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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1916
Page
3
Orlean D Manhard widow of E E Manhard sues E F Cranston in Oregon to recover a note for 1200 claiming it never passed from her after a Idaho land stock scheme collapsed. Cranston says he bought harmlessly. Case argued before Judge G W Dunham with motions to direct verdict.
Ira L. Deal petitions for divorce from Berendety Deal alleging marriage at Kansas City on May 7 1904 and separations until Oct 1 1915. He cites cruel and inhuman treatment and seeks relief after a prior ruling by Judge G W Dunham favoring the wife. A city council note reports deferment of rules action and a meeting of police fire committees civil service commission not called by Mayor W R Law.
Marshalltown October 17 Edwin D Raynor a member of the Iowa Soldiers home from Ames is about to turn 70 with both parents living in the same home they have occupied since marriage His Civil War service was in Co K Thirty ninth Wisconsin infantry He entered the home January 18 1912 His father 95 and mother 90 enjoy good health and Raynor visits them frequently
Plans to adopt police and fire department rules until after January. The civil service commission will be reorganized then, and a new member will replace Dr. J. A. Jerger whose term ends in January.
Card of thanks to friends and relatives for kindness and floral offerings during bereavement from Mrs. Geo Bolte and family.
California resident Martin Mass arrived to visit his uncle Clint Holden in the Ellis hotel and warned that 43000 vacant business and residential properties haunt San Francisco. He said the recent exposition spurred departures as crowds thinned and graft allegations colored the fair. Oakland rises as a new Californian magnet with booming factory growth and population gains.
Mrs Alfred Du Bois of New Jersey swears Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is the best remedy for constipated babies she has found. It is a gentle, non habit forming laxative with pepsin, suitable for children, sold at fifty cents, and protected by Dr Caldwell's signature. A trial bottle is offered by mail from Monticello Illinois.
Cleveland, Oct 16. A romance born fifty years ago in Niles ended in a wedding Monday night at 9 o'clock on Pratt Avenue. Mrs. Jimima Davis, 0720 Massie Avenue, aged 45, and David Armstrong, 10521 Grintwood Avenue, aged 62, wed after decades apart. They were childhood sweethearts who split after a quarrel and years of separate marriages before reuniting.
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