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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1922
Page
1
Glenwood busy with Holiday deals at Robinsons Johnsons and Humphrey Howe while Christmas items like box stationery and leather goods are spotlighted. Local notables visit, babies born, and community notes mix with winter weather and small-town happenings across Mills county.
A Saturday sale offers Sewing Machines and Talking Machines along with Ladies' Wrist Watches Gents' Watches 85 Diamonds Cut Glass Pearls Silver and China. Hundreds of other items suitable for Christmas presents await buyers at unprecedented prices on first class merchandise.
A collage of storefront notices and notices from Glenwood Ia. Vendors advertise chocolate, radiator testing, books and toys, electrical wiring, auto glass, sow sales, trucking, buy magazines and rags, real estate, cream delivery, round oak burners, fur purchases, building blocks, yearling boar sale, hairpieces, a modern eight room house for sale, second hand windows, lost items including a black silk Petticoat and a black handbag, plus mirror sales from Fackler's Paint Store.
Otto Judkins returns home after a short Los Angeles visit. D G Jamison announces a bigger and better 10c department this year. Sterling McCluskey from Glenwood is invited to the Pepper Pot Club supper dance at Omaha Country Club on December 23. Pepper Pot Club consists of twelve daughters of leading Omaha families and will be a premier social event of the holiday season.
Mrs Mary Mickelwait, described as a splendid pioneer woman, died at her home on upper Chestnut Street on Sunday around 1 p.m. after an icy porch fall worsened her long illness. Funeral services will be held Wednesday December 20 at 2 p.m. from the Chestnut Street home, with burial in Glenwood Cemetery.
Improved irrigated farms offered at 40 dollars per acre with water rights paid and ample supply. Within ten to fifteen miles of Grayhbull Wye in Big Horm Basin. Terms no cash payment but seven percent per year, paid for 83 years like a federal loan. Purchaser must show funds for teams equipment and seed first year and provide good references. Chas F. Davis 438 Securities Bldg Omaha Neb Jackson 1891.
Ellen McGee, a county home inmate since 1912 aged 89, died Tuesday night December 12. Funeral services were held the next day led by Rev. Howard Mintle. Burial followed in the County Farm cemetery.
Community notice for a box social and program at the Letal school eight miles north of Glenwood on Friday evening December 22 at 8 o clock. Ladies please bring boxes. Everybody is invited. Lydia Stille, teacher.
For Sale listing by Ed Marshall includes a 1920 Big Six Studebaker a 1920 Buick roadster a 1918 Buick touring car a 1917 Buick touring car a 1921 Ford touring with starter and detachable rims and a 1920 Dodge touring car all in good mechanical condition and look like new. Contact Glenwood phone 84.
A young man identified as G Fitegerald, accused of wife desertion, was taken into custody in Hastings by Sheriff’s request after beating a farm laborer near Haat ihes. Mayor Look details the arrest before Deputy Dawson, who will hold him until Missouri officers arrive. The man and his brother had been working around Hastings and Strahan and planned to return to Missouri on Saturday.
Miss Galbraith, blind since youth, spoke briefly at three Glenwood churches with pastors’ permission. She presented three short readings, a collection was taken, and she thanked Glenwood residents for their generosity. She is a great niece of Joseph Galbraith, late well digger in the county.
Real estate transfers include Carl H. Otis to Pauline G. Lidgett for 950 dollars for Lot 3 in Block 44 excluding the west 62 feet, Chas. Kroon to John A. Jungauist for 75 dollars covering Lots 20-22 in Park Add., Pacific Junction, Herbert L. Lyon to Edward L. Michaelson for 8500 dollars for Lot 7 in Block 61 of the original Glenwood plat, Malvern Cemetery Trustees to H. N. and P. Delavan for 60 dollars for Lot 712 in Malvern Cemetery, G. W. Seeger to Harvey Dean for 1 dollar and other considerations for survey rights in Sections 5 and 6 totaling about 51.29 acres in 72 48. Also notes on miscellaneous nonrealty items from D G Jamison & Co. 10¢ Department.
A plea from Laura L Tatt, superintendent, asks Iowa readers to support the Iowa Children’s Home Society in Des Moines by sending checks to 2340 East Ninth Street. The letter describes caring for 20 children and urges gift ideas like linen items and blankets, mentioning D G Jamison Co for discounts and Tribune subscription offers.
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