Glenwood social notes and nearby visits Saturday
Glenwood residents and relatives fill a busy social week with visits to Elliott Nebraska, Tarkio Missouri, Shenandoah and Nashua Iowa. Mr and Mrs Claude Kizzier celebrate a newborn daughter. Local officials discuss sewer work while Red Cross rooms offer weekly dressings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. V. Whitten
Glenwood
Shenandoah
Rev. Whitten
Mrs. Whitten
Nashua
Iowa
Tev. Whitten
Advertising Readings From Glenwood Ad Page
Local listings advertise help wanted in a Cozy Restaurant and livestock sales including Buff Leghorns and White Wyandotte hens. Also noted are seed potatoes, farm equipment, and real estate notes. Readers are invited to inquire at the Tribune office for specifics and prices.
Squirrel Warfare and Farm Protection Tips
Local types discuss visits by Hastings residents and relatives, then pivot to a humorous advice piece on defending corn and alfalfa fields from ground squirrels and pocket g ophers. The column touts using tobacco can tablets as inexpensive pest control, emphasizing early spring effort to save thousands in damages.
Historic Tollgate at Hillman Razed in Shenandoah Valley
In the lower Shenandoah Valley, the 1840 Hillman Tollgate No 1 on the old Tennessee to Alexandria thoroughfare is demolished. The house sheltered toll keepers Simeon Hillman and widow Charlotte Hillman. it witnessed Civil War action, including a shell strike before Kernstown and Sheridan’s staff toll payment. Generals Sheridan and Jackson often passed, with tolls paid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hillman Tollgate
Shenandoahy Valley
Tennessee
Alexandria
Simeon Hullman
Charlotte Hillman
Kernstown
General Sheridan
Treenails to Fasten Emergency Fleet Ships
The United States Emergency Corporation will construct wooden warships using treenails cut from live oak or yellow locust. Each hull requires 300000 treenails and 600000 wedges, driven with white oak wedges. Treenails measure 24 inches by 1.25 inches and swell after launch for a snug fit. Timber is cut in 60 foot slabs 14 inches thick from sawmills. English baking notes highlight home baking regimens and bread quality under rationing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Emergency Corporation
Domestic Wood for Walking Sticks
The United Kingdom has long led in walking stick manufacture, using ash chestnut oak and similar woods grown in Britain. Before the war little finished sticks were imported, but raw or partly finished material from abroad supported by Germany and Austria declined as the trade shifted to homegrown goods, raising demand for domestic raw material.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Kingdom
British Isles
Germany
Austria
Wood Prices Drill Down in City Burn Rate Report
A garbled city note shows wood costs dropping to about nine dollars a cord while Bark and other vendors press buyers for daylight dollars per stick. An auditor from Brows County audited state accounts and witnessed residents burning wood at homes as a substitute for fuel amid lingering price confusion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Board of Accounts
Brows County
Bankruptcy Notice in United States District Court Iowa
In the Southern District of Iowa Western Division Pred Rodewald bankrupt on April 6 1918 the court fixed May 11 1918 as the date to oppose discharge filings. Creditors and interested parties must appear in writing at the Council Bluffs office within ten days with grounds of opposition. Fremont Benjamin Referee in Bankruptcy signs the notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesse Wallick
Jessie Wallick
District Court of
State of
Iowa
Mills County
Glenwood
Genung & Genung
United States District Court
Southern District of Iowa
Western Division
Rodewald
Council Bluits
Council Bluffs
Tawa
Fremont Benjami
Cavite Time Signals Tie Pacific to Manila Observ
Cavite radio station, with the Philippine Bureau of Posts and Manila Observatory, has since October 1 transmitted time signals from the 120th meridian east daily at 11 a.m. and 10 p.m. Manila Observatory clocks feed Cavite, starting signals at 10:55 a.m. and 0:55 p.m., for five minutes, with specific clock ticks omitted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cavite
Pacific
Philippine Bureau of Posts
Manila Observatory
Greenwich
Science
Bureau of Posts
Ares
Sercanlin & Aval Cheela
Sas
Doan's Kidney Pills Endorsement From Glenwood Resident
A Glenwood citizen Mrs. M. Clipson praises Doan's Kidney Pills as reliable for kidney troubles. The advertorial note urges readers to use the remedy and mentions its availability through Milburn Co. and Buffalo, New York, with a typical testimonial persona and family faith in the product.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenwood
Doan
Milburn Co
Msgrs
Buffalo, N. Y
Ownership statement for The Mills County Tribune April 1918
Statement of ownership management and circulation for The Mills County Tribune Glenwood Iowa filed April 8 1918 with notary public H M Logan. Publishers W F Hill and B A Davis editors J R Graham business managers W F Hill and B A Davis owners W F Hill and B A Davis. No bonds or stockholders owning 1 percent or more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Mite County
Glenwood
Iowa
W. F. Hill
B. A. Davis
Towa
J. R. Graham
A. Davis
HE. A. Davis
H. M. Logan
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Presse Tet Tower
ESSA
Fred Hunsinger
Wall Street War
WV. D. Pace
Elliott
Claude Kizzier
Red Cross
Mrs. C. F. Anderson
Atlantic
Mrs. F. W. Kelley
W. C. Rathke
Mis County National Bank
Drumright
Oklahoma
Tuesdy
Ogaialli, Nebr
Vielnits
Savilla
Jeane Peterson
Sutton, Nebr
Mrs. T. la Smouse
Zeda Walling
Grinnell
Miss Zeda
Corinne Kneepflier
Barby Son
Walthill
Nebr
Charlies Record
Jess Morgan
Elmwood
J. W. Hanks
Lincoln Hospital
Justice Goodrich
McCamron
Tarkio
Evernal
Meadames McCamron
Everaal
Lynch
City Council
Abe Eversal
I. 2
Lyon
Central City
Ever
Sal
F. ¥. Kemp
Omaha
Granville Russell
Lawrence Bogart
al Beaton
Aneta
Minnesota
Grand Forks
North Dakota
H. A. Schroeder
Daisy Murphy
Texas
Lillie Adams
McCook
Nebraska
Samuel Mershon
H. &. Manker
JG. W. Redmon
R. l. Humphrey
Roy Manker
Jefferson
Redmon
Humphrey
Baby Chicks For Sale
Carrie I.wright
Pune
Ohio
Oscar Hiatt
C. Buff Leghorne&&b
Pacific Junction
H. Witherbee
Alfred
Locust Street
Haley’s Grocery
Mineola
Studebaker
Jeave
Tribune
Todkafehow
Iastings
North Linn Street
Rhode Island
Eck Wody
Tom Herken
Moeifie Junction
Wallace Luaiber Co
Arthur Gradie
Enwood
Geo
Glenn
H. C. Meade
Hluifs
Jason Standiford
Canfield & Murphy's
IL Am
Inter-State Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
Rock Rapids
Homie
United States
Canala
George H .Zimmer
Baber
L. S. Robinson
Offic'r C. B & Q
Wetch
Lyspestar Dowsky
Genkt
Mysie Glenwend
Lowe
Lyon & Lyon Chiropractors
Mesdames
H. A. Sthrobbetty
B.reymour
Imaho Viseltora
Frank Stroud
Earl Hodges
Mershon
Byron Merhon
Excelsior Springs
Hureday
Charles Abel
Emerson
the Tribune
Albia
John L. Hill
Camp Lodge
Yeaminny
Homer Huntsman
L. B. Seymour
Auto
Hastings
Frank Bromley
GoWe
Shenandoah Valley
Nana Travers
Uncle Sam Wit
Woman's Home Companion
iShe
Aolo
Thomes
REX Theatre
Pathe Gold Rooster
Molly King
Pathe
Ford Weekly
Jack Tar
U.S
Roscoe Arbuckle
Mabel Normand
Keystone
Hearst Pathe News
R. H. Giltner
Dilda Wallick
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