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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1909
Page
4
Selling Nevada farm lands at 2.95 per acre with 25 cents down and 1 cent per day payments. Monthly balances. Free map and booklets available from H. B. Sanders & Co. 343 Judge Building Salt Lake City Utah.
The Tribune lists the R. B. time table with eastbound departures from Pacific Junction at 6:20 am and from Red Oak at 4:20 pm, arriving in Chicago at 4:30 pm. Other stops include Malvern, Tabor, and additional times such as 9.0 am, 4.00 pm, and 8:45 pm reflecting a fragmentary schedule.
Community event lists a morning program with the Schulhof Band performing at 10 oclock, a 100 voice chorus, the band again, 11 15 singing by the chorus, 11 30 address by Hon MO Y Stone, and dinner intermission.
A public event offers music by the band from 1:30 to 3, with contests for ladies ball throwing and wheelbarrow racing. Other activities include 100 and 200 yard races, sack and fat man races, an all ages pole event, a 100 nail driving contest, and a family prize for the mother. A couple will wed in the band stand with a 910 prize, free license, and free service.
Judge Woodruff held a brief Glenwood court session on probate matters and adjourned until August 10 for further cases. He left for a coast vacation of about four weeks visiting his son Charles in Portland and attending the Seattle exposition. Judges Green and Wheeler also departed for vacations while Judge Thornell remains the sole available in the district for injunctions and urgent matters.
Shocks hit Messina and Reggio Calabria early Thursday morning causing widespread panic. Many walls that barely stood after December’s quake collapsed while residents rushed to open areas. Observatories logged 18 tremors since Wednesday night, with damage reported province wide and total impact still uncertain.
Posey Staples wowed a Glenwood audience last Tuesday with a versatile act blending sleight of hand magic cartooning and ventriloquism. Merrill Myers earned praise for a rich bass voice and growing singing talent as the Tribune wishes luck to the boys.
Relatives and friends marked Grandma Kates 72d birthday last Sunday at her home north of Glenwood. About 37 guests attended with baskets of provisions and good cheer. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. Charles Epperson Pacific Junction Grandma Hardy Los Angeles Pearl Butler Council Bluffs Leonard and Alice Duval Hastings J J Kates and family Silver City S D Funk Mineola L Johnson D Epperson A M White Mrs E Coleman and Sherman Geo Kates and wife P B Kates and family Bertha and Will Coil West Oak.
Iowa enacts a law forcing outward swinging on entrance and exit doors of hotels churches lodge halls theaters courts and public schools in cities and towns three quarters of such buildings must adapt at a noticeable cost. Rural schools are exempt. The change follows a Cleveland fire incident where inward swinging doors impeded escape.
The issue begins a series of ads for Little Polly brooms. They claim excellent quality, made in Iowa, and recommend them to readers who use brooms.
Unclaimed letters in the Glenwood postoffice include Mr. Lew Davis and W J Waran. Officials urge recipients or their agents to claim at once to avoid return or disposal under postal rules.
A late 19th or early 20th century piece advocates attracting birds to homes using bark birdhouses of rustic design. Instructions cover nest construction, placement, watering, and bird-friendly plantings, listing species preferences and foods for Martins bluebirds woodpeckers chickadees and others. It closes with the byline Elizabeth Patrick.
Chris Schoening, a 36 year old local, died suddenly from heart disease at a Seattle exposition. His remains arrived in Mineola for burial. He had lived several years at Idaho Falls. Meantime, local events include Mineola’s Fourth of July celebration with races contests and a grand ball at the opera house.
Silver City Estell Platt works in a Malvern barber shop. Mrs F Howser and children visit Macedonia. Miss Mabel Swarts visits her brother Frank in Phillips Oak. Mrs Hattie Anderson and daughter visit Council Bluffs. Rev Charley Owens takes a job in Hayden Bros Omaha store and moves family to Council Bluffs. Foundation work on F H Plumer’s new residence progresses. A Will Jones son injured arm in a fall from an awning. Foley’s Kidney Remedy advised for kidney or bladder trouble with claims of relief and health benefits.
Pacific Junction news briefs report residents visiting from Bartlett and Liberty Kaw, a dredge resuming Pony Creek work, storms with 3.40 inches rainfall, Missouri River rise visible in wells, a small court case in Justice McLaughlin’s office, property and road improvements, telephones in use, an ice cream social for park seats, and local sales ads.
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