Emerson News Notes and Local Gatherings
Mrs Clara McDowell visited Red Oak Monday as a petition for school consolidation nears. Several Emerson residents travel for family visits, farming and land business. Kensingtons, farewell services, and church gatherings highlight community life. The Emerson high boys beat Red Oak 24 to 14, with numerous locals attending and supporting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clara McDowell
Roy Tittsworth
Broadview
Mont
Henry Schick
Corena Berard
Miss Corena
Prof
E. J. Coe
Emerson Public Schools
Hig
Prof. Coe
George Cross
A. BE. Dunn
Cross
Emerson
Dunn
Red Oak
Irving
Kensington
Presbyterian Church
Baptist Church
J. Wilkins
Malvern
M. E. Ladies’ Aid Society
Christian Home
Council Bluffs
John Hossle
Bert Dunn
Clara Thorson
Bert Smith
Lulu Cross
J. R. Clutes
Emerson Boys
Ramey R
Shanor
Graham c
Abel R. G
Greanwood (C
Stedem R. F
Wilson
Leighrot c
Spears
Askey
Philips
Bartletta
Hmerson
Mra
H. C. Yates
A. W. Shaner
C. D. Greenwood
Tupper
Missus Turner
Gail Cramer
Beatrice
Ruth Yates
Fern Wolfe
Bunica Largent
Marjorie Snodgrass
Minnia Lundeen
Marcel Ballain
Messrs
Charles Ervin
Frank Durbin
Farm listings near Glenwood and Emerson IA
No. 45 30 acres seven miles from Glenwood includes six room house barn hog and chicken houses priced at 6000 with 2000 cash and terms. No. 22 14 acres two miles from Emerson 110 acres cultivated balance pasture and timber with 4 room house barn hay barn corn crib hog shed fully fenced priced 43800 with good terms. No. 27 307 acres eight miles from Glenwood 130 cultivated 25 alfalfa 30 fenced hog tight 7 room house cistern barn for 14 horses cow barn 18 cows granary hog house 14 sows two windmills two wells priced at 125 per acre with good terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenwood
Emerson
Patronizing Home Industry and Rural Pride
A rural narrator extols country life over town living, celebrating independence, simple pleasures, and local self-reliance. He warns against city snobbery, urges towns to support home industries, and calls Mills County to patronize local services, including grain mills. The piece closes with a note about sending corn to The Tribune office for grinding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Nye
Mills County
Tribune
Wolfe remark on meals and home industry patronage
Nonspecific quotation notes satisfaction with a meal and mentions patronizing home industry. It attributes the thought to W. T. Wolfe and lacks additional context or concrete events. The excerpt reads as a reflective aside rather than a reportable occurrence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. T. Wolfe
Popping Corn and the County News
A reader complains about The Tribune as a poppy paper that misses real local stories, noting large white “kernels” of fake county items and urged to focus on genuine news. The letter by W. T. Wolfe praises local papers that scour the county for news and uses a skillet metaphor for honest reporting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Tribune
County News
Tom
Harry
Doc
Hutch
W. T. Wolfe
Mrs Bowen Describes Rats Ending Fire Near Her Home
Mrs Bowen recounts a near disaster after rats chewed matches in the cellar period. she woke to a smell of smoke, acted quickly, and found a dead rat later killed by RAT SNAP. The ad promotes three sizes priced 26¢ 50¢ and $1.00, sold by F W Kexley and R H Daniel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia Scanlan
Elliott
Charles Geesman
F. W. Kexley
R. H. Daniel
Also Mentioned on This Page
U. S
Imm
Bert Davis
Laredo
L. E. Weed
A. W. Coppage
Dlridge
Stanton
James Durbin
McAllen
Tex
C. L. Brill
Luo
W. R. Crawford
Svangeline
Myron Shipman
Elva Douglas
W. M. Crawford
G. A. Dalton
Rochester
Minn
Munee
W. F. Tollinger
Ernest Cole
H. J. McMurray, Co
Blutts, la
RM. McKenzie
Silver City
Misty
West Broadway
Mills County Farms For Sale
W. Kk. Evans
Glenwood, Iowa
T. Q. Records
Mills County National Farm Loan
Rae
Iowa
W.L. Summers
Poland
China
Farrow
Cox
W. L. Summers
L. A. Talbott
Jas. J. Wilson
Missouri
S. B. Hutchings Place
Hastings
Durham
McCormick
Rock Island
Cushman
Albert Feist
H. Cramer, Auctioneer
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