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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1909
Page
11
Portraits show Mr Mulcahy a Waterloo and La Porte City druggist and Miss la Penquite who jilted attorney Godiove Orth Dietz for him. Dietz planned to wed in October. his Oklahoma home was far away. Cupid altered the match with a surprise Des Moines ceremony.
Community notes report a dance at Voorhies featuring Gates' orchestra of Mason City. Other items mention Mrs J M Hefner improving at 334 Fremont, visits by Mrs M Powell Cedar Rapids and Mrs Hubert Carr Manchester, and trips by Mr and Mrs George Turner to Trempealeau Wisconsin.
Charley McGinley and his wife depart Oklahoma City for their home after a five weeks’ visit with friends in Mt Vernon and Bennington townships and Waterloo. He planned to stay longer but the German housewives’ fine dishes left him surfeited and he fled to avoid acute dyspepsia.
The two year old child of Mr and Mrs Wm D Lawless of 4 Lafayette street suffered severe burns after a fall into a pail of boiling water but is reported to be improving and likely to recover. Her four year old sister is praised for pulling her from the water and saving her life.
Police hunt a Black man who entered Mrs. Alice White’s home in Danville NL last night and kicked and beat her severely, leaving her in critical condition and possibly near death.
Captain Borchgrevink opposes submitting Dr. Cook’s records to Copenhagen and the American Geographical Society, urging Geneva’s Geographical Society to judge impartially. Greenland clergyman Ludwigs accuses Peary of mistreating Eskimos and abandoning a group of women to speed his expedition.
The Cedar Valley Baptist convention closes with about 130 delegates excluding locals. Reports and church letters followed by talks from Rev. T. O. McMinn, A. E. Meyer, and J. R. Vaughn on pastor selection. Officers for next year named including Moderator Rev. L. T. Foreman and Clerk Rev. John Lingson.
Announcement from W. C. F. & N. offices states cars will begin running tomorrow at 1 o'clock on the Litchfield division of the East Fourth street line. The line connects with the downtown line at Illinois Central crossing and travels via Fourth and Parker to Litchfield factories. Schedule shows service from 6:15 a.m. to 11:45 p.m. with hourly and half hour runs thereafter.
The Society notes that on Monday evening members of chapter 7 PEO will host the Brothers-in-law with a trolley ride to Cedar Falls and an oyster supper. About seventy members and friends are expected for the event departing at 8 o clock from the waiting station. The Ladies' Guild Thimble Bee gathers at Christ Episcopal church with sixty attendees and a musical program led by Mrs. Weld. Frances Curtis, Harold Rugg, Flossie LaTier, and Margaret VanMetre perform piano and vocal numbers.
Miss Katherine Jewell Everts will speak in Waterloo on Thursday October 14 addressing the Iowa Library association and other Iowa cities including Cedar Rapids Davenport Des Moines and Waterloo The lecture venue is the auditorium of the new manual training building and admission is free The event accompanies a tour promoting her book The Sneaking Voice and its interpretation of literature. Numerous local social events follow including kitchen and miscellaneous showers hosted by the Griffin and Zook families and a Sacred Heart Thimble Bee continuing club gatherings across Waterloo.
Mrs. H. H. Bradley wife of a leading Delaware County physician died Tuesday evening at her home in Manchester following an unspecified illness.
President Taft began the day in Wawona then headed by stage to the Mariposa Grove giants. He returned for lunch and proceeded to Glacier Point atop one of Yosemite Valley’s granite cliffs for an afternoon excursion.
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