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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1918
Page
4
Brief notices thanking individuals and lodges appear in the evening Courier and Daily Reporter. These cards express gratitude, list names, and note affiliations or lodge membership details, reflecting customary community acknowledgments in the era.
A dense ad page lists numerous help wanted notices including male laborers for fire duty, shipping and delivery roles, elderly drivers, a middle aged housekeeper, and a range of manufacturing positions with top pay. External positions include sales travel, executive sales management, and a herdman for a high grade registry cattle operation. Also appears are real estate listings and probate notices with archival date references.
A dense listing of sale items and classifieds shows autos including Ford models and a Dodge sedan, tires and tubes at cut prices, household goods, secondhand clothing, and rental notices. Contact numbers and street references appear with several entries for buyers and sellers, including lamp and furniture items, and local services.
Chairman Hurley of the Shipping Board asked the House appropriations committee for authority to spend 484.6 million dollars more to advance the government shipbuilding program in Washington. The notice also mentions a separate evening class ad for French study beginning September 30 at the College for Commerce.
Funeral services are planned for Mrs. O H Sweeney at Plymouth Congregational church at 2 15 p m with burial in Elmwood. She was born October 16 1884 on a Delaware farm and lived in Strawberry Point Cedar Rapids Waterloo and Des Moines. Survived by husband C Fiederfrank father six sisters and one brother. Also details of private services and Rebekah lodge involvement. Funeral for Mrs Idai Hemsath will be held tomorrow at 2 p m at the family home rural route No 5 and burial will follow in Fairview Cemetery.
The American consul general at Sofia quoted in a Saloniki dispatch says King Ferdinand of Bulgaria sought Entente aid due to revolution fears at home and failures of Germany and Austria to provide military force. He convened the grand council on September 23 and demanded immediate assistance from Ter-Vin and Vienna. He feared revolution, noting Bolshevik unrest and impulsively turned away from the powers that brought desolation.
A dispatch to the Navy Department from Key West reports the U S S Salem carrying sailors on shore liberty overturned in heavy seas near the port Sunday night. Unofficial reports say 20 sailors are unaccounted for as search efforts begin.
Paris reports Twenty five German airplanes destroyed by French aviators including two balloons put out of action. Twenty six tons of bombs dropped on convoys and concentration points behind enemy lines, with heavy shelling of Challerange Lyre and Mont St Martin. Heavy fire directed at enemy troops.
Federal Judge C Hutchinson contracted Spanish influenza that led to pneumonia, forcing the jury in the conspiracy case against Felis Gouled and David J Powell to be discharged. Trial halted after illness arose at the start on September 17.
An elderly Indigenous woman in her payite ment yesterday paid taxes twice using a check and cash. County treasurer’s assistants uncovered the double payment after a search at the counter. More than 5000 in taxes were paid yesterday by a clerk alone.
Sergt. Robert A. Shaffner returns to Virginia after a 10 day furlough. Private Raymond A. Herden tented with his mother Catherine McNaughton at Camp Daudge. Carl Hathaway heads to Ames to enter the S A T C. East High class of 1918 graduate. Courthouse offices closed 10:20 am to 1 pm for parade attendance. An attorney disclosed a 1918 $12,000 Black Hawk county farm profit. Dr. and Mrs. W S Devine and Forestine of Marshalltown and Mrs. J E Crouse of Albion were weekend guests. More than two questionnaires filled by the legal advisory board. many sought the service at the courthouse again.
German reserves are being rushed into the battle between the Argonne forest and the Meuse river where Americans engage. A new division is identified as the foe makes a stand on the Kriemhild line. Americans fight in ravines and woods as enemy tries to delay the advance while American airmen press forward despite bad weather.
Walnut Street Baptist Missionary society meets in church parlors. St Francis circle led by Mrs Jacob Reibsen. Minerva club with Mrs D M Pelton. P R E y and J N Jaeger discuss plans with O pastor. Marion visit in Webster City. Miss Marion to speak at Ban?ier event Oct 23. Local ministers to present program with Miss Margaret Ludwig. J D Easton reports on railway work. J D Easton now Milwaukee station, Minneapolis. G D Beatty learns son H R Beatty arrived overseas with the 521st remount squadron, formerly at Camp Jackson Fla. Miss Gerry’s buggy accident on Hawthorne Ave injures driver. Social Welfare League annual meeting postponed to Oct 1?. churches urged to send reps. Sergi Trainor, trainee in medical corps, arrived overseas after service at Jefferson Barracks and Allen Town. Canadian sugar frosting ban noted. October sugar certificates due by Aug Ack 5 for Ottumwa merchants.
Local church groups and women’s missionary societies hold meetings and picnics. Astronomy class led by Mrs. Chester Cadwallader finishes a season study. next meetings plan to read The Canadian Commonwealth. Kansas City Journal reports higher postal rates. corn and oats markets show declines with brief rallies and tight provisions.
Omaha Livestock report shows hogs mostly steady with some declines to ten cents, receipts about 23,090. Cattle and calves mixed with steers steady to strong, heifers and cows varying. Total receipts include 30,000 sheep with prices steady. yearlings and wethers cited.
Kansas City stockyards show cattle, calves, and sheep receipts with mixed prices. Cattle receipts around 2,500 to 7,500 noted. steer and cow prices varying from mid-teens to around 19 dollars, calves 6 to 12 dollars, lambs and sheep in the mid-teens to low twenties. Local notes include enterprise receipts and price ranges for heifers, stockers, and feeders.
Chicago reports unchanged prices across items with eggs and potatoes showing steady receipts. New York markets open steady with butter and eggs firm, equities mixed as US Steel and allied shares rise, while war shares retreat. Kansas City notes unchanged butter and poultry, with firsts at 45 cents and another mix of grain and livestock figures from St Louis and Peoria.
Washington Oct 1 The senate rejects Williams proposal to limit suffrage to white women by a 61 to 22 vote. The defeat blocks a final vote on extending the franchise to white women.
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