Linden home gathering ends with fine time Saturday
About 45 people attended the Linden home gathering Saturday evening and all reported a fine time.
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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1911
Page
2
About 45 people attended the Linden home gathering Saturday evening and all reported a fine time.
Small pox quarantine at Hastings homes and a Kelley restaurant case reported. High school commencement attendees listed. Freight and depot upgrades in progress. Auto speed limits discussed. Decoration Day events at Glenwood noted. Local visits, counterfeit Civil War token incident, and church roll call planned. Graduation photos in Red Oak. Simpson College scholarship awarded. Various travel, family visits, and hospital news included.
Pacific Junction residents share letters from EBF Steinhaus about moving Tribune to Clinton Nebraska and enjoying Mills County news. Decoration Day post office activity, local visits, illness recoveries, and graduation events are noted along with the Wallace circus coming to town and a train collision rememberance.
Lincolnville residents Mrs John Hobson and Vernice Andrews Dewey and Wayne of Plattsmouth visited Al Lincoln's from Friday to Monday. Memorial services were held in Glenwood on Tuesday. Christian Mission meets with Mrs JH Rhie. Ralph May, recently a marine, is recovering from a sprained ankle. Esther Johnson visiting sister Mis S L Tanvoitt. Bee hives for hire? contact Mrs J E Carter. JE Linevin & Johnson treated their cousins and families to ice cream.
A terse note on costs contrasts building an airplane with funeral expenses. The piece hints at economic choices and value in timing, suggesting a cautionary view of spending on ceremonies versus hardware. It references affordability themes without naming people, places, or organizations.
Mr and Mrs John Parker return from Chicago visit with H G Parker. Maud Plumer returns from teaching Essex. Sixteen cattle cars and a hog car shipped to Chicago by Stortenbacker and partners, with stock movers and handlers named. Local outings include graduations, visits, land trades, and a highwayman cash theft report. Teachers honored at graduation with gifts. luncheon and visiting guests noted. Mrs Sidener of Lincoln visits Silver City. Dr Moore at Burlington Junction for rheumatism treatment. Wedding attendees from nearby towns reported.
Roy Pinkerton a former Tabor boy finished a medical course in Cincinnati and will locate in Tacoma. AM Tipple, Prescott schools superintendent, arrived to spend the summer and will oversee Cromwell’s schools next year. Mrs Tipple visits Eliott. Mrs Beebe came from Kansas to see her daughter Mrs V Hill. Marcellus Redinbaugh arrived from Chicago. Dr Pittinao reportedly sold his dental practice to Lal Henderson of Sidney. Geo Thompson returned from Denver. Memorial address for old soldiers delivered by Rev Charles Fisher. The stereopticon showed Civil War scenes. C4 Bice took his daughter Myrtle home from Shenandoah. she finished teaching there for the year. Miss Henrice Warrence returned from Montana. Lt Wells left for Plattsmouth after visiting her sister Mrs C A L Rice. Mrs Geo Kemp went to Henderson to visit her daughter Mrs McCleowhan.
In Mills County, the Tribune is praised as the leading advertising medium, emphasized as the most effective outlet for local notices, promotions, and business outreach.
Frank Banister reports Seattle area land sells from 81500 to 4000 per acre due to soil scarcity and rock presence. In town, Lina Seaton’s birthday party for about thirty teens at EF Seaton home ends with lunch. The tater bug, lightning bug, and bed bug infest town as school program draws crowds and Miss Trively praised for diligent teaching efforts.
Roy Robbins traveled to Chicago last Saturday aiming to visit his sister Fern in Indiana while Miss Pearl Vandervert left for Salt Lake City for work. East Liberty Cemetery Association hosts a social on Thursday June 8 at the church. Mrs Rockafellow, Mrs Weaver, and Mrs Short departed for Wendell Minnesota for several weeks with relatives. AH Landis’s guests include Art Rickabaugh and his children from Omaha. Mr and Mrs Coperthwaite of Kushnell Illinois visited the A Hurrus and H Landis homes. The Miller home opened May 18 to honor the graduating class of 1911 connected with the Presbyterian church. Nellie Qoyer returned from Troy Kansas after milling work in a military house. WOW held a special meeting initiating five candidates: Albert Amos, Earl Nickerson, Lee Noftager, Theo Moses, Reno Moore. A fire scare at First National bank roof turned out to be resin used by Johnson & Julike in tin roofing. A quip about a zither gift and a birthday joke circulated. Tribune records county news.
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