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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1912
Page
6
Rain last week benefited Pacific Junction crops and garden produces. Local events include council meeting postponement, depot yard track work, and Missouri river channel funding discussion. Neighbors, visits, and a near-tragic lawn mower accident update community life.
George M. Chappel reports Iowa had a favorable week for field work despite rain across counties May 26 27 and on Friday night with lighter showers elsewhere. Cherokee County suffered washouts and bridge damage from heavy rain. Corn planting and replanting near completion with good stands. Winter wheat rye heading. alfalfa first cut in southwest. Potatoes emergent. strawberries ripening in the south with fair to good yield prospects.
Fruit outlook improves says W Murphy and other growers. Rain refreshed crops and cool days boost quality. Canker worms have vanished, codling moths feared but unseen. Most garden truck reported good. strawberries ripened but cut short by prior dry weather, yielding a shorter harvest.
The piece notes currants and gooseberries damaged by pests and a May drought fueling crop pessimism. It argues against overreaction, citing rain that followed and urging longer vision. Farmers plan silos and sow alfalfa, with potatoes as a profitable diversification path. Epictetus is cited on turning difficulties into steps.
Mrs G W Gowens sends remittance for her Tribune with a clipping describing a Farmers Club meeting at the Gowens home near Missouri Valley. Organized in 1866 with charter members still present, the gathering included visitors, lunch, and discussions on topics of interest. They favor white pine blue spruce and arbor vitae as lawn greens and meet monthly.
Engineer Dan Davis on No 12 recounted a thrilling near miss as a man leaped onto the outside of the rail and clung to the bridge ties to avoid a fast passenger train near Balfour hill and a curve in the track near dusk.
Mills County Medical Society will hold its next regular meeting at Silver City on Thursday June MW. Dr Dunn of Omaha is the only non resident physician on the program, with local members filling the rest of the numbers. His talk will be on Nephritis, a kidney disease familiar to the lay mind. Drs McCue Huber and Moore, all of Silver City, are in charge of arrangements.
Iowa marks June 12 as the anniversary of statehood when President Van Buren signed Iowa into the union in 1833. The day is proposed for statewide celebration with the Iowa State Manufacturers' Association backing the effort.
A request was made to set a day apart for proper observance and the matter is expected to come before the state legislature this winter.
Tabor college trustees filled all vacancies in the college and conservatory faculty. Rev. Walter H. Rollins of Waterloo became president. Prof. Ivor A. Thomas was named head of the conservatory of music. Rev. G. E. Wood of Red Oak was elected chair of philosophy and pedagogy.
William Willets of Malvern is jailed in Glenwood awaiting grand jury action on a charge of threatening to burn the Rodman home in Malvern. He reportedly said he intended to burn the residence. E. L. Roberts of Hastings is jailed in Glenwood serving a sentence on a charge of skipping a board bill at a Hastings hotel.
Mills County Iowa board of supervisors met in regular session with Chairman C E Lakie W M Estes and H H Cheyney. They equalized county assessments and adjourned the Lee R France road hearing to July 22 1912 with three appraisers appointed to assess damages. Meeting adjourned to June 4 1912.
Real estate notices show transfers including 171 acres in Rawles township section 22 from A K Watts to P B Henricks for 17100 dollars, J M Galvin et al to Malvern Grain & Milling Co for lots 4 to 7 in Malvern block 36 for 7500, and other 80 and 165 acre deeds in West Oak and Lyons. Also listings for Sabin subdivision Glenwood Lot 15 and Pacific Junction subdivisions. A note from a Detroit donor references a pair of pants donated to fire victims and mocked by a poet from Spofford's Wit and Humor. Hastings Chautauqua program set for Sunday with sermons and concert. Senator Kenyon scheduled Friday afternoon.
An effort modeled on Sioux City seeks congressional funding to build revettments and restore the Missouri river channel above Folsom. Claude F. Anderson, Judge W. S. Lewis, and Congressman Green with Senator Kenyon back the plan to protect Iowa land, aid Pacific Junction, and guide jetties and dikes along the Nebraska side.
River changes at Folsom cut away a large sand bar across from the town, creating a straight channel down the Nebraska shore. Riprapping and dikes may hold the river until the bar washes away, with experts hopeful the railroad troubles will end as current deepens the new path. The report notes swift cross-river currents and shifting erosion affecting Iowa and Nebraska sides.
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