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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1922
Page
2
Local notes detail visits and travel across towns including Council Bluffs Red Oak Winterset Hastings Des Moines and Lincoln. Several deaths, sermons and church events are noted amid a community rain with hail and a County Maynes funeral. A Red Oak game beat Emerson 12 to 1. tennis courts are highlighted as a community asset.
Several families head to relatives in Kansas and New York while others attend events. Mrs. Gilbert Cheney leaves for Chautauqua Lake to attend a federation convention, and Masons in Humanity Lodge initiate Clyde Hatfield. A catfish weighing 47 3/4 pounds is caught. free movies draw two hundred autos for a band concert. An auto crash injures Mrs. Dorr and bruises Mr. Dorr on the Lincoln highway.
Grandma Bevis visited Emerson on Thursday while Dr. Tipton spent Sunday with his father in Oakland. The list of visitors includes Mrs. Sam Phelps and Joe Parker at Red Oak, Mr. and Mrs. James Lake of McPherson in town Thursday, Mesdames Harvey and Orsow Harris in Shenandoah Wednesday, and the Wight couple visiting Elliott. Ongoing home upgrades continue as John Goss works under his house to install a furnace. Dorothy Owens returned from Emerson, Will Keamward's hospital stay in Omaha, and visits by Elvira Smith with Miss Ellen Noonan of Emerson are noted among other local movements.
Sunday school attendance reached 100 as Mrs. Hale spoke at Hillsdale church. The King's Heralds met at Frank Smith’s home. Dorothy Miller of Tabor visited her aunt Mrs. Will Andrew. Lottella Thieschafer vacationed with a Nebraska cousin. The Ladies Aid plans a Glenwood food sale next Saturday. Hillsdale ladies are asked to bring needful items for a Sunday dinner. Culver and Reasoner classes plan pie socials at Glenwood Lake on upcoming evenings.
An ex minister Hanmer fights to reclaim a bell seized by townsfolk. After climbing the belfry he drops the bell for a friend to fetch a wagon, but the crowd removes the ladder and bell. The bell ends up packed in a hogshead and carried to Utah, where it remains elusive amid Mormon worship.
Ruth A Gallagher writes in the May Palimpsest from the State Historical Society of Iowa about Michael Hummer who arrived in 1841 as Iowa City’s first regular pastor. He secured a bell shipped east and installed it in the belfry, the only church bell west of the Mississippi. Hummer’s eccentricities soon made him unpopular.
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