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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1928
Page
4
Local Jewish communities begin Rosh Hashanah with services at 6 30 p m tonight in the synagogue on Fifth Street West Cedar Rapids led by Rev Sam Green berg. Services continue Friday and Saturday from 9 am to 12 m and 6 to 9 pm with Sunday hours the same.
Waterloo officials note Rock Island lines report Train No 63 Burlington Minneapolis runs daily from Waterloo at 11 a m and claims 100 percent on time during the duty month. Train No 62 to St Louis is a three sleeper dining and coach service from Minneapolis with a 1 30 a m departure. Overall road trains at 92 1 percent on time and district trains at 93 percent.
Rock Island announces delivery of a 60 foot freezer car with 60 000 pound capacity and 316 cubic feet ice bunkers designed for fast passenger trains. The unit supports milk and cream service to Chicago and east, with cars also crossing the continent during peak season. Convener reports convention of the Iowa Sons of Herman in Council Bluffs ends today.
Message from Bob Apfel says roads are fine but hot and dusty as he and his wife drive to California. The note was posted from East Las Vegas New Mexico, with Ernest Koepke having recently bought Apfel's Sporting Goods at 313 Fourth Street East.
The will of Mary A. Taylor, an early Black Hawk county settler, leaves her estate to her children after debts. Theodore Thomas Taylor receives a large bequest and is released from payments to his parents estates. Grandchildren get 25 dollars each, and the rest is divided equally among Hubert Clement Taylor Mary Elizabeth Hollis Martha Grace Forman Jobin E Taylor and William Henry Taylor. Executorship is held by Hubert Clement Taylor and H R Hollis, a son in law.
Chicago police report a new employment program for city boys, many from reformatories, now working on a 2000 acre Ohio farm and earning increases up to 305 monthly plus room and clothing. Over 1,000 youths are placed monthly with two thirds success, contrasting with reform schools.
There is demand for a return to strict military training. A Cook County school for boys study found delinquent youths are generally intelligent and likely steered onto wrong paths. The report suggests institutional reform and firm guidance could redirect their paths.
Thirty two men and about women have been drawn to serve as petit jurors for the October term of court. They must report at the courthouse in New Hampton on Monday October 15 at 10 a.m.
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