Glenwood Social Notes Highlight Local Visitors
A crowded Glenwood page lists names of residents visiting relatives in Springfield Des Moines and Waterloo with trips to Montreal Quebec and Charlotte Town Prince Edward Island. Cletus Owens Cresco won first prize in a farmer boy essay. German alien female registration details. local farm tractor counts. and a Glenwood couple becoming grandparents in Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Warren
Pacific Junction
Mills County
Cletus Owens
Cresco
Howard County
Advertising Readers In Glenwood Iowa Classifieds
A Glenwood Iowa classified section lists house for sale or rent and other ads. Items include a residence on Indian Avenue Hastings Ia, a second hand Maxwell auto, refrigerator, eight room house on two acres near court house square, canary birds, junk requests, dining room staff, and Rex Hog feeders with contact numbers for Goltry Hutchings Travers Weth ey Noah Ferguson and Noah.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indian Avenue
Hastings
S. B. Hutchings
Court House Square
Ferguson
Glenwood
Notice to Teachers on Uniform County Certificate Exam
Notice to Teachers announces the next regular examination for uniform county certificates at the office in Glenwood Iowa on Wednesday June 26 Thursday June 27 and Friday June 28 1918 Examinations start promptly Wednesday morning Georgy B Masters County Superintendent will send up old questions on the plate governing this exam
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenwood
Iowa
Ferales
Georgy B. Masters
Government plea for beef ration limits in 1918
The text urges nationwide beef cuts to support the army and allies, while pork supplies allow expanded use. Hotels and restaurants are asked to limit beef to two meals weekly, beefsteak to one, and roast beef to one meal weekly. households should not buy more than 1.25 pounds of clear beef weekly or 1.5 pounds with bone. The policy aims to last until September 15, 1918, reflecting wartime supply and demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert Hoover
Puntia
France
United States Food Administration
J. K. Deems
Nebr
Mabel O’brien
Wheat Not Essential Diet Says Health Official
Dr Guilford H Suther secretary of the Iowa health department and state medical examiner backs Hoover and Deems on wheat flour not being essential to health. He cites cereals like oats barley and rye as substitutes and notes dairy products milk and cottage cheese as reliable sustenance. He adds the U S could live a year without wheat if needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guilford H. Suther
Iowan
Department of Health
Herbert Hoover
Sumners
United States
Food Reserve Policy Bonnets Wartime Harvest Foresight
Federal food administrators representing all 48 states urged immediate storage of as much grain as possible despite a likely bountiful harvest. They warned that wartime demands require continued restrictions on wheat bread and reliance on substitutes and high milling extraction. They cited ancient Egypt’s famine to justify building large national reserves during the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert Hoover
Washington
Egypt
Swiss cattle price rule fixes farm gate at 28 cents per pound
The government sets the maximum price farmers may obtain for slaughter cattle at 28 cents per pound on the farm. Maximum prices for meats are also established to guide production and sales. The policy aims to stabilize farm revenue and market conditions amid rising costs and demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Switzerland
Married Powles Richardson Plattsmouth resident wed in Nebraska City
Theo Powles of Lyons township and Miss Flossie Richardson of Plattsmouth were married in Nebraska City on June 19. The bride, daughter of ferryman John Richardson, lived most of her life near Plattsmouth with her grandmother Mrs. Jennie Dalton. The couple will live on Powles farm south of Pacific Junction until his draft service begins. Also noted: J. C. Baldwin and Miss Martha Tyler of Omaha married on June 19. Martha Tyler formerly managed the Keister dressmaking school in Glenwood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Powles Richardson
Plattemouth
Theo Powles
Lyons
Mise Flosse Richardson
Plattamouth
Nebraska City
Plattsmouth
Jennie Dalton
John Richardson
Leander
Hellespont
Theodore
Mrs. Powles
Pacific Tunction
J. C. Baldwin
Martha Tyler
Omaha
Keister School of
Glenwood
Mills County Land Deals June 1918 in Malvern and Farm Creek
Land transfers recorded in Mills County Iowa between June 16 and June 22 1918 show W L Smith transferring part of Block 8 Academy Add Malvern to James Robarts for 2500 dollars B M Sutton selling Lot 3 Block 3 Malvern to A S Mills for 4000 dollars and more titles involving William Kahl Jr Wm Kahl and W S Lewis with Farm Creek Cemetery Alan and a deed to Mrs Catherine McGee for Lot 165 Farm Creek Cemetery and Sheriff of Mills County to J P Hess for a described parcel. multiple affidavits affecting titles noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. L. Smith
James Robarts
W. D
Academy Add
Malvern
B. M. Sutton
A. S. Mills
William Kahl, Jr
Wm. Kahl
W. S&s. Lewis
Farm Creek Cemetery
Alan
Catherine McGee
Milla County
J. P. Hess
Bridge in Paris Marks Statue Gift to America
A small bridge in Paria hosts the Statue of Liberty in its center, a gift from France to the United States. The pedestal includes the acceptance letter excerpt by Vice President Morton in French. The 15 foot statue looms upon the bridge near the Eiffel Tower and a distant ridge, evoking New York harbor imagery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paria
Eiffel Tower
Paris
Pont de Geenalle
Seine
New York Harbor
Frince
America
Morton
Food Administrators Meet in Southwest Iowa Beef Schedule Adopted
The Food Administrators of Southwest Iowa met at Red One on Sunday June 28 with 18 present from nearly all districts except Fremont and Taylor. They adopted a beef serving schedule for hotels, restaurants and boarding houses and limited left overs to hash. Private families and meat markets are to observe the rules. Sugar and wheat restrictions were also set, including specific tea and coffee measures and wheatless evenings. A fuller synopsis will appear in Thursday's Tribune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Red One
Fremont
Taylor
Cornell Bliffa
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Eva Hutchings of
Malvert
Morgan Alexander
Jerry Wright
Springfield
Illinois
Harry Galliher
Silver City
C. E. Dalton
Galliher
J. S. Chamberlin
Miss Faye
Des Moines
Decatur City
Carol Jackson
L. C. Wedmore
Council Bluffs
Sloman
Beloit
Wisconsin
Kansas
G. W. Duncan
Glenwood Granite Works
Shenandoah
Duncan
Schieh
Charles DeFord
George Krecklow
Oldham
S. Dak
W. H. Krecklow
Mr. Krecklow
Waterloo
South Dakota
J. M. Sutherland
Montreal
Quebec
Charlottetown
Prince Edward Island
Pottawattamie County
Mills
Montgomery
Ruth Knight
Bartlett
Earl Hodges
Folsom
White Cloud
Virginia Craig of
Henderson
Geneva Warren
Hattie Anderson
M. H. Goehring
Emerson
L. F. Johnson
Clarence Miller
G. T. Reasoner
Thimble Bee Division
Armory
Joe McCurdy
Sedgwick
Colo
Viking
Eacrett & Rinehart
W Stroud
Lincoln
Warl Hodges
Los Angeles
Lester Aston
Near Ashland
A. J. Bird
Wall Street
A. J. Hamilton
Mrs. Bird
Astons
Aston
Mr. Bird
George Zimmer
Roy Zimmer
Milestone
Canada
Regina
Ra A
Charles Goltry
Cozy Cafa
E. M. Travers
Prop
Glenwood, Ia
Walter Wright
Phone
Maxwell
Hill
Ll. Hurst
Side Square
Glenwood, la
Iinquire
Glenwood, Ta
Iva Wethey
Rex
R. Ji
Noah
R. H. Noah
WE Are
Sam
L. S. Robinson
Offic'r C. B. & Q
Inspector Dewalty
Lyon & Lyon Chiropractors
Glenwood,a
State Medical
The
Food Administration
Hoover
Ect
Baldwin
Tyler
Mills County Land
Liberty
Souths West
Tribune
Bryant Washburn
Marguerite Clayton
Graustark
Oakland
Marsh-Kinney-Oakland Co
E. C. Kinney, Mgr
Glenwood, Iowa
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