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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1912
Page
3
The City Medical Society committee will present a milk regulation report at the council meeting. It proposes a scoring system for dairies, permits for producers, and labeling, with strict temperature and bacterial limits. A monthly dairy score publication is suggested.
The Third congressional Democratic committee meets Wednesday at 1 PM at the Syndicate Building to plan the campaign closing and confer with leaders. State Chair Nick Reed and candidates Pepper Maurice Connolly, Dan Hamilton, and other hopefuls are slated to attend. Champ Clark will speak at the daily show, drawing state and county candidates.
Wire Chief A A Decham plans daily protection for the show grounds during the week. A fireman will be stationed day and night with two motor trucks ready for rapid response. Police Chief BE A Leighton expects an officer at the dairy sink in the afternoon and evening, though the grounds lie outside city limits.
Darence S Miller of 220 Third Street Wast after 22 years as postal carrier retires due to ill health. Leroy Nicol, 612 Lincoln Street, promoted from senior substitute to take the route.
Fairbank reports residents and visitors including Misses Litter ington and Sawyer in Delwein and Perry Eliott from Waterloo. Dr A M Billingsley led conference in Fairbank. Claire Ward and Mrs Ida Wolgamot also noted. Delegates chosen for district convention at Iowa Falls. many townspeople attend dairy show and district W R C meeting. Cattle train from Illinois passes through en route to Waterloo.
Chicago dispatch reports heavyweight champion Jack Johnson will sign articles and forfeits for two matches with Sam Langford and Sam McVey in Sydney this winter. Forfeit money of 20000 dollars will be posted with Tearney. Johnson receives 55600 dollars guaranteed plus 5000 dollars expense and five round trip tickets. He plans a party including Barney Pury and Marty Cutler and departs Chicago October 26.
Executive Secretary Clapp urges rapid church registrations as the six day countdown to the Waterloo men’s missionary convention begins. He notes many churches show only partial participation and calls for men to register now to plan a big supper and proper headcount. Notables from New York will address sessions at Grace Methodist and First Baptist churches, with leaders from India and Omaha also on the program.
The Iowa State Fox Hunters association will hold its annual meeting and hunt in Iowa City this week. A futurity race Derby race and ladies day are on the program with about fifty fox hunting dogs expected to participate along Old Man's creek habitat in southeastern Iowa.
Judge Charlies Be. Ranier of Independence arrived this morning to preside over the district court in Waterloo for two weeks before returning to Des Moines to continue duties as an appraiser in the waterworks matter. In the divorce case Anna M. Glenn versus Lawrence W. Glenn the defendant seeks dismissal of the petition, an absolute divorce, and custody of three minor children. He alleges four years of cruel treatment, claims his wife struck him with flats and kicked him, and that she deserted him last July 29 taking household goods and their daughter Genevieve, leaving him with two children and no furniture.
Rev. J. H. Yaggey of Bradford Pennsylvania visiting Waterloo friends spoke yesterday at the First United Brethren church in the morning and evening. He expects to become pastor of the Spokane First United Brethren church after leaving Waterloo. The church sisterhood meets Wednesday at 2 20 p m in the parlors with members urged to attend for important business.
In the small hours robbers entered the C A Smith sash and fixture shop at 140 Falls Avenue by breaking a window light. They scattered Mr Smith’s papers and broke his desk but did not take any valuables, suggesting he keeps little of value on site overnight.
Dr Frank N Palmer of the Winona Lake Bible Institute spoke on The Bible as the Book of Life before a large crowd in the YMCA parlors yesterday afternoon. He outlined life questions through Bible books and announced daily sessions for teachers on the Old Testament and evening Bible instruction at 3 o'clock. Meetings are held at Emanuel Evangelical church in Courthouse square.
A noon collision at Lafayette and Fourth streets involved a car driven by Mr. Oliver and an unidentified cyclist who fled the scene. The auto swerved onto the Lafayette building sidewalk, scraping the wall and nearly breaking a plate glass window. only a wheel sustained damage.
A Chicago Record Herald New York Herald and others poll suggests Wilson would win 410 electoral votes today. Test ballots from Iowa cities show Wilson 818, Roosevelt 617, Taft 353. state distribution favors Wilson across Alabama to Wisconsin with Taft slipping while Roosevelt gains.
A fragment lists marriage licenses issued to Frank Peppler and Mable Ritzman both in Kesley ages 23 and 18, Niele C Olsen of Cedar Falls age 84, and Johanne Nelson of Cedar Falls age 34.
A young child, Algis or Elsie, asks how to spell a word during a rainstorm. Her mother explains the spelling but the girl answers with a playful mispronunciation and odd spelling. Her brother Bob asks for the spelling and she replies B H E W 1, a humorous miscue that amuses the family.
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