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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1913
Page
8
F Hill Barle and Davis publish the Mills County Tribune in Glenwood Iowa with August 14 1913 issue details confirming ownership and editorial lineage.
Rates listed: display advertising five inches plus ten cents per inch for space and five cents per inch for composition each time. readers one cent per word plus ten cents each insertion up to sixty words. larger readers twenty five cents per inch plus twenty five cents per insertion.
Dr Fr M S r has kept to his home this week, recovering. Misses Melva Robbins Gladys Fisher of Malvern visited Ruth Bushnell. Mr and Mrs W F Hartman welcomed a daughter born Sunday August 10. Charles F Nipp of Mineola in town on business. Mrs D J Holscow and son Donavan and Mrs L B Osborne visit Geo Scott family. Mrs Mattie Eaton and two boys visiting Cheney families. County Treasurer George O Free left for Des Moines. Soldiers Reunion at Pacific Junction rumored fat men contest details in papers. Postmaster White seeks bids for mail route 243092. Dr W M Plimpton heads west outing with brother in Salida. niece Hlfrda Fegtly of Des Moines staying. Prof R B Wyatt of Los Angeles visited Stanton Warren home. father James Wyatt in Council Bluffs. Gen S B M Young writes to Dr McCluskey. memories bind their friendship since Bull Run. George W Jones returns home after fainting in mail car. Dean Wehra and B J Sheldon visit Glenwood. base ball tournament at Tabor. Fire scare at Sherm Hill home last Saturday. three-year-old boy found matches, bed quilt burned. Glenn Mintle saved burning tub of gasoline-saturated clothes. burned hands. Ira Padgett of Sedgwick visits. reports good crops due to rain. Nebraska drought in stretches. local hog breeding anecdote.
Dear Tribune from Soldiers Home Aug 11 1913 CADE ROGERS declares health steady though hospital bound not from sickness. He praises Iowa living good food clean beds and longs for a final trip south to Texas to attend unfinished business. He plans to visit Junction on the 22nd with red paint to lay his last coat and see more of the world.
Mr and Mrs Prank Bromley and Mr and Mrs Dan Lewis returned from a western trip last week. They traveled by car to Denver then took the railroad further west. They praised their Ford as a great traveler and noted Nebraska crops poor from Lincoln to near the Colorado line while west of that point rainfall and crop prospects were favorable.
List of uncalled letters includes Forrest Snodgrass Miss Jennie Bates D W Campbell O H Brooks Vivian Wilkinson. Persons calling for these letters should say they have been advertised.
Half price on three dozen wash skirts in linen white natural white pique striped madras brown khaki originally 1.25 to 3.50 now 62c to 1.75. Also half price on assorted silks including silk ginghams zephyrs tissues jacquard tub silks from 25c to 50c now 12c to 25c.
Two young painters Merle Killman and Guy Surface injured when a 2x6 truss on a scaffold broke just after noon. They fell about 12 feet, one hitting a radiator, the other landing near the foyer. Unconscious for about 30 minutes, then taken to Killmon home. Surface's left arm sprained. Killmon bruised shin and scalp wound. Surface from South Dakota.
The Board of Trustees of the M. E. church at Hillsdale will dispose of its parsonage property. Buyers may purchase the house or the land separately. Interested parties may visit the parsonage at 9 a m on August 22 to submit offers for consideration.
In Center Township's Little Brick District an election held last Monday sought bonds of 800 to build a new schoolhouse. With 92 votes cast, the measure failed by a majority of 29. A new election will be called and another attempt will follow in due time.
Public worship at 10:30 with a 12:00 Sunday school and 7:30 Vesper, a union service with the Congregational church. Joint youth meeting led by Mrs. H. M. Logan on topics of neglected neighborhoods. Election of Sunday school Board Monday 8 pm. quarterly conference Tuesday Aug 19 with Dr. Baxter presiding. Conference to Mt. Ayr Sept 10 with Bishop Bristol. Bible school 10 am. communion 11 am. Christian Endeavor 7 pm. long service 8 pm Life a Gamble theme. male chorus leads song service. solos by Mesdames Marshal and Ironmonger. Everyone invited.
Oak Township residents are warned to enforce a newly enacted weed law requiring cutting or destroying noxious weeds on private property and along adjoining roads to the road center. Weeds must be cut near ground level to prevent seeding. failure to comply will lead to enforcement. Township Clerk CHASF NIPP urges immediate destruction of rag, crown, or horse weeds before pollenation spreads illness.
Notice of Application to erect and maintain poles and wires for electric lighting heat and power for twenty years. Red Oak Electric Company of Red Oak Iowa seeks county board approval filed with Mills County Auditor. Roads described begin at the northeast corner of section 36 township 72 range 40 and extend west and north toward Emerson Iowa along highways and railroad rights of way.
The Red Oak Electric Co asks the Mills County Board of Supervisors to approve a long route along township and section lines from Hastings through Malvern Pacific Junction Glenwood to a river bank, with hearing set for 10:00 a.m. August 20 1913 at the courthouse in Glenwood. T. B. Schadel, president, urges timely action and invites objections.
Lenna V Stepney sues Frank A Stepney for divorce on grounds of cruel treatment and adultery. If he fails to appear by the second day of the September term starting September 23 1913 at Glenwood, default and decree will be entered. Attorney BR Starbuck represents plaintiff.
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