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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1921
Page
2
A humorous account from Hastings recalls four youths raiding a watermelon patch near Harmon, a shotgun shot, a frantic dash to a car, and a wounded-appearing scare with barbed wire fences. The column then shifts to local notices: visitors, births, travel, illnesses, a freight derailment delay, and residents contemplating crime fighting as a paint and paper man turns detective.
A Drumbeat signaling system in Central Africa allows rapid long distance messages between villages via incision drums. Chiefs own multi drum sets delivering coded sounds like a telephone, enabling travel of messages up to a thousand miles with no charges. Europeans use it for dinners and lodging, while natives interpret rhythms as words and social praise or insult during dances.
The Tribune claims top quality in job printing with emphasis on reliable service and clear results for customers seeking printing solutions.
New York Times notes a game ahead of market release where two sides labeled character readers and face builders assess a subject. Readers list traits, builders assemble cardboard facial blocks into a likeness, then match traits to features for scoring points. A photograph can substitute for the live subject.
A Montreal family theorizes that tails serve as a primary language among animals and even humans. The piece notes wolves signaling, foxes hiding their tails, and dogs showing thoughts through tail movements while comparing facial and body cues across species.
An exploration of unusual money systems around the world. China uses ancient gold and silver ingots, strips of brass or copper, and tea cubes in some tribes. Burma and Persian Gulf regions employ cowrie shells and fishhooks, Africa features beads and tusks, Oceania relies on flint axes and parrots feathers, and Alaska still shows shell money among remnants of native practices.
A farmers picnic featured a speaker addressing rural wealth myths and the value of cooperation. He compared agricultural capital turnover with other industries, noted 80 percent of Iowa bank assets are held by farmers, and discussed railroad taxation and a farmers bloc in the Senate led by Senator Kenyon. Debenture bonds may allow land loans at 3 percent with half valuation. A coffee refreshment by Advo brand and a horseshoes contest closed the day with results for Ross and Weak, Arterburns, and Aistrope Rodman.
A historical note recounts the ten men who served as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation since its formal establishment in 1839. It lists John Ross, Louis Downing, William P. Toss, Charles Thompson, D. W. Bushyhead, Joel B. Mayes, C. J. Harris, S. H. Mayes, T. M. Buffington, and W. C. Rogers, noting ancestry and prior roles including Ross’s service as chief of the eastern Cherokee nation.
Dr Joseph Parker earned the nicknamed “the Russian bear” from an American visitor describing his rugged look. His early life saw poverty, clogs in school, work as a mason, and a fateful quarry moment that inspired him to leave stone cutting and pursue the ministry at age twenty three after marrying Annie Nesbit, whom he called the soul that saved him.
A centuries old rite on February 2 at Wotton near Dorking survives from William Glanville’s bequest to the boys of Wotton. Each boy who reads the Lord's Prayer the Ten Commandments and the Apostles Creed from memory and writes two verses from I Corinthians 15 earns forty shillings once in a lifetime.
A newly married couple host friends at a gathering. A rude guest taunts others by calling a piece of meat a pig. A quiet guest at the far end responds with a pointed question about which end of the fork he refers to.
There are rich fishing banks around Iceland and especially Newfoundland drawing vessels from America, France, and Britain. The banks overhang deep waters reaching 4,000 fathoms, with Greenland coast banks also rich though trawling is blocked by iceberg-covered bottoms.
The exchange notes there are few perquisites today as Senator Sorgum comments that in the past many penurious people saw perquisites as a way to keep a public servant underpay. The dialogue contrasts old and present attitudes toward government compensation.
Mesdames D L Markel Claude Deupree J O Hathaway supervised juvenile sports with Geo Masters acting as prize money holder and distributor. Other sport events extended to Thursday.
O B Hutchings arrives from Los Angeles to stay with parents in Glenwood for several weeks. He will attend to farm interests near Randolph while sisters and brothers reside in other county areas. Hutchings reports California business normal and prices near pre war levels with building activity now in full swing.
Boys 50 yard dash Harry Foster first Merritt Schurr second. Girls 50 yard dash Dixie Speck first Dora Burgoin second. Boys high jump Merritt Schurr first Ambrose Butler second. Girls high jump Wesle Speck first Dita Morrow second. Boys backward race Merritt Schurr first Ambrose Butler second. Girls backward race Vesie Speck first Edna Hopp second. Rolling peanut boys Robert Bayes first Jack Taylor second. Girls Edna Hopp first Flora Burgoin second. Boys Shea Race Everett Knopp first Harold Anderson second Bud Parker third. Boys stepping race Harold Anderson first Merritt Schurr second Scotty Miller third. Girls Mary Smith first Marian Hall second Mabel Matthews third. Read all the Tribune advertisements.
A Sunday night collision between an auto and a horse drawn buggy west of Pacific Junction leaves Shirley Creech driving the buggy and Anton Nitke with a severe side wound. Nitke received first aid from Dr. Bacon and was later moved to an Omaha hospital. The buggy and horse were wrecked.
The Board of Supervisors confirmed J. W. Edwards as deputy sheriff for Glenwood. He is the brother of the late A. S. Edwards. The appointment meets with general satisfaction.
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