Imogene Mills News Roundup Highlights Train Delay and Local Events
The Imogene area reports a passenger train arriving late after a wreck near Silver City delayed service until early Sunday. Local farm activity includes wheat shock burning due to a field fire and neighbors threshing in Essex and Hamburg. Community notes mention hospital stays, visits, and travels of residents to Denver, Easton, and Webster City, with several weddings, illnesses, and trips recounted.
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Silver City
Scarlet Tanager in Color Contrast and Nesting
The male Scarlet Tanager dazzles with scarlet body and black wings while the olive green female blends with foliage on the nest. The species aids crops by feeding on gypsy moths leaf-rolling caterpillars and beetles. Nest is a flat loosely constructed mass of stems roots bark and rootlets. Eyes number four and are greenish blue speckled chestnut.
Homemakers Study Home Furnishing II in Mills County
Mills county Homemakers select Home Furnishing II Keeping the Home Well Furnished and Attractive for fall study Township leaders meet July 24 at Malvern Community building with county officers to outline the program Miss Mabel Phipps assists in leading the session and score sheets from Achievement Day are to be distributed Mrs Fred Points of Woodbine narrowly escapes an intruder during a chicken house disturbance at her home as her husband misreads the situation and a shot is fired.
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Mroo
W. Comstock
Hamburg
Harry Comstock
Riverton
Comstock
Mather
M. Markham
Tom Megan
Edmundson Hospital
Tom Horrigan
Mercy Hospital
Darwin Addy
Eileen Addy
Frank Hayes
Eddie Saner
Okobojs
HW. H. Hillyer
Floyd
Lew Kline
Wills Lorimer
Mieke
Ross Bryant
Larry
Dorothy
Mae Bryant
Imogene
George Hentz
Shenandoah
Geraldine Gilmore
Dale Hillyer
Webster City
John Adams
Denver
Colo
George
Este Bussard
Garry
Melbourne
J. D. Bussard
Gerald Drake
Kenneth
Earl Drake
Franklyn Grove
T. F. Maher
the Edmundson Hospital
Ottumws
Waterloo
Abbott
Douglas
Los Angeles
Mills County
County Home Project
Malvern
Mabel Phipps
State Home
Shea
Homn
Mra. Vinson Goos
Fred Points
Woodbine
Polyte
Mrs
Mills County 1939 Christmas Seals Sale Second Best in Iowa
Mills county residents purchased $419.63 in 1939 Christmas seals aiding Iowa to reach the state’s second best sale. Seventy-one counties, including Mills, posted increases over 1938, with Mills at 2.6 cents per capita. Amy Hammers of Glenwood chaired Mills’s 1939 drive as volunteers statewide expanded tuberculosis campaigns.
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Mills County
Iowa Tuberculosis Association
Iowa
Mills
Amy Hammers
Glenwood
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Imogene S.E. Mills
John Dempsey
Omaha
Anna Otte
Earl Davenport
Cornell Bluffs
Elmer Riley
Maryville
Martin Brothers
Johnny Owens
Helgerson Brothers
Essex
Michael Delehant
Fred Arnt
Virgil Inman
Lizzie Jenks
Methodist Ladies’ Aid
Lou MecGargill
Edward McGareal
Randolph
Sylvester Kane
Kansas City
Tommie Connors
Conners
Matt Frederickson
Higeing
Easton
Kan
James Higgins
Aileen Weatheral
Clyde Addy
Leona Kelley
Missouri Valley Telephone
Miss Kelley
F. E. Kelley
Cal
Matt Butterton
Mr. Kelley
Harry Bayes
Council Bluffs
Ave
Cole Brosces
Open Sea
Homemakers
America
Dodge
Ctaeet
Asay
Smartnesal
R. K. the Old Man
Piper Garage
Malvern, Low
Eddie the Kid
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