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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1911
Page
5
Waterloo shoppers are urged to visit the store for special month end prices designed to move goods. The ad promises low prices on Christmas and birthday gifts, upholstering services, and sewing machine agency with assurances of fair pricing and quality work.
Chicago and regional markets report firm wheat and corn, steady hogs, and mixed cattle and sheep trends. Prices rise on futures and cash demand as rainfall fears ease, with notes on Chicago Board of Trade activity and St Louis, Kansas City, and Omaha livestock openings.
Butter from the Hereford herd at Doris Iowa sells rapidly on public markets after 211 packages moved before 9am. The Makera wrappers mark the creamery product as scarce with per-pound prices ranging from 28 to 32 cents for different brands. Rev G B Shoemaker offers home made ketchup and sauces, while potatoes stay steady at market with a wide price range for other farm goods. The 25th Iowa reunion selects Mt Pleasant for the next meeting with O W Caine as president.
A large crowd gathered at Grace M. E. church today for the corner stone ceremony of the new Fifth Street edifice. Pastor Dr Eugene D Hull led the rite while Rev W W Bissell Dr Titus Lowe and others offered prayers and remarks. The old cornerstone from 1877 was opened revealing preserved documents. The piece notes Grace church origins 1861 1864 and aging facilities.
Miss Harriett Kenyon and her aunt Mrs. Young of New Hampton attended a concert last night and visited friends. W Nesfield and R G Keagy of Dunkerton were in Waterloo today on business. J J Mullen is home on Oak Avenue with typhoid fever, ill for two months with a trained nurse for three weeks. Lawyer Loren Risk is in Charle City on business. Mrs C J Rudolph visited relatives in Jesup. Mrs C E B Ransier of Independence came to Waterloo to attend the Gadski concert. F S Merrian returned from a Greene business trip. Mr and Mrs H G Pierce of Manchester are visiting Waterloo. Dr and Mrs T R McCoy and Mrs James L Cooley Jr are spending the week in Chicago. A special Illinois Central car with Studebaker autos from Omaha will arrive here at 4:5 this afternoon en route to Detroit to inspect the factory.
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