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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1914
Page
4
The report by observer R.UD Slippy records rainfall since Saturday night totaling six inches in Woodbury County area with eight inches in Correctionville last Friday. Ground remains bare though fields and highways show standing water. Temperatures rose last evening and rain continued almost without pause into Sunday night.
The Waterloo previews a December distribution of Virginia Brooks's Little Lost Sister to promote its message on white slavery with a matinee by Fiske O'Hara on Monday September 21. The play Jack's Romance by Augustus Pitman Sr features Wicklow setting and Ireland's scenery with extensive stage accessories.
Webster City dated Sept 14 special report Mrs L L Estes a prominent pioneer woman died this morning at Webster City Funeral will be held tomorrow at 4 pm She lived in the city 40 years and was formerly Mrs Judge Miracle The judge helped build the city After his death she married Tied L L Estes who was president of the First National bank She is survived by three children from her first marriage including the wife of E F King vice president of the First National bank
Dr Homer H Seerley president of the Iowa State Teachers College addressed Grace Methodist church on parental responsibility for school work. He argued teachers handle many students and need parental support to ensure assigned tasks are completed and cooperation with teachers remains strong. The lecture drew many teachers despite bad weather, with Attorney J W Arbuckle introducing the speaker.
An announcement said a conference of coal operators would meet in Denver Saturday to discuss President Wilsons proposals for a three year truce in the miners strike. United Mine Workers officers will leave tonight for Trinidad where a convention of miners will be held tomorrow to consider the presidents proposal.
Disjointed notices report residents visiting, traveling to Chicago and Des Moines, attending college, or on business. Names include J. B. Smith, G. E. Brebner, J. Tauber, Mr. and Mrs. Miller, Julin Peek, H. M. Reed, Henry W. Grout, Joe Wintz, Ethel Martin, F. I. Edwards, J. H. Kuhns, Mra. Thomas Flaherty, Bert Wilford, Harry N. Reed, J. E. Scheel, J. a. Bekers, Katherine Winslow, Marguerite Morgen, Lore Alford, C. W. Hellen, Bertha Stathopulos, Holace Van Metre, C. B. Scroggy, James C. Scroggy, Margaret Buchly Davis, John C. McCabe, Lotus Becker. Eventful locales include Chicago, Esterville, Waterloo, Grinnell, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Cedar Rapids, Des Moines, Mason City, Manchester, White Fish Lake.
Alfred Everett transfers to H and Stone parcels in Normal Add Cedar Hills for 7000 dollars. C R Cassell transfers to P H Yagla in Calumet Add Waterloo for 1 dollar. R G Tylerie Predd Widmayer transfers in Rheil s Homestead Add and Litchfield Add Waterloo for 1 dollar.
Nashua reports the third day of the fair ending on Saturday after rain delayed events. Attendance is down and financial results are poorer than usual, though the exhibit was still praised as one of the best in years. Charles Beekman and wife mourn their nine month old baby who died yesterday from cholera infantum. The child was about 24 hours old.
Mutual friends sought to patch up differences between president Frank Farrell and manager Frank Chance of the New York American League club. The club was even floated as keeping Chance for the remainder of the season and perhaps beyond, as talks continued in New York.
The first Waterloo Cedar Rapids interurban train departed at 7:45 with many passengers including traveling salesmen. Local business leaders from Waterloo and Cedar Rapids attended celebratory trips and inspections, plans announced for subsequent business tours, and a revised Cedar Rapids line timetable reducing Waverly line trains from nine to seven daily.
The Rev and Mrs F Millikan of Marshalltown observed their fiftieth wedding anniversary in Chicago with six children and seven grandchildren present. Married Sept 12 1864 in Rochester NY they had long pastorates across Iowa and Illinois and retired at 72 after Kingsley Iowa. Their six children include Van Millikan in Chicago and Robert Millikan University of Chicago instructor.
A note indicates the Greater Darian M. Guild cannot attend the meeting to speak on the matter. Secretary Van Vleck invited him to defer until a later date after receiving a letter from Mr. Guild requesting a Yale appearance.
Paris dispatch reports 62 wounded soldiers arrived at the American Ambulance hospital in Neuilly near Paris from Compiegne and the Qurey sector. Among the wounded is a British Sixth Dragoon with a thigh wound after exchanging fire with German cavalry. One man saw a car with three dead Frenchwomen, and a Salford man from the Highth Hussars had a crushed foot. Doctors note few chest wounds and a mix of nonfatal injuries as German forces appear overwhelming.
In Audubon on September 14 suspicions about William Polite grew as residents learned he posed as a Civil War veteran and claimed back pension of over 9000 dollars. He spoke to The Republican editor with dramatic interviews, wove dates of battles, and attracted real estate suitors before investigators flagged him as an impostor. A Washington pension office letter confirmed Polite was not listed on pension rolls.
The city council plans to award contracts for remodeling City Hall and furnishing a new police patrol at tonight's regular meeting. The police court room will become a garage for police cars and moved to the third floor. A light automobile may be purchased for non-urgent calls, with the current auto sold. Several bids have been received from patrol and ambulance manufacturers.
On Tuesday evening the Sons of St. George will meet in Carpenter hall to admit several new members and vote on a bylaws change. With cricket season ended, athletes shift focus to soccer football, an innovation for the city, planning to start at Byrnes park in about two weeks.
Miss Cleo Abrams celebrated her tenth birthday Saturday at home on La Porte road with about 129 friends. The afternoon featured games and music with refreshments served. MW Locke of Kansas City, a fore ther Waterlogan, is in town for a few days on business, staying at the hotel.
London reports the official agency says Rear Admiral Sir George Patey commanded Australian naval reserves at Herbertshoe New Britain. After eighteen hours of bush fighting the wireless station was captured at 1 am on Bapt 12. Tower and station damaged, officers killed, seamen wounded, German losses uncertain with prisoners taken.
At the Palace Theatre today and tomorrow the story The Chimes by Charles Dickens is shown in five parts. The critic praises the adaptation for clarifying the plot and heightening the emotional impact, noting Trotty Veck and Meg in a Christmas Eve tale that reveals life’s contrasts and social criticism.
Announcements list circle meetings at Grace M E church with Mrs Wise and Mrs Conalf on Independence Avenue and Franklin Street respectively. Daughters of Isabelle convene at K of P hall on Tuesday evening September 15. Waterloo Lodge No 105 and FL & A M hold called communication at Masonic temple on Tuesday evening September 18 for second degree work.
Pilgrimages marked a battle site in the Oise department near Meaux with many sightseers riding Northern railroad trains. Zouaves Turcos and infantrymen wounded in the Meaux area traveled Sunday to the northern station, returning with battle souvenirs through the day and into night.
The United States revenue cutter Bear lands 11 Karluk crew survivors at Nome Alaska after being rescued from Wrangell island by King and Winge. Two crewmen died of scurvy and were buried on the island. Eight expedition members are missing and presumed dead. Also notes a jail case of a man singing his way out of custody and a cider intoxication arrest.
An editorial from Pink Sheet copied to Waterloo warns ongoing drug and chemical price spikes driven by European war disruptions. It notes 500 to 200 percent jumps for cheaper staples, with 80 percent of basic chemicals controlled abroad. Some recent stabilization follows chaotic early days as markets reestablish on a saner basis.
The district convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union opens tomorrow morning in Cedar Falls at the Methodist church, drawing delegates from Waterloo and nearby areas. Mrs Ida B Wise-Smith, state president, will greet, with reports from officers and local unions to follow.
County board and district court convened at the county building with Judges Mullan and Dunhem to preside. Grand jury was empaneled to investigate matters, bailiff Jacob Anton to lead jurors who may be in session ten days or two weeks. Assignment of cases to occur this afternoon, jurors report Monday 9 am. A. J. Rownd of Cedar Falls absent ill but expects to attend when weather clears. Main business includes all bills and road work. overdrafts on poor and county funds may delay large warrants until after year start with 5 percent interest. Second tax installment due before Oct 1 to avoid penalties, but taxpayers have not crowded the treasurer. only two weeks remain for several hundred thousand dollars.
A 5 60 Sunday morning blaze erupted from a clothes closet at 63 Lafayette Street as Mrs. Lee awoke to flames. Firefighters contained the fire to one room with little loss to apparel and bedding, cause undetermined though heavy headway nearly trapped the family. Des Moines rain update follows.
La Porte City on September 14 reports Mr. and Mrs. John Salmon traveling to Chicago for visits with relatives. Robi Cleves, staying with Grandmother McWadden, returns to Chicago. Flossie Schubert returns to Eagle Center duties after vacation. Mrs. H H Mertz returns home to Des Moines from visiting her parents. Hazel Manning of Waterloo visits sister Mrs. C J Murphy. Mr and Mrs I Struble visit Mrs Struble's Waterloo parents.
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