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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1921
Page
10
The Waterloo relief panel urges more blue cards for job seekers while red cards show registrants. Officials note over 200 names on red files and urge citizens to match jobs to capable city workers through local efforts and community help.
Miss Margaret Aeils, a Washington State University graduate teaching at Winslow High School, shares a letter from Bainbridge Island near Seattle. She describes Winslow, its 300 to 400 residents, the island’s agriculture, diverse settlers, and the school’s classes and housing arrangement for teachers.
The Iowa Synod gathering in Cedar Rapids opened with a sermon by retiring moderator Rev. W. E. Fisher. Committees were named and the special commission on education heard remarks from Dr. W. H. Robinson and Dr. F. E. Stockwell. A Sunday school program featured Rev. C. B. McAtes and Rev. William Jones, with plans for a Sunday school missionary to oversee southern Iowa.
The city coffers bulge as Ed Madigan, county treasurer, delivers 128 281 87 in September taxes. The large county warrant reflects about half the year’s property taxes. October will show improved finances per City Auditor A E Guagy, with bond sales adding 73 500 and a 761 87 saving from calling 20 000 worth of paying bonds.
The Waterloo Young Men's Christian Association surveys a wide and varied program for the coming year. Activities include Americanization, education by mail, Bible and English classes, athletics, crafts, community service, camps, leadership forums, fitness, public speaking, and family events aimed at engaging men and boys.
A Waterloo Y M A offers varied programs from mathematics to vocational guidance, volleyball to thrift and training. Special secretary Codegan notes memberships are lower than in other Iowa city associations. In Fredericksburg a man named Michael Duvay, age five, hanged himself on his Alta Vista area farm over despondency from poor soil. The steel trap was invented in 1704.
Instant Welief claims to unstuff you every two hours for three doses, opening nostrils, stopping a runny nose, easing headaches and feverishness. It markets as fast, inexpensive relief without quinine and without help, with a pleasant taste and wide drugstore availability.
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