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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1913
Page
1
Local and visiting residents fill Glenwood today with a busy slate of social events and civic notes. Guests from Omaha Hastings Council Bluffs Abington and Des Moines mingle at homes churches and the Commercial Club meeting while Memorial Day plans and church parties reflect community spirit.
The Institution held its fifteenth annual commencement on Thursday evening May 8. The program ran smoothly with few interruptions. Charry W. Benson of Oakland Nebraska offered remarks, as Dr. George Mogridge delivered the address to the class. The graduates were Misses Ora M. Williams, Margaret K. McMahken, and Charlotte Winifred Allen.
The Glenwood commercial club met last Friday to consider a summer encampment site for Omaha high school cadets and a possible Iowa National Guard company in Glenwood. A committee was formed to pursue suitable quarters and an armory with modern facilities. Also covered were Rosa Mintle’s missionary work in Japan and a note on the Bankers' Convention in Council Bluffs with remarks by L. T. Genung.
Local ads list White Leghorn eggs for 1.50 per 15 eggs, dry cleaning and tailoring services, a registered Percheron stallion at W G White, second hand farm equipment, seed potatoes, and a Dr Wall Farm of 240 acres up for court sale near Glenwood. Also notes stallion viewing, insurance price compare, and Krebal stock sales position.
Earl B. Stow a former inmate of St Catherine hospital Omaha died Monday May 5 at age 27 years 10 months after a year long TB confinement. He leaves wife child and parents and had resided in Gretna where he worked in a bank. Funeral at St John church Omaha with interment at Holy Sepulcher. Pallbearers were friends from Gretna and Glenwood. Also notes a hospital operation for James E Irwin in Council Bluffs for appendicitis and a report on Glenwood dandelion crop.
A terse courtroom exchange centers on a young man’s embarrassment as Madge questions help given to the man, Marjorie attributes it to someone else, Crawford queries the value of dollar watches, and Crabshaw notes they’re acceptable only when funds exist.
An Authority Judge records a quip by Old Batch about a wife doubting her husband but trusting a traveling peddler, highlighting a humorous saying on credulity and domestic doubt in a historical context.
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