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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1919
Page
7
Cedar Falls council meets to open bids for paving Waterloo Street to connect with the county road at the city line. If awarded, the contractor must have work ready for acceptance within one month.
Mr and Mrs Thomas Quaijts and Mr and Mrs Harry Stevens of Millbanker, S AL, visit Miss Lillien Lambert at Cedar Heights home of G PR Dicker. The party travels by automobile with Mr and Mrs Dickey joining on return to spend next year as guests in the west.
Police report a spate of intoxication arrests including Ed Spriuse and Mike Cahill, with others named for drinking offenses. Warnings and fines issued. driving while intoxicated case leads to car hold and a later profane language charge against W A Hocker. A nurse and a street crossing worker report theft and attempted robbery incidents nearby.
A pre-dawn incident on Commercial Street involves a motorist in a drunken state failing to negotiate a turn, colliding with a lamp post near the L. & Al. bank building. One car door was torn off and the vehicle damaged, with patrol officers witnesses to the scene.
Grandville avenue branch of a Grand Rapids Savings bank robbed of cash. A customer Gerrit Stree man, 58, was killed and W Parker shot as robbers fled in an automobile. Sheriff Viergever and deputies used airplanes to search roads near Grand Rapids. An inventor patents a press territory near Grand Rapids for inflatable tubing to protect babies heads.
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