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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1914
Page
7
Decorators prepare dramatic reveals for Thursday night curtain up as Waterloo merchants stage a grand style show at the Waterloo theatre Friday and Saturday. Model living acts, pan tomime, and vaudeville interludes promise a full spectacle with music and costly settings. Tickets selling fast with seats still available to early buyers.
Cedar Falls residents engage in weddings, prize essays, lyceum plans, and club activities. Notables include Joe and Mrs Egloff's return and home setup, George McCoy winning a state temperance prize, and upcoming W C T U district events plus Mother’s Congress in Cedar Falls. Joseph Wells to celebrate his 90th birthday with neighbors and daily walks.
City in brief notes residents and visitors: L L Landers in Port Dodge on business. Mr and Mrs J E Dempster home from West Union. various locals travel for work, study and family matters. Describes arrivals, departures, and small updates on health, funerals, and civic notices.
Large kindergarten enrollments in Alcott and Washington buildings require daily sessions. Miss Therese Lorigan will teach both shifts at the Alesta building, Judy Kain moves to Washington for full days, and a substitute fills Lafayette. A bereavement notice thanks local groups for support.
The Water loo East board will consider Waterloo Medical Society and Associated Charities request to place a nurse held employer in the schools at the regular meeting tonight. The action is expected and will be decided during the session in Supt. C. W. Kline's office in the manual training building.
Service will resume on the Cedar Rapids interurban line tomorrow with cars possibly in operation by evening and regular schedules expected to restart Wednesday morning after washouts closed the line yesterday. Repairs are under way following seven inches of rain, with other lines nearby also affected and trains soon back to Cedar Rapids.
Mrs. M. C. Becker sister of J. Burbank arrived from Tropico near Los Angeles to visit Grundy county relatives for two to three weeks. She taught school in Grundy county decades ago, left with her husband for Kansas forty years ago, and has lived in California for about 20 years. Her Civil War veteran husband died three years ago after eighteen months in Andersonville prison.
Washington sees renewed fight lines as President Wilson meets leaders over a war revenue bill. Senate Republicans pledge opposition to any war tax while Democrats and Underwood show divisions over freight taxes. Absentees to be urged back as caucus decides course. Temperature data also listed from Buchanan Optical.
Green Bay resident M. J. Perkins extols Citrolax as the ideal laxative drink after using pills, oils, and salts. Ad touts Citrolax for headaches four stomachs lazy liver and congested bowels and notes it is sold by all druggists.
Waterloo gains access to 75 trains per day with 44 interurban arrivals from Cedar Rapids and other cities plus 31 steam trains on Illinois Central Rock Island and Chicago Great Western. Trade area extends over fifty miles with strong passenger flow aiding merchants.
At a special meeting the Ancient Order United Workmen plans an open Sept 28 event in the lodge hall. Des Moines officials E B Evans and Dr Murray Wildman, plus Fort Dodge Mayor Ford, will attend as speakers. The late William Crosby donated a marble altar now to be officially accepted with ceremonies. The widow will be honored. plan includes music, refreshments, and dancing.
Peter Berg of 1269 Fourth Street West reports that after Kaiser Wilhelm ordered high school students to quit studies and work the harvest, German youths and girls adopted farming garb and joined in harvest efforts. He notes progress is nearly complete as many laborers of military age have been mobilized.
After ten hours of hostilities broke out Mr Berg visited relatives near Hamburg in Germany and returned home via Norway. A note announces the arrival of new sweaters for women and children at remarkable prices under Bargain Variety.
A Servian legation statement says at least 160 000 Servian troops are in Hungary backing a PS offensive against the dual monarchy. Austrians entrench at all strategic points on roads to Budapest. A large Ser- texte ends mid sentence.
An old advertisement advocates Swift’s Specific Co remedy as a proven blood purifier that drives out disease. It claims homespun effectiveness over modern “discoveries,” urges readers to buy a bottle from any druggist, and invites letters to the Swift Specifi Co medical department in Atlanta for guidance.
A Rome dispatch reports the Romanian ministers have resigned their positions as new military moves unfold. The Servians push toward Trush kagora and Vjehnegrad while preparing for a junction with a Busan army advancing west. Sarajevo remains heavily fortified and fierce fighting is anticipated.
An advertisement touts GETS-IT as a revolutionary corn cure using a two drop application. It claims to shrink and remove corns, warts, calluses, and bunions without cutting or tape. Sold by druggists for 25 cents or mailed by E Lawrence & Co of Chicago.
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