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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1903
Page
1
Glenwood debates a library gift with Carnegie support, votes not required but welcomed. Weekly social events, market reports, and church services fill town life as Higgins family and local professionals feature in community notes.
Representatives of the Collins Monster Carnival Company arrived in Glenwood and completed arrangements for a big street fair to be held July 2 3 and 4. The company, a first class concern, is showcasing this week in Carroll and promises numerous attractions including balloon ascents and daredevil acts. Further particulars will appear in the Tribune next week.
Dr Powell has moved his personal effects to Red Oak where a sanitarium is being prepared for his occupancy after leaving the institution on July 1. Mrs Powell and W D Himes are overseeing the setup. He has already many patient applications and plans a July vacation for a western trip.
C BE Hall, superintendent of the Iowa Telephone Co of Davenport, planned in Glenwood Saturday to install cables in and around the square. Cables will hang from 40 foot white painted poles with brackets. Work starts when material arrives. The new selective system is nearly complete. The Glenwood town exchange now numbers nearly 200 phones.
A large Glenwood delegation traveled to Tabor Tuesday night to hear a magnificent rendition of The Creation. Among attendees were Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Wallace, Mrs. Neilson, Mrs. Chambers, Mrs. F. E. Donelan, and many others including Misses Fannie Ames Alice Smith Fern Tipple Alice Robinson Mary Deupree Emma Williams Clara Hale Edith Will Corinne Bartel and Messrs. Earl Herrick Scott McClure C. M. Sharpe H. B. Herrick Earl Hale Brownlow Miller L. S. Robinson and Bissel.
The body of George Miller a 14 year old son of Thos Miller was brought from Trinidad Colorado to Glenwood for burial after drowning there. The funeral was held at John B Millers home Rev Shaw officiating. Thos Miller formerly lived here and is a railroad engineer and brother of J W Clarence and Albert Miller.
Mixed OCR text describes medical offices on Vine Street north of the square, rooms and board offered nearby, and services. Mentions doctors James and Frank Donelan and a feed for horses and hogs. Includes garbled city phone line and miscellaneous notices.
A string of visits and travels features Mrs. W. H. Hittle with a sister at Thurman, A A Leak returning from Lewiston Idaho, Ty Floyd McCluskey in Red Oak, and many others in Malvern Glenwood Tabor and Atlantic. People dropped by Osccol Neleigh Cedar Falls Council Bluffs and Denver while students returned home from Davenport Indianola Yankton and Lincoln. A hospital opening in Council Bluffs and local banking meeting are also noted along with farm and business movements and a veterinary alert for Glenwood.
The Road Improvement meeting at the Court House favors straightening Key Creek as a first step to better roads into Glenwood. A committee of Wickham, Dean, Steinsteimer, De Witt, Mayberry, Miller, and Bovert will study feasible channels and costs. After recent floods, nearby property owners support the project, but sellers are warned not to ask excessive prices.
The article notes funds shortages prompt a temporary engine house to replace the destroyed one. Work crews replace boilers while the damaged building where two children were killed has been repaired. East of the main building two large cottages rise, one finished to the first floor and the second just started. A large cattle and hay barn is being erected on the eastern ridge, looming prominent.
The special election on the library proposition will be held next Tuesday June 23 with polling sites at First Ward Justice Day's office Second Ward Armory and Third Ward City Hall. Polls open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
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