22 Mar 1920
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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1920
Page
1
Glenwood residents attend meetings and visits as various townsfolk travel to Iowa City Lincoln Council Bluffs and China for events and shopping. A municipal ticket in Ashland features a mayoral candidate and a former town official. A church youth social ends with refreshments while the Washin gton Alaska system seeks mill telegraph operators enlisting in Omaha. Senator Newberry News and politics prompt debate on removal from the Senate.
The Rose Breasted Grosbeak arrived yesterday. A list of visits and familial ties fills the page with births, weekend guests in Omaha, and relatives from Garden Grove, Louisville, and St. Paul. Local commerce and a humorous note on Tribune billing wrap the column.
Dr and Mrs W M Plimpton travelled by auto to Des Moines on Saturday and spent Sunday with their son Edwin. John A Millard of Lander Wyoming, recently in Stillwater Oklahoma, arrived in Glenwood for a few days to greet friends before returning home. A merchant quips about a painted bridge advertisement while a customer jokes about reading it.
A long list of local notices from Glenwood Iowa including for rent rooms and farms, sale of a Ford touring car, heavy work horse and engines, two Holstein cows, Rhode Island Red eggs, stock cattle, gasoline engines, prairie hay, baby buggy, sorghum, and a Pathfinder tour vehicle. Found gray cloth overcoat and halter lost near Pacific Junction. Contacts include C D Bomar, Carl Lincoln, E Walker, J E Tuey, Mrs M Boyer, Fullerton Lumber Co, Mel Stacy, C L Brill, Harold Krecklow, Mrs D E Van Pelt, and Glenwood Gun Club.
A quirky survey contrasts trappers relying on muskrat houses to forecast winter with a note on desert life. It quotes Hunter-Trader-Trapper of Columbus on animal signs and storms, then leans into desert mystique and the Chaldeans as Mary Austin describes starry skies and quiet survival in The Land of Little Ruin.
A night drive in Tennessee is followed by five colored men in a car who block the road. They ask for gas money saying they must get to town and are almost out, prompting fear of a holdup before the request reveals a simple need.
Commercial trucking available for any kind and time by I N Severn contact Glenwood at 22W. Native timber offered in board or dimension sizes and can be arranged by calling 265, M Nebe.
William B E Stout offers auto trucking long distance hauling and stock hauling services. Contact 203 Ww for arrangements and rates.
A box social and program will be held at Barbee school house 344 miles northeast of Glenwood on Friday night March 26. You will be welcome to enjoy the play Jumbo Jam by the young people. Ten char acters and bushels of fun. Frances McPerren, teacher.
For sale at 110000 is a premier dairy ranch in southwestern Oregon covering 106% acres with a ranch house employees' cottages cheese factory dairy barns and all essential buildings. Located on Coast Highway sixteen miles from smilk condensary at Trindon Oregon it fronts an ocean beach with nearby school pad store. About 1000 acres are creek bottom quality with the rest level beach land. Temperatures average under 80 in summer and above 32 in winter with cows grazing year round on green feed. Terms include 4500 cash and the balance financed by long-term mortgage at six percent. Inflations of land values has not been felt there yet.
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