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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1926
Page
7
Evergreen Sweetcorn for canning offered with a phone contact 4400. Also sale of ripe and jelly crops including apples and lemons. Drive to Strawberry Hill at 160 Baltimore for coal bargain and other items. Call numbers provided for inquiries.
Advertisement lists fuel and coal products including lump coke petroleum coke hare coal and semi anthracitic lump plus hard seasoned kindling. Notes quantities 3 ton and lengths 12 and 24 inches. Names Queen of Muel Black Hare High in Heat Low Blue Flame Weetae Blue Flame Kenta Penn Spotless Luna wing Lump x Lump appear as product or brand identifiers.
Fragmented OCR suggests sports or gaming notes with Kentucky Block and Hazara. Mentions Kent Hezitday, Virginia, Beechwood, Harrisburg, Illinois, and Victor Illinois. Includes prices like 8.75 and 5.50 for yard screenings and materials.
A jumble of classified ads and coal price notes offering bulk fuel from Pocahontas and Western Kentucky, assorted items for sale including a three-carat diamond ring, paint, a built in Durdon Weil, a boat with a pair of oars, secondhand doors and windows, a monitor furnace, a man’s bicycle, canary birds, and a property rental service. Contact numbers and addresses included.
In the district court of Black Hawk County Iowa a will alleged to be the last testament of Herbert I Weatherwax deceased was filed and opened for hearing proof on September 26 1926. The hearing was fixed by J W Thompson Clerk of District Court dated September 10 1926.
Disjointed report describes a regional sports meet with events including track, bowling, golf, and tug of war. Notable participants include Fi M. Buchanan, an engineer with the Tiilnais division, and James Hine of the Gansas division Belin hand. The day ends with a banquet and dance.
Legionnaires from Becker Chapman post prepare for the state American Legion convention in Clinton Iowa. About 200 members travel by car with 39 musicians and director Cressy Wharton to be housed and fed in Clinton. A film crew will document the trip, with the band returning to Waterloo Wednesday morning after a stop in Cedar Rapids. Speakers include Hanford MacNider John R McQuigg and James F Barton.
Extension course subjects will be offered again this year to teachers of west and east schools and the general public through cooperation between the West Waterloo Teachers' association and Iowa State Teachers college. Miss Clara Rickitrick, principal of Irving school, announced. Courses include Recent English Literature Social Problems and Labor Problems Heredity and Evolution and Problems of Jade Teachers. They will cover several weeks with costs based on hours and classes will be organized next week. contact Miss Rickitrick at 7264 by Tuesday.
Cedar Falls Canning Company closed its forty fourth season with 1 085 800 cans of sweetcorn from 650 acres, about 1639 cans per acre. Output ranged from three to six tons per acre, paid SID a ton in green sweetcorn, and all output was sold in advance. The season lasted four weeks.
Roane Va born Rev. P M Lewis longtime African Methodist preacher in Waterlon marked 56 years as a gospel administrator. At a parlor gathering, friends praised his ministry, noting 402 marriages, 60 church buildings, and three churches with parsonages built under his leadership. Other speakers included Rev Proyles and Mitton Fields.
Independence Iowa September 11 special J M Koeppel injured unloading sweet corn at Independence Canning Corp wagon frightened team threw him causing several fractured ribs and a bruised back though he can now be out again. Also notes onBernica DeConley leaving osteopathic firm and vigilantes competing Des Moines event. Church Day Sept 12 urges attendance with extra services for faculty and students.
Charles C. MacKay city auditor received appointment to the taxation and assessment committee of the League of Iowa Municipalities from Stewart Dilman mayor and Sioux City leader elected president. The committee will monitor tax legislation to protect cities and towns from overburden. At the convention MacKay led the accounting section and proposed taxation measures that received support.
Omaha reports Lockie for two world records held by Charles Paddock gained official cognizance when the Midwestern A A U recognized his 33 seconds for the 100 yard dash and 20.7 seconds for the 120 yard dash. The record now goes to the National A A U record board for final approval.
The first issue of East High’s student newspaper Orange and Black highlights school activities and upcoming events. Editor Katherine Canedier dmohier, staff Dick Shane Roy Sinnard and Miss Evhel Dixon are named amid page cuts and advertising from decal merchants.
The final Grant highway stretch east of Dubuque, linking East Dubuque with Galena, is completed and will open to traffic within a week or 30 days. The 18 mile detour via Hazel Green will end, with paving laid by James Lee Paving Company of Dubuque on the East Dubuque to Galena section.
Radio schedule notes programs across cities led by Chicago stations WLS WGN KFWJ and many others. Listings show orchestras choirs bands and talks with times from morning to late night across Chicago New York Des Moines Omaha Cincinnati and more.
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