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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1919
Page
10
Raymond reports guests at the Glen Parker home and a Ladies' Aid meeting. Obituary notes Rev P M Phillips of Colesburg, plus local job moves, weddings, and hospital moves. Community events include a Thanksgiving service and local birthdays, with several families traveling or visiting Cedar Falls, Waterloo, and Dumont.
Fairbank Indiana notices report mayor Rech herman ordering business lights off at 8:30 p.m due to fuel shortage and street lights out at 9 p.m. plans for a second-week corn show with Buchanan Black Hawk Bremer and Payette counties. Also wedding at the Brant home, William Hotenkamp returning from overseas, and a basketball win for Fairbank over Dunkerton 11 to 6. Evangelistic meetings begin at the Baptist church led by Rev J C Clark with two weeks of talks ahead.
Shell Rock residents report moves and visits including H J Wilson furniture sale to Henry Remming, Gug Silth and mother retiring to Shell Rock, and Frank Robbins visiting in town. School gym saw two basketball games with Shell Rock high defeating the tech school alumni 12 to 0, and Clarksville routing Plainfield 34 to 7. Multiple trips, farming changes, marriages, and family reunions fill the local scene as residents travel, relocate, or host relatives over the period.
Orchard notes motor trip home after funeral, a Red Cross auxiliary election, a fair planned for the schoolhouse, and multiple local visits. Jesup highlights Thanksgiving events, church services, High School staff changes, residents visiting relatives, and upcoming congregational activities across several churches and families.
Tripoli events include a birthday gathering at John Berlin home hosted by Mr and Mrs Wm Doepke and Mr and Mrs Fred Doepke Blackhawk. Tripoli plans paving expansion and high school pupils hosted a turkey roast for staff and board. Local illnesses, civic meetings, skating rink plans, and community notices fill a busy period with multiple residents traveling and hosting relatives.
Trustees of Mt Norrie college Messru John ieckman and Iral Troatle spend days at Waterloo in interest of the college. Uob Sorde to give humorous address at the Orange school. Varents teacher meeting to be held at the Orange township school this evening. Ladiee Social eclecle met with Mrs Ray Jalohty on Thursday. Thanksgiving meeting at the Orange church invites all. Some attendees plan trips to Chicago for events and shows.
Nov 26 Hudson column reports Mr and Mrs Fred Seufferlein and granddaughter Zatha traveling to Laie Tench California to upend the winner. Donald Gibson, son of Mosil Qluson, dies. A. X. Wilsons return from a 19 week eastern US and Canada trip. A well attended closing out sale by Sam Strayer nets over 6000. William Allenbaugh improves after hospital stay. The Strayer family of Canada visits. Two Hudson boys attend La Porte event. Good Luck Country club donates to Salvation Army and Christian Orphans home. Miss Guy McLaren appears in high school lecture. Dunkerton-Tindson game: Hudson wins 61-14. Red Cross drive in Hulston successful. Evangelistic services at Brethren church begin. Community base sale aids Christian Orphans home at Cornell Bluffs. Don Axon attends Ames-Iowa game. completes Iowa City course. Victor Flat, county agent, returns from Ames. Boundary line decision for New Hartford Consolidated kept. Several schools need teachers. salaries up to 100. Ralph and Ray Doore transact business. Dan McEniry advocates Butler County honor roll. Supt Hodges visits Parkersburg. Grace Dreher and mother Grace Dreher visit Hampton. Miss Dreher served as Butler County recorder. Jodwardell family arrives from McGray, reporting good roads. Waverly area reports resignation of church official. George R. Dennis attends initiation. Jabe Neal leaves truck driving post. Bob wounded in AWP but recovery ongoing. L O Folkers visit Frank Folkers. Miss Henrietta Peterson from Everly visits Viola Folkers. Jimmie, son of J Ray of Los Angeles, injured in fall but no broken bones.
Parkersburg events include residents traveling to Lakefield and Des Moines, new home moves by Henry Fleshner and Henry Johnson, gatherings by Mrs. T A Hobson and Mrs. Belle Welker, and a marriage of Ed Siight to Alice Kooks in Grundy Center. The Congregational ladies held a supper with 40 attendees, netting over 44 for the church. The Calhoun family mourns their four day old son's death with services and burial at Oak Hill cemetery.
Denver news notes many residents moving houses and farms, with Steege and Bieber among those transitioning to new Denver residences. A masquerade is planned at Dirkmann hall this week, while typhoid illnesses and social events fill the local scene. family visits and travels are frequent as Horton and Littleton communities report births, deaths, and gatherings.
A fragmented Dunkerton notes column mentions forthcoming marriages including Casper J. Ortmer and his bride, renters from Illinois planning to move back, and locals discussing names Hawk Eye versus Sucker. Other items note Dr. Schmitt cementing a barn floor, a new cattle shed by G. Bleckner, Holdiman work, Lola Lena Naebers visit, a peace treaty reaction, a choir event at St. Francis church, a funeral for David Holdiman, and a neighbor raising a cow-sucking hog poetry-like colloquialism.
In St Ansgar on Wednesday at 7 pm, Miss Bernellcn and Adolph Mueller were married by Rev. William Gatreth. Nearby news notes that Tollefson returned Thursday to visit the hospital, Mrs Edi Tesemaan and two daughters visit La Crosse Wis, and Mrs Lohan of Los Angeles plans a Osage winter visit. The St Ansgar Produce Company employs about 30 people, with poultry reading dressing and packing under manager CO H Brimgmus, and fish work to continue for at least another week.
Sumner recounts visitors and events including the Chass Park er and Rachford Co attractions returning next season. local residents Earl Casa and family travel to California for part of winter. a birthday surprise for John Ludwig Jr. and a marriage of Oscar Meawarth to Belva Reimler are noted. David Gretty dies. services held Wednesday. plus shoppers, a tumor operation in Marshalltown, and business sale of a garage interest. Marble Rock reports church dinner and bazaar proceeds of 112. Nine Parcher and Waister Pauer wed at Charles City.
Charles City November 26 reports Ed Bennett anniversary celebration at home of the bride’s parents on Eighteenth Avenue. The wedding of Mary Hart to John Lane occurred Sunday at the bride’s parents home with Rev. Prottenenter officiating. Funeral services for Mrs. August Mundfrom were held at the Lutheran church. A new locker system at the local Y M C A shows satisfaction, with a busy schedule of bowling volleyball and wrestling planned. A union Thanksgiving service is set for Central M church with Rev Booth delivering the sermon.
In Richmond Indiana Mrs C D Tibbetts and family mourn the loss of George Hilliard and his wife’s daughter after an asphyxiation gas incident. Hilliard died aiding others in the bathroom. the Tibbetts planned travel was halted by the mother’s illness. Relatives from Washington Geneva Jamestown ND attended the funeral for their niece Mrs Geo Fyshiard. A lecture by Elisabeth Welzel titled She Sun- continues.
An old advertisement promises quick relief for indigestion and acidity with Pape's Diapepsin tablets. It claims millions use it to prevent discomfort from meals and allow eating favorite foods again, noting relief from belching gas and acidity.
The advertisement promotes genuine Bayer Aspirin with the Bayer Cross on tablets as proof of authenticity. It claims physicians have recommended Bayer for over eighteen years and lists common uses for colds headaches toothache earache neuralgia rheumatism and general pains. Small boxes of twelve cost only a few cents with larger packages also sold by druggists.
An advertisement-style piece argues winter will renew catarrh symptoms and promotes S. S. S. as a blood purifier that cures by removing germs from the blood. It urges readers to mail inquiries to the Chief Medical Adviser at Swift Laboratory in Atlanta for treatment instructions.
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