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Newspaper

Mills County Tribune

Location

Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 14, 1916

Page

5

Hereford cattle sale by George T Rew of Silver City

Mills county residents gain in cattle farming as George T Rew lists 46 head of registered Polled Herefords for a December 21 sale at the state fair grounds Des Moines. The sale includes 20 bulls and 26 cows and heifers from 1 1/2 to 5 years old, with 14 additional head from other breeders joining a total of about 60 head. Catalogs available from B O Gammon Des Moines Jr.

Mills County George T. Rew Silver City Great West Mr. Rew Des Moines Gammon Teeo

O O F Home Coming Honors Longtime Members

Glenwood Lodge L O O F held its annual home coming with simple plans for degree work and refreshments. One candidate received the initiatory degree and two received the first degree. Eighty two members attended. Veteran jewels were presented to J F Dike and George Peck for forty and forty five years of membership, with thanks from W S Lewis.

Glenwood Lodge Home Lodge J. F. Dike George Peck Veteran Jewels

Iowa Children Excel in Arithmetic Says Ashbaugh

Ernest J. Ashbaugh reports on a bulletin proving Iowa students exceed peers in arithmetic. Courtis tests administered to over 13 000 children across five grades in fifty two towns measured addition subtraction multiplication and division with time constraints. Results show lowest accuracy in addition and highest in division.

Hhat Iowa Ernest J. Ashbaugh Towa

Tribune Readers Seek Accurate Address Updates

The Tribune requests subscribers provide both old and new addresses in full. The list will be corrected Friday, December 15, to reduce misdelivery. Notify the office immediately if any label error is found.

The Tribune

Birth of a Nation seats on sale at Rex Theater

In small towns results generally lagged city results though many towns under a thousand recorded top individual scores. A 1915 to 1916 comparison shows gains in speed and accuracy, while Iowa handwriting tests last year matched or exceeded peers elsewhere.

Rex Iowa

Pioneer Fred Double Remembered as Glenwood Patriarch

W. T. recalls Fred Double as possibly the oldest living Glenwood adult pioneer. He first met Double in 1855 while Double worked for Landlord Betts at the car avansary on Locust street. Longtime contemporaries include the Windhams, Goodells, Donelans, Otises, Fairs, Townsends, and Bradways. Double, seen as patriarch, remains active and successful in his chosen industry for about forty six years.

Tribuie Fred Double Glenwood Betts Car Avansary Locust Street Windhams Goodells Donelans Otis Fair Townsend Bradway Double Walt

Long-serving Glenwood cemetery trustees face election

A call meeting of Glenwood cemetery lot owners is announced in The Tribune to select three trustees. Since 1890 W C DeLashmutt and M G Maynards have served, with CG H Towslee, then Edwards and later Belatti and Robinson joining as replacements. The meeting is set for December 26 in the Community Club room at the Armory.

Glenwood the Tribune W. C. DeLashmutt M. G. Maynards CG. H. Towslee Edwards Tedegr Belatti Towslee L. &. Robinson Armory

Mt Gerezim Chapter Elects Officers for Year

Mt Gerezim Chapter No 59 Glenwood elected its officers at the annual meeting on December 11 Hight. The Mark Master Mason degree was conferred on Sergeant B A Matthews. Officers-elect include George BE Masters Excellent High Priest J B Chanberlin Hing SW Taraway Seribo J C Daniel Treasurer K B L Hester Secretary.

Mt. Gerezim Glenwood Mark Masstex B. A. Matthews George BE. Masters Chanberlin

Comparisons Of Property Valuations In 97 Towns And Cities

T A Polleys, tax commissioner for the Chicago and North Western Railway, compiled a table comparing true and assessed valuations in 97 towns and cities for 1916. Readings show varied transfers and per capita wealth, with Council Bluffs and Moville among the notable entries, and Swaledale marking the highest assessed percentage near 80.

T. A. Polleys Chicago & North Western Railway Company Mills County Pottawattamie Carson Macedonia Oakland Council Bluffs Moville Swaledale

Good Fellows Santa Aid Campaign in Glenwood

A Glenwood appeal invites Good Fellows to fund Christmas gifts for local children. Readers urged to report how many you will sponsor and to name needy kids for a fair distribution. Letters from Glenwood children request toys, dolls, guns, skates, candy, and a Bible, reflecting holiday wishes and poverty concerns.

Glenwood Santa Claus Tribune Qlenwood Santa Bible Dead Man

K of P Elects Officers at Glenwood Castle Hall

At the December 7 meeting of K P No 48 Glenwood Castle Hall the annual officer election was held. Winners include Don Rayne as Chancellor Commander Walter Trown as Vice Chancellor Jamey Swope as Frelate J Tt Wonda as Keeper of Stecards and Seal A Murphy as Master of Finance Delawell as Master of Exchequer Ta Rennelt Inside Sentinel Anthony Outs to Sentinel Frank Raine Captain of Wardrehe Mihlon 4

Glenwood Castle Hall K. of P Don Rayne Walter $. Trown Jamey A. Swope Frelate J. Tt A. ‘H Murphy M. Delawell D. Ta Rennelt

Red Cross Christmas Seal Plea for Health Care

The notice urges support for Red Cross Christmas seals highlighting care for the sick and disease prevention. It wishes readers a happy Christmas and a healthy New Year, promoting good will and the idea that buying seals supports a worthy cause at local Red Cross drugstores.

Ted Cross

Germany Proposes Peace End to World War I

The German chancellor Bethmann Hollweg proposes ending the European war with the sanction of the Emperor and Reichstag. French and English papers dismiss it as a retreat by a losing Germany and accuse allies of shifting blame to prolong the conflict.

Germany Europe Bethmann- Hollweg Reichstag

Malvern vs Oakland Ends In Tight Season Contest

Oakland high school team traveled to Malvern for a close basketball game led by coach Mr Moyer. Both squads showed clean sportsmanship and strong play, with the score reflecting a well matched contest that could have swung on the final moments.

Oakland Malvern Moyer

An Appropriate Gift for Christmas Tribute Remembrance

The Tribune offers a solution for hard to find gifts and rising prices by inviting readers to place names on a gift list. Call at the Tribune office or mail or phone the names of those to receive The Tribune as a remembrance throughout Christmas and the year.

Tribune The

Malvern Rout Oakland 82 to 23 in basketball game

The visiting coach drew two unsportsmanlike cautions for coaching from the sideline causing time to be called twice. After the second warning the official gave him an option to leave or stay silent. Final score Malvern 82 Oakland 23 with lineups including Malvern W Aistrope and C Aistrope and Oakland Brown and Johnson. Attendance 156. Oakland to face Glenwood High on Friday December 15.

Moyer Malvern Oakland Brown Duchecken Johnson Humbert Jones W. Aistrope C. Aistrope Thomas G. Barkus Ruth Nichols Foster Reed Fellows McCarty Bellwood Glenwood High

Deaths and tributes toll in Glenwood and area

Obituary notes Grandma Caroline Kidwell Greenlee of Glenwood dies after a weeks long illness from pneumonia. Born 1825 in Tennessee, she married P. W. Greenlee in 1849 and lived in Venango County Pennsylvania, Sidney Iowa, then Glenwood. Funeral at two pm Friday, burial beside husband in Glenwood cemetery. Also recalls Henry Marlow of Pacific Junction, IA, who died December 9 near Gravity, Illinois, aged about 79. funeral held in Hamburg.

P. W. Greenlee Grandma Greenlee Glenwood Caroline Kidwell Knoxville Tenn Penn Sidney Mr. Greenlee T. C Lincoln Ned Mary E John H R. W Pacific Junction Wst Henry Marlow Marlow Gravity Albert Lincoln Hamburg Mr. Marlow

Mother Shipton Prophecy Text Rendered for Publication

Fragmentary OCR of Mother Shipton prophecy with archaic phrasing and garbled lines. It includes references to world upheaval, water spectacle, gold at foot of hills, a wooden boat, a Jew entering England, and an announced end of the world between 1821 and 2021, with many misread letters and repeated fragments.

Mother Shipton Sven

Public sales announced for December at multiple Iowa farms

Auction notices list sales by H Noland and Mintle Bros on the J W Miller farm near Tabor, with horses cattle and farm machinery. T L Caley on the S Bogart farm near Glenwood. T G Byers as auctioneer. J H Ranne on his Glenwood area farm with livestock grain and implements. K C Dice at Billy Boyd farm near Tabor listing horses cattle hogs and farm machinery.

C. H. Noland and Mintle Bros Yuesday J. W. Miller Tabor Old Hillsdale T. L. Caley J. H. Ranne Glenwood Mr. Ranne K. C. Dice Billy Boyd Farm Atc

Recount Seems to Beat Kruse in County Treasurer Ballot

The ongoing recount in Henderson County for treasurer between M. J. Maxwell and J. W. Kruse shows Maxwell ahead by three votes after precinct boards altered many ballots. Missing border soldiers ballots and a disputed envelope with one Kruse vote could still tie or flip the result.

M. J. Maxwell Henderson J. W. Kruse Silver City Mr. Maxwell Des Moines Center Township Kruse Deer Creek Board of Recount

Illness in Atkinson, Mrs Lewis Tinville

Grenwood residents regret news of Mrs. Lewis Tinville of Atkinson Nebraska nine affliction over five weeks. She describes nervous trouble and a toe infection that grew serious enough to threaten hospital care. She was bed fast for a week and may need two weeks on crutches. Remember our buggy and auto top repair. Christmas cigar boxes at Red Cross Drug Co.

Grenwood Lewis Tinville Atkinson Neb

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