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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1921
Page
1
Two youths, Lawrence Stock and Herschel Cook, were arrested in Ackley Iowa on a charge of stealing a 1930s Ford sedan missing from Waterloo. License 19717 belonged to E W Comfort, 217 Sunnyside, now transferred. Deputy Margare Saul seeks the owner as the boys are detained awaiting sheriff instructions.
Brig. Gen. H H Bandholtz moves to command federal troops arriving in Charleston to quell clashes in Boone Logan counties. Headquarters at Chesapeake and Potomac building, extra telephones added. Troops to be placed at strategic points, with airplanes landing and supplies moving in. Reports indicate miners quitting, weapons and ammunition moved toward the front, while officials welcome the intervention and martial law.
Cedar Falls Sept 2 Special announces a two day horseshoe pitching tourney at Cedar Valley fair with a silver cup and cash prizes. First place wins the cup and $206, second $15, third $10, fourth $5.
Des Moines reports Prairie City with Basil Johnston and Adel with Lu Anne Stanley won sweep stake honors in the state fair baby health contest. Lu Anne Stanley was also named champion for the girl showing the most yearlong improvement. J. E. Hull of Oskaloosa won the boys’ improvement class. Basil Johnston achieved the top score of 7.8 while 14 months old and the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Johnston.
Western governors from 16 states join Colo governor Shoup in pressing repeal of the 35 percent freight rate increase enacted last year. Governors Carey of Wyoming Jen of Kansas McMaster of South Dakota Mabey of Utah and Boyle of Nevada indicated support.
Funeral services for infant James Coontz, son of Mr. and Mrs. AM F Coontz of 704 Kimball Avenue, were held at Peter Sen Bros undertaking chapel at 3 p.m. today. Dr B J Lockwood, pastor of Grace M E Church, presided. He is survived by his parents and a brother Philip.
A. T. Hukill will address the twenty fifth anniversary of a Williamsburg literary society now called the Progress club. Nine of eleven original members, including Hukill who recently left the University of Iowa, will attend the weekly meeting next Tuesday. The item also notes Australian acacia wood called raspberry jam wood for its strong odor.
Ruth Stephenson Gussman, 19, central figure in a southern legal drama, will seek chancery court protection against alleged plots to kidnap, injure, or confine her in an insane asylum following the killing of Father James Corle at St Paul’s Cathedral. Her testimony so far has focused on the feud and related incidents.
An advertisement extols Nuxated Iron as a nerve force and blood enhancer. It claims overworked nerves weaken the blood making the body frail and prone to disease, and asserts the product rapidly renews nerve force, enriches blood, and boosts strength in two weeks, with a money back guarantee and drugstore availability.
A Birmingham drama centers on a minister from one faith who killed a priest from another. The defendant’s daughter is a key witness as the trial looms. Catholic leaders allege propaganda against the church fueled the killing while Stephenson remains in his cell reading the Bible. If indicted, trial expected in early October with a difficult jury selection.
A case of infantile paralysis was reported to the city health department this morning. The victim is a five year old boy named Klinger, at the home of J. E. Anderson on 419 Aidsborough avenue. Five scarlet fever cases were also quarantined, including Naomie Scott aged 8 at 506 1-2 Commercial street and William Cone aged 5 at 707 Falls avenue.
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