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Newspaper
Glenwood Opinion
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1908
Page
16
Local notes report visits to Glenwood from Emerson and Hastings, upcoming canning work, school appointments, and social events. Multiple residents travel to Lincoln and Omaha, with announcements of games, dinners, bridge parties, and church services. A Yankee Drummers show entertains the town, while street improvements and a curbing project draw reader attention.
A stranger knocked at the cellar door of Druggist O H Marsh's store Wednesday about 11 am. A five pint gasoline bottle toppled from the top step, broke, and flames leapt up as Marsh reached for the bottle. Firemen-like action by Dan Lewis and C P Kinney extinguished the blaze. the intruder fled unseen.
At the Kinney home in Glenwood Ada G Kinney and Joy Parker were married by Rev Peter Jacobs of the M E church Silver City. The ceremony featured Hochzeitzers Wedding March ring exchange and a reception hosted by relatives with a wedding feast at the Parker home in Silver City. Parker son of Hon John Parker of Silver City is a Simpson College graduate and musician. Kinney daughter of OC Kin a Glenwood native and former Glenwood High School graduate and teacher.
Post cards domestic and foreign are plentiful and beautiful and many youths preserve them with a chain. Punch holes in corners, string on two ribbons, pass ribbons through upper holes from beneath, then across and down through lower holes. Join ends, hang as a wall chain or fold like a book.
Omaha Blue Racers edged West Oaks in game one after a 50 minute sprint, five hits to one, with West Oaks scoring in the ninth. Game two stretched to 13 innings as West Oaks won in the thirteenth. official score not available. Umpire Conner and players Murray Puoluics Albee McClenathan Kranda Truelson noted.
The Mills county board of supervisors ended a four session day by adjournment and planned a damus proceeding to determine results at the next district court term. F H Nipp and J E Robbins, nominated for supervisors at the June primary, seek to force the county auditor to print their names on the November general ballot. Attorneys J E Whitfield and A E Coos of Malvern represent the petitioners. Henry Maxwell of Henderson and J B Brandt of Oak township did not object. Paul Gilliland visited Council Bluffs last Saturday.
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