Memorial and Flag Raising Observed in Town
Memorial and flag raising day drew a large crowd despite morning clouds with sun at noon. The program featured speeches by Rev Stevenson Hon Gilland Rev Sneath and James A Swope with music by Institution band and a reading by Miss Emma L Kellogg. The flag was raised before a drizzle ceased, veterans and Red Cross volunteers present, and Old Glory finally unfurled to cheers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court House
W. S. Lewis
Institution
Harmon
James A. Swope
Wm. Stevenson
Shirley Gillland
George Sneath
Sneath
Emma L. Kellogg
Court House Square
Red Cross
F. B. Donelan
Ney Glenwood
Robert Wallace
Council Bluffs Red Cross
Hastings and Emerson Flag Raisings Highlight Civic Spirit
Hastings celebrated with Glenwood's C. O. F. band and speakers including C. T. Genung Gen. John Y. Stone and Rev. Peter Jacobs. Rain shifted some events indoors but participants praised hospitality and orderly program. Red Cross wore khaki ribbons for registrants. Emerson also raised a flag with Spellering’s band and address by David Stuart. Red Oak Company M members helped, Red Cross membership grew to 344, ice cream netted 40 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hastings
Glenwood
C. T. Genung
John Y. Stone
Peter Jacobs
Randolph
Committee On
Opera House
Red Cross
Malvern and Hastings
Company 1
Wingate Gibbs
Emerson
Spellering
Silver City
David Stuart
Council Bluffs
Stuart
Hmerson
Company M Boys
Red Oak
E. A. Merritt
Gounell Bluffs
Tabor College Commencement Sets Example with Pageant
Tab or college announces an exceptional commencement featuring a historical pageant of the college and community. Citizens work to depict southwest Iowa history with John Brown in a role and a lumber wagon arrival at a church service. Pageant scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, June 11 and 12, at 2:30 PM.
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Tabor College
Tabor
Iowa
John Brown
Registration Day Quiet Amid War Hopes and Mills County Count
The piece notes wartime registration on June 5 1917 with high rhetoric about victory. Mills County registration totals reach 1114 with Company 1 at 110 members. If ten million US registration yields 625000 soldiers, Mills County would supply about seventy. Also reports week cattle market steady with hogs down, sheep and goats lower.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William
France
Beezlebub
Heaven
Mills County
Company 1
U. S
Choice
Mrs Hinman of Belmond Ill, Flower Mission Head
Mrs M F Hinman superintendent of Flower Mission dept W C T U Belmond came to Glenwood Monday to take part in Flower Mission Day at the Institution. She became seriously ill that evening and remains critical with husband daughter and grandson by her bedside. Glenwood residents who know her hope for a temporary recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. F. Hinman
Flower Mission Department
Belmond
Glenwood
Additional Honored Dead Listed in Tribune Reports
Since Monday's Tribune we have learned of further honored dead not previously listed including W. H. Hittle Byron Lurber Captain Dustin Samuel T. Dalton Fred Heisler and John Clever. The Confederate soldier named is James D. Rupe.
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W. H. Hittle
Byron Lurber
Captain Dustin
Samuel T. Dalton
Fred Heisler
John Clever
James D. Rupe
Remembered on Natal Day Birthday Party for Misa Myrtle
Large gathering at Mr and Mrs B Andersons country home celebrated Misa Myrtle 16th birthday with games music and a blue red decorice. Ice cream cake and punch served by Alma Korgan Elna Winters Myrtle Anderson. Attendees from Council Bluffs Silver City and area towns. Also notes move of Sanford to Ottumwa as general manager for Graham Lattimer stores and relocation with family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. Anderson
Misa Myrtle
Alma Korgan
Elna Winters
Myrtle Anderson
Myrtle
Albert Anderson
Alma Winters
Henry Winters
Alma Kergan
John Anderson
Walter Winters
Harry Anderson
Lucile Anderson
Marie Winters
Council Bluffs
Herby Hammer
Clara Hammer
Silver City
Elsie Bokemper
Milda Dorman
Mary Hopp
Ella Schroder
Adeela Dorman
Marion Macckellar
Viva Slivans
Rose
Hopp
Grace Gunselley
Olga Schroder
Cleo Hatcher
Harriett Adams
Florence Nelson
Vera Mintle
Edna Hopp
Mya Mintle
Alva Jones
Raymond Mintle
Martha Jens
George Markel
Iather Timmons
Grace Reasoner
Fred Hopp
Velura
Clarence Butcher
Charley Jones
Harold ‘Anderson
Ferdinand ‘Hopp
Kenneth Butcher
Carl Schroder
Wille Jens
Harry Adams
John Hopp
Graham Lattimer
Mr. Sanford
Decorah
Ottumwa
Decorah native R. P. Sanford to move to Ottumwa in rise
A Decorah Iowa column notes well known citizen R. P. Sanford will leave Decorah for Ottumwa to advance in the business with his employer. Sanford, who has been in Decorah since 1913 and earned local regard during visits by his wife, a daughter of Captain and Mrs. J. A. Blair, began his career here and quickly built up a thriving business.
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Decorah
Iowa
Ottumwa
R. P. Sanford
Glenwood
J. A. Blair
Sanford
Glenwood area elects officers and plans Epworth meeting
Glenwood Rebekah Lodge and Glenwood Lodge 97 elected officers for the July 1 term. Epworth League district convention will be at Shenandoah June 14 15 with at least five delegates from each society. Mills County officials participate in the program including Rev M A Gable and S M Oriswell. A public court house meeting June 8 addresses Liberty Loan Bonds. Marie Binkley seeks a divorce from Charles Binkley after under three months of marriage, both Omaha residents married in Glenwood March 14 1917.
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Council Bluffs
Shenandoah
Haworth League Society
Mills County
M. A. Gable
Malvern
M. Oriswell
Glenwood
Wm. Stevenson
Court House
Marie Binkley
Charles
Binkley
Binkleys
Omaha
Print of 1775 Massachusetts Spy in Worcester relic
A. D. French owns a rare 12x20 inch folio copy of the first Worcester Colony newspaper. Massacre Spy or American Oracle of Liberty dated May 3, 1775 reports Lexington news with names of those who fell and includes April 15 Provincial Congress proceedings from Concord. The editor explains relocation from Boston due to British opposition and lists subscription terms at six shillings eight pence yearly. Court in Session notes Judge Cullison arriving in Glenwood and hearings in local appeals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. D. French
Worcester
Massachusetts
Boston
London
Lexington
Concord
Floods Sweep Mills County Iowa In Wide Destruction
The past week brought severe floods to southwest Iowa with rivers like Keg Creek and Silver Creek bursting their banks. Bridges moved, corn losses uncertain, trains operated cautiously, and the region likened to a rising sea from Hastings to Glenwood. Also covered are a Nebraska Press Association session in Omaha, Odd Fellows Memorial Day plans, and a Mills County Boy Scouts Liberty Bond drive offering medals for ten subscriptions.
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Iowa
Mills County
Haven
Glenwood
Council Bluffs
Lower
Broadway
Silver Creek
Hastings
Botna
Burlington
Mills Station
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Methodist Church
Market Report
Thetarson
Benton Ai Miriveri
Pat Ingramin
Tarst
Mineola
Maersott
West Oak
Dorr Creek
Mary
Witteloud
Ballville
Thales
Kitty Gordon
Maternal Right World Film Corr
Natal
World Pictures
Brady-Made
Accese Rex Theater
Glenwood Rebekah
Tamlin Lewine
Noble Grand
Gertrude Edwards
View Grand
Theda Kair
Tecnrding
Lane Gillowrd
Glenwood Lodge No
Marty Hubbell
Notle Grand
George Ta Waley
Cheyney
Cullison
Harvey Dean
J. F. Lewis
J. Plavius
R. R
Nebraska Press Association
The
Tribune
Walter Williams
Missouri College of Journalism
Herman Black
Chicago American
R. L. Metcalfe
Nebraska
Odd Fellows
Glenwood Lodge I. O. O. F
Odd Tellows
Order
Boy Scouts
Sly
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