Deaths of Two Pioneers Mark Mills County Obits
Obituary notices recount the lives of George W. Brooks and Miss Lydia E. Monroe Whitfield, with details of their births, marriages, church ties, and survivors. The column also notes the death of Edith Cummings, a Grinnell College senior, and brief tributes to Harry Rager and Mrs. Stonehouse, plus local notes on cancer death and a shift in Burlington freight operations affecting Pacific Junction and Villisca.
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George W. Brooks
Tribune
East Liberty
J. W. Wright
Silver City
Milla County
Prince William County
Virginia
Ohio
Iowa
Glenwood
L. Kimberly
Center Township
Claude Brooks
M. E. Church
Edith Cummings
John Cummings
Abo Denmark
FE. B. Woodruff
Grinnell
Catherine Briggs
Hill
Atlantic Congregational Church
Tabor
Linn
Vernon
Eugene Matthew
George
Leonard Gaston
Ware
Boardman
Red Oak
S. F. Vinton
Pacific City
Burton Cummings
Alta
Arthur Cummings
Clinton Jones
Robert Hurlbutt
Glenwood High Forms Basketball Club For Winter Play
Glenwood High School plans to play basketball this winter after football. A High School Athletic Association was organized Monday with officers Prof. L. H. Mans as president Leverne Brown vice president Willie Rathcke treasurer Henry Dean secretary. Captains named Are Allbee and Clarence Jones for two teams with Russell Burkett manager of both. Armory may be used. a match with a neighboring team is expected within weeks.
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Glenwood High School
L. H. Mans
Leverne Brown
Willie Rathtke
Henry Dean
Will Allbee
Clarence Jones
Russell Burkett
Christmas shoppers urged to read Tribune ads this week
The Tribune highlights a week of gift suggestions with ads to help readers avoid trips to nearby cities. It notes ads are valuable to readers and advertisers alike, and cites Chas Rennack winning $100 by husking 201 bushels and 16 pounds of corn on D. P. Wilson’s Farraput farm as a boastful local feat.
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Tribune
Council Bluffs
Omaha
Glenwoods
Chas. Rennack
D. P. Wilson
Farraput
Queen Mills Entoures in White Robe as Snow Falls
Two inches of snow fell Tuesday night with more today and none has melted. Rabbit bunting is good. There is hardly enough snow for sleighing. The note is for Tribune readers at a distance and mentions Queen Mills in a royal white robe.
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Tribune
Queen Mills
Robinsons Public Sale At Robinson Farm Northwest Of Pacific City
John G Robinson holds a public sale at his farm three miles northwest of Pacific City on Tuesday December 15. Auction items include five horses fourteen cattle twelve hogs farm machinery harness grain a three room house eighteen by thirty foot a fourteen by twenty barn and various household goods. Sale starts at ten oclock. See bills for particulars.
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John G. Robinson
Iis Farm
Pacific City
Weddings of the Week: Garman Johnson Nuptials at Malvern
Ralph A. Garman of North Platte Nebraska and Susie I. Johnson of Malvern were wed at noon yesterday at the bride’s mother’s home northeast of Malvern. Rev Waldo officiated with 50 guests present. The couple will live in North Platte where the groom is a locomotive engineer. The bride wore white silk and roses. A second wedding in Bartlett last Sunday saw Harry Taylor marry Sadie Palmer at the bride’s mother’s home Delia Bacom with many guests. Squire Chas Aikens officiated.Taylor is a farmer northeast of Bartlett.
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Ralph A. Garman
North Platte
Neb
Susie I. Johnson
Malvern
Mary M. Johnson
Waldo
The
Baptist Church
Dally Huffaker
Richards, Mo
H. K. Waldo
Bartlett
Harry Taylor
Sadie Palmer
Delia Bacom
Squire Chas. Aikens
Mr. Taylor
Bart- Jett
Narrow Escape From Drowning In Glenwood Cistern
Pete Rosch of Retelsdorf and Rosch narrowly escaped drowning last Friday while repairing a home pump at Mrs. Belle Hale's residence. His ladder slipped, sending him into about nine feet of water, and he nearly suffocated before assistance reached him.
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Pete Rosch
Retelsdorf & Rosch
Glenwood
Belle Hale
Watch stolen from Glenwood blacksmith shop
Henry Buch of Way Wright's blacksmith shop in Glenwood had a $56 gold watch stolen Monday noon while at dinner. A tall sandy stranger claiming to be a painter from Omaha was last seen hiking south past Evans and O'Neil barn. Deputies tracked him to Mills station and Plattsmouth but could not locate the watch or suspect.
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Henry Buch
Way Wright
Glenwood
Omaha
Evans & O'Neil
Surveyor Smith
Mills Station
Buck
Bogart
Pacific Junction
Plattsmouth
Spencer
Omaha Spencer
Messrs. Buch
Mills County Doctors Elect Officers At Year End Meeting
The Mills County Medical Society met in Glenwood last Thursday with broad county representation. Officers for the coming year were elected: C. H. DeWitt president from Glenwood, S A Campbell vice president from Malvern, Dr. Benson Lecy from Glenwood, and W. R. Whitnall treasurer from Hastings, with a full program conducted.
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Mills County Medical Society
Glenwood
C. H. DeWitt
S.a.campbell
Malvern
Benson
Lecy
W. R. Whitnall
Treas
Hastings
Handel Messiah Performed By Oratorio Society In Tabor
South western Iowa anticipates the Oratorio Society rendition of Handel's Messiah on Thursday December 17 in Tabor. Chorus contains over seventy voices under Prof. Pierce with Frank Croxton H Augustine Smith Madam Alice Myron Helen Lawrence Bertha Hart Katherine Warren in key roles. T. & N. runs an extra train to Malvern that night. Admission 50 cents.
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Iowa
Handel
Oratorio Society
Tabor
Pierce
Frank Croxton
Chicago
H. Augustine Smith
Alice Myron
Creston
Helen Lawrence
Bertha Hart
Katherine Warren
Malvern
Investment Proposition for Omaha and Florida Tracts
Advertisement from ROBINSON & BREEN listing Lot 6 Block 9 Marsh's Add Omaha with 7 percent price 600 over mortgage and improvements including two houses and barn. Also advertises 80 acres near Wabasso Florida port area with trade for Iowa or Nebraska property, no mortgage, asking 1200. Trade or sale offered, owner desires close.
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Marsh
Omaha
Incumbrance
California
Wabasco
Florida
Brevard County
Floris
Lews
Nebraska
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Lydia E. Whitfield
Whitfield
Miss County
Malvern Baptist Church
EH. R. Waldo
D. M. Whitfield
Mills County
Lydia E. Monroe
Cayuga County
New York
John Kline
Atirksville, Mo
D. B. Whitfield
Harry Preston Rager
Harry Preston
Harry Rager
Scott Carson
Fourth Street
James’ Thompson
Congregational Church
Carson
G. A. Knolle
Lillie Anderson
Bryan
Deer Crack
Imogene
Martin’s Chapel
Ife
Wm. Stonehouse
Colorado Springs
R. C. White
Ydkter McClintock
Lafe McClintock
Jefferson, Okla
Cripple Creek
Mr. Stonehouse
Emersons
Hamburg
Burlington Main Lne
Villisea
Garman-Johnson
Taylor-Palmer
Carey & Fleming
Carey & Fleiming
Glenwood, Iowa
Xpress
Stevens
Bower Bros
Robinson & Breen
Mills County Lank
W. W. de Witt
Chemical CO
Cleveland
South Side Square
Swope’s
James A. Swope
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