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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1913
Page
4
The season's newest ideas from the Royal Society Co feature Kewpie Goods designed by Miss Rose O'Neil. Ladies are invited to view the genuine Kewpie Goods, with Royal Society Kewpie packages including stamped articles floss and full directions for completion of the embroidery.
Tonight Young Woman's Missionary Society hosts Miss Mayme Hoar and Idna Berry at 14 Baltimore. Christian Endeavor at United Brethren church. Dinner for Miss Beulah Alexander at Mrs. William Baum's home. Wednesday marriage of Beulah Alexander and Parl Eldridge at 8 at the Alexanders' home. Sacred Heart ball and card party. Opening Fortnightly Club at Universalist church. Economia club party. Aldgomety of St. Paul’s church. Weds afternoon Idlewild club and various social gatherings. Chautauqua Circles and Grant Circle discuss Mediterranean civilization and maps.
In Waterloo, multiple social events and club meetings unfold. Mrs KR Dakin led a Columbian circle talk on Panama conditions, Balkan war, and living costs, while Mrs A B Hallowell spoke on Constantinople. Recitals by Mrs Fannella Sargent Haskell loom in the evenings, with pre-events at homes around Waterloo.
At the Majestic the program draws large crowds with clean vaudeville. Chas Edenberg performs new equilibrist stunts while Lightner and Jordan win applause. Bill Jenks Crook, Joe Magee offers sharp laughs, and The Boehm Athletic Girls showcase a health and body demonstration. World series baseball scores are read after matinees.
Joe Griner was found not guilty on a charge of selling liquor illegally after witnesses testified they bought liquor at the Griner home from another man. Police searched yesterday and found seventeen empty cases with bottles missing from thirteen, suggesting removal from the building. A. Johnson, whose testimony sparked the probe, was found guilty of being drunk and disorderly, but the case was continued for sentence and he was released on good behavior.
The first fall meeting of the Board of Trade discussed locating club rooms in the new Black building, with a proposal calling for eighth-floor rooms on Sycamore and Fourth streets. no action taken yet. The finance committee reported the club in flourishing condition with assets around $25,000 in real estate and bonds. The American Manufacturing company proposed bringing an automobile harvester power tractor to market here, costing $1200, with orders already totaling $150,000, promising factory jobs and population growth.
A bank car on the C G W tracks near Mullan avenue was robbed last evening. Two razors a revolver and several other articles were stolen. U S Young of Washington Iowa ran over a boy on Fourth street east but the boy escaped injury. Milton Wilson 22 is detained on wife desertion and theft charges after a sequence of arrests with a fine paid. He is said to be wanted at Olney Illinois.
J. C. Baird of Portland Maine, an expert machinist at Waterloo Canning for two years, has resigned his position and accepted a new role elsewhere.
A Pilgrim Magazine excerpt touts saxolite face bath as toning and wrinkle-reducing with a formula of powdered saxolite dissolved in witch hazel. It also praises mercorized wax as a facial rejuvenator absorbing blotchy complexions and improving skin when applied nightly and washed off in the morning.
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