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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1915
Page
1
Prominent temperance workers in Maines raise questions about the mulet law repeal and its effective date July 4, 2975. Attorneys may seek injunctions in Knox County to test the law before January 1, 1926, potentially delaying saloon closures in wet counties for a year or more.
The Cedar Valley Baptist association met in Shell Rock for a three day session. President John A. Haraf of Des Moines college urged raising 6 000 400 dollars for Baptist educational endowment within five years across the Northern Baptist convention. Clyde Osage spoke on the men’s work. the session highlighted youth programs and elected Chickasaw town to host next year.
Mrs Louis Peterson of three and one half miles southeast of town parked a buggy behind the post office while shopping. On return her horse and buggy had been hitched to a vehicle and taken, leaving her stranded until she reached home with difficulty. Police investigate a new wrinkle in the case.
Betsy Smith, jailed for the 1894 murder of her husband in Des Moines, was denied clemency as Gov. Clarke approved the parole board’s recommendation. No new evidence emerged and the jury’s murder in the first degree verdict stands. Her pardon bids, supported by her 60 years, were rejected. a daughter’s suicide in prison adds to the case’s notoriety.
Muscatine reports the Iowa Supreme Court will hear J A Rehmel versus the Muscatine County Board of Supervisors, an appeal from a district court injunction on paying wages to about sixty Chicago deputized officers used during a lengthy strike. The $6,000 payroll was challenged as a nonresident, non legal claim. Written arguments have been filed and trial is slated for next month.
Fort Dodge Iowa September 24 A new wealth source joins Webster counties rich minerals on the Joseph Savage farm a mile and a half south of town a large yellow ochre deposit has been found this pigment used in cheaper paints previously imported from France now scarce and priced at twenty dollars a ton when shipped to Fort Dodge
Omaha dispatch notes attorney W O Bullman from Chariton Iowa pursues new evidence in a 50 year old murder case against four Bedford Iowa men. He plans to present to the next grand jury after visiting Colorado and Denver for crucial testimony and mentions developing grappling machinery to recover gold from a long‑lost stash near Klondyke farm.
Osage Pro dures company lost 2000 cases of eggs in a Wednesday afternoon blaze at its cold storage building. Flames roared over the roof, and by arrival time the entire roof was ablaze. Cause under investigation, with sparks suspected from a smokestack.
A fire gutted the cupola and upper main structure where 100 to 150 tons of tea were stored, and two thousand cases of tea were ruined by heat and water. Insurance on the stove reached about 12000 dollars. Owner John B Agen of Seattle had another warehouse burn a year earlier on Main and Sixth streets.
Davenport German women led by Miss Helen Seiffert contributed two thousand pounds of absorbent cotton rubber hot water kettles and ice bags to German war hospitals. The Steuben society rolled 1,400 yards of bandages and arranged shipment aboard the steamer Ryndam of the Holland-American line.
The Iowa States Retailers association elected Julius Keppner of Council Bluffs as president, Fd. Danny of Burlington as vice president, Thomas J. Mooney of Clinton as treasurer, and John A. Cunningham of Dubuque as secretary. Iowa City was selected as the 1916 convention city.
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