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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1908
Page
3
Emerson and nearby towns report grip cases and visits as benefits, relatives, and out of town guests arrive. Local businesses, the tennis club plans, a new show case, and mutual phone line talks are noted alongside baptisms and birthdays. A spring cattle shipment and familial moves anchor the week’s local color.
The Hastings area reports the last measles quarantine lifted, and a flood of local notes follow. A bright girl arrived Thursday at Jacob Bare’s, while Wm Batten improves after a weeks long illness. Carlsons plan moves to Shenandoah as he gears for Sweden trip. sale to occur on the Durbin place southeast of town. Grace Crow returns from Pender. others visit Hastings relatives and friends. Various residents take trips, attend visits, or note telephone work and illnesses, including several with pneumonia and bronchial issues. The Tribune also runs a Leap Year bargain list of Hastings young men for suitors.
The article reports Geo White selling ten head of short horns at Red Oak for 177.50 with the top at 20. The buyers included CE Ballain Fred White and Walter Lang. It also notes a forthcoming marriage of Robert Honeyman and Miss Mabel Taton on February 4 at Warren O Eaton's home near Gem Kansas.
In Silver City a woman named Mary Voss Kruse aged 46 7 26, born in Holstein Germany, committed suicide by hanging Sunday night at the family home. The coroner declined an inquest. She leaves husband and eleven children four of whom survive Otto Kruse Mrs Weiler Wisher Mrs Ernest Wasserman and Fred aged 4. Funeral services were held at the home and Mineola Lutheran church with burial in Mineola cemetery.
Southwest Iowa gains renown for its red hogs the Durves breed. Robert Harding of Henderson area leads top sales attracting western breeders. Harding and partners paid high sums for prized hogs and held stake in Ohio Chief a $6,000 boat that recently died on his farm.
Advices from Washington state report Attorney General Bonaparte will sue the Harriman controlled railroad trust for Sherman anti trust violations. Union Pacific directors and stock in Santa Fe, Southern Pacific, Great Northern and Northern Pacific allegedly eliminate competition across trunk lines. Ouida dies in poverty in Italy. Vanderbilt wedding in New York draws lavish attention. Countess Laszlo Szechenyi receives fortune. Temperance mass convention in Des Moines pushes for repeal of prohibitory amendment with two legislatures required.
The Mills County Mutual Protective Association met January 13 at Spelman school house West Oak and re elected S W Godsey president F J Thieschafer secretary and J L Anderson treasurer for another year Their 1908 quarterly meetings are set for the first Mondays in April July and October A reward of 25 was voted for the apprehension and conviction of any thief stealing from a member of the association.
The annual bred sow sale of Mr Harding at Carson netted 43 head for 9,500 dollars. First ten sows averaged 500 dollars, top at 650, and all 49 averaged 240. W A Rankin also held a bred sow sale at Carson with 40 head averaging 88 dollars and top at 375. J Wanna of Danville sold Impudence to J Oerle of Oregon for 10,000 dollars, the highest hog price on record. Impudence is a 4 year old with registry 97b87, bought earlier for 4,000 dollars by Mr Hanna.
Obituary notices from Mills County recount the deaths of Mrs. Julia Hoyt at 88 near Hastings and other locals. Survivors include Emory Hoyt and Mrs J T Dunbar among Hastings residents. G H Hoyt in Chamberlain. Burial at Worth Grove follows services. Also reported: Mrs Vera May Reazer and illnesses of Mrs Beaver and daughter after Seattle trip. Mrs J H Getman dies of pneumonia in Malvern. Charles Doland dies near Malvern after brief illness. biographical notes on early settlers and family ties.
A lively Glenwood term opens next Tuesday with Judge Green presiding over 104 cases, 95 civil and 9 criminal, including 16 landholder vs Burlington overflow cases. New filings feature L B Stewart vs W Wickersham for slander and L A Stillwagon vs Safe Investment Gold Mining Co. for $1100.
Walton Ridgeway, a Glenwood young man, will wed Elsie Drury in Denver next Wednesday and plan a Salt Lake City wedding trip of ten days before settling in Glenwood with his lumber business. Bernard Wink and Bessie Brower marry tomorrow at the Brower home, east of Glenwood, officiated by Rev Jos Stille. Frank Cardiff and Clarice Ballin wed at the Ballin home near Emerson, with about fifty relatives present. they will live on a farm after March 1. An unfair dinner was held at the Cardiff home. readers are urged to deliver wood promptly to the Tribune.
A Masonic school of instruction for Fremont and Mille counties lodges will be held in Tabor. Representives from all lodges are expected to attend the event on the listed dates, though the dates contain OCR errors.
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