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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1923
Page
2
The Waterloo Way issue proposes forming a skating club within the Business and Professional Woman's group. Members discuss goals, learn-skills, and preservation efforts while Winifred Gargin is noted as treasurer and active organizer since formation.
The Woman's club chorus met to set tentative plans for an open house and carol singing during Christmas week, aiming to make the event a community affair. No rehearsal next week. next meeting slated for November 12 at Sacred Heart parish notes.
Fifty-eight employees of Paul Davis Dry Goods attended a masquerade Halloween party at the W. W. Freebern home. A fortune teller predicted futures for guests, the basement served as a dance hall, and Halloween games and contests took place on the first floor. The house displayed pumpkins, witches, ghosts, and black cats. Mrs. Holmes won a prize for identifying the most items. Luncheon followed in cafeteria style.
Side Talks discusses sympathetic imagination and its limits. It notes how extreme sensitivity to others' emotions can burden the observer, causing discomfort in daily life and in shared spaces such as travel or marriage. The piece cautions balance between empathy and personal boundaries.
Readers receive various fashion and beauty tips from a column of letters. Advice covers skin tone, weight, hair dye, nails, eye lashes, and exercises for arms and thighs, with cautions about diet and safe cosmetic practices.
Women of St John s Catholic Church plan a thimblelos e afternoon at 162 Mulberry Street. St Paul s M W church Sunday school class meets at Miss Macrjorfa Anderson s home. Pivot Presbyterian to dedicate gymnasium with a sociable. First Presbyterian after vacation sociable in the church gym Friday. Caleb and Joshua class hosts monthly social at Irvin C Brown country home celebrating Carl Brown s twenty first birthday. Fellowship class of First Brethren meets with picnic supper and Miss Eliza B Miller speaks on India. Hallowe en games follow. Women s Social union meets tomorrow afternoon at Universalist shared hall hosted by Mrs Victor Long and Mrs Henry Grant.
Wild Rose members and spouses host Mrs J M Cerda for masked Halloween eve ning. danger of mask omission. Prospect Bridge Luncheon club meets at Mrs James Kenyon’s with H Worster high and W L Northrup second. Nov 12 potluck dinner at J C Worster home. Novelty Twelve club plans masquerade Hallowe en at W S Wexter home. El Deen picnic and New Year’s Eve party at Mrs E B Barrett’s. Child Study club meets tomorrow with Mrs R A Holdiman. topic The Physical Care of the child. Mrs B E H Cutler to lead.
Advertisements and notices include an extra pair of glasses ad and a bungalow permit for 1222 Second Street West costing 4500 dollars. Ill child Edith McCambs 2 from Jefferson ill with diphtheria. Mrs Myers of Wa terioo visiting in town. Anna Case recital drew many Waterioo music lovers at Town State Teachers College. Kent and Lower families returned from visit with the Chapmans. Municipal court November jury list shows 36 men and 25 women to be called as needed. Slocum writes from Esher of California sightseeing and winter arrivals by easterners increasing hotel demand.
The item lists residents visiting or living in the area with brief personal notes. It mentions Mrs Albert Brandes in Waterloo and Janesville, Mrs Charles Allison from Chester West Virginia, A W Ballentine in Los Angeles, L L Orth predicting license plate sales, a Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress play ground feature for The Country Gentleman, Mrs W F Ray hosting a dinner in Los Angeles with Allison guests, and Andrew C Preston winning an essay prize in Sioux Falls while the Prestons live at 120 South Summit, the First Presbyterian manse.
J E Bragdon was elected president for the eighteenth consecutive year at a Waterloo Special Welfare League board meeting at headquarters. Victor Zellhoefer is vice president CG A Morris treasurer and Mrs E A Boggs recording secretary. Retiring officers are H B Cropper J J Miller and Mrs Ef Reed. The new budget was prepared and sent to the Community Fund committee.
At a YY M CO A luncheon the Y's Men’s Club held a spelling contest. Hal Mosier and Har Stoner advanced to the final rounds with C A Boatman and J A Rosenthal assisting. Mosier finally spelled a word correctly to secure victory.
Judge B B Stiles arrived an hour late to a Black Hawk county session. He apologized to the jury and attorneys, saying he attended a Russell Hotel talk by Judge Harry Olson of Chicago on criminal procedure matters.
Miss Gertrude Bayless travels through Shanghai Nanking and Haupon on the Yangtze to Changsha. She details foreign concessions, city life, and the peril of war as a guard-boat protects travelers while troops clash on the river and in Hunan province.
Mrs. J. O. Middleton of Kansas City Missouri has lectured in Waterloo and Gowdar Falls public schools on scientific temperance. She leaves for Des Moines for the Town State Teachers association meeting and will present at a booth showing the anti-cigaret film to instructors at the convention.
An unidentified drink was picked up at 4 p m yesterday and could not give a name, later saying he drove from Plainfield to Strawberry Point Iowa and stopped to get warm. A car owner was arrested at 3 a m for leaving his car with the engine running on a downtown street. Richard Halston of 423 Locust Street reported his bicycle stolen from in front of a tavern last night.
Harry Mooradian presents a complete line of oriental rugs at Hall-Ekfeldt Furniture Co. The collection showcases weaving provinces of the Orient with unusually low prices, inviting customers to view the full display.
General Tan captured Changsha the capital of Hunan, then Governor Chau retook it, with Hunan troops fighting a cautious war. Soldiers go unpaid and loot increases suffering for locals. Refugees fill buildings as the foreign observer notes shopping challenges and a $100 mirror bought for $7.25 with an interpreter needed.
Waterloo Elks move rehearsals forward for the charity minstrel Jollies of 1923 at the Waterloo theatre Monday Tuesday and Wednesday next week. Frank Fish is interlocutor with Jos Miller Tara Harrison Louis Collins and Bur dette Smith as end men. Frank Bernard Billi Mann and Ralph Martin to sing ballads.
Mrs. E. D. Rich notes six coffee drinkers in her family prefer Chocolate Cream Coffee. She says it tastes stronger and yields more cups, making it economical and dependable. She urges readers to ask their grocer for the flavor.
The present show is eagerly awaited as a major seasonal theatre event. Proceeds benefit charity and the Jon Bren Producing company will present fresh scenery costumes from the artiste and introduce new songs and dancing features.
This ad extols Eversharp mechanical pencils as dependable daily tools with automatic lead indicators and rifled grips. It pairs the product with the all metal Wahl Pen, highlighting durability, long life, and price ranges for Eversharp from 1 to 10 dollars and Wahl Pen from 4 to 10 dollars.
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