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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1928
Page
4
Waterloo Red Cross chair Herman C. Miller reports slow donations for Porto Rico and Florida hurricane relief. Telegrams show urgent need. residents are urged to skip a movie or cigars and contribute to reach a $1,500 to $2,000 goal.
The gospel tent at Fourth and Washington streets now has a furnace to warm attendees during chilly nights. The speaker urged that people are bound socially politically religiously and habitually while thinking themselves free and highlighted freedom through the gospel of Christ. Meetings will continue indefinitely.
Hermann L. Jahnke, a 24 year steeplejack based in Waterloo and Marshalltown Iowa, recounts near misses and a 1919 haywagon accident that led him back to safer pole painting work. He notes the decline of rewarding steeplejack jobs and the rise of amateurs, with still more hazards reported in Watertown South Dakota and New York towns.
Judge George W Wood grants seven more divorces after four approvals. Mrs Grace Feely wins cruelty-based divorce from Elmer Feely with property settlement by stipulation. Maude Redman and Louis J Kruse receive decrees with custody arrangements. Hila Murphy becomes Hila Carson after divorce from Ellis Murphy. Lucia Hughes wins custody with George W Hughes. Belva A McGarvey is divorced from Edward L McGarvey under stipulation.
A Castle Hill man today delivered a giant bean to the Courier office. The bean measured four feet seven and one half inches in length, a remarkable horticultural specimen likely grown in his care.
Osage September 20 Special report notes Miss Josie Koschmeder wed Frank Ed Clark at a Catholic rectory ceremony. The couple will reside on the Clark farm southwest of town.
A Baltimore mother, Virginia Zilka, shot her three month old baby and then herself after telling authorities the infant was cross and she was tired. She was reported in serious condition at a local hospital.
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