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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1914
Page
8
Local post office staff report a record month with over a million letters mailed and parcel post rising as Christmas demands approach. The 15 day rural and seven day city counts total 1 072 120 letters per year at current pace, while managers anticipate new methods to handle holiday parcel volume.
Local street car system will not install pay as you enter yet though a change is likely with new cars. Conductors are told to accept fares on entry, prompting public discussion as the nationwide pay as you enter trend grows.
Notices sent to all public school teachers to collect materials by Tuesday October 27 for the Christmas ship. YWCA classes make sleeping bags petticoats aprons underwear quilts and a full outfit for a girl of about thirteen for children affected by the European war. Donations welcome at YW rooms or desks.
The finance committee of the Ladies' Industrial Society of First Congregational Church completed plans for a bazaar on November 1. Lunch will be served at noon and supper at 5 30. Ladies who have not been solicited are asked to phone Mrs. McAlvin.
A local Des Moines piece details a deceptive ophthalmic scam. A woman sought W. B. Jackson for glasses, found no one matching, and reported a con artist preying on seniors with fake eye tests and cheap frames, charging five dollars.
The Iowa Building at the Panama Pacific Exposition grounds is nearly finished. Architects M. R. Cleveland and Clinton Sharkles report the structure has reached the final touches and will compare favorably with others on site. Exterior plastering and decorative details now dominate the remaining work. A traveling men’s smoker by the Waterslon association is planned for next Saturday at a local venue.
A mosaic of short items reports residents and visitors in Town City and nearby areas. Notes include Hermann Mill in Iowa City, several trips to Fort Dodge Milwaukee Crookston and Chicago, football game attendance, a typhoid recovery, Knights Templar ceremony, and a mission fund detail for a presbytery supporting Chinese missions.
Mrs Fred Pettit Bas returned from Council Bluffs where she attended the Presbyterian synodical meeting for Iowa and was chosen president of the synodical missionary society, a post she had held as secretary and treasurer. Waterloo Presby raised more money for foreign work.
The Munn-Tyler Music Co. stock at 224 West Fourth Street will be liquidated from October 26 to November 1 with sacrifice prices on a wide range of pianos and musical merchandise. Named brands include FMERSON LACTER MILTON EVERELDT LINDEMAN SONS J FISCHER HOLLAND KEELE FRENCH SCHAAF CANLE SONS and others. Early callers gain best selection as hundreds of instruments are offered before Christmas. Store hours include evenings.
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