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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1921
Page
9
Miss Olive Taft recounts her journey from Chicago to San Francisco and aboard the large Pacific liner Tenpyo Maru. She describes harbor sights, seafaring trials, a cosmopolitan passenger mix, and on board amusements including films, dances, a grand costume ball, and a Japanese wrestling match as the voyage begins toward the Orient.
Miss Lola G. Yerkes, visiting nurse from the University of Iowa extension division, will visit Glenwood July 1 and 2 to check children from Glenwood and Mills county who have been treated at the University of Iowa Children's Hospital under Perkins law. She will assess recovery, need for further care, and, for nutritious trouble, home diet and conditions. Parents may discuss enrolling children under the Perkins program. Yerkes will work with Miss Maybelle Randolph while in Glenwood.
Visit by Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Myers and Ed Myers with Duane Dean to Des Moines, joining Mrs. Fred Dean for a few days. A reunion of the well known Chautauqua quartet Fred Dean, Merrill Myers, Ernest Carter and Mr. Cuse is planned, their first gathering since their singing partnership ended.
If You Are Going Miss County teachers who expect to attend the National Educational association at Des Moines next week must apply to Chas. F. Pye, secretary Town State Teachers' Association, 47 Youngerman Block, Des Moines, In., for railroad certificates before they can purchase tickets at the reduced fate. Hotel reservations should also be made immediately.
A son was born June 19 to Mr and Mrs George Murphy in Akron Ohio. The newborn will be named Russell Norman. The happy father is remembered as the son of our citizens Mr and Mrs A Murphy. Both mother and child are well.
A reader asks about remedies to grow feathers on a featherless chick. The note suggests prior reading on hair growth remedies and seeks practical steps to apply similar ideas to poultry.
The financial officer explains how band funds were spent to run Glenwood’s band and to show taxpayers where money went. It notes large expenses for uniforms and hall use, minimal member compensation, and a plan to sponsor ten open air concerts with profits funding white trousers and general expenses. Officers listed include Kemp, Anderson, Standiford, Criswell, Lusch, and Lewis.
The National Wive Stock Treporter reports that the Chicago Board of Trade will undergo house cleaning with reforms to be inaugurated soon. President J. P. Griffin vows prompt action against practices lacking ethics or economic function, aiming to aid producers and consumers amid growing farmers organizations and the Tinder bill debate. Officials supposedly feel conscience stricken, likened to a burglar facing a double barrel.
Mills County Farm Bureau will dispatch another car of wool to the Iowa Fleece Wool Growers Association. The farmer controlled body offers direct sale to large wool buyers, removing middlemen and speculation. Shipments from Mills County are set for July 20. For details contact the Malvern bureau office.
Several local deaths are reported with funeral details: Mrs. Lucas Reasoner from Mercy hospital near Cornell Bluffs died June 26 after surgery. funeral Tuesday at 2 pm near Glenwood. Kathryn Green, age six, died June 26 two miles south of Glenwood. funeral Tuesday at 2 pm in Glenwood Christian church, burial Plumer Settlement cemetery. Henry Sargent of south of Pacific Junction died June 26 after weeks of illness from an accident. funeral Tuesday 2 pm from the home, burial Glenwood cemetery. Willian J. Plumer, 85, of Council Bluffs, died June 23. funeral Sunday at English Lutheran church, burial Plumer Settlement cemetery. Mrs. Carrie Crawford Ferguson of Red Oak died June 22 after childbirth then Bright's disease. funeral Saturday in Red Oak. baby boy alive. Obituary notes for additional relatives and sympathy extended to the families.
Doris M Newell wed Floyd M Wadsley at the bride’s parents’ home June 22 with Rev. J K Freedhline officiating. Doris, a county teacher, was described as popular and fortunate in her marriage to Barry Iowa native Floyd. Also noted: Earl Percussion and Ruth Largon of Omaha planned Glenwood ceremony, traveling after arrival Thursday, June 23, while home ministers were busy with other rites.
The Sunday school convention was busy with the Mayor urged to act when Rev. W. N. Graves of Logan arrived to officiate. In the Clerk's office, amid a small group of witnesses, Graves performed the ring ceremony. The couple received congratulations and left with friends.
Our townsman Fred Bishop was injured in an auto accident that will keep him at home for several days. Returning from Malvern with his daughter Mrs Bacon, two simultaneous blowouts caused the car to overturn near the George Wederquist home. Wederquist found Bishop dazed and injured, and took him to his Glenwood home where a physician attended. Bishop suffers a broken rib and a badly bruised shoulder. He is resting easier but shaken by the wreck.
Gets a fine Svnder he was imparted to the county attorney to justify him in causing the arrest on Saturday of Charles BD, Shamblin, living near Strahan, that he had engaged in bootlegging. He was taken before Judge Woodruff on accusation of the county attorney and the evidence presented. The accused man entered a plea of guilt and the judge punished him by a fine of $600 and costs fut the case. Though the accused man owns it far, he was unable to secure the money that day and he was placed in the county hostile until arrangements could be made to secure the money.
A disabled auto was found along the road Friday near the McManigal farm home. In making the run south of the McManigal place the driver drove into a bank and left the car, an Oallind, out of action. The driver and passengers returned to Council Bluffs. During the night some parties took all the loose parts of the car after it was owned by a Creyton man and repaired at the Kinney garage before he started for home.
Mills County Farm Bureau will begin poultry culling next week with demonstrations in each township. Non laying hens should be marketed rather than kept for egg production. Requests for demonstrations are welcome at the Farm Bureau office with sessions on Wednesday July 6 at Hastings H. H. Lisle's 9 am Henderson C. E. Slump's 1:15 pm and Barnes C. A. Barnes 4:15 pm.
The big Sunday school convention held in Glenwood Thursday, Friday and Saturday is over. A total registration of 934 logged, with Waterloo 17, Mills 1207, Glenwood 984. Delegates from 25 counties attended, meetings held in armory and churches, banners presented to Louisa and Mills counties, pageant well received, officers elected, and Glenwood praised for hospitality.
The Glenwood ball team will play Randolph on Tuesday June 28 at 8 p.m. at home. The match promises a good game and requires local support. fans unable to attend are urged to buy a ticket and show loyalty to the team.
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