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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1913
Page
4
Cedar Falls Sept 3 Specials The mill company spends money on new concrete and steel headgates replacing old wooden grates. Cofferdams finished. water to be let out today to fire boilers and run machinery. Old race full of fish. as water lowers, spectators expect a scramble for them.
Cedar Falls news notes James Fender buys the Arlington hotel from J. C. Patterson and wife. they plan to move to Minneapolis with their two sons. Fender to run the business in first class style. Patterson family to relocate next week. Theatre and civic life loom in this bustling town.
E A Dawson attends court in Waterloo this week. Miss Margaret Taylor begins studies at Cedar Falls Teachers College. Mr and Mrs Will Bacher relocate to Florida for daughter Helen’s health. Several marriages licenses issued for Plainfield and Denver. Teachers, students and residents travel to Cedar Falls, Waterloo, Chicago and Clinton for school, work, and medical care.
In La Porte City on September 3 special report says bloodhounds from Waterloo followed a scent through several homes to the interurban station but the burglars escaped by train to Waterloo. A separate report notes infantile paralysis diagnosed in Wayne Longaker, quarantine imposed, and a farm sale showing land values rising from $74 to $175 per acre. R. E. Wagner and John Gui are listed as traveling and returning from medical treatment respectively.
Dr. G. W. Fisher is recovering satisfactorily from an operation and has returned from the Minnesota state fair. Bun Smith departed for the state fair in Minneapolis. Mrs. M. G. Garman was taken to Rochester hospital for an operation.
W C F N officials rush a new line from Logan Avenue to Broadway on Edwards with a double track on Broadway and Conger to Fairview. The loop will gain fuller service with more cars as crowds head to Electric Park Dairy Show Grounds and Chautauqua Park. A concrete bridge is also being built over Virden Creek along with Black Hawk Creek bridge work.
Jevivert remains under construction at Bailey's bridge on the Cedar Falls route as Waterloo sees rail improvements this summer. Heavy steel rail replaces light rails on all local lines and double track goes in on Lafayette street. A new line to Highland is built and Brandon service is slated within two to three weeks with a depot in progress.
Dows Iowa Sept 3 More than 100 hunters from across Iowa gathered at Wall Lake for the opening of the hunting season. Despite plans to lease and drain the lake the Wright county rendezvous drew eager sportsmen who arrived before sunrise and filled bag limits with ducks and geese. A committee led by Prof L Hezzlewood Sam Foster and G H Jameson of Dows formed to devise preservation plans for the lake.
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