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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1921
Page
5
The 1821 holiday season at the Institution featured a nine day festive program for over 1600 inmates. Attendants guided visits to town, Christmas purchases, and family money gifts. Highlights included operettas The Lost Necklace and The Lost Necklace encore, a Christmas tree distribution, and multiple entertainments and films for inmates and visiting guests from Glenwood and beyond.
Mr and Mrs Jay Wertz hosted a large family gathering for Christmas dinner. Relatives and friends shared gifts and enjoyed the festive meal. Departures left the Wertz home content after a joyful visit.
On December 14 Guy Raine of West Oak, convalescing north of Glenwood, received a neighborly help. Ivan White and four others used a buzz saw to convert a large pile of pole wood into eight cords of fuel, completing the task with efficient teamwork and good will.
A stork delivered a 10 pound baby boy to Mr and Mrs Ralph Linville on Christmas. They named him Manford John to honor two grandfathers. Mother and son are healthy. father Ralph jokes about expecting a daughter next, then another son.
The Glenwood Fire Boys led the annual Christmas box drive for the city with help from the Welfare Board. They collected donations all week with the fire truck and placed boxes in businesses for cash gifts and clothing. Over sixty dollars funded provisions and candy, with boxes delivered Christmas morning. Catherine French led packing, assisted by Rev C. G. Ward and Mona Graham.
A New Year message expresses hope that readers will inscribe a worthy record in volume 1922. It asks for joy amid labor, brave duty, and gifts from God with the blessing “Well done, good and faithful servant.”
Miss Randolph county nurse organized a poster contest across rural schools with 25 entries. Eureka School No. 1 won first prize, $3. two schools tied for second with $2 split between Little Brick School and Eureka No. 1. Four schools earned third with 5 cents each.
Grandparents Mr and Mrs Charles Dunn of Glenwood express delight over a Sioux City baby show report. Frances Dunn, daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank Dunn, wins first prize a $15 cash award and a go cart as she moves with her parents from Sioux City to Des Moines.
A publication correction states that in last Thursday’s item Can Celebrate Together the names should read Mr and Mrs Dean Jackson instead of Mr and Mrs R O Jackson. An apology is issued to all concerned.
Arrangements for the Mills County Farm Bureau fourth annual meeting are nearly complete. The event opens at 9:30 am at the Malvern Methodist church with reports in the forenoon, noon dinner by the Women's Civic Improvement League, and an afternoon focused on current farming problems. Topics include corn acreage reduction, taxation of land, rural development, and Farm Bureau prospects, led by named speakers. Open to the public with sessions aimed at farmer sentiment.
The Iowa based co operative grain marketing group reports rapid growth with 1975 growers and 70 elevators signed on six year contracts. T A Hougas and son Ward Hougas, former Mills county residents, lead solicitation efforts, focusing on securing elevators.
Company I basketball team defeated Company FE 24 to 20 in Shenandoah Wednesday night. The win boosted Glen weed boys, who then spent an hour driving around town before heading home.
A photo from 1889 taken in the Glenwood parade shows 60 GARs who marched that Decoration Day. The image, kept at Parr barber shop, sits at the southwest corner of the courthouse park. few of the participants remain alive today.
The Glenwood Rebekahs held a Monday session centered on the grab bag fun. A piano solo opened by Selma Sien, followed by the Moses sisters and Miss Madgeline with violin, Mildred on piano. Three year old Phyllis Timmons impressed, Ethel Timmons sang, Paul Criswell spoke on a drowned Chinese boy and offered an essay on ducks. Margaret Moses, Myrtle Anderson, and Mildred Moses sang Holy Night with piano accompaniment, closing with a piano solo by Alice Scott. Children and older attendees received sacks of nuts. prize distribution was lively with unanticipated trades.
Mr and Mrs Hubbell of Glenwood celebrate their golden wedding anniversary on Christmas Eve 1871, now fifty years married. The couple’s journey began in Ohio and moved through Iowa Nebraska and Colorado with two sons and a daughter still nearby. A large celebration featured a hundred candle cake and visitors including the groom’s mother Mrs Elizabeth Hubbell aged 89.
Due to delay in receiving the Thistle Collection of Colored Prints the January 2 meeting is postponed one week and will be held January 9. Miss Nell Bogart, president, Mrs M J Williams, chairman notify members.
A group of two score old and young shared a Monday dinner on December 26 hosted by Mr and Mrs Ira McKnight. Among the attendees were Charles Griffis L W McKnight R E Pack and W H Hamil with all praising the evening beyond expectations.
Notice states no Monday Tribune will be issued because of the holiday and year start readjustments. It mentions the error in text and apologizes for any inconvenience.
Ben Stille and partners, including Par Mickelyall WK Evans and H M Logan, join their families with Mrs Scott and Mrs Terry as hosts and hosting families, plus children, at a community gathering.
The Glenwood Fire Boys were called to the County Par Wednesday night for a gasoline gas explosion in an outbuilding. The fire was put out before they arrived and little damage occurred.
A Malvern wedding at noon December 28 united Marian Knight and Fehleuter of Waterloo Iowa with Rev A J Meierhoff presiding. Cora Mutie Mulvaney wed a Glenwood man in Omaha on December 5. Delevan Glenwood pair Delevan and Edith Newman wed in Illinois. Jens Paul Gorn and Mary Opal Smith. Ralph Sanders and Florence Butts wed near Malvern. Wilbert Greenlun and Gertrude Wiley married in Glenwood on December 26.
Aeliem Brandon aged 18 died Monday in Sidney from infantile paralysis after four days illness, having returned Dec 22 from college in Town City. Mrs Mary McKeen of Silver City, long a pioneer resident, died with her daughter in Fremont Neb, after which services were held in Fremont and Silver City. Also noted are birth and marriage details for Mary Hale and family ties across Hardin County, Holdyville, York County, and Silver City.
Henry Douglas a respected Mills County farmer died of heart trouble shortly after a Christmas day dinner with his family. The loss shocked relatives and neighbors. he was known for fairness, hard work, and community involvement on his Emerson area farm.
On December 24, Justice Day united two couples in marriage. Joseph Delbert Fenwick of Malvern wed Helen Louise Timson of Tabor, while Claude W Wilson and Letha A Darnold of Sidney also joined in a formal marriage ceremony.
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