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Newspaper
Glenwood Opinion
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1909
Page
5
The Glenwood State Bank outlines deposit options from daily to monthly terms showing projected balances after one and ten years. Examples include 25 cents daily totaling $36.50 in one year and $365.66 in ten years, $1 weekly yielding $52,005 in ten years, and $1000 monthly reaching $1,200 in ten years, all excluding 4 percent interest. The bank invites deposits and business.
A one o clock dinner hosted by Mr and Mrs M J Williams at their North of town farm two miles from the city recalled old fashioned gatherings. Guests included Mrs Williams sister Mrs Francis Crookham of Oskaloosa and her two sons John and Joseph. The event featured a wholesome meal with ice cream strawberries and cake and ended with woodland rambles as the group enjoyed moss ferns and flowers.
A Delaware Ohio temperance card signed by twelve grocers urges readers to compare three whiskeys daily at ten cents each with a yearly cost of 109 dollars and fifty cents. The piece argues such spending harms families and notes tobacco users contribute similarly to wasteful habits.
The Glenwood High graduates held exercises Thursday in the opera house marking the close of the school year. Highlights included Merritt's Salutatory, a Pygmalion and Galatea scene, the valedictory by Christine Sherfey, and a gift of library volumes by Merrill Myers. diplomas were presented to 22 students by Supt. J. H. Morgan and School Board President C. E. Dean.
William C. Rathke of Glenwood delivers a patriotic address to Civil War veterans dated May 31 1909 praising the soldiering generation and urging honor for the past while condemning parental and judicial overreach in handling school discipline. The speech frames heritage, duty, and national unity through remembered battles and the flag.
Two Des Moines teachers beat a boy until he was black and blue. The boy's father caused their arrest. The city superintendent, whose salary was raised to 4000 annually, said corporal punishment is justifiable. In police court Judge Steward held it was not justifiable and fined the teachers. They appealed to the district court and planned to go higher.
Edith Boydston born January 31 1888 in Abingdon Knox Illinois moved to Shenandoah Iowa at age ten married Herman A Donner January 27 1909 later living near Silver City. She died May 28 after two weeks illness leaving husband parents siblings and church members with funeral services conducted by Rev Peter Jacobs and Rev Geo Hendrickson. Senator Gilliland thinning apple trees in Keokuk county this week.
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