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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1913
Page
9
A man over 60 living on Falls Avenue, once linked to nude sightings along Black Hawk Creek, was found but not captured. Pupped by locals, the suspect previously faced indecent exposure charges, with a history of wild man rumors resurging after a Friday picnic where a nude figure startled a women’s group.
Miss Frances Grout and Miss Alma Gobin reported on the Lake Geneva conference attended by many Y W C A workers. Miss Helen Brynes sang a solo. A joint Y M C A and Y W C A picnic is planned for Prospect Park Tuesday evening with a rain backup in the clubhouse. Members should notify the Y W C A office Monday. Dr Frank Palmer will conduct the Bible Institute arriving Saturday night for Sunday afternoon sessions.
Theodore Hanson, a long time offender, pled guilty in police court to drunkenness and apologized though spectators largely did not understand his Swed ish speech. John Flynn received thirty days for drunkenness while six others were fined for similar charges.
Washington action by Representative Britten of Chicago seeks to ban slaughter of beef cattle under two years for interstate commerce. He cites Argentina’s 7-year limit as supply protection and cites 1911 slaughter stats to argue calves’ value, predicting vast beef gains if calves are spared.
B C Link, catcher for the Lawler team, returned home and helped Lawler defeat Ft Atkinson yesterday. Lawler is set to meet Orl weth in the opening game of the New Hampton tournament next Friday, as the three day event ends the Independent ball season in the area.
Charles B. Lev aged 21 from Cedar arts is listed alongside Catherine Gram 25 of Cedar Falls. Also named are Charles B. Arthur 93 from Tipton Ind ia, May Inman 36 of Waterloo in a compact local record.
Arthur Johnson, a colored man, lay in serious condition at police headquarters after being struck on the head with an iron bar in the bunk car on Illinois Central tracks. Police believe others in the party may have been gambling. two other men, Sam Jackson and Joe Washington, faced three days in jail for drunken and disorderly conduct after pleading guilty.
Dr J A Jerger escaped serious injury after his auto left the dusty road, rolled down a ten foot embankment, and smashed through a fence. The car melted on impact but he was only shaken. he drove into a cornfield and farmyard to reach the road again.
Jotn dd Tarkens proprietor of the Waterloo Transo leaves tomorrow for Chicago and New York to purchase holiday and latest novelty leather goods.
Eight year old Charles Kofske, resident of Roby Street, died shortly after a wrecking job near Manchester. He was trapped beneath derailment debris and died at Park View Hospital. The incident involved a wrecker from the Illinois Central shops near Con Bon and spread blame to rail damage along the track. The boy’s mother Christiana Kofske traveled from Manchester upon receiving telegram news. He leaves his mother and three sisters, and several brothers. Funeral plans were unsettled pending relatives’ arrival.
W F Annemeyer, longtime Havemeyer family member and sugar refiners figure, was found dead in his son in law Vane R K Willcox's apartment in New York. His sudden death shocks relatives and friends after a career linked to the Havemeyer sugar industry and the American Sugar Refining Company.
John Goalfellow seeks replevin of six cords of native timber allegedly wrongfully held by John Morrison after a contract expired. He claims $180 plus $100 damages for the loss, stating about 12,900 feet valued around 152 thousand dollars was taken. Also notes the birth of a baby daughter to Mr and Mrs Solomon Weaver.
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