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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1913
Page
3
The Pacific Junction school bond proposal for an addition failed 1153 to 68 last Monday. The defeat surprised many residents amid concerns over taxes and crowded classrooms. A new plan may be pursued later, while the district appoints new principals and reports local social and travel notes.
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The U S grand jury hears a tramp charged with breaking a seal entering a Burlington freight car and stealing shoes. Two negroes accused of beating their way on a mail train near Hamburg and forcing the train to stop twice face trial. Athenian and Philomathean societies at the high school were banquetted after a year’s literary contest. no graduates this year due to the added twelfth grade, with a diploma from an accredited high school expected after another year.
The Supreme Court affirms Judge Wheeler's denial of a new trial in the Charley Fisher versus Burlington railroad case from 1911. The ruling sends the matter back to district court for retrial after the jury favored the railroad. The decision continues an overflow river bottom litigation line from 1907. Eight Silver City graduates include Frances Plumer Paul Reeve James Moseley Grace Kehoe Claudie Shawler and Fae Bryant. The class play is May 21 and graduation May 22 with remarks by Hon. E. J. Burfeet.
Malvern school board met last Friday and received the resignation of George Galloway who had been elected. Prof C D Kiser of the Emersons school was elected superintendent for the ensuing year. He is noted as a strong young man who has performed well during two years at Emersons and was re elected for a third year.
The Hastings high school will hold its commencement at the opera house on Friday evening May 23. Five graduates Mamie Clark Mario Hutchings Adisa Blakesley Edith Smith and John Peterson will attend. The sermon will be preached May 18 at the Methodist church by Rev M A Gable. The program lists invocations orations songs and recitations by the five graduates with titles including Flor ence Nightingale Horace Mann Equal Suffrage and Prison Reform.
Hugo Menschel a well known farmer five miles north of Hastings committed death by own action yesterday morning by shooting himself with a shot gun. He removed his jacket and placed his watch in it before the shot. An inquest returned a verdict of death by own action. A step-son Gordon Muniz recently in the penitentiary for forging Menschel’s name to checks caused him grief. Funeral to be held Friday afternoon at the Hast Liberty church.
A photograph found after an Easter storm near Guthrie Center is identified as belonging to the Eversol family and Lottie McDonald. The back imprint from a Glenwood studio suggested a possible origin nearby. The image, about twenty years old, was in John McDonald’s album. Postmaster White is trying to locate the owner. The McDonald home area on the McCluskey farm suffered total destruction in the same event.
A cyclone hit Seward Nebraska late yesterday afternoon, killing eleven people and injuring thirty. Twenty two houses were totally demolished as the storm carved a straight path through the western part of the town with wind, heavy rain and lightning reported across the county.
The Glenwood commercial club held a regular session with many members present. A reception for Adjutant General Logan is planned to discuss Glenwood obtaining a militia company, while the baseball question gains momentum and business leaders are urged to support a local team.
Mills County Iowa Board of Supervisors met in the Auditor's office with W M Estes H A Cheyney and C Lakin present. Bills were allowed for office expenses salaries printing and courthouse services. Several entries detail payments to G K Johnson H M Logan W S Brown and others plus charges for grand jury duties jail wood and road work.
Mrs Andrew Shannon of a farm near Henton Station opened her left hand to pull apart two fighting dogs Tuesday. One Shannon dog grabbed her hand in the scuffle. Dr FYTE Donelan dressed the wound and no serious injury is anticipated.
Daniel B. Dickie and Miss Bess McFarland wed in Santa Barbara California on April 12. The bride, sister of Mesdames R. A. and H. Tu. Whipple of Emerson, had visited Emerson several months last summer.
Glenwood edged Tabor 8 to 7 in ten innings on Tuesday afternoon. Sensational plays plus a tense finish defined the game as Stimson pitched for Glenwood against Hall of the college team. A misplay by Tabor’s third baseman near the end helped the winning run. Hoffman walked, advanced on a passed ball, and scored on a fumbled fly ball in right.
At about eleven last night two men tried to force in through a front screen door at the H. L. Bouquet home in Pacific Junction. Mrs. Bouquet fled to a neighbor as burglars cut the door. A posse formed and searched the area but the intruders were not found. It is reported this is not the first attempt on the Bouquet home.
Malvern’s largest graduating class prepares a busy week with baccalaureate at the Baptist Church to be led by Rev Frank Caldwell and a Friday commencement address by Homer H Seerly of Town State Teachers College The class play The Kingdom of Hearts Content is set for Thursday at the Opera House Friday program includes class march invocation address diploma conferring and benediction Suburban resident Mrs Jane Stout dies after long illness with funeral at Glenwood cemetery officiated by Rev I D Stone Survivors listed only as one son unnamed per report
Postal responses to a county court house bond survey showed support leaning two to one. A kitchen explosion at the Commercial hotel in Glenwood ruined the steel range. A cyclone in Mills County damaged farm buildings north of St Mary township. A second cyclone near Mills County seemed to pass south. Malvern candidate A B Cork announced for district judge. In Pacific Junction Earl Perkins was shot by Wright Perkins but survived. A twelve pound boy was born at Guy Epperson's home near Pacific Junction. Pacific Junction graduation class numbered twelve. Hastings boasted a 26 piece brass band led by Albert Crawford. Grandma Verlinda Fowler died at 91 at Pacific Junction. Frank Buffington traveled from Murphy Idaho to Des Moines to wed Ruth Wilkinson, planning to reside in Boise City. Grain buyer Eaton of Emerson bought 20,000 bushels of corn at 60 cents. Henderson reported a building boom as L W Triplett's new structure under way and a new $4,000 school building planned.
Soaking showers interrupted corn planting but promised fruit benefit. Obituaries note Mrs. Leroy Britt and Mrs. John Stone of Glenwood, and Robert H. Daniel, Milton J. Martin, Paul Wynn Keffer. Malvern voters approve a $16,000 school building. Emigrant car fire buries two horses. New four story cottages under construction. Company C Glenwood prepares for inspection. Citizens seek another National Guard company. Births reported near Henderson and Tab or areas.
We express sincere thanks to friends and neighbors for help and sympathy during the illness and death of Mr Amos and Mrs Glen Amos with family members Stephen Tia Clyde Amos and Mrs Hammond. Malvern will observe Decoration Day with committees appointed for arrangements.
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