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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1911
Page
5
Traders debate a city ordinance to bar non producers from markets as producers claim middlemen harm competition. Readers note grocery prices for potatoes peaches butter and eggs while buyers crowd the stalls.
Chicago market report notes better northwest weather cooling wheat, plus steady lumber in corn and oats. St Louis and Kansas City livestock mixed with higher cattle and hog prices. cotton? No, focus on grains and livestock with New York stocks closing higher for several industrials. Weather forecasts call for generally fair conditions in Iowa and surrounding states.
The first frost of the season occurred Sunday morning October 8 but caused little damage to vegetation. Late beans and tomatoes escaped harm except in low-lying areas as the ground stayed warm enough to resist freezing. The forecast calls for moderate temperatures with frost unlikely and corn fields largely dead with soft corn scarce. Market reports noted several loads of dried corn sold at 57 cents a bushel.
Services Sunday marked the laying of the cornerstone for Northminster Presbyterian Church at Ballou street and Avalon avenue near Galloway car line. Rev. Frank Schroeder led the ceremony with Rev. W. B. Sandford and Dr. Robert C. Westenberg assisting as the 6th anniversary of Westminster Presbyterian Church was noted.
Market listing detailing graded hides and wool categories with weights and quality terms. Includes No 1 and No 2 green calf hides, cured calf hides, bull hides, and medium wool with weight ranges such as 23 to 25 lbs and up.
A telegram from Illinois Central officials to Chicago reports 206 workers in local shops split as 105 in locomotives 45 in cars and 56 in force. A transformer station is being erected to power the shops with space for sixteen transformers. Electric wires are connected to the mill blacksmith and boiler shops and full electrification is planned by November 1. All grocery stores will close Tuesday afternoon for the Dairy Show.
Mrs Baun riding with her son Claude on a motorcycle yesterday collided with a barbed wire stretched across a bicycle path near Chautauqua park. The wire slashed her throat narrowly missing the jugular vein and she received seven stitches after being taken to her son's home for treatment.
The Philathea class of Walnut Baptist Sunday school will hold a social Wednesday evening at Mrs Ruth Eightey home 14435 Hammond Avenue All girls of the class invited Another social by church young people Friday in the church parlors titled A Social A Day attendees to dress as days of the week An especially lively time expected.
Mr and Mrs W T Rose hosted a seven year reunion for Roses at 401 Argyle Street yesterday at 1 pm. The home was decorated with yellow dahlias and guests shared memories of youth while visiting and chatting. Attendees included Joseph Rose Chamberlain Chas Rose Monona Sam Rose Waterloo Miss Mary Rose and Mrs BE J Scherlin. Clarence Rose from Dakota attended as a nephew.
Three Burlington firemen were overcome by smoke and gas in a cellar fire at the Thal Produce company building. They were rescued by fellow firefighters. Three women on upper floors were carried out to safety. Property damage described as not great.
A mass meeting is set for 7:30 this evening at the labor temple on Mulberry Street. Local speakers will present addresses and a large turnout of union men is anticipated.
In San Francisco voters face 23 proposed constitutional amendments tomorrow with women’s suffrage the dominant issue. Suffragists express jubilant and optimistic sentiment while initiative referendum and recall plots lose ground to the suffrage push amid Governor Johnson’s strong campaign.
Ramos Montara who led a troop for the insurrection in Lower California was demoyed to the International boundary yesterday and stabbed then rushed into Mexico where he was claimed to be slain. Mrs M M Thomas of Iowa Falls visited her niece Miss Minnie Farington and Waterloo friends over Sunday.
Spirit rappings and dancing tables are barred at the National Spiritualists association annual meeting in St. Louis. Business sessions run by day, messages received in the evening. Harold L. Alleman of Omaha visited Waterloo relatives, returning from a business trip to New York City. MI Grocery stores will close Tuesday afternoon due to the Dairy.
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