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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1909
Page
2
Arrives and leaves times listed as 6am 4.30pm 60pm 8pm and 9am 30oe, indicating a railway timetable snippet with arrival and departure windows and irregular formatting.
Miss Gertrude Hockenberry returned Saturday from Glenwood after teacher examinations and visiting Virginia Johnson. The Pythian Sisters plan a big lodge installation Wednesday with Hastings degree team led by Mrs Minnie Whitnall. Albert Coppock undergoes special treatment in Omaha for faulty hearing. Miss Winifred Cook leaves for Parsons Kansas after an extended visit, Aunt Mrs T D Phillipps to Omaha for two days. Remodeling work at the J B Viner residence progresses. cement walks laid at A G Hockenberry home. Carl Axel Johnson, drowned June 20, born Sept 7, 1877 in Sweden, came to Iowa eight years ago. survived by wife, son, and one brother. funeral sermon by Rev Schuler at Christian church at 3 p.m. June 21.
A village note item reports a large crowd watching a night blooming cereps at RW Hurlburt’s home Friday evening. Other items note WCTU meeting with Mrs George Sedgway, visits by Mrs Bertha Dye and daughters to Council Bluffs and Farragut, May Barnes Wolman and sons visiting her parents, and travel/visiting updates for local families. EvangEListic meetings by Riders Warden and Watlers from Missouri Latter Day Saints are in the Baptist church. Millard Wyant travels in Colorado. Prof Rowe and family moved to a new residence near the George Smith place. F W Long and family to arrive from Huron, S D to occupy the vacated Rowe house. Dean W B Johnson and wife depart for Chicago for university work. Mrs Evelyn Kirkpatrick ill with lumbago. daughter Lulu mentioned.
Attending Smith College last year returned home Saturday. Prof Louis R Wells and wife of Cambridge Mass expected to visit his parents this week. Mrs Mary Townslee plans to visit relatives in Lincoln and Carrol Neb next week. The summer session of Tabor College began Monday with Professors Stone and Pickett joining the teaching staff. Lonnie Kempton’s fine mare was badly cut on a wire fence while running in the north Tabor pasture. Dr Milo Lattimer and family move to Tabor early July with a new dental office. Dr Corbin treated five year old Dean Summers after a fall from a windmill tower causing a minor skull fracture. Mrs Jake Hall and baby left for Aberdeen S Dak after visiting. Mr and Mrs Charles Barbour and daughter arrived from Collinsville Conn to visit uncle John Barbour.
The Glenwood celebration features a Schulhof Band of 50, a chorus of 100 voices, a WW music band, and a chorus. Address by Jno. Stone, dinner served, songs of chance and intermission.
A fragmented OCR note mentions a Lime attraction and a fire run at a fairground amusement area. It references ball games Gh ae As Gibs and a merry go round among other attractions. The readable text is sparse and uncertain about exact events or dates.
Emerson W H Eaton returned Saturday from a two week trip to Colorado and western Kansas reporting ample rain. Various locals include Master Edward Birdsall visiting Glenwood, Carr & Longshore’s land deal near Moran, and the Emerson tennis team planning a Glenwood match and lake picnic.
The War on Flies Chicago launches a citywide anti fly campaign with large illustrated posters to educate residents about the disease risk and death linked to house flies. The posters urge cleaning, food protection, and preventing flies from accessing milk and fat sources, highlighting the danger to public health in hot weather.
The Omaha News weighs the tariff fight in Congress noting 29 million workers in production, with 160 thousand manufacturers benefiting. It contrasts the current 44.8 percent Dingley rate rising toward 71 percent under Aldrich, arguing the tax falls on wage earners to favor stockholders and prosperous manufacturers.
Kellogg announces a $1000 prize for the best ears of corn in Iowa to be entered at the Ames short course of agriculture January 3 to 14. Prof. P. G. Holden of Iowa State College oversees the prize distribution. details available by writing to him at Ames. The appeal urges consumption of Corn Flakes to boost corn use.
The Want Readers column invites readers to publish inexpensive notices of wants in the Tribune. Each issue features brief notices from individuals seeking goods, services, or opportunities, offering a straightforward way to reach interested parties.
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