Emerson social notes and visits from the region
Emerson hosts and visits among residents and relatives with several trips noted. James Douglas and Ea Noe visit from Henderson, Editor Wells of the Red Oak Express stops by, croquet sales rise to over 20 sets, the Shipmans from California are due, Ranz returns from Hastings, exterior work on the Brammeier residence completes, Myron Shipman aims for the Pacific coast, McFadon attends Epworth League events, the Rhoads family visits Glenwood, Yeoman lodge gains 40 new members bringing total to 8, Alva Strickler’s Kansas City marriage announcement, Miss Turner of Kansas City to wed, Ethel McFadon travels with Simpson college group, Clark Snell and June Fickel among performers.
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S G Steen
Carson
James Douglas
Henderson
Ea Noe
Wells
The
Red Oak Express
Emerson
Collins
R M Shipman
No2
California
Hicks & Abel
M G Brammeier
Myron Shipman
Pacific Coast
Washington
LF McFadon
Lennox
Clyde Rhoads
Helen
Glenwood
RK Birdsall
Rhoads
Emerson Yeoman Lodge
Henry Schick
Alva Strickler
Kansas City
Mayme Louise Turner
J R Jones
Rochester
Ethel McFadon
Simpson College
Shelton
Epworth League
Clark Snell
June Fickel
Wesley Neighborhhood
Fourth of July at Glenwood Aims for Crowd Pleasers
The July third program at Glenwood is incomplete with timing for attractions still unset. Offered prizes cover diverse events from 100 yd foot races for boys and girls to sack races and nail driving. Highlights include a 100 largest family prize, Oldest man and woman, and a marriage license plus $10 in cash for a bandstand wedding in court house yard.
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Nail Deiving
Laaiey
S. Seetee
Glenwood
Erdige
Court House
G Yard
Hillsdale Post Office to Close After June 30
Washington reports Hillsdale post office will be discontinued and mail routed from Glenwood after June 30. Postmaster White has not yet received route-change instructions while a new route from Balfour is being explored to serve Hillsdale. Ten years ago rural routes began with Hillsdale, the district's first route, yet the railroad left town and now the post office closes.
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Washington
Hillsdale
Glenwood
White
Balfour
Center Township
Sam
Rural Carriers Examination Set in Glenwood
Postmaster White led a rural carriers examination in Glenwood on Saturday morning. A vacancy exists on Emerson route, with four local applicants Ed Kirksmeyer Ed Dodd Bert Davis and Ora Snodgrape. Warley Bromwell, longtime carrier on route No 4, has resigned. A second Glenwood exam will be held Saturday July 13. Applicants must obtain blanks from the Glenwood postmaster and return them to the department by July 7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Postmaster White
Glenwood
Emerson
Ed Kirksmeyer
Ed Dodd
Bert Davis
Ora Snod
Grape
Warley Bromwell
Debaters Foresee Lively Gillilland Von Petzold Match
Des Moines Chautauqua hosts a July 8 debate on equal suffrage featuring Senator Shirley Gillilland of Glenwood and Rev Miss Gertrude von Petzold. The clash pits a foe of suffrage against a leading advocate, promised as one of Des Moines' liveliest exchanges. The event takes place in the Chautauqua pavilion at the state fair grounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Fremont county arrests target state lag care in Knoxville
Fremont county officials were active in rounding up alleged habitual alcohol offenders. Deputy Sheriff John Adams went to Percival and brought to Sidney on Thursday three prisoners Dr. Weiss Jesse Williams and John Copeland. Williams pleaded guilty and was sentenced to Knoxville. Weiss and Copeland will stand trial.
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Fremont
Knoxville
Tabor
John Adams
Percival
Sidney
Dr. Weiss
Jesse Wiliams
John Copeland
Inebracy Board
Wiliams
Mammoth Water Tank To Rise In Creston Yards
The Creston Division of Burlington will build the largest water tank in the region, among the country's largest. The steel tank will hold 30,000 gallons, replacing the old total of 117,000 gallons, and will stand sixty feet high and twenty eight feet in diameter on a solid concrete foundation.
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Creston
Burlington
United States
Creston Yards
Doings of the Death Angel Infant Dies of Whooping Cough
The two month old child of Mr and Mrs L R Berkhalter living northwest of Emerson died Sunday morning at 9 o clock of whooping cough. The remains were taken on the 11 40 train to the former home for burial at Lewis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. R. Berkhalter
Emerson
Lewis
Drowning of Axel Johnson Near Henderson in Bayou
Axel Johnson a 35 year old farmer living five miles east of Henderson drowned Sunday afternoon while seining for fish in a bayou near the Nishna river west of Henderson. He cramps and drowned before companions could rescue him. He is survived by a wife and several children. Funeral held Monday. Axtel Johnson born in Sweden lived near Henderson for years.
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Axel Johnson
Henderson
Bayou
Nishna River
Axtel Johnson
Johnson
Sweden
Henderson News Briefs Reflect Local Notices and People
Miss Agnes Hockenberry and other ladies tied to the Henderson circle are named along with college trips by Edna Dorr and Paul Phillips from Des Moines. Cattle shipments to Chicago by Ellsworth Sowers and N Dayson, a Titusville visitor at the Swaney home, and a dozen attend the Christian Endeavor convention in Carson. Marriage of Miss Blanche Pritchard to Eugene Clasby in Henderson, and Archie Carse’s brother’s death in Bellingham, Washington. Mills County Abstract Co. advertises 5 percent farm loans. all county news in the Tribune.
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Henderson
Kphall
Pythian Sisters
Knights of Pythias Order
Maine Temple
Maine
Johnson
Knoxville
Mew
F H Wilson
WD Craig
Will Adams
T D Phillips
Temple
Maude Kiger
Ladies Aid Society
Anna Creamer
Edna Dorr
Paul Phillips
Des Moins
Chicago
Ellsworth Sowers
N Dayson
Mr Kelley
Titusville
Swaney
Mosley Chase
Carson
Christian Endeavor
Rey Medford
Des Moines
John Goff
Goff
Frank
Mills County
Belle Gowdy
Carter Schoools
Blanche Pritchard
Eugene Clasby
Kansas City
John Pritchett
S Carse
Archie
Bellingham
Wash
Glenwood Defeats Tabor 6 to 1 at Glenwood Park
Notes from Glenwood athletic park recount a 6 to 1 Glenwood victory over Tabor with Allbee and Wheeler as battery and Frank Hall pitching for Tabor. Upcoming plans include a return game at Tabor canceled by rain and a Friday match against the Omaha Townsends with free admission for ladies. A Saturday clash between West Oak and Balfour ended 4 to 2 after a dispute at third base. Tabor’s tournament dates are August 17 to 19 with purses totaling 260.
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Glenwood Athletic Park
Glenwood
Tabor
Everbody
Allbee
Wheeler
Frank
Ben Hall
Shuffler
Johnson
Davis
Omaha
West Oak
Balfour
Dan Allen
Edwin Hill Dies by Own Hand in South Omaha
Edwin L. Hill, former Tabor resident and South Omaha mail carrier, shot himself in the head amid long standing mental unbalance. Son of Julius Will, brother of Mrs. Emma Moore, and cousin of Charles and Etta Hill. Body brought to Tabor for interment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin L. Hill
Tabor
South Omaha
Julius Will
Emma Moore
Malvern
Charles
Etta Hill
Judge Thornell Allows Genung & Genung in Big Mining Case
Judge Thornell overrules Doyle motion to exclude Genung & Genung. Genung retains Buros, clearing the way for the long awaited mining case to proceed at the September term. The suit began eleven years ago and is projected to last at least 40 days, touted as the county’s most significant trial.
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Thornell
Doyle-Burns
Doyle
Genung & Genung
Buros
Tabor's Town Burglar
Tabor residents, eager for progress and city tastes, report a local night prowler who entered at least two houses during commencement week, stealing about 18 dollars from Miss Mabel McCormick and H. T. Woods, with locals convinced the crimes were committed by a local resident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tabor
Omaha
Bluffs
Mabel McCormick
H. T. Woods
Train Schedule Shift for No 5 Westbound
Burlington time card changes next Sunday affect No 5 westbound. The train will pass Mills County about 25 minutes earlier and arrive at Glenwood at 6 51 instead of 7 15 after next Sunday.
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Burlington
Mills County
Glenwood
Walker and Johnson Wed at Congregational Parsonage
Lionel E. Walker aged 27 and Mies Ellen Johnson aged 25, both of Omaha, were married Friday evening at 7 30 at the Congregational parsonage with Rev RB W Burton officiating. The groom’s connection with the...
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Lionel E. Walker
Mies Ellen Johnson
Omaha
Glenwood
RB. W. Burton
Hastings Post Office Aid Society and Epworth League Notes
Hastings news items report Miss Beulah Dimmitt assisting at the post office and travel updates. The Aid Society hosted a church lawn social raising about 16 dollars, with visits by Mrs Vernon Johnson and Mrs ZT Granteer. Epworth League delegates at Tabor receive a Tuesday church reception with light refreshments.
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Beulah Dimmitt
Willard Gaylord
Simpson College
Aid Society
Church Lawn
Vernon Johnson
Johnsons
McFaul
ZT Granteer
Glenwood
Clarence Genung
Everett Purcell
Chicago
Chas Kelley
Frank Carey
Red Oak
Frank
Minneapolis
Xira
Lola Imel
Mamie Hicks
Geo Shetterly
Tabor
W E Cartright
Houston
Texas
Opera House
George D Brewer
Gerard, Kaw
Colling
Hastings
James Greig
Davis
Fred Martin
Wesley
J B Ficke
Claude Wilson
W Colling
O’connnor
B Hutchings
Fred Priest
Emerson
WRC
Hutchings
John Starr
Laura McGuary
Lucedale
Mississippi
John
Dixie Land
WD Clark
Tabor Athlete Wins Cup at Edison Moyers Triump
Edison Moyers, a Tabor high school graduate, earned a spot in the Chicago interscholastic field meet June 12, drawing from over a thousand entries. Among Town school competitors Moyers ranked fourth in the 440 yard run among 658 entrants and eighth in the two mile in 9:56.25, winning a handsome silver trophy cup for fourth place.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edison Moyers
Tabor
Chicago
Towa
Moyers
Prise
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Wm.j Ranz
Neb
Senator Gillilland
Mammoth
Berkhalter
New Pythian Sisters Lodge
Jin Henderson
Herb Buck
Macedonia
Christian Church
Joel Woods
Portland
Oregon
Frank Todd
S Triplett
Miller
Wessington
Agnes Hockenberry
A G Hockenberry
Clarence Dorr
CS Swaney
Henderson News
Remedied Christian Church
Isaac Wilson
Ike
Mills County Abstract Co
the Tribune
Glenwood Chautauqua
Shirley Gillilland
Prest. E. R, Herrick
Secy
Glenwood Boys
Edwin Hill
Tabor’s
Walker-Johnson
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