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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1909
Page
2
A fragment of a train timetable shows route notes to Omaha with times listed for various stations and connections. The readable entries include departure and arrival times such as 1.0am 43pm 1.20am and 6 pm, with mentions of Fabor and Milwro among others. The legibility is limited, but the core intent is timetable data for linking trains to Omaha.
Clyde Edmundson went to Lincoln to attend business college. COE Irwin and U G Hockenberry headed for Texas possibly Arizona. Rev Fred Wiess preached at the Methodist church. J J Schuler to deliver the baccalaureate sermon May 16 at the Christian church. J G Viner plans to remodel and enlarge his house. Lyman Coppock ill with pneumonia ten days. Lewis Evans to return home from Omaha after appendectomy. Lee Webster new drayman. bought line from Ralph Creamer. J S Willard painting his house. J A Farrington back from Omaha to paint and carpentry. L W Triplett adds a porch and paints. Charles Wilkinson home from Omaha post appendectomy. improving but weak. Mrs Wilkinson accompanied him.
Milton Knight traded hogs on the Silver City market at 8.60 per unit last week. Robi McClure sold about 1200 bushels of corn to Chas Esterquist on Tuesday delivered to L. G. Adams for 64 cents. Mrs Chas Chipps and Miss Daisy Phillips visited from Red Oak and stayed until Tuesday. Aunt Pheebe Martin is reported sick at her son James’s home. Mr and Mrs G W Patrick are improving after illness. George Bannister hunted in the woods with his dog last week. Prof Lish Bushnell of Malvern supervised the installation of a new 36 inch belt on a steeple here last week.
Born May 3 in Tabor a daughter to My and Mrs George Duns don. Dr and Mrs W Hilliott of Glenwood guests at Rice home Friday. Phi Delta Literary society picnic at Lake Forney. Archie Hunt near Tabor with a ill daughter. Juniors banquet for college seniors at W H Wyant home. Mrs Mary Sheldon McQuarters arrived from Florida to visit father B O Sheldon and summer in the north. Boyd Bell and Lutz shipped cattle. W I Bell and Vanatta shipped hogs. Miss Ella Honeyman hosted her mother from Emerson. Tau Pi and Phi Delta debated at Adams hall on government subordination.
The panel of judges Supt Stone Randolph Supt Pickett Creston and Rev Clev enger Red Oak ruled two to one in favor of Tau Pi supporting the affirmative side of the question.
Silver City reports a large live stock shipment to Chicago with some sent via Omaha to England. Mrs P Hale of Glenwood visits, and George and John Rew travel to Chicago for livestock shipments. Decoration Day observances planned with committee members named. A near fire at John Pitman’s store raises town concern. High school preparations advance with May opera house events. two graduates named Blanche Solliday and Ruth Reeve. baccalaureate by Rev Charles Owens and commencement address by Rev Peter Jacobs.
Hastings mayor James O'Connor, seriously hurt about a week ago in a lunar way, is recovering nicely. Nearby residents Mr and Mrs H H Quimby bought property near Hastings and moved into town, leaving the farm to a son. L 8. Robinson, a Glenwood jeweler, has been appointed by Burlington Road as Inspector of Watches at Hastings. Last Friday, 25 to 30 high school pupils with Prof Verne Johnson and wife visited a botanical site about three miles east. A grassside meal followed, satisfying all.
A column on the impact of letterheads envelopes and advertising literature arguing that quality stationery shapes how others view a firm. It urges choosing a first class printer and notes the Tribune offers honorable reliable job printing. It includes a proverb style aside and a humorous anecdote about a southern colonel and his valet George illustrating care in work.
The Glenwood club held its regular monthly meeting and discussed forming a building and loan association for home builders. Members consider a Fourth of July celebration with a pioneer picnic and park beautification as a club project.
Sheriff Linville reports the county jail is empty and undergoing a thorough cleaning and fumigation. The last inmate was Thomas Reynolds, formerly employed at the poor farm, now indicted for seduction and released on a $300 bond pending a September trial signed by John J. Tompson and CG. Henderson of Afton.
An unusually large shipment of fat cattle left Glenwood Saturday for Chicago with ten cars. Cheyney Bros. supplied six loads and A. J. Gettler four. Passengers included R. S. and Harry Cheyney, Geoge Ward, Carl Buch and Mr. Gettler. Two Cheyney loads reportedly topped the market yesterday and a longer stay in Chicago is expected for celebration.
Friends of The Tribune are urged to direct their attorney or the county official in charge to publish legal advertisements in settlement of estates or other probate matters or district court cases in the Mills County Tribune.
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