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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1920
Page
4
Mills County Tribune lists publication schedule Mondays and Thursdays with annual advance price of $2.00. Owners and Publishers include F. Hill Harle A. David, with R. Graham as Editor. Advertising rates show display at 20 cents per inch, composition 1 cent per word? Locals and reading matter priced per line.
Priscilla, shy and left out by friends Helen Catharine and Jane, dwells on her white steps under a summer night. A generous stranger returns her nickel and prompts a hopeful promise of friendship and love as a tall, well dressed man waits in the street.
In Central Arabia's Khori and Afiaj districts remnants of medieval Persian rule emerge. Ruins hint at a Persian irrigation system with three bottomless reservoirs. The Afiaj hosts seven such pools and the Mother of the Mountain lake, once central to a vast kingdom. Legends recall Ad Thn Shaddad's palace and a river of sand that forged the Empty Quarter.
A reader explains a simple method to cut a glass bottle. Heat a short iron rod to red, press it along the bottle with a brick as guide, then plunge into cold water to crack and separate the neck with a clean edge.
The article catalogs salt and alkaline rivers worldwide. It notes a salt river in Australia and another in Rio Salado, Argentina. Canada’s Athabasca has two salt branches, one from a natural salt spring and another from Caribou Mountains salt rock. It mentions a tributary of the Great Slave river and eastern Oregon streams with strong alkalinity, plus the Vinegar river in New Granada souring from sulphuric acid.
U S education officials actively recruit male teachers for Hawaii. A Washington representative urged Cedar Falls students Arnold Halbfass and Davey Butterfield to sign three year contracts. Iowa State graduates J. J. Fletcher and George Thomas also agreed to teach in Honolulu. Wages are described as good.
Fred Miller, a Lincoln painter and longtime resident, credits Tanlac with restoring his health after years of weakness dizziness headaches and poor appetite. After four bottles he gained fifteen pounds and reports full recovery, attributing his better condition to Tanlac and urging others to try it. Local pharmacists Humphrey Haley Abel Morehouss Talboy and Irwin sell Tanlac in nearby towns.
District Court Mills County Iowa October Term 1920. H and Byana as plaintiffs allege adverse possession of Lot 7 Section 14 Township 72 Range 43 Gordon's Addition Glenwood Iowa. Defendants listed as unknown claimants. Petition claims absolute ownership and clouded title due to missing recorded conveyances from Daniel Tinkel and T B Gordon.
The petition seeks a decree quieting and confirming title of the plaintiff against all defendants and claimants forever. The case will be heard at the next term of the District Court of Mills County, Iowa in Glenwood, beginning October 12, 1920. Defendants must appear by noon on the second day to defend or judgment will be entered in their absence. Attorney H. M. Logan represents the plaintiff.
In Mills County district court during October term 1920 Maude Jacobs files for divorce from Isaac O Jacobs on adultery grounds and notification seeks appearance to contest the petition. The clerk’s office records the filing of the petition and schedules summons for the respondent.
The document notes that on the first day of October term in 1920 in Glenwood the court will proceed if no defense is entered, default will be entered, and judgment or decree will be rendered as provided by law. Dated July 24, 1920. GENUNG & GENUNG, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
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