Chautauqua closes with large Glenwood crowds
Sunday marked the Glenwood Chautauqua closing with the season’s best attendance and ideal weather. Gov. Baxter and Dr. Hillis highlighted sessions while Ralph Bingham and the Williams Dixie Jubilee Singers provided top entertainment. Total receipts near 2400 with expenses over 3500, a deficit of about 6000? 10 for each of 60 guarantors.
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Glenwood
Storms
Ames College
Gov. Bacheler
Grange
Newell Dwight Hillis
Plymouth Congregational Church
Brooklyn
Ralph Bingham
Williams Dixie Jubilee Singers
Fay
Baird
Ft. Dodge
Lobson
Hird
Grant W. B. Gurley Speaker at Glenwood Chautauqua
General Grant W. B. Gurley a middle aged Omaha lawyer spoke at the Glenwood Chautauqua Friday afternoon before about Shirley five veterans. He held the audience with easy fluent delivery and his talk commanded attention despite the sultry day.
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W. B. Gurley
Omaha
Glen- Wood
Oliver Cromwell at Glenwood Chautauqua in Smithfield
Dr Tillis opened with a strong Oliver Cromwell lecture at the Glenwood Chautauqua on Saturday night. Despite heat and a long event, the address drew close to an hour and a half of attentive listening, pairing with Gurley’s Grant tribute from the prior day.
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Gurley
Grant
West Point
Mexico
Lincoln
Mr. Gurley
Glenwood
Hillis
Cromwell
Alexander
Caesar
Napoleon
Ife
Roosevelt
America
Oliver Cromwell
Charles
Notable sermon on Cromwell era to modern Russia analysis
Dr Willis delivers a pointed sermon linking Cromwell’s landholding to Russia’s 19th century parallels. He traces vast estates, illiteracy, and potential upheaval, contrasting English colonial influence with Russian conditions. He cites historic missionaries in Mexico and sketches a prophetic arc from past to present.
Sermon and Lecture Highlight Dr Hillis Moral Power
Dr Hillis delivered a Sunday sermon centered on the gospel of John about sowing and reaping. He argued today’s blessings stem from prior labors and sacrifices, citing missionary efforts and fruit shipments from California as examples of hidden toil producing broad benefits. In his Sunday night lecture he praised John Ruskin for labor’s value and social settlements inspiration.
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Jonathan
Ilillis
Council Bluffs
California
Old Mexico
Hillis
John Ruskin
Ruskin
W M Moore elected Grand Lodge representative
Prof W M Moore superintendent of schools was notified Friday of his election as representative to the grand lodge of Town 1 O P for Mills county. The office is held for two years.
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W. M. Moore
Grand Lodge
Mills County
Corner Stone Laying at Glenwood Methodist Church
A large crowd attended the corner stone laying on Thursday at the new Methodist church under construction in Glenwood. Prof Spellering's band and the choir provided music. Presiding Elder Griffith assisted Rev Shaw. President Storms of Ames College delivered the sermon praising temples of worship as pillars of moral strength and civilization. The stone, facing east, was set with a decorative trowel and level.
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New Methodist
Glenwood
Spellering
Griffith
BR. E. Shaw
President Storms
Ames College
Iowa
Ames
Dr. Storms
Epworth League
Old Glenwood Methodist Church History Unearthed
The article recounts Glenwood’s first Methodist church built in 1853 on the parsonage corner and later replaced by a brick building in 1873 under Rev. John Layton. It notes the transfer of a tin box containing church items, the timing of corner stone events, and mentions J. J. and Russell Scott as owners opposing tampering with old walls.
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Glenwood
City Water Works
John Layton
J. J
Russell Scott
Qustererly Conference
Olivers
Spellering
Mutiny in the Band at Glenwood Chautauqua
Pratueritg and the Silver City band staged a prank on Thursday night upsetting the audience at Glenwood Chautauqua. J O C Jackson led the first mutiny leaving his horn as others bolted and stopped playing. Only W B Oaks kept rhythm before the troupe returned to the piece and finished with a flourish under Dr Baird’s explanation.
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Chicago
W. B. Oaks
Prof. Spellering
Dr. Baird
Christening Noted For Babe Max Poller Mish
Dr Hillis christened Babe Max Poller Mish son of Mais and Mrs O L Marsh at 4 oclock Sunday afternoon at the Mash home. The ceremony occurred while the Brooklyn preacher Hillis was in Glenwood for a Chautauqua event and as a building contract discussion arose in the area.
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Max Poller
Tls Tittle
Mais
O. L. Marsh
de. Hillis
Weloek
Brooklyn
Glenwood
Des Moines Conference Minutes and Local Page Copies
IDM minutes of the Des Moines conference list 90 speakers on the program. It notes building, finance and corner-stone laying committee. Officers and members of Ipworth League are mentioned along with current copies of Central Northwestern and Christian Advocates and Epworth Herald. Local papers Mills County Tribune Glenwood Opinion and a Glenwood Chautauqua program are cited.
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IDM
Des Moines
Ipworth League
Central, Northwestern, and
Christian Advocates
Epworth Herald
Mills County Tribune
Glenwood Opinion
Glenwood Chautauqua
Expensive Talent at Glenwood Chautauqua Costs Detailed
The Glenwood Chautauqua ran up a total expense of 2563 with Dr Aillis taking the top single payment of 300 after delivering three addresses and Capt Hobson the highest individual fee at 175 for a lecture. The report lists payments to Spellering s band rent tents fencing advertising and printing plus numerous entertainers and speakers including Landis Roberson Baird Marsh Packard and Jubilees Singers among others, with Gov Cummins and Gov Bachelor also noted.
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Glenwood
Spellering
Board For Band, About
Congressman Landis
Roberson Pictures
Bryans
Matt Hughes
Edmund Vance Cook
Holden
Batten
Stella G. Marsh
Phil Baird
Adelphian Quartet
Alton Packard
Ralph Bingham
Storms
Capt. Hobson
W.F. Gurley
Hillis
Hobson kinship noted in Mills county remarks
Relatives of Captain Hobson in Mills county are discussed with notes on distant kinship. The Hobson line is traced to North Carolina natives, with Stephen Hobson formerly of Hillsdale and Mrs. A. T. Burger described as second cousins, both deceased. The piece mentions a Merrimae hero from Alabama.
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Hobson
Mills County
Captain Hobson
Glenwood
Stephen Hobson
Hillsdale
A. T. Burger
Tlubsons
North Carolina
Alabama
Also Mentioned on This Page
DR. Hills
General Grant
W. F. Gurley
Dr. Hillis
Atlantic
England
Lord Kenilworth
Dr. Willis
Gvat
Russia
Siberia
France
A. B. Storms
New Methodist Church
Auburn
Neb
Glenwood Methodist Church
Christens
Babe
Kings Buns
Pacific Junction
Lowa
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