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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1907
Page
4
A Malvern column reports arrivals, family news, and local incidents. New babies at several homes, a box social at Centerline schoolhouse, and Dr Corbin’s return from Wellington. Quarantines due to measles and a near miss fire threaten the town. A large crowd enjoys a Friday opera night, and crop notes praise bumper corn yields despite hail.
Frank Weatherhead builds a bank vault for the new Anderson bank. GW Estes shipped four cars of cattle to South Omaha and sold them on Thursday. GW Davies received his first Baltimore oysters shipment on Saturday. Tom Byers of Glenwood completed a 300 barrel cistern at the Faith home orphanage. Henry Ladd of Seattle arrived to handle business and visit friends. Mrs Charles Good and two children went to Lincoln to see sister and mother. Mr and Mrs Eli Reeves visited their daughter in Pacific Junction. A Woman's Honor was repeated at the opera house Saturday. Newt Williams plans a Fort Mead Florida winter with her parents. Ira Good Starry Wall and others attended the Malvern corn show. Mrs Ralph Goodfellow and baby of Cody visited her father. A large audience enjoyed the college conservatory orchestra at Congregational church. Mrs Ed Tyler of Geneva is visiting relatives near Tabor. Mr and Mrs R W McClenathan of Henderson visited relatives. Chas Davies drove to Glenwood. Will Bell from Glenwood reduces Tabor restaurants by two after trading away Barbyte and the north restaurant.
James O Conner ill with pneumonia. Mrs McDonough and daughter Jeanette visited Clyde Warren home. Wilbur Gaylord left Indianola college after his father’s death. Mrs Harry Duval and children stayed near Glenwood at A M White’s home. Pythian Sisters elected officers. two new members admitted Mrs Ike and Mrs Henry McKarland. A lunch followed. A J Greeson’s team tied to a pole caused damage near Malvern. Fred Greig to run his father’s farm west of Henderson. Curtis Curran to devote full time to bridge work and move his family to Hastings.
MINEOLA Detlef Prien has been visiting the past week with relatives near Emer son Neb. Mark Evans and his gang of bridge builders from Glenwood are finishing up a bridge on the new road recently established between Mineola and Silver City. Carl Goos is making his friends happy these days taking them on excursions with his new auto. On a recent Sunday Mr and Mrs Julius Kiersch accompanied him on a spin by the home of A F Seeger southeast for Glenwood. Some thief stole a quantity of groceries from the wagon of Rudolph Kahl last Tuesday night. He had just placed them in the wagon a little while before. Possibly it was the work of a practical joker. Passed Examination Successfully James Donahue New Britain Conn writes I tried several kidney remedies and was treated by our beat physicians for diabetes but did not improve until I took Foley's Kidney Cure. After the second battle I showed improvement and five bottles cured me completely. I have since passed a rigid examination for life insurance. Foley's Kidney Cure cures back-ache and all forms of kidney and bladder trouble. A J Howe Glenwood.
Robert Smith visits relatives in Kansas City while December brings health updates and family visits. Webster Maines suffers a grippe relapse, and typhoid recovery for Russel Jackson slows. Mrs. I S Little and son visit relatives in Charter Oak. The Baptist church holds a bazaar and oyster supper in the opera house. Gerald Reimers marks his fourth birthday with friends. High school girls regret a basketball loss to Malvern 17 to 3. Churches plan Christmas events in homes and venues.
There is a fine new boy at the R M Loveland home. Mr and Mrs J Dike were in Glenwood Monday to handle business. Milton Anthony bought the Pete Rickabaugh property this week, who has resided in Glenwood for some time. Mr and Mrs AB Judson have returned from an extended trip east, attending the national grange at Concord Connecticut and the state grange at Des Moines.
Charles F. Holden describes the tarpon in Recreation, detailing its huge size and dramatic aerial leaps. He compares its gleaming scales to minted silver and notes the fish’s sensational, unpredictable motions when hooked across Florida reefs and the Rio Grande.
A London visitor and Mary Russell Mitford stroll a Berkshire pasture. A cow lad opens a gate and the boy replies with a rustic quip proving country courtesy and gallantry. The exchange highlights Berkshire’s famed civility and pride in rural manners.
A Baltimore street car lurch throws a lady into a gentleman's lap. She apologizes and jokes she would pay a quarter if she were a man. A nearby man curses softly, then she offers the quarter. he pockets it quietly, and no one else speaks.
Subscribers arrange Tribune delivery of wood on account and request immediate fulfillment. The note specifies not to use linn wood and is addressed to the Tribune.
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