Hastings Social Notes and Church Plans Mixed With Local News
Hastings residents update on club meetings and lodge events. Mrs Keckley organizes a Rebeckah lodge with 25 charter members. officers are named and meetings set for alternate Tuesdays. Local visits include Mrs George Fisher of Chapman and travel plans involve W D Clark, Miss Nellie Alfrey, and Clyde Edmondson. W P Crow named city marshal. several property transactions and family movements noted. Memorials include funeral attendance of George and Dan Crouse’s brother and the Pythian Sisters installing officers. Weather, orchard reports, and Hood River land values are mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Shoemaker
Kensington Club
Keckley
Red Oak
Rebeckah Lodge
Charles Lakin
Noble Grand
F B Priest
HH Wilson
Abel Carey
Randolph Salmons
Odd Fellows Hall
George Fisher
Chapman
Neb
Hastings
W D Clark
Omaha
Rey Davis
Methodist Church
Loren G Jones
Creston
E Carey
A Wi Dolph
Los Angeles
Willie Furlong
Nellie Alfrey
Martin
Clyde Edmondson
Claude Bare
Kansas
Jacob Bare
A H Davis
Turney
George
Dan Crouse
Aaron Crouse
Sioux City
Clyde Edmundson
Swenson Bros Wholesale
Edmundson
Henderson
CS Binkley
Glenwood
W P Crow
Roy Crawford
James Roberts
East Hill
Charles Binkley
Simpson Cottage
Crawford
Andrew Peterson
Igh River
Alberta
Canada
Susan Carey
Pythian Sisters
Ruth Mason
Baxter Cafe
Venia Merie Kellar
Nebraska
Chas Purcell
K P Lodge
Roses in January from Hood River Garden Note
A reader recalls a February or January fragment about a rose bud from W. F. Faraway of Hood River Oregon. The note mentions pleasant weather and a fragrant envelope found among mail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune Mail
W. F
Hood River
Ore
New Lodge Officers Named for Glenwood Odd Fellows and Rebeckah
The Glenwood Odd Fellows installed officers led by CG. J. Deupree as noble grand and J. W. Brower as vice grand. Geo. O. Free is recording secretary with J. T. Murphy as financial secretary and Harry Cheyney as treasurer. Rebeckah lodge officers include Mrs. W. L. Hittle as noble grand and Miss Gertrude Evernham as financial secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenwood Odd Fellows Lodge
J. Deupree
Noble
J. W. Brower
Geo. O. Free
J.T. Murphy
Harry Cheyney
G. P. Hamiton
N.G. G
Glenwood Rebeckah Lodge
W. IL. Hittle
Noble Grand
W. H. Burrus
Gertrude Evernham
Hycrett Rhoades
Anna Beckman
Center and Rawles Township Women Form H. S. C. Club
The Rural Women's Club of Center and Rawles townships, known as the H. S. C., held a meeting at Mrs. W. G. White's home where officers were elected for the coming year: President Susie Chambers, Vice President Minnie Moore, Second Vice President Edna Cunningham, Third Vice President Mary Cunningham, Secretary Lulu Kline, Assistant Secretary Marguerite Seaver, and Treasurer Anna Seeger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Center
Rawles Townships
W. G. White
Susie Chambers
Minnie Moore
Edna Cunningham
Mary Cunningham
Lulu Kline
Marguerite Seaver
Anna Seeger
Incorrigible Girls Brought From Lincoln to Reform School
Sheriff Linville returned with Harriett Edgar and Emma Hubbell two 16 year old girls from Glenwood. Parents swore informations before Justice Edwards charging incorrigibility and wandering from home. They were taken to Cornell Bluffs for arraignment. district judge to consider commitment to Mitchelville reform school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linville
Lincoln
Harriett Edgar
Emma Hubbell
Glenwood
Thomas Edgar
Ada B. Hubbell
Justice Edwards
Cornell Bluffs
Mills County Ice Crop Thicker Than Years Past
Residents report excellent ice harvests as cold, snowless weather yields ponds with 11 to 15 inches of thickness. J. W. Murphy B. K. Windham and John Rether each own ponds on the Tinker branch west of Glenwood reporting thick ice. Many teams haul ice this week from these ponds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mills County
J. W. Murphy
B. K. Windham
John Rether
Tinker Branch
Glenwood
Small Conscience Fund Letter Pays Egg Debt
A letter to a merchant from a woman, sent through Council Blutis attorney A. T. Wilickenger, accompanies what is described as the smallest conscience fund on record. The sender enclosed one cent to settle an egg she had beaten out of him, noting the current price and that she may owe him more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. T.wilickenger
Council Blutis
Fulckenger
Reminders of Glenwood Court House antiquities unearthed
In Glenwood the moving of quarters reveals preserved documents and letters from past officials. Dusty vaults yield Civil War era items, including a Liberal Republican Mass Meeting poster dated July 20 1872 and signers from Mills County. War-era rolls, orders, and an oath of allegiance from 1862 surface as well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenwood
Mills County
Des Moines
Wartime Clerk’s Office Hinted as Memory Repository
A Mills County man recalls the clerk’s office as a hub for odd and interesting reminders from the past, suggesting the dusty archive once captured wartime moments and personal notes, linking local memory with historical record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mills County
Notice to Ditchers Drives Early Mills County Drainage
In Mills County an old clerk’s book records swamp land sales and folded posters headed Notice to Ditchers. Bids called for shallow drainage ditches signed by drainage commissioner Wm. Dean. These posters reflect early efforts to drain swamp lands long ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mills County
Wm. ©. Dean
Original Land Entries Volumes in Mills County Records
Two old volumes in the Recorder Rhoads office list original land entries in Mills County. They reflect entries made mainly in 1853 with the remainder in 1834, copied from Uncle Sam records and detailing all parties who filed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Recorder Rhoads
Uncle Sam
Mills County
No Small Pox in Glenwood Urges Precautions
Officials report no small pox in Glenwood or Glenwood township and announce strict steps including vaccination for public school attendees. The community suspends large gatherings, postpones revival meetings, and cancels stage events while a local exposure leads to quarantine for a family in Center township and advisories to seek medical care for suspicious symptoms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenwood
Board of Health
Glenwood Township
Methodist Church
Evangelist Smith
Eugene Garker
Plimpton
Center Township
Barker
First Owners of Mills County Land Reach Back 56 Years
The government land office records at Council Bluffs recount the early settlers of Mills County. Names of 19th century land entrants appear, with several pioneers still living. Among those listed are George Polden south of Glenwood, Lyons Township. Joseph Foxworthy of Malvern. and A. H. Dolph south of Hastings in Deer Creek.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Government Land Office
Council Bluffs
Mills County
Queen Mills
Stordly
George Polden
Glenwood
Lyons Township
Joseph Foxworthy
Malvern
A. H. Dolph
Hastings
Deer Creek
Odds and Ends from early Council Bluffs ordinances 1861
A collection of archival notes mentions a Red Oak Junction writer who drafted a 1887 letter to Clerk Cope land about starting a paper at Red Oak, then a minor village. It records the transfer of the courthouse bible to a new vault, a 1867 woolen mill plan at Glenwood, and Bal lard’s pocket book containing the Odd Fellows Protective Association annual report with M. Vlammant listed as a director.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council Bluffs
Red Oak Junction
Copeland
Red Oak
Recorder Rhoads
J. F P
M. H. Byers
Ottire
George Buell
St. Joe
Glenwood
Waubonsie Church
Thos. P. Ballard
Odd Fellows Protective Association
M. Vlammant
Mineola
Art Program At Glenwood Woman's Club Meeting
The Glenwood Woman's Club art department presents a program in the club room Monday at 2 30. Vocal solo by Miss Mary Deupree from St Pauls Cathedral London with Mrs William Skillicorn and Miss Pearl Miller. Landseer as an Animal Painter presented by Mrs Carlton Wheeler. The Fighting Temeraire by Turner to be performed by Miss Crawford and Miss Marquis, violin instructor at the Tabor Conservatory, who will also play. Social time and light refreshments to follow, with roll call on a current art topic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenwood Woman's Club
Mary Deupree
St. Paul's Cathedral
London
Wm. Skillicorn
Edwin Landseer
Pearl Miller
Landseer
Carlton Wheeler
Fighting Temeraire
Turner
Miss Crawford
Local junk dealer ships beer bottles to Omaha
Louishurst of Glenwood pays a cent per bottle for empty beer bottles and ships them back to Omaha. Recently he sent 2100 bottles, 175 dozen, with more arriving as Mr. Hayst, in business 16 years, notes a large scrap iron pile weighing about 100 tons.
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Louishurst
Glenwood
Omaha
Hayst
A Small Pox Remedy Suggested by West Oak Residents
Mr and Mrs Ei Baldwin of West Oak provide a home remedy for small pox and scarlet fever. The prescription lists zinc sulfate one grain, digitalis one grain, sugar in water, then half an ounce water, with a dose of a teaspoonful hourly, adjusted for age. The note claims it is a preventive and excelent remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baldwin
West Oak
Tribune
Ape
Surprise Visit From Daughters of Rebeckah
New Auditor and Mrs. Criswell received an unplanned evening surprise from the Daughters of Rebeckah lodge, arranged by & Company of jolly folks. A few weeks earlier Mr. and Mrs. Ring in the same house were surprised in a novel parting gesture as they left.
Emerson Chet Hillyer Visits From Ogalalla Nebraska
Local notes report Chet Hillyer real estate dealer visiting with his parents northeast of Emerson. Also mentions Ell id Honeyman delivering corn to Hastings, ice work by William Eaton, travels of Mrs Powers and daughter, copies of church meetings, trips to Old Mexico and Texas Panhandle, mumps absence from school, Merry Go Round party planned, shop purchase by 8 & Matthews, land sale of 160 acres to RN Steiner, strips for Omaha medical treatment, a double wedding in area, and several family visits and new arrivals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chet Hillyer
Ogalalla
Neb
Robert Hillyer
Ela Honeyman
Corm
Hastings
William Eaton
Samuel Powers
Marjorie
Herman Schurr
Strahan
W H. Cramer
Elliott
Edward R Kelley
Methodist
Albia
Edith Evans
Old Mexico
Macomber
Des Moines
Myron Shipman
John Evans
Brill
Texas Panhandle
Laura McDowell
Merry Go Round
MGR
8 & Matthews
C T Reid
John Sandiland
Maynes Place
Emerson
Montgomery County
RN Steiner
D Sowers
Woodbine
Omaha
Harry Ruib
Evans Ranch
Oakland
Augusta Clayton
Ruth “Clayton
Wallace Blaney
Henderson
Marriage Licenses Granted to Four Local Couples
Clerk Davis issued licenses Tuesday to Glen Fort 23 of north Malvern and Elsie Miller 18 of north Glenwood. On Wednesday Lane Morse 22 of south Hastings wed Ina Grammar 19 of south Hastings. Groom son of Dan Morse and bride daughter of Frank Grammar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davis
Glen Fort
Malvern
Elsie Miller
Glenwood
Lane Morse
Miss Ina Grammar
Hastings
Dan Morse
Prank Grammar
Doings of the Death Angel in Randolph Obituary
Jacob Thomas, a well known citizen of Randolph, died last week and was buried on Saturday. He had lived at and near Randolph since 1873. His two sons, Hd and W. R. Thomas, live at Malvern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob Thomas
Randolph
Hd and
W. R. Thomas
Malvern
Bank Election At Mills County National Bank
Stockholders of Mills County National Bank at Glenwood held their annual meeting Tuesday and elected directors for the ensuing year. The only change was the election of H. H. Cheyney to succeed E. B. Woodrutt, who cannot serve as director due to duties as District Judge. D. L Heinsheirmer was reelected president, F. M. Buttington vice president, A. D. French cashier and H. A. Hrench assistant cashier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mills County National Bank
Glenwood
H. H. Cheyney
E. B. Woodrutt
D. L Heinsheimer
F. M. Buttington
A. D. French
H. A. Hrench
Tax Collection Figures Show Large 1908 Increase
Treasurer Fickel reports 1908 tax collections totaling 203980.32, marking an increase of nearly 815000 over 1907. The figures reflect growing revenue and stand as a key indicator of fiscal momentum for the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fickel
Tee
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Japan
Newtown
Laraway
Oregon
West
Small Conscience Fund
Horace Sreetey
Horace Greeley
General Grant
Towa
D. L. Heinsheimer
Mike Miller
J. H. Doughty
Richard Pettinger
Rolla
War Department
Army Post
Rolla Express
H. Boyd
Rolla Post
William Metcalf
H. A. Copeland
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