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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1913
Page
1
Glenwood society records a busy period with births and quarantines, travels to Des Moines and Omaha, real estate dealings, illness, school and church events, a human interest mix including a new baby, a nurse’s trip, and a motorized bicycle project as the town moves through daily life.
Advertisements solicit rent for a four room house with water and cistern, ask inquiries by phone. For sale peanut and popcorn machine described as good as new. Equity of 1700 in small Glenwood area farm offered, with fair buildings and some wheat sowed, willing to accept young stock or horses as part payment. Lunch room and confectionery business for sale in a good town location, potential earning about 100 dollars monthly. other lines include empty distillations due to garbled text. Contact P.O. box 423, Glenwood.
The Glenwood school election last Monday drew notable voter interest with three tickets in the field. Incumbents J A Swope C F Dean and W B R Bruce led the ballots, while Dr G M Agan came close, and the voting occurred in the county auditor's office amid a lively local scene.
The Glenwood Woman's Club set their Monday March 17 program with Roll Call Irish anecdotes Music Irish Lullaby by Mrs T A Pearson Paper Wonders of Irish Scenery by Mrs Walter Breen Reading from Irish Authors by Mrs Frank Choate Music The Kerry Dance by Mrs J D Tronmonger Paper The Irish People their Homes and Industries by Mrs Wm M Lamb Music Accushla Machree by Mrs M J Williams In a separate note Herman J Reafling a prosperous Lyons township farmer said he milled a load of wheat at Nebraska City and that mills in the west end should acreage increase yield profits.
The county recorder's office is handling a high volume of filings with fifty deeds recorded in the first four days of March and an average of forty filings per day across all instruments in the past week. Recorder Johnson notes this is one of the busiest periods in his office.
A caucus will be held at the Glenwood courthouse on Thursday evening March 20 at 7 o'clock to nominate candidates for the citizen's ticket. Positions include mayor, recorder, treasurer, marshal, park commissioner, and councilmen.
Adrian Missouri native M. Tice dropped into Glenwood last Tuesday to visit old friends and plans a week or longer stay. He attended the Old Fellows lodge that night, noting his arm has ached since. Mr. and Mrs. Bice were mentioned in the report.
About two hundred yards from the house Mr Bice and daughter Frances were knocked about as a storm wrecked the property. Improvements were demolished fence posts torn out, yet Mr Bice rebuilt and leased the place. The pair will tour visiting children from Ohio to Washington state, staying with relatives including Mrs Venus in Rawles and Mrs Cora Gossard, then Kansas and back to Adrian.
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