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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1913
Page
8
Waverly fair crowds topped one thousand cars worth about 1 000 000 dollars. Daily counts show 5 000 attendees Tuesday, 21 679 Wednesday, 26 672 Thursday, and 5 000 Friday. Baby and livestock parades drew strong applause as features.
Mrs. Alice Walker and Mrs. Victor Long of Waterloo visited Mrs. Sam Marshall. John Hayzlett sought a nurse in Marshalltown for his ill mother. T. A. Gillan toured Cedar Rapids on business. Mrs. Frank Fritzsinger visited her brothers John and Fred Lehman in Hartville. Dr. Tuttle’s auto accident near the country yielded a near-miss, uninjured apart from heartache and a damaged vehicle. Vacationers from Worthington, Mann. stayed with E. E. Salmon, auto trip hindered by rain. Mrs. Scott Bowers and Gladys Aukerman visited Waterloo. Glen Foss and Guy L. Stainbrook attended Waterloo business and dental office ads.
City in Brief notes minor travels and local happenings. W E Masters and wife of Jesup left for Cheyenne Wyo. Samuel Tokman and family head to Boston and eastern cities. Four wagons loaded with produce on a rainy market morning. Various locals visit or recover from operations. Taxes due in three days with October first looming.
Announcement states the planned moving picture theatre by Heiman and Butterfield of Chicago will not start this fall. Local promoters say winter is near and operations postponed until spring at least across Bridge Street mill race site.
Ellis B D Robb a national bank examiner and Eldora Indiana native notes crop conditions in Waterloo better than many parts of the Midwest and predicts bumper corn yields. He will stay two more days. A horse stepped on 12 year old James McAlvin’s leg after he fell from a bicycle on Bridge Street near the M A building, causing bruises but no serious injury.
The regular meeting of Robert Anderson Relief corps will be held Friday afternoon in G A R hall. Due to the funeral of the late Mrs Jeremaisen the session will start promptly at 2 o'clock with balloting and all members urged to attend.
The eighth annual convention of the American Association of Commercial Executives opened in St. Paul Minnesota and will run three days Speakers included M B Tresovant secretary manager of the New Orleans Association of Commerce and president of the association and I H W Naylor of Springfield Massachusetts were listed among today's speakers
Watering lacks a theatre ordinance. Judge Meyers plans a draft ordinance to regulate theatres, aiming for council review in weeks. The proposal calls for toilets, safe stairways, legible fire-extinguisher labels, a fireman on stage, and crowd control in theatre lobbies, using other cities as a model.
General markets note Lamson Brothers dealings and C B T activity. Wheat prices fell on strong arrivals and weak cables amid good Argentine crop prospects. Corn and oats softened with liberal receipts. provisions and live stock rose as lightly offered supplies supported prices.
Chicago and other markets show cattle and sheep activity with varied openings and closes. Reports list fluctuating prices for wheat futures and live stock receipts, noting steady opens and mixed closes across the cattle and sheep sectors.
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