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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1927
Page
12
The East High School board meeting last night approved a policy to drop students who fail to earn 2.4 credits per semester, effective for the next term. The plan targets those below the required credit threshold, while a minority with lower credits may repeat a semester.
Newcomer Mildred E. Graham arrives in Waterloo to begin the new school year as French instructor at West High School. From Ottumwa, she is a Washburn College and Grinnell College graduate who taught Ottumwa High for four years and studied in Paris this summer under Prof. Arthur G. Bovee of the University of Chicago.
Dr Wilbert Shallenberger a Chicago specialist in chronic nervous and special diseases of men and women will be at Waterloo Hotel Russell Lamson Saturday Sept 24. Consultation and examination free.
Butter entries reach 133 in dairy product division at Waterloo plant judging day. Results due next Thursday Sept 29, with buttermakers from multiple states. Cheese exhibit grows to 23 entries, mainly Wisconsin, Minnesota. Veteran judges Howard Reynolds O A Stovick and Prof M Morten- lead panel amid hot weather concerns.
The passage notes Ames men judging both butter and cheese at the dairy products exhibits in Waterloo. W. Stephenson of Oelwein is named as superintendent of the butter and cheese show, highlighting their roles in overseeing the dairy event.
In Holyoke Massachusetts on September 21 physicians expressed hope for the recovery of Mary and Margaret Gibbs 14 year old Siamese twins whose inseparable lives faced a grave influenza threat. Their mother Mrs John R Gibbs said the girls had a very fair night and were still asleep at seven in the morning though the disease may take unexpected turns. Mary's temperature rose to 103 and Margaret's to 99 as doctors monitored their condition late last night.
A mother said the twins’ temperatures had dropped to 101 and 40, with Margaret's reading normal. Physicians cautioned it would be several days before they could say definitively whether the twins would recover.
William Pixley was elected president of the West High school student council yesterday, with Tom Moore as vice president. The three member per class council acts as the student governing body and has begun student control of halls, shifting authority from teachers as urged by the Spectator.
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