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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1920
Page
7
Local notes recount numerous Omaha trips by area residents including Harover Jole and J. Harbor. Visits to Carson Red Oak and Treynor mix with holiday events, sickness lists, and family milestones such as babies born December 16 and 19. School closes for vacation. concerts and church programs planned for Christmas Eve.
From our correspondent Robert Pierson has been under the weather for a week. A Christmas pageant is set for Friday evening December 24 at the Chapel, with all invited. The winter Short Course begins December 27 and runs ten weeks. Effie Wilson arrives from Lincoln to spend Christmas with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W E Wilson. Mrs Claude Wilson injures her foot in a fall last week but shows some improvement. The apron bazaar Friday night was a success with a good program and music, bringing in about 242 dollars with 60 dollars in expenses and a net balance of 192 dollars. Public sale: Robert Stroud will sell cattle, horses, hogs, and machinery on December 29 at his farm six miles southeast of Glenwood.
The Iowa State Board of Health quarterly bulletin records Mills County birth totals of 316 in 1918 and 246 in 1919, with death counts of 223 in 1918 and 196 in 1919.
The poem reflects on Santa Claus as a stable, tangible figure revered since infancy. It contrasts royalty, generals, artists, and sculptors to show how a childlike faith remains rooted in the familiar gift giver. The speaker calls Santa the most tangible god, linking childish joy to spring thaw and a wintery face. Copyright by James Whitcomb Riley.
Emerson Jrhood and NRites Albert Edie visited Council Bluffs Monday while Dr J W Weed toured Omaha Friday. Numerous locals traveled to Omaha Malvern Lincoln and Rembrandt for visits, plus births and community gatherings. The piece notes illnesses, university students, holiday plans, and a Ladies Aid meeting with gifts and refreshments.
Rev. E Victor Bigelow of Andover Mass spoke on mistakes in the Interchurch Steel Report. The Steel Corporation printed the pamphlet address and B H Gary of 71 Broadway New York will mail a copy.
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