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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1913
Page
4
In a crowded Harlem hall, supporters endure five hours of political rhetoric to hear former governor Sulzer. The crowd, dense and hot, cheers as Sulzer finally appears and speaks about citizenship and resilience to a packed, laboring audience.
Carl Pronge, a well known farmer living four miles north of Allison, died last Friday afternoon from apoplexy at his home. He is survived by his wife and several grown children. The funeral was held Tuesday. Mrs. N. E. Kester and son Francis returned to Greene after a visit here at the Kester home. Mrs. F. E. Wilf came back to help care for her father, J. W. Kester, during illness. Miss Margaret Davis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Davis, underwent appendicitis surgery at the Presbyterian Hospital in Waterloo and was recovering well. She has been training to be a professional nurse. The Alsen high school girls played a basketball game tonight.
Mrs. Alex Rohrbacher lies very low at home. The Ladies' Aid held a Halloween program with witches ghosts skeletons and pumpkins. A stockmen and Holstein breeders meeting occurred at Riverside hotel. Ray Smalling has a new auto. Glen Parker and family attended Ballydar g services with Ray Smalling. The Roger-Myers Co plans a foundry. J W Bennett’s hogs decline from cholera. Rally day at M F E church drew a large audience. Farmers shredding and husking corn as season progresses. Dr Everall Marsh Place Bldg Phone 984.
Merle Clarence Ellis aged seven died Monday evening October 20 after birth in Waterloo December 12, 1905. He was born at 628 Allen Street to Mr and Mrs E H Ellis. His mother died seven days after his birth and he was raised at his grandparents home.
Merle Schenk died after a short illness ending Oct 20, 1908. His mother Phoebe McMurrin and father Christopher Schenk, and sisters Amelia, Mrs George Wallace, Mrs John Funk, and Mrs Mary Mctaugal’s family cared for him. Funeral May 16, 1908 at First Congregational church. Local items note births, visits, sales, and upcoming wedding notices in the Tripoli area with names including Hulda Weber and George Winzenberg.
The families thank friends for comforting words and many floral offerings after the death and burial of a loved one in Fairview cemetery. Rev FE G Genung of La Porte City, a friend of the family, is mentioned.
Joseph C. Todd of Oneida New York arrived last Friday to visit his friend Francis Rederus, sharing time in town.
Miss Ethel Brown of Waterloo has been chosen as domestic science teacher at Marshalltown High School to replace Miss Ethel Phelps who resigned to join Iowa State College as a Short course demonstrator in home economics. Brown, a West Waterloo High School alumna class of 1905, completed a two year teachers course at Milwaukee-Downer College and did practice teaching in Milwaukee schools. She began her duties yesterday.
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