Hecker News
The Waterloo Times - Feb 12, 1915

Albert Monike made a trip to East St. Louis a few days ago and purchased a loom.  Another 
manufacturing establishment in Hecker.

Quite a number of young folks of this vicinity attended the masquerade ball at Floraville last 
Saturday night and reported a good time.  Mr. Probst is always ready to make his quests happy.

The pupils of the Hecker Public School taking the seventh year’s work made the following 
averages for the month of January: Olga Buhl 91, Myrtle Stehfest 88, Clara Wagner 80, 
Lena Ahiheit and Henry Gambach 78.

Last Monday Louis Koerber hung out his shingle as tax collector at Hecker.  He gathered 
up nearly a thousand dollars at this station.  A few more tax collector visits and chicken fee 
will surely be scarce in our town.

Messrs. Edward Meng, Sr., Henry Meng, Edward Meng, Jr., and Edward Stahlheber attended 
the funeral of Wm. Meng last Thursday at Evansville.  Wm. Meng was born and raised near 
Hecker.  He was 57 years old.  He leaves two brothers, Edward and Henry Meng, a sister, 
Elizabeth Jaeckel, three Daughters and one son to mourn their loss.

Our laborers have been clamoring for work this winter but just now they have struck a job, 
which is not a very pleasant one.  The cellar tiling draining the north-west part of town became 
clogged with mud and had to be dug out and replaced with new ones.  Working in the mud and 
water just now is not so pleasant and but few jumped at the job.