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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1915
Page
3
Glenwood wins their sixth game in six weeks, defeating Tabor 2 to 1 as Weatherhead and Redenbaugh drive key plays. Fans urged to support the home team, with local business backing and season-ticket encouragement cited.
Two Center township men, B A White and Will Buckingham, narrowly escaped a lightning strike while cultivating corn. White was thrown aside as a bolt hit a post near his horse, burning his fingers and injuring his head. Buckingham and his team recovered. both men endured headaches and fear after the near-fatal shock.
Mrs. Laura Wolfe of Tabor sends details to the Tribune about her son Obrey Wolfe who was committed last week to the Clarinda asylum. She says he was a clean, virtuous boy, not tobacco dependent, contradicting the Tribune’s report. Obrey graduated from Omaha high school in 1911 with top honors. a past head injury is cited by physicians as likely causing his misfortune.
Mrs Herman Hirst died Saturday two weeks after a fire at her farm home south of Tabor. The blaze started when coal oil was poured on a cook stove to rekindle it, igniting flames that consumed the house and her baby. Burial was arranged in Atherston Taylor county. surviving include Mr Hirst and a 23 year old child.
New wrestling champion Joe Stecker of Dodge Neb defeats Charlie Cutler who held the American title at an Omaha exhibition last Monday. Stecker won in two straight falls using a powerful scissors hold and half nelson to turn and force Cutler.
A lively Monday festival filled Mills County with trains and autos, parades, a Calithampian display, a rich program at the court house park, and a two year old baby show. Winners included Francis Timmons for motorcycle race, Rhoades for bicycle, Deetz for boys foot race, Tirat Hunt for girls under 16, and top prizes in the baby contest. An auto was awarded at 3:30 p.m. Elsie Buffington drew tickets as crowds enjoyed free lemonade, meals, and moving pictures, with no serious incidents reported.
Two Mills County residents, Plumb and Parker, drove to Council Bluffs by auto and slept in their Ford after their return trip stalled on a vacant 3rd Street lot. Police found them asleep late Saturday morning and sent them home after addressing the obstruction.
The institution held a two day Independence celebration after weather delayed plans from Saturday July 3 to Monday morning July 5. Events included a reveille breakfast, campus parade, readings of the Declaration of Independence, a White Sox versus Tigers baseball game, races for boys and girls, tug of war, hose coupling contests, and a campus picnic supper.
The 36th Iowa General Assembly enacted changes effective July 4 1915 adding fishways to dams per plans by the Fish and Game Warden. Possessing nets seines or other legal devices for catching fish or game is illegal with commissions empowered to seize destroy or sell such gear. Minimum lawful sizes set for catfish bass trout at 10 inches and pike or pickerel at 42 inches.
Ray Schoening died July 1 in Jarosa Colorado after health travel away from Mineola. He leaves siblings and uncles in several towns. burial in Jarona. George Gwynn, longtime He s ex resident and businessman, died July 1 at his daughter’s home in Tabor after illness and travel. survived by wife and two children. burial in Tabor.
A major land exchange occurred between I. W. Peckenpaugh of Lyons township and W. H. Wyant of Tahor. Peckenpaugh traded 450 acres from Lyons for a matching 450 acres near Paris, Missouri, owned by Wyant, marking a significant local deal.
A. M. Hutchingon transfers real estate to Aga N. and F. M. Horton for sections 33 and 23 in Oak Two for 22000 dollars with executor details. A. W. Willame executes deed to Matilda J. Highland for lots 29 and 30 of Tabor College subdivision block 2. Sophia A. Otis et al transfer to Charlotte Bartel lot 6 in block 1 in Malvern. Peter Fell transfers south two thirds of lot 4 block 41% in Glenwood to Fullerton Lumber Co.
Thelma Roberts of Corning, age 12, visiting Emerson, alleges Randall Brown, 14, attempted assault near Emerson. A struggle ended with clothing damage. Brown was bound over to the grand jury by the mayor's preliminary hearing in a $200 bond.
A Glenwood editorial laments cracker and torpedo misuse that harms safety and targets future generations. It cites stricter regulations, frequent rule violations, and police fines after torpedo explosions near the high school.
Aunt Mary Summers hosted a Mills County family reunion near White Cloud Mills to celebrate the nation’s birthday. Representatives from eleven Summers families attended, with over forty members. The centerpiece dining cake measured 18 inches and featured stars, stripes, and the title Old Glory in script, reflecting Mrs Summers’s patriotic flair.
The tri county Old Settlers Association will hold its meeting in Malvern on September 1. President Frank Turner of Avoca and Secretary Fred Durbin met in Council Bluffs to arrange plans. The territory covers Mills Fremont and Pottawattamie counties. Aiming to secure Hon Lafayette Young for the chief address.
Paul Seeger of Center township began a Guernsey herd by buying four registered cattle from a Whitewater Wisconsin breeder. He plans to devote his time to propagating the well known milk producing breed in the coming years.
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