Hastings Notes on Visitors and Local Developments
Hastings community news records polite visits by Miss Fern and Miss Mae Colling and other locals, with brief mentions of Mormon missionaries, road and street plans, hotel openings, and retail expansion. Notable items include improvements at the Christie hotel, Martin & Son building plans, and the Bank remodeling, plus farmers facing crop loss from high water.
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Ments
Rev Davis
Hastings
J . Martin & Son
N W Colling
Martin & Son
Welling
Bank
Mills County Man Returns from California Visit
A. Richardson, a well known Mills County farmer near Balfour, returns from a year in southern California at San Diego. He finds Iowa as healthy or healthier than California and notes San Diego’s heat as milder inland. George Leith, former Glenwood druggist, now in San Diego, says he sells more drugs there than in Mills County. Richardson summarizes the California difference with irrigation fumigation and exaggeration, noting state laws require spraying and fumigation for fruit pests.
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A. Richardson
Balfour
California
San Diego
Mills County
Iowa
George Leith
Glenwood
Silver City
Coast Range
Richardson
Corrected Burlington time changes for local trains
The Tribune lists updated schedules for No. 5 No. 9 No. 12 and No. 23. West bound No. 5 arrives earlier Mills County, No. 9 is earlier, No. 12 east bound earlier, and No. 23 from Pacific Junction to Omaha adjusted from 6 to about 1 45 pm. Readers urged to clip and discard old time cards.
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the Tribune
Burlington
Mills County
The
County
Pacific Junction
Plattsmouth
Omaha
Tribune
Ocean to Ocean trip of Glenwood pioneer John Hanson
John Hanson retired merchant and Glenwood pioneer completed a five week journey visiting all seven of his children. He started with daughter Mrs. Harvey Moulton in Pueblo Colorado then to Los Angeles where five sons Fred Leon Gerard Louie and B Stanley run thriving businesses. From Los Angeles he rode to New York City bypassing the Northwestern and spent a week with daughter Mrs. Ella Drake in Chicago? Actually the text says New York City. In total he covered about 7000 miles.
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John Hanson
Glenwood
Harvey Moulton
Pueblo
Colo
Los Angeles
Fred
Leon
Gerard
Louie
B Stanley
Hanson
Ocean
New York City
Northwestern
Ella Drake
Merchants Face Summer Hours Change in Malvern
The Malvern Leader reports merchants will close from July 5 at 6:30 p.m. to October 1, 1908, except Saturdays. The note names several local merchants and implies altered summer schedules for Malvern businesses.
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Red Oak Express
Malvern Leader
Malvern
Heavy Rain Hits Mills County Delaying Corn Plowing
Western Iowa endures a sequence of heavy rains over Mills County with 33 inches reported at Pacific Junction. The downpour floods Pony Creek levee areas and slows corn cultivation while damaging small grains. Lightning strikes cause livestock and building damage across Glenwood, Denison, and surrounding towns.
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Mills County
Iowa
Missouri
H. H. McCartney
Pacific Junction
Fremont County
Andrew Schappel
Glenwood
Tabor
Mineola
Pony Creek
Glenwood to Pave Court House Square in Vitrified Brick
Glenwood city council orders paving of the courthouse square with vitrified brick at an estimated cost around 26 000 dollars. Bids invited until Monday July 12 at 7 30, with protests heard earlier, council approving funding from the general fund for corner intersection areas.
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Glenwood City
Court House
Glenwood
C. W. Edwards
City Recorder
Fourth of July Wedding Plans Secure Couple for Glenwood
Clerk F H Davis announces a couple for the upcoming Fourth of July wedding in Glenwood with ceremony at the court house park at noon. The couple have license but names are withheld. They receive $10 in gold. Previous local wedding noted from 1902 at the apple carnival with E G Harlan and Bessie Crewdson. Also reports a Hastings pair returning with a bride and a Glenwood license issued to John Sylvester and Chloe Clark, married at the Congregational parsonage. Park and lake views offered at Robinson's: two for five cents.
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Davis
Mills County
Glenwood
F. H. Davis
Court House Park
E. G. Harlan
Bessie Crewdson
Ethel Greeson
A. L. Greeson
Osmond
Neb
Hastings
Center Township
John Sylvester
Chloe Clark
Glenwood Institution
R. W. Burton
Big Steamboat Up River Through Plattsmouth
The City of Peoria steamboat with a barge passed up the Missouri River near Plattsmouth en route to Omaha for summer excursions. Reported to sell drinks on board to evade the eight o'clock closing law, the vessel misguided its course near the Platte mouth, backtracked to the east bank, and finally proceeded along the river after a lengthy detour.
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Plattsmouth
Missouri River
Peoria
Omaha
Platte River
Platte
Changes in Granite Works Granite Works to changes in leadership and stock ownership
A report notes Glenwood Granite Works will come under new management after July first. C. P. Wale sold his stock to W. R. Bruce, who becomes president as Hale exits to seek a new western location. Bruce holds about two thirds of the $18,000 stock. Haney and Mickelwalle estate own the rest. Haney may take Bruce’s road sales post and Burnett plans to stay following a prior resignation.
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Glenwood Granite Works
C. P. Wale
W. R. Bruce
Hale
Bruce
Granite Works
George Mickelwall
Roy Haney
Haney
Mr. Bruce
Robert Burnett
St. Cloud
Minn
Emerson Man Weds Margaret Turner After Impulsive Decision
Alva Perry Strickler of Emerson Iowa, once saying he would remain a bachelor, married Margaret Lois Turner of Kansas City after a brief engagement. The couple, both in their early twenties, plan to live in Emerson and soon depart for Seattle.
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Weeck
Tribune
Kansas City
Alva Strickler
Emerson
Kansas City Star
Alva Perry Strickler
Iowa
Kupper
Electric Park
Margaret Lois Turner
R. J. Turner
Oak St
Strickler
Stricklers
Seattle
Wash
Mr. Strickler
Mrs. Strickler
Nonpareil Changes Hands in Council Bluffs
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil print plant passes to new owners on July 1. D. W. Norris and W. P. Hughes, publishers of the Marshalltown Times-Republican, will run both papers with a reported $80,000 consideration. Victor E. Bender has led the Nonpareil since 1894, building a strong paper with circulation above 25,000. The Tribune offers best wishes to the new owners.
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Council Bluffs
D. W. Norris
W. P. Hughes
Marshalltown Times-Republican
Victor E. Bender
Pribune
Silver City Social Notes and Congregational Changes
Silver City resident Charles Pullman of Alliance and Rev Meyer of Des Moines visited services. Carl Huffaker from Malvern attended. Rev Peter Jacobs leaves for Seattle for the National Epworth League convention. Rev RG F Chambers of Council Bluffs preached for the Anti-Saloon League. Mrs M Tucker and Lydia of Woodbine visited relatives. chautauqua in Malvern cancels church services July 1 and July 4. P P Landon, 94, died at Leroy Michigan. George Rew to return from England July 6. Ben Shipper’s daughter had a frightening runaway. C B H Kruse installed a new lighting plant. open air concert by the Spedl bring band. Mrs G H Kruse’s brother C G Schoening died in Seattle. remains to Mineola for burial.
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Charles Pullman
Alliance
Neb
Silver City
Meyer
Des Moines
Baptist Church
Carl Huffaker
Malvern
William Pullman
Peter Jacobs
Seattle
RG F Chambers
Council Bluffs
Methodist Church
M Tucker
Lydia
Woodbine
P P Landon
Leroy
Mich
E F Landon
George Rew
England
Ben Shipper
Rew
Silver Creek
BH Kruse
Spedlbring
G H Kruse
CG Schoening
Idaho Falls
Idaho
Mineola
Glenwood Institution Closes For Summer
The Glenwood Institution closes for the year with about 150 children returning home for summer. About 100 children leave Wednesday as teachers also depart for homes and vacations. Several staff will not return next year including principal Mrs. Lillian Murdock and others from Webster City, Chariton, Plattsmouth, and Indiana, with some heading to Chicago, Wyoming, California, Ontario, and Boston for the season.
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Glenwood Institution
Lillian Murdock
Portland
Ore
Luella Kephart
Webster City
Elouise Wilson
Chariton
Oklahoma people call cyclone caves fraid holes
In Oklahoma the term fraid hole refers to cyclone caves and residents keep one handy. A Mirror report from La Kemp notes I. N. Edwards and wife have moved to a cozy new residence at Oak and Second streets. Mrs Edwards says everything looks good except the absence of a fraid-hole.
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Oklahoma
Glenwood
the Mirror
la Kemp
Okla
I. N. Edwards
Oak and
Second Streets
I. C. O. F. Elects Mills County Representative to Grand Lodge
I. C. O. F. Representative Harry Cheyney of Glenwood has been elected to Mills County’s delegate to the grand lodge to be convened in Davenport in early October. Editor Schaffer of
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Harry Cheyney
Glenwood
Mills County
I. C. O. F. Grand Lodge
Davenport
Editor Schaffer
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T D Phillips
Henderson
Anna McDonough
Osceola
R . McDonough
Byron Moore
Colorado
Gus Russell
Chautauqua Park
Charles Jones
George Chapman
Locust Street
Fred Martin
Epworth League
WT Clark
H Baxter
Halton
Nebraska
Randolph
Verne Johnson
North Grove Cemetery
Anna Petersen
Shenandoah
Will Whitnall
Mother
Pythian
Ivy Creeson
Macedonia
Will Young
Eaton
Abe Carey
Otha Hyde
Chicago
John Starr
Christie
Oolling
HH Wilson
Kuntze
Samuel Greenwalt
Charles Deutzman
St Bernard's Hospital
Ing
Martin Store
Neval
Snodsy
Queen Mills
Denison
LeMars
John W. Miller
Hillsdale
Harless
Lyons Township
G. W. Pitzenberger
Lafe Scott
W.C. Pace
Plumer
Dimumutt-Greeson
Roy Dimmitt
Dimer Dimmitt
Sylvester-Clark
Park and Lake Views
Robinson's
Glenwood Chautauqua
Shirley Gillilland
Prest
Herrick
Secy
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