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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1909
Page
4
Old routine mail service details indicate trains and schedules with routes and times. The text notes station hours from early morning to late evening and special Sunday hours, alongside a note that No IS receives no mail.
Miss Maude Flanagen returns home from Blanchard for two weeks. CJ Frazier and wife from Sterling may relocate in Mills county. Mrs Peter Jacobs visits her Persia-born parents, the Lathrops. Laura Dunagan and children spent Christmas with Mrs Thomas Moore at Manilla. Elroy Coburn and family from Council Bluffs visited Silver City. Frank Hettinger came from Glenwood for Christmas meals with his parents. Imma Rook, lately at Hastings, spends the week at home. Mrs WB Oaks returns from Knoxville. Rural mail carriers report snow drifts hindering routes since Friday. Miss Mary McCoy underwent appendicitis surgery.
The timetable lists eastbound and westbound train numbers and stops including Pacific Junction Glenwood Malvern Hastings Red Oak and Chicago with times for connections. It notes departures from Pacific Junction and arrivals in Chicago with several intermediate stations and a second timetable segment for Tabor and Northern railway showing Malvern and Creston stops with times.
Out of town visitors including Mr and Mrs SJ Remington Miss Mabel Swarts Fred Fogle Russell Jackson and Mrs Josie Buckingham of Omaha and Mr and Mrs Thomas McMahon of Stanbury Mo spent Christmas in Silver City. Local Sunday schools observed Christmas with programs and gift distributions on Friday evening with Baptist and Methodist groups hosting events in town venues.
Among Tabor teachers and students home for the holidays are Fern Williams Rock Valley Mattie Morrison Osage Marcelus Redenbaugh Chicago Dr Ben Barnes Chicago Earl McCormick Lafayette Col Robert McClenahan and family returned to Henderson Wednesday after visiting relatives the Dunsdon and Charles Watkins families Mrs Will Vinton of Pactis City visited her sister Mrs R W Hurlbutt this week Mrs D P Rickabaugh recently returned from Nebraska is ill from a complication of ailments her son C A Rickabaugh came from Albion Nebraska for several days last week
Ray Christie, while filling a gasoline lamp at the Oxford hotel last Thursday, was badly burned as the lamp caught fire. In an attempt to extinguish flames, young Christie burned his right hand. Also noted: Miss Nellie Ilannak of Blanchard visits her aunt Mrs M M Stockton. Mrs J D Parker seriously ill north of town but improving. Mr and Mrs Lester Barnum of Monmouth, Ill, visited J Martin's home. Mrs Barnum formerly Miss Adaline Ward of Malvern.
Alexander and his two brothers spent Christmas in Menlo. Claude Kerney returns home for holidays. Sunday school elected Robi Henderson superintendent CG Adams assistant Miss Josie Kerney secretary James McFall treasurer Miss Pearl Fort organist. Charves Chipps visiting Red Oak relatives. Nels Olson’s horse died Sunday night. Bird child improving after near death. Young party teased newlyweds Homer and Mrs Mayberry, ending with mishap on roof and a fall via lightning escape. Rev Peter Jacobs trampled a village garden and provoked a protest by East Liberty ladies. Jacobs faced strong local pushback.
A late notice offers Glenwood land at a bargain featuring 3 acres, a six room house, cellar, water supply with a well and cistern, kitchen pump, a new 14 by 22 barn with loft, wood and hen houses, painted with shingle roof and fruit trees. East front, described as a fine home for someone. For further particulars see Capt. Fowler. All the county news in the Tribune.
A man approaching a white gate meets a guardian angel who accuses him of theft and murder for price gouging ice in heat and coal in cold. The afterlife guardian suggests he could continue in his industry elsewhere. He awakens with the line business is business.
A sixteenth century tale of Bernard Palissy, the French potter who spent years and virtually all he had to perfect a white enamel for pottery. He suffered poverty, exile, and torture, choosing protestant faith over royal favor, dying in prison before his triumph could save him.
Camille Favre was guillotined in Saintes after being convicted of murdering a six year old girl. The town mothers showed delight as the knife fell. In prison Favre cared for sparrows, keeping them as pets and even asking for six as his last meal, then claimed he would finish the rest tomorrow before his execution.
A brief vignette shows Isabel playing mother to a two year old on a front lawn. A bowing young man asks questions about who is who. Isabel identifies herself and continues her care, displaying dignity and humor.
A group of lads burning mattresses for Guy Fawkes day near Hyde England uncovered over a hundred yellow English sovereign coins hidden inside one mattress. The coins were scattered in the bonfire scramble, and the owners could not be traced by police.
The Woman's Philharmonic society of New York adopts a plan to provide scholarships to talent but underfunded individuals. Although usually awarding to women, this society deviates by giving one scholarship to a postman's son with notable ability. The group exists 11 years and has grown from 40 to 150 members.
The Pacific Junction department reports numerous holiday visits from Omaha, Sioux City, Denver, and Council Bluffs, plus local appointments including a new school board secretary and city marshal. Weather notes mention 18 below zero, rail cautions for New Year’s Day, and a January 29 rural carrier examination.
W O Little announces Kelley and Company prepared to handle all pump repairs and supply needs with a full line of repair parts. They can be found at Davis and Anderson store and offer saw filing and chair repairing services.
A sheriff's sale by execution from Mills County District Court dated November 29, 1909., to satisfy a judgment for 604.57 plus costs, targets real estate in Mills County including Lot 17 and Lot 8 and a private road in section 26, township 2, range 43. Sale at the west door of Glenwood Court House on January 32, 1910, at 9 to 10 am.
In the Tribune’s Want Readers column each issue lists affordable reader requests from the community. This inexpensive ad space lets individuals publish wants with a high chance of finding quick satisfaction.
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