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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1913
Page
3
The Pacific Junction commercial club presents its second minstrel show at the opera house next Monday night. The nearly sold out house features new costumes and a two part program blending old-time minstrel acts with vaudeville. Tickets at Kelley drug store are thirty five cents.
In Burlington last week a friend unexpectedly wed after a trip to Clarinda and southern Iowa. Jessa DeLashmutt sent in a carload of horses from Nebraska for private sale. The St Patrick Eve dance drew eighty couples with Catholic ladies serving supper and oysters after midnight. George Mason family left for Oelwein to make their future home. Mason works for Rock Island Railroad there. Frank Hines has been ill recently.
Henry J. Rommell former rural mail carrier at Silver City post office was indicted by a federal grand jury in Council Bluffs on stealing a $1 bill in January. He pleaded guilty and received a $30 fine from Judge McPherson with thirty days to pay. The father accompanied him. the judge praised the family’s character and stressed post office sacredness.
East Center reports sick list for Gerald Roles. Leander Adams and Milo visit from north of Malvern. Mias Tolles stays with sister F G Day in Glenwood. Hubert Chambers and wife visit L L Richardson. Easter program planned by M E Sunday school. Eliz Rankin hosts Ladies Missionary Circle in Hillsdale. G W Runel and Judith Frizzell visit EB Howard. Etta and Pearl Miller visit A S Judson. Pleasant Grove older boys train with tools at Manual training. Expect good work soon.
The Tribune highlights its reading notices column for lost and found items and sales. Advertisers are urged to use the column, with rates listed as one cent per word plus ten cents for the first issue and one cent per word for each subsequent issue.
In Glenwood yesterday afternoon Miss Anna Lohse daughter of Mr and Mrs W M Lohse wed Ernest Timmerman son of Mr and Mrs Henry Timmerman in a simple ceremony at the M EF parsonage. Rev W N Graves presided and the couple will reside on the old home farm in Oak township. The report notes their early housekeeping and warm wishes from friends.
A. B. Judson of the Town Grange issues a formal notice stating the State Grange is not backing J. W. Johnson, former State Organizer, and that Johnson has no current ties. He notes Johnson was discharged over a year ago for other interests and affirms a Nes Moines legislative committee serves the Grange's former interests, funded by the State Grange.
The Monday Tribune notes the simultaneous deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Butler with a large service at the Malvern Christian church. Mr Butler died in a Council Bluffs hospital after a lengthy operation. Mrs Butler died shortly after learning the news. The couple had lived in Mills County, later moving to Council Bluffs, and left six children: Fannie Henderson, Nora Wiggin, Winnie Neff, Pearl Goodrich, Keith Butler, and Keith Goodrich.
Elizabeth P Rockafellow born 1882 in Summerset County New Jersey married Lemuel B Rockafellow. Five children William James George Pia Thiel and Frank. Family moved to Hastings May 31 1878 living nearby for nearly thirty years. She joined the Baptist church early and endured years of suffering with faith. She died peacefully after telling loved ones of hope and desires. The Rockafellow family expresses thanks for kindness, flowers, and support.
Samuel Lookabill born October 6 1835 near Lexington North Carolina moved with parents to Indiana then Oktiawa Iowa Mills County 1851 lived on the old Lookabill farm married Caroline Cotten 1857 built and remained in the old homestead ten children named Melissa Shelton Sadie Laura Luella Ida Frances Jeannette and others.
Lillian and David Claude Melissa Sadie and David Claude died in fancy. Early in the fall of 1876 the beloved wife and mother was laid to rest in the Gotten cemetery. Later in 1888 he was united in marriage to Mrs. Martha Watcher, who survives him. At 3 30 P M March 13 1913 he was called to his last rest, aged 77 years, 6 months and 7 days. The funeral was held at the residence with Rev W H Doyle preaching. Burial was in Cot ten cemetery north of Hastings. James Wearin of Hastings has been taken to a hospital at Council Bluffs, health failing and serious.
A special train carrying Iowa State College horticulture specialists will tour Mills County in April to teach orchardists. The Burlington will supply a car with exhibits, spraying gear, and pest control materials, visiting about ten communities. Stops include Malvern April 8 4 14 am to 2 25 pm and Glenwood April 8 2 45 pm to 4 45 pm under Prof R S Merrick and accompanying faculty.
A Miller girl living with the George Rager family in Glenwood testifies in a local theft case. She was arrested at Albin, two rings stolen in Glenwood were found on her, and events trace to Lyman Trooker’s home before Mrs Hooker reported two wings missing. Deputy Sheriff Edwards alerted Albia's marshal, and searches on arrival recovered the rings.
Henry Schoening of Council Bluffs visited Glenwood on Tuesday to pay taxes on his Oak township farm and to discuss with the County Board a better way to dispose of water crossing the road near the farm. The water has been diverted from the old ditch and now dries under the bridge, forcing it to travel along the road and keep it muddy. Community stakeholders have not agreed on where to take the water across the road despite prior consideration.
Equipment for the Hintington telephony system is installed and orders will soon go out to Burlington trains by phone rather than telegraph. Other railroads have adopted the telephone, finding it easier cheaper and equally effective. Kherson seed oats for sale five cents a bushel by H W Seeger Glenwood Iowa R F D 4.
A Glenwood era snapshot lists births, deaths, and local incidents. L. I. Geil’s baby boy first born. Mrs. Jane Hammers dies at 84. a child critically injured when a wagon wheel ran over him north of Glenwood. 16 year old Frank Talbott dies after appendicitis surgery in Council Bluffs. Local business efforts include Lportenlanger buying the old armory to build an ice factory with 25 tons daily, later unprofitable but salvageable. Legal notes cover James Walker charged with beating his wife and bound over to the grand jury on $500 bail. Multiple marriage licenses issued for Emerson and Hastings couples. School matters: Sept. Bryan re-elected to Glenwood school board and debt refund of $13,000. Other obituaries include Elvira Priest of Henderson and Wight Hyans of Malvern. Property transfers feature Robert Dunn selling 120 acres to Lewis Stevenson for $9,600. Chan Norton repurchasing 138 acres from Melissa Byers for $82 an acre. Sheep shearing under way in Mills County with several raisers profiting.
Twenty years ago in Glenwood a daughter born to Mr and Mrs Sant Wvans, D G Jamison Co prepared a grand opening on the south side of the square, the town seeing a building boom with new homes and repairs. Mills County National Bank resources grew from 25387398 to 46085767 as farms and town life progressed.
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