Missouri River Flood Wrecks Crops Across Mills County
The Missouri river cresting in Mills county causes severe bottomland floods not seen since 1881. Levees at St Mary Platteville failed to hold back rising waters, nearby farms flooded, livestock harmed, and crops threatened though replanting may salvage some fields. Flood spans Lyons township with extensive inundation from Pacific Junction to Bartlett road. Wave action from a northwest wind worsened the breach, but land away from the river remains above flood levels. Across the valley, rains and mountain snowmelt feed ongoing high waters from Sioux City to Kansas City, yet overall growth persists amid weed problems and cultivation challenges.
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Missouri
Mills County
Western Platteville
Henton
St. Mary and
Platteville
Liyons Township
Pacific Junction-Bartlet
Leeka
Missouri Valley
Sioux City
Kansas City
Sunday Breaks Record in Sharon Revival Finish
Reverend William Sunday ends a five week revival at Sharon Pennsylvania with 711 conversions on the final day, bringing total converts to 4523. The revival, once seen as a potential failure, ends as one of the east’s largest in comparable campaigns since Moody and Sankey.
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William Sunday
Sharon
Moody and Sankey
Doings of the Death Angel in Mills County
Robert H. Murlbutt longtime Mills County settler died Thursday at his daughter’s home near Tabor aged 87. Survived by wife and four children M W Hurlbutt Mrs A T Wilkins Mrs James Goodfellow of Ashland Neb and R W Hurlbutt of Tabor plus many grandchildren. Funeral Friday 2 30 pm at the late home conducted by Rev J W Ferner with interment in Tabor cemetery.
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Robert H. Murlbutt
Mills County
A. T. Willins
Tabor
Rawles Township
James Goodfellow
Ashland
Neb
M. W. Hurlbutt
A. T. Wilkins
Mary Jane Fraly Born Near Trenton Missouri in 1841
Mary Jane Fraly was born March 14 1841 near Trenton Missouri and died June 1908. Her parents moved from Missouri to Bloomfield Iowa when she was a child and she lived there thereafter.
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Mary Jane Fraly
Trenton
Missouri
Bloomfield
Iown
DeBolt Woman Passes After Long Mills County Life
Mrs. DeBolt born and raised in Iowa moved to Mills County with an uncle as a girl, married Gideon DeBolt in Corning on March 16, 1877, and then moved to Macedonia eight years ago where she resided. She left six children and was active in the Christian and Wesley Chapel Methodist churches. Funeral held June 9 in Macedonia with Rev. C. F. Chambers officiating.
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Mills County
Gideon DeBolt
Corning
Macedonia
DeBolt
Alta M
Charles A
Ollie M
Luella
Merritt G
Archie
Chrisitian Church
Bloomefield
Methodist Church
Wesley Chapel
C. F. Chambers
Griswold
Wedding Trip Planned for Ina May Robbins Lisle
The Robbins home north of Hastings in Anderson township hosts a wedding Wednesday for Ina May Robbins to Harvey H. Lisle of Clarinda. The couple reportedly plans a Europe wedding tour. Separately, Wallace W. Dyke and Nellie M. Lafever wed in Glenwood with Justice C. W. Edwards officiating.
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J. D. Robbins
Hastings
Anderson Township
Ina May
Harvey H. Lisle
Clarinda
Europe
Editor Lisle
The
Clarinda Herald
Wallace W. Dyke
Nellie M. Lafever
Glenwood
Randolph
Justice C. W. Edwards
Soclock
Pretty wedding unites Pullman and Spittler kin at home
In Sidney, Joseph Pullman and Inez Spittler wed at 2 30 p m in a simple ceremony by Rev W H Shipman with near relatives present. The bride and groom plan to reside on the Pullman farm five miles north of town.
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Sidney Herald
Wm Spittler
Joseph Pullman
Inez Spittler
W. H. Shipman
Methodist Church
George Pullman
Wm. Spittler, Jr
Pullman Farm
Eight Cents For Cattle On South Omaha Market
Nine car loads of corn fed cattle averaging 1609 pounds sold for eight cents per pound on the South Omaha market Monday. It stands as the highest price in twenty years aside from a 1902 purchase of exhibition cattle at slightly over eight cents. The same lot was bought last fall at four cents as feeders, and mixed Herfords and shorthorns.
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South Omaha
Early Mills county pioneer Tolles linked to Underground Railroad
C W Tolles, a Mills county pioneer now visiting Glenwood, recalls early travel through the county in 1849 before towns formed. He sheltered enslaved people at his Center township home, hosted John Brown, and helped establish the first Mills county Baptist meeting. Tolles recounts crossing Keg Creek to Council Bluffs road sites and living near Silver Creek with a timbered 160 acre claim later part of Sam Vinton’s land.
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Charles Wesley Tolles
Canyon City
Colo
Glenwood
H. A. Toles
Mr. Tolles
Mills County
Center Township
Henry Ranne
Sam H. Vinton
Ile
Mills
Tolles
Northwest
Missouri
Fremont County
St. Joe
Bellevue
Neb
Sidney
Mel Wissick
Sam
Presant
Council Bluffs
Mekissick
Waubonsie
John Brown
Old ‘‘Underground Railroad
Brown
Max Tolles
Tribune
Underground’ Railroad
Ti. A. Tolles
Burlington
Sam Vinton
Little Creek
Arly Day
Tollas
Monument idea at old John Brown site near Burlington main line
The article recalls a cabin site near the Burlington main line where old John Brown camped. It suggests erecting a monument and possibly converting part of the timber stretch into a park akin to Central Park. It notes Mills county treasurer Tolles and deputy Azure Richardson, detailing Tolles birth in 1823 and his slender build.
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John Brown
Burlington Main Line
Central Park
Appraisers report on Pony Creek Ditch claims new allowances
Marion Anthony, David Sandiland and Warren, appointed by Auditor Agan, spent five days last week evaluating damages for the proposed Pony Creek ditch. They cut total claims from 45,410.75 to 12,850, focusing on actual land taken and expenses, with no allowances for probable adjacent land damage. The railroad company claims were tied to a proposal for 80 inch pipes. other routes included a surface ditch to the Wroon ditch and river.
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Marion Anthony
David Sandiland
Warren
Agan
Pony Creek
Railroad Company
Wroon
Chares Kroon
Amos Doty
Pacific Junction
Geo. W. Green
Yy Sea
C. TI. Lane
Plattevilla
Lyons
Thomas Qollan
Conventions Set for Mills County Under New Law
Under the new primary law Mills County holds party conventions on the third Saturday after the primary at the county seat. Next Saturday Republicans meet at the courthouse while Democrats gather at the opera house. Prohibitionists and socialists have not announced rooms. Delegates to state, congressional and judicial conventions will be elected. prohibitionists will nominate a county ticket.
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Mills County
Glenwood
Court House
Opera House
Taft Dolliver Boom Divides Iowa In National GOP
The Republican convention in Chicago nears nomination of Taft with Roosevelt favoring Dolliver for vice president. Iowa leaders fear Cummins could enter the Senate if Dolliver is chosen, and worry Dolliver’s boom may spark a political row that could aid Bryan in Iowa.
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Chicago
Roosevelt
Taft
Dolliver
Cummins
Senate
Iowa
Doliver
Young Man in Trouble in Glenwood Jail
Clyde Hardy a 23 year old man is in serious trouble after being arrested in Malvern on a charge of attempting to pass a forged check. Bound over to the grand jury with $300 bond, Hardy could not meet the bond. He confessed to the crime after Deputy Bellwood pursued him from a drug store to the bank. A second forged check bearing his aunt Mrs. Gardener's name was found on his person.
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Clyde Hardy
Glenwood
Bellwood
Malvern
Whitfield
Grand Jury
Leroy,ll
Orpha Gardener
Wilson Drug Store
Frank Robbins
Young Hardy
Wilson
First National
Gardener
Memorial rites halted by rain for Odd Fellows and Woodmen
Rain disrupted Sunday memorial exercises at Glenwood for the Odd Fellows and Woodmen. About one hundred members marched to the cemetery led by the Institution band. The ritual service and Rev. J. O. Staples address were canceled. Odd Fellows record 52 deceased. Woodmen 5.
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Odd Fellows
Woodmen
Institution
J. O. Staples
Glenwood
Balloon Ascension and Conventions at Glenwood
Saturday will feature political party conventions in Glenwood followed by a balloon ascent. A woman will attempt a daring flight to the clouds as the balloon is inflated and released.
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Glenwood
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Clark Jacobs
James
Clark
Colfax
Wash
Minnie Jacobs
Pullman-Spittler
W. E. Cross
M. F. Kellogg
Omaha
Justice of the Peace
James Long
John Bell
J. W. Hunter
Grant Street
Cross
Hunter
C. W. Tolles
Kansas
Nebraska City
New York
Lewis
Azure Richardson
Geneva
Seneca County
Pony Creek Ditch
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