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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1906
Page
1
Local items report tax payments due by next Saturday with a penalty starting April 1. Town notes include visits from Hastings, Pacific Junction, and Council Bluffs figures, new hires, rental notices, a travel sermon, and a nursing recital in nearby towns.
Snow totals reach 12 inches with cold north winds and drifting roads. Groundhog’s six more weeks of winter ignored by almanacs as spring nears. temperatures fell to four below and zero in the county with a week of heavy sleighing and planned events on April 4 6 7.
Leaving town everything must be sold by March 3 in a private sale at the Nebe house Glenwood. Typewriter, household goods, kitchen furniture, dishes, lamps, stoves, books and more in excellent condition at astonishing prices to quick buyers. G E Wingate Glenwood conducting sale. iE Barber advertises cement construction services with twenty years of experience and guaranteed satisfaction.
Entries show multiple advertisers around Glenwood including J. M. Miller listing 240 bushels of good spring wheat for sale at a penny per bushel, and Harley Bromwell offering eggs up to 740 for sale. Other items include Barred Plymouth Rocks from Norval strain, horses for sale, rooms for rent, and oats and miscellaneous farm goods.
Glenwood representatives tied for honors at the Tabor event with Stanley Curtis winning first in Oratory for The Gail to Arms and Glenwood’s Pearl Kiddoo taking second in Dramatics. Hamburg’s Mamie Chapman won first in Dramatic and Glenwood’s Mary Blair excelled in Humorous with The Theatre Party. About 60 from Glenwood attended and a banquet followed.
Anderson township, the largest in the county, has no magistrate. A civil case had to be tried in Emerson. Elected in 1904, both justices of the peace failed to qualify. Since then the only magistrate was Mayor Beetley of Henderson, who recently moved to a farm in Montgomery county.
W G Pace reports an old 1629 Bible as well preserved from his father. The notice urges taking tomato contracts profitable at 880 to 100 per acre and 3 30 per acre on sweet corn. Old tomato growers urged to join. new ones welcomed. Visiting cards offered at Tribune office. L E Williams pres.
Hyomei offers a nature’s remedy for catarrh with a money back guarantee. The inhaled solution, used via a pocket inhaler, reaches the throat and lungs to kill irritants, heal the mucous membrane, and aim for lasting relief. The complete Wyomel kit includes a bottle, medicine dropper, and inhaler for $1, with extra bottles available as needed.
Old residents recall severe March snowstorms in the Midwest and Ohio. S A Tipton of Glenwood cites Mills County blizzards with three days of heavy cold and no trains. A Burlington line cleared by a six-engine plow. J A W Donehty recalls an Ohio storm on March 11 1847 with seven feet of snow. Millerites predicted doomsday that day, causing widespread fear.
Boss Summers visited Creston a week ago and purchased a splendid span of brood mares. They are English Shires, six and seven years old, about 1700 pounds each, and due to sail this spring. The purchase price was the neat sum of 8700 dollars.
Thurman will soon gain a local newspaper published by IW C Witherow of Brownville Nebraska who recently ran the News at Pacific Junction and then Brownville and now plans to start this week.
Eddie Johnson, age - years, son of Jacob Johnson of Essex, died Wednesday morning after a long illness described as lung fever. He was a notable local figure for his unusually large size, weighing over 160 pounds despite his youth. E G Woodrow, dentist, over Per Puson grocery, west side, Glenwood.
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