10 May 1907
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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1907
Page
1
Glenwood residents share social visits from Omaha and Lincoln while church, school, and business matters headline a week of travel, home repairs, new residents, and community improvements. Local officials, families, and merchants figure in events from roof repairs to a new tenant house and a rising trend of social clubs and walks.
The Glenwood Epworth League announces officers elected for the term with S. J. Parker as president, Alta Goodell as first vice president, Don Raine as second vice president, Gladys Ward as third vice president, Clara Hale as fourth vice president, A. B. Workman as secretary, Clifford Kelly as treasurer, and Ada Kinney as organist. Officers to be installed at an evening devotional service Sunday May 12 with a special program following.
A reader from Glenwood presents a query from another paper asking to compare a syndicate of railroad magnates watering stock to raise value with a legislature that doubles member salaries by passing a village ordinance. The text includes garbled names and place references amid the unclear excerpt.
The morning sermons cover Creation and mercy themes at Glenwood Methodist and Congregational churches. St John s Episcopal Church sets a 10:30 service with a sermon on heavenly ascent and the creed. Holiness and Church of Christ offer morning services and Baptists hold 10:30 and 2:00 sermons with all invited.
IT has bought a fine bay Norman stallion coming four and weight 1500 pounds. He will stand for service on Mondays at Wm Jens's, Tuesdays at Albert Schooning's, Wednesdays at Mineola, Thursdays at Ohn Roenfeldt's, Fridays and Saturdays at the breeder's home in Glenwood. Terms 810 to insure colt to stand and suck. Also included are notices for a Glenwood small farm for rent, a sale of Thos. Bald win farm west of Glenwood in Platteville township, postcards for sale, a span of mules, bargain shoes, sale of household goods, lost tan pocket book with money and keys, and a finder’s note offering money to be kept.
The article records a flurry of civic goings on including cement walk installations by Chas Kroon and his firm, Burgess and DeLashmutt socializing, a new phone taker Frank Fowler on Gunselley farm, and postmaster Bennett predicting a bustling ball season. It mentions residents moving houses and a public land use for street grading and sidewalk work.
Albert Flammant from Coin visited his parents this week. Mrs C F Roenfelt is slowly improving from illness. Mr and Mrs Flammant drove to Treynor for a bank directors meeting. Several attended Henry Sperling's daughter's funeral at Cornelia Bluffs after a fire disaster. The Deutscher Maenner Verein will auction two Main Street lots on June 1. The society received $1000 insurance on the burned hall.
Mills County Sabin farm Glenwood announces for sale black Lanegshaw cockerels and hatching eggs. contact Mrs F M Burlington by phone for details and pricing at this location in Glenwood.
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