The Waterloo Paper
January 11, 1915

1915 Is Welcomed By Many.

Church Bells, Whistles, Horns and Firearms for the Last Hours 
of 1914 and First of 1915

Well, 1915 is here.  It arrived on schedule time without a hitch or 
slip of a dog.  The New Year received a noisy and wide-awake 
reception in Waterloo, and we believe over one-half of the citizens 
here preferred remaining awake on that evening to being aroused 
from their slumbers.  And aroused they surely would have been, as 
all the church bells in town rang out the old and rang in the new; the 
whistles on the mills, electronic power house, brewery and water works 
plant adding to the noise and discharge of firearms, intermingled with 
shouts of “A Happy New Year,: by boisterous celebrators punctured 
the night air and put sleep out of the question for a while at least.

The days, weeks and years slip away like water in a running stream.  
Time’s great clock never loses a moment.  Relentlessly, surely the 
moments pass, and our eager hands are not able to detain them.  We 
cannot keep back the flying years, but we can and should keep the 
blessings they bring.  Hold fast to the lessons they have taught.  Keep 
the memory of their joys.  Enrich every day of life with the garnered 
wealth of the days behind.  The years pass, but they leave their treasure 
with us, if our hands and hearts are open to receive them, so as with one 
hand we shake farewell to the last year let us stretch out the other hand 
to warmly greet and welcome the coming year.