Fallen Heroes Remembered in Mills County Decoration Day
Decoration Day observances were held across Mills County with special exercises in Glenwood Malvern Emerson Silver City and Tabor. Congressman Smith spoke at Silver City and Attorney Ed Mitchell spoke at Tabor, while local speakers addressed the crowds in the other towns.
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Mills County
Glenwood
Malvern
Emerson
Silver City
Tabor
Smith
Ed Mitchell
Decorations Day Remains Among Glenwood's Finest
A large Glenwood crowd enjoyed Decoration Day despite threatening weather. The procession moved to the cemetery led by Capt. Harry B. Datl and a drum corps. Veterans of the G A R and W R C members with flowers attended the ritual service and graves were decorated. Afterward veterans visited Comrade Henry Valentine, now ill, as music and addresses brightened the event. Afternoon exercises shifted to the park due to crowds. Stella Carter recited Break Ranks and the Institution band performed. A small reunion followed at the Commercial House with four members of Company A of the ith Iowa reuniting after years apart.
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Glenwood
Harry B. Datl
G. A. R. Post
W. R. ©. Corps
Institution Band
Odd Fellows
Court House
Brainerd
Mike Miller
G. I. Dean
Stella Carter
Institution
Schulhof
Commercial House
Company A
The
Ith Lowa
Rey. W. 8. Hill
Atlantic
Beory i
Blackmar
Grand Island
Marching On A Veteran Poem Of Valor And Reunion
Sy Cade Rogers reflects on veterans from Nebraska and Iowa reconnecting, honoring fallen comrades and celebrating reunion in a wartime march poem. Names Neb Nebraska discussors Sheldon Tabor Morton Noah Stone Byers Deupree of the 29th Iowa are noted as participants.
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Sy Cade Rogers
Giyi
Toma
California
Woarn Marchine
Comoades
Horder
Timeland
Dreamland
Avary
Sharma
Neb
B. ©. Sheldon
Tabor
Morton M. Noah
Lincoln
J. ¥. Stone
CG. Byers
M. T. Deupree
Iowa
Two-Headed Calf Born at Glenwood Farm Exhibition Expected
Edward Mitchell reports a genuine two headed calf born at W. J. Davenport fruit farm southeast of Glenwood. The mixed Holstein Jersey calf cannot stand yet and will be bottle fed until strong enough. Two mouths two noses four eyes two foreheads but only two ears. Inside eyes not well formed. Museums and side show managers may seek the calf, which could tour the country. Exhibition planned for Glenwood market day June 17. Abi Tuck brings a striped Poland China Duroc Jersey pig companion piece, red and black stripes.
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Edward Mitchell
W. J. Davenport Fruit Farm
Glenwood
Jersey
Mitchell
Ab Tuck
Ed Mitchell
Fis
Poland
Abi
Woman's Club to Hold Final Meeting at Heipsheimer Home
All members invited to the last meeting of the year next Monday at 2 30 PM. Retiring president Mrs D L Heipsheimer hosts the event at her home with the social committee ensuring every member attends.
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Woman’s Club
D. L. Heipsheimer
Writers of Songs Promote Local Music Partners
Claude Anderson, cashier of Pa ellic Function Savings Bank, reports selling a song with music by him to J. W. Jenkins & Sons Co of Kansas City. The piece Let Me Kiss My Mamma Good Bye will be published around October 1 as an illustrated song. Clarence Workman of Henderson wrote the lyrics. Anderson and Workman plan further musical works including Mesmerelda, Art Thou Mine, and The Whistling Girl, plus a vaudeville specialty.
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Claude Anderson
Paellic Function Savings Bank
Kansas City
J. W. Jenkins & Sons Co
Clarence Workman
Henderson
Chicago
Anderson
Mr. Workman
Emerson Grads to Hold Eight-Pupil Exercises at Opera House
Mills County’s Emerson High prepares eight graduates for next Tuesday night at the opera house. The program features solos, orations, songs by the Emerson Glee Club, a class history and prophecy, and the presentation of diplomas by J. D. Reed. Grandma Edna Merritt, 98, Glenwood, oldest resident, born 1807 in North Carolina, remains active though hearing declines. Prof G. A. Gordon named to Griswold and previously to Pacific Junction, leaving Tabor with no principal.
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Emerson
Mills County
Opera House
Fiana
Kame
Ostrow
Mabel Eaton
E. A. Moore
Ethel McFadon
Emerson Glee Club
Pearle Lung
Dlulu Sherman
Wilbur Tompkins
Ethel McFaden
Ethel Spears
Charles Post
J. D. Reed
Grandma Edna Merritt
Glenwood
Trufus Merritt
Grandma Merritt
North Carolina
Jefferson
G. A. Gordon
Tabor
Griswold
Pacific Junction
Seventeen Graduate at Glenwood High School
A 1905 Glenwood High School graduation featured 17 students arranged in a semicircle on stage at the opera house. Honors to the class were noted by principal speakers including Carl C. Wright of Omaha. Local improvements cited include Carnegie library site decisions, library building funds, state spending on facilities, new brick business houses, and railway track upgrades between Glenwood, Pacific Junction, and Balfour.
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Glenwood High School
Pass Wbaugh
William Rathke Henry Dean
Myrtle McMillen
Elsa Ewing
Nellie Goodell
Sara, Walling
Lulu Straub
Wright
Glenwood
W. M. Donclan
Omaha World-Herald
Carnegie Public Library
Carnegie
Iowa Institute
Daniel Bros
Matheist
Balfour
Pacific Junction
Glenwood Hill
Glenwood Markets and Local Notes from Sunday Schools
A Glenwood report from A. D. French, president of the Glenwood U S Association, notes last Sunday’s reports on piano tuning stressing value of expert work and warns against inferior methods. J. A. Fogarty, Institution, invites postal inquiries for services and guarantees.
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Glenwood Sunday Schools
A. D. French
Glenwood U. S. Association
J. A. Fogarty
Institution
Weather and Crops in Mills County Frost Hits Fields
A week of unusually cool weather brought frost across Mills County last Friday and thin ice in places. Rain, sun, and a slow thaw aided growth, but farmers face heavy replanting due to poor seed corn. Only top quality seed withstands the cool planting conditions, forcing extra work for growers.
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Mills County
Nickel Plate offers Chicago to Niagara Falls through sleep cars
A promotional travel note advertises a 12 265 round trip to Niagara Falls via Nickel Plate Road with June 18 and 20 travel dates and a return limit of June 24 or July 14 ticket deposit. Through vestibuled sleeping cars operate on three daily through trains with no excess fare. Meals in dining cars and an Americano Club Meal Plan priced 5 cents to $1. For details contact John Y. Calaban, General Agent, 118 Adams St Room 298 Chicago Ill. Passenger Station at Chicago Van Buren La Salle Elevated Loop. Chicago City Licket Offices 111 Adams St Auditorium Annex.
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Niagara Falls
Nickel Plate Road
Americano Club
John Y. Calaban
Adams St
Chicago, Ill
Chicago
van Buren and
la Salle Sts
Chicago City
Licket
Adama
St and Auditorium Annex
How's This How's This Hundred Dollars Reward for cure of Cibarrh
An advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for a cure of Cibarrh by Wall's Cure. Cheney & Co promise a cure, with testimonials and price details. The notice lists contact points and directions to claim advertised letters.
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Wall
Cheney
Tulede
O. Wo
Chenwy
Watping
Kingin & Manvin
Wake Wall
County Board Set For Busy June Session in Glenwood
The County Board meets next Monday in Glenwood for regular June session. The St. Mary ditch injunction has been settled out of court. The next ditch issue is Mog Creek straightening at Glenwood. Sheriff Morgan asks all interested property owners in Glenwood to see him promptly to save expense.
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Glenwood
St. Mary
Mog Creek
Morgan
Mills County Dog Population Falls by 42 This Year
Assessors report Mills County gains in Oak Township with 192 dogs while Platteville records the fewest at 10. In 1904 totals reached 1342 with 1268 male and 74 female dogs. 1905 shows 1235 male and 65 female dogs, and three townships Silver Creek Platteville and St Mary report no female dogs.
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Mills County
Silver Creek
Platteville
St. Mary
Oak Township
Ministers to Meet in Glenwood Mills County Association Program
The Mills County Ministerial Association plans a Glenwood church meeting on Monday June 5 with a 10:00 am call to order. Members will share sermons outline, discuss church reform topics after lunch, and hear talks on temperance and Sunday observance led by A E. Moore Lew C. Harris J. H. Skiles and R. BR. Moser. A J. Kiser is president and Len QO Harris secretary.
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Mills County Ministerial Association
Christian Church
Glenwood
A E. Moore
Lew C. Harris
J. H. Skiles
R. BR. Moser
A. J. Kiser
Len. QO. Harris
Slight Clue to Horse Thieves in Missouri Bottom
The Anti-Horse Thief Association reports a faint lead on depredations along the Missouri bottom. A inebriated man at Council Brutis hinted that an organized gang based in that city, some former residents of St Mary township, may be responsible.
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Anti-Horse Thief Association
Missouri Bottom
Council Brutis
St. Mary Township
Mrs Jacks Seeks Divorce in Cruel Treatment Plea
Minnie Jacks through Genung and Genung files for divorce from Clyde Jacks after a three year marriage. Petition cites cruel and inhuman treatment and notes they reside near the Plattsmouth bridge.
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Minnie Jacks
Genung & Genung
Clyde Jacks
Plattsmouth Bridge
State Firemen's Tourney at Council Bluffs
The twenty seventh annual Iowa Firemen's State Association tourney will be at Council Bluffs June 6 to 9 with $3,500 in cash prizes across twenty events. Highlights include runs to fires by paid departments, illuminated night streets, hub races, a grand parade, and exhibitions by Barney Midfield and the Green Dragon automobile.
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Tventy
Iowa Firemen’s State Association
Council Bluffs
Covalt
Lake Manawa
Barney Midfield
Wgreen Dragon
Oldfield
Malvern Livery Barn Burned and Town Happenings
Malvern May 31 old Guen ther Bros livery barn burned at 2 o clock from hay mow fire total loss including mill building used as a paint shop and storehouse. Two horses, hay, carriages, sleighs and vehicles destroyed. Barn insured for 4000. George Pace uninsured on the other building. Barn owned by C I Calif who bought it weeks ago from George Mellor. Death of Mrs E J Aistrope at home after heart trouble funeral held Wednesday aged about 64 leaves three children and a sister in Emerson. George White touts a fine matched Percheron team weighing 1340 pounds each valued at 3800 but asking 1000. Malvern news covers improvements, sports, street work, a street fair June 7, 8 and 10 with 100 people, and local farming notes.
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Malveurn
Guenther Bros
George Pace
C. I. Calif
George Mellor
E. Uj. Aistrope
TE. J. Aistrope
Malvern
Walter Aistrope
Charles
George
Nebraska
Birdie Rhoades
Ft. Lupton
Cole
John Lang
Emerson
Burlington Bates Praternal Carnival and Firemen Fares
Burlington Bates Praternal carnival Omaha June 1 and 2 with round trip fare of one and a third. Sale dates May 1 and June 2. return limit June 3. Masonic picnic Malvern June 24 at one and one third fare. sale date June 24. return limit June 25. Town State Firemen's Assoc Coun cil Bluffs sale June 6, 7, 8 and 9 with return limit June 12 via Nickel Plate Road June 22, 93, 24 and 25. extendable to July 31 with $1 extension. Through sleeping cars. no excess fare on Nickel Plate. meals on American Club Plan. John Y. Calahan, 113 Adams St, Room Y93. city ticket offices Chicago Adams St and Auditorium Annex. passenger station La Salle and Van Buren Sta of elevated loop.
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Omaha
Masonic Picnic
Malvern
Town State Firemen’s Assoc
Council Bluffs
Nickel Plaza Road
Boston
Nickel Plate Road
Argo
Ajucarbe
John Y. Calahan
Adama St
Roon
City Vicket
Chicago
Adams
la Salle and
van Buren
Hlevatad Loop
Strayed or Stolen Horse Seeks Help and Reward
Notice seeks help locating a large brown blind horse with a white foot above the knee on the right front leg. Owner Benjamin Taylor of Glenwood requests notification and offers a suitable reward.
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Winder
Benjamin Taylor
Glenwood
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W. Ri. G
Henry ©. Valentine
Valentine
T. Ds
Teada
Woman's Clubs
Bright
Glenwood Markets
Gorn
Onts
Potareas
Methodist
Congregational
Holiness
Mes. Dyon’s
Woodrutt
Lse
Methodist Tebe
Cnelainiol
Glenwood Post
Vtica
Say
Jola
JW Snyder
Mrs. Jacks
George White
Ashland
White
Wallace Donner
Main Street
Walter Smith
A E Cook
Lmer Stone
JM Strahan
M . Corbina
Esther
James Hull
Peaceville
Council Blutts
Burlington
Bates
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