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Newspaper
Glenwood Opinion
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1909
Page
4
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A Jersey man builds a fence between his house and a neighbor over a lured away cook. The Times notes yearly timber waste and rising tensions as anger grows over property and resources.
Readable notices cover a five car stock shipment from Southwestern Iowa to Chicago with names T. E. James Bara lallinger Steve Hiatt Karl Holloway and John Taylor aboard. Also a Randolph Enterprise report on a near injury to a horse rider, G A R Memorial Day school rooms, and a second stock shipment led by G Anderson S Rhode and others. Additional items include a recovered pocketbook find, Freemont County Sun shutdown, and historic Civil War veterans’ recollections at Memorial Day services with Capt W H Morgan and Comrade Junius George.
The Leon Reporter recalls Captain Morgan and Justus George among Union veterans captured but escaping, while Theda ld Veterans recount their experiences. Leon plans a special election to issue 95,000 dollars in bonds for a new water plant. Local tragedies include a woman fatally burned in Manson and a jail death in Westfield. The Burlington Hawkeye weighs in on Leon’s water needs and community support.
A New York advertisement by John Arbuckle urges college men to work their way through college on an 800 acre farm during summer vacations. He argues that money earned honestly by effort is far more beneficial to society than inherited wealth, and criticizes millionaires who shield their sons from work, preferring to fund education over grand monuments.
A Denver group forms the Western Petroleum Co to operate oil drilling on Tow Creek near Steamboont Springs Colorado. They claim the oil is a fine natural lubricant. Glenwood resident Mr. L.
Stillwagon is president of the new company, with friends hoping for success as he leads. The excerpt notes a late night dance by a girl, and questions whether honesty remains the best policy for a get rich quick promoter.
The statute takes effect July 4 and requires after any regular or special meeting of the board of aldermen or city town council the city or town clerk to prepare and publish the proceeding in two or more newspapers of general circulation in the city or town. If only one newspaper is available the notice must be published there.
A public notice seeks to alter a foot road into a 40 foot highway running north to south across multiple sections and townships. It lists landowners and parcels affected including Marley Davis Gooding Plckenpaugh and Hemlong. Objections or claims for damages must be filed with the Auditor by noon on July 28, 1999.
A condensed statement of acts or proceedings by the board of alderman or city council must be published if a newspaper is available or in two or more public places. It includes a list of all claims allowed, payment amounts, and funding sources. Compensation to each newspaper is limited to one third of the statutory legal notice fee.
The passage extols Quaker Oats as the best first dish of the day for vigor of mind and body. It claims quick absorption with little waste and full conversion to muscle and brain activity. It notes prices: regular 10c and large family 25c and 30c.
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