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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1916
Page
2
City Auditor R L DeGon sends notices to registration officials to appear at the city wall for a school of instruction Wednesday night as part of a plan adopted before the last city election. Registration boards will be in session three days next week at multiple precincts across wards to organize voting and register voters amidst a busy period.
Local commission dealer Ralph Hoxie attributes current potato price spikes to scarce refrigerator cars and dealer storage aims. He expects prices to drop once car availability improves. The banana sector has suffered from recent southern storms, and New York fruit quality is down. Cabbage is plentiful but expensive, apples are limited, cranberries, celery, and oysters look steady, while nuts rise. Imported nuts arriving late month.
Week ending today brought an inch and a half of snow Thursday night and Friday morning in Waterloo per Ralph B. Slippy observer. Weekly rainfall 0.05 inches. Temperatures ranged from 31 to 39 degrees with a high of 39 and a low of 28 on several days.
Various local notices report deaths, travels, and events. Mrs M E Hutson travels after her father's death in Dundee. Dr J E Brinkman returns from Minneapolis on business. Miss Effie Space visits sister in Independence. New corn marketed at Cedar Falls mill. Rath Packing amends articles with 500099 capital stock. J W Rath president, E J Rath secretary. Wedding trip for Dr Sidney B D Smith and daughter to Down. Welfare officials Ruth Reed and Jaydin Elcher attend Ottumwa conference. Charles Van Vleck returns from Iowa City convention. noted as highly successful. Florence Pfeffer leaves Waterloo for relatives in Williston and Minnesota. Grace Methodist services altered. C G Orcutt to preach and consult with Grace church workers.
The Ladies' auxiliary of the canton will meet Tuesday in the parlors of 1. O. C. FL hall on Fourth street east. Initiation and a picnic supper planned with each woman to bring sandwiches and one other article. Knights of Pythias Helmet lodge No. 89 will meet Monday evening for esquire rank work. All members and visiting brothers invited.
Miss Maria C Brace and all public library staff were re elected at the annual library trustees meeting at Public Library East last evening. Brace has run the library two years and the past year circulation rose by 14000. A resolution moved the annual meetings to the second Friday in April from October to align with the fiscal year. H M Reed who has chaired the trustees for a decade was unanimously reelected. Austin Burt was re elected vice president and F J Hanlon was named secretary.
Lloyd Alvord seven dies of membranous croup at Eldora Industrial School for Boys. Funeral at mother Mahala Alvord home. remains brought to Waterlow. Father Joseph A Alford in Bradenton Florida notified. judge Boies expresses sympathy after seeing boys in Cedar Rapids court. Yeeomen fair extended at K P. crowd enjoys event.
A new Overland Hanson Automobile Co building at Fourth and Franklin streets in Iowa will open to the public Tuesday October 31 showing four floors of modern facilities. The $150000 investment includes a vast display room the largest in the state, a main garage, repair shops and storage. Clinton P Shockley and Maine Construction sponsor the project with plans for prominent glass frontage and extensive lighting.
In Detroit a barge sank at the river entrance to Lake Erie with six crewmen reported missing. One crewman was rescued by the steamship Western States which wirelessed initial details of the wreck.
Long Branch New Jersey President Wilson will speak this afternoon before a delegation of farmers from New Jersey and nearby states. He will describe what the administration has done for farmers and explain his plans for agricultural support.
Excavation work on the Corn Belt Telephone Company's new addition at Third and Sycamore streets is finished and operations will start next week if weather remains favorable. George B. Bickley says materials are on hand after a late timber delivery and a Minnesota firm will supply the next timber batch.
Notice advertises Wilhelm anniversary sale continuing until Saturday October 28. WIFE NOT LOCATED. Relatives of Charles Plamadore, killed in Columbus Ohio on Thursday, traveled from Anamosa to arrange funeral details. Plamadore formerly lived in Waterloo. sister Mrs William O'Brien of 327 Saxon Street remains there. Police alerted last night that Mrs Plamadore planned to rent a residence at Second and Baltimore Streets, but she has not been found.
A. L. Foote reported a horse drawn rig was struck by a car at Second and Washington streets. Foote suffered slight injuries. The driver fled the scene but Foote obtained the license numbers and asked the secretary of state to provide the car owner's name.
Funeral rites for Adolph Klaus will be held at the home at 2 p m Sunday and at First Evangelical Lutheran Church corner Maple and High streets at 2 38 Rev denry Mualler will be in charge Interment will be in Fairview Cemetery
Des Moines news reports Gov George W Clarks will not reveal the names of Iowa national guard election commissioners until all commission instructions are compiled The report notes that all commissioners have been selected Meanwhile temperatures in Des Moines show a range from midnight to midafternoon with varying readings and historical data. In Europe Prince Leopold of Bavaria directs troops delaying Russian trench attempts and Germans take positions on the Nar ayuvka river with prisoners and machine guns captured.
Local notes from Tripoli Iowa October include Frank Carstensen leaving for Cedar Falls for barber work, Theo Pockets seeking treatment in Minnesota for sciatic rheumatism, and several moves and visits. Residents Mrs Minnia Koch returns from Dundes Illinois. others relocate homes, attend family events, or travel to St Paul Rochester Readlyn and Bellevue for business, medical care, and reunions.
Orange Township reports a birthday dinner for Grandma Maust marking eighty first year, with family travel updates from Seattle and Minnesota. revival work ahead, school house warming postponed by weather, and construction progress on multiple homes and a new barn. concrete walks finished at the consolidated school as corn manuring continues in Orange Township Center.
An investigation by the United Central Railway details 90 days of grade crossing incidents on the Lincoln highway junctions, showing repeated driver inattention and speed near crossings. The report notes motorists and horse drawn vehicles failing to look both ways, despite bells and signs.
Funeral services for the late Gilles Kayrer were held at St. Joseph's Church in Dowellown with Rev Br Naeckers presiding. Kayrer, aged about 84, was born in Larneberg and came to this country in 1866, living near the city for many years before moving here with his wife who predeceased him in 1889. He leaves four daughters and one son, Anthony, among others. A banquet and automobile parade are planned for October 3 at Wise Hall, with notable attendees including Tharding, Kenyon, Frank A. Goteh, Cape Willam Creely, and Dr J. M. Bradley, among others.
Amsterdam reports that Emperor Francis Joseph appointed Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of Emperor William, as a grand admiral of the Austrian navy in an honorary title.
Clarksville society reports Elin Carter arriving to spend winter with daughter Mrs Forrest Seltz. Susan Durroughs visits relatives in Genoa and Chicago then to Lairdsyville and Washington, D C. Mrs Burroughs widow of John Isur-Tavehs, attends Cedar Rapids merchants convention. Carl Scharppf and Charlie Hunt visit relatives in Bloomington, Fairworth, TiHL. Mildred King dislocates elbow at high school gym. O M Graham falls from ladder at hardware store, breaks rib and injures foot.
Market tabulations show American Beet Sugar and Union Pacific among top gainers with varied shifts. Real estate transfers document numerous lot purchases in Galloway and Enterprise Place, including Oak Lawn and Cooley's additions, with values ranging around 1 to 5 thousand dollars.
Classified snippets include rooms for rent and furnished flats, a light wagon roadster for sale, used furniture, and frame shop ads. Also a lengthy Waterloo IA voter registration notice listing precincts and dates for registration ahead of the November 7 1916 election.
Land transfer notice lists Galloway Investment Co to Otto Thiligen for parcel Ist 218 Gallo, Grandview first addition. Includes lot 46 block 17 details and prior assignee A Murray to B G Wilkins.
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