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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1913
Page
8
The first snow of the season fell in Iowa and neighboring states with mixed rain and flakes. Burlington reports a brief miniature blizzard amid a 62 degree above zero reading, while Davenport and Ottumwa saw light snow that melted by noon after sharp temperature drops.
Miss Grace Viign and Miss Beth Gilbert visit Cedar Falls while teachers and students attend events across Humboldt Mount Vernon and Norwood. Greenwood Cemetery fundraiser nets 106 dollars as new Elks members are initiated in Waterloo, with a wild initiation day at the Teachers College and a Waterloo car ride banquet at the Galloway club.
Tommy Anderson must appear before Judge Cumming on Friday to answer charges of ramming into a boy named Shoemaker, smashing his bicycle, and injuring the youth after failing to see him in time. First snow of the season fell across Cedar Falls with trains showing widespread coverage. A college joint meeting raised over $100 to cover travel costs for nine student delegates and faculty delegates to the quadrennial in Kansas City from December 31 to January 4. Community officers are urged to prepare for inspection, and Cedar Falls sent a delegation to the W C T U convention in Des Moines, which voted to host the 1914 meeting here. Mrs. Hewitt’s son Fred Hewitt, formerly of Cedar Falls, died of heart disease aboard a train in San Antonio, Texas.
Police raided three disorderly houses early Sunday arresting four couples on disorderly conduct charges. Two other establishments were raided with no crime found. Victims forfeited 145 dollars. A rearrest was ordered by Police Judge Meyers. One raid uncovered a married woman and her two daughters aged 7 and 10 after a car ride to an unknown home.
"Fine Feathers" presents a humanist tale where a wife challenges the old love and cottage myth by pushing her husband into financial risk. Edna Marshall leads the cast at the Waterloo with matinee and evening performances on October 22, highlighting contemporary gender themes and cautionary consequences.
The Marshalltown squad fell to the Tigers 6 to 0 on College field Saturday afternoon. Tigers celebrate victory with an evening campus gathering. The Teachers' college also lost 11 to 7 at St Joseph college returning from Dubuque. Croquet club keeps daily practice despite cold weather at Franklin and Fifth.
A newspaper advice item urges women to seek Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief from back pain headaches nerviness and bearing down pains. It claims the remedy offers safe bars of relief and will save years of misery, citing thousands of other sufferers.
Survived by a widow and three daughters, James Jarvis dies. Funeral planned Wednesday from the house. A Methodist pastor here notes his death as a local event with a funeral sermon and service to follow.
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