. T. Briden, Mr. and Mrs. C. Briden, Mrs. B. O. Squires.
An inexperienced young man tried to deliver a speech at a banquet with Speaker Cannon present. He began a rambling digression about mankind, then the speaker grabbed him, pulled him down, and told him to sit down, saying you are coming out of the same hole you went in.
Advert explains cooking oatmeal remedies for sprains and coughs. It promotes Mother's salve as a universal, inexpensive home remedy for colds, catarrh, and sleepless children, claiming quick relief and urging readers to keep a jar ready in every home.
Waterloo weekly bank clearings total 1 01394293 dollars with daily breakdown from Friday to Thursday and last year comparison. Realty transfers show deeds mortgages chattel mortgages and releases totaling numerous instruments for the week ending November 22 with year-to-year counts and a 178 decrease. An unrelated note on air consumption per minute from Scientific American rounds out the page.
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