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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1916
Page
1
The Glenwood community reports the quarantine for diphtheria lifted at the Rowe home. Weekend visitors include Miss Mona Graham and Mrs. Carmen Mershau en route to Santa Fe. A flurry of arrivals and departures from Malvern to Glenwood features social visits, piano pupils, business moves, and a strong equal suffrage speech by J Stitt Wilson. Weather turns cooler after heavy rain. corn planting progresses amid mild spring expectations.
Local advertisements list services and goods including washing and ironing calls, painting, hay for sale, rental notices, property sales, debt collection services, computing scales sale, child care help, varnish challenge, rummage sale postponed then rescheduled, rental house details, rooming house notes, paint and wallpaper shop items, vulcanizing plant for sale, flag display request for K P convention, lawn mower sharpening service. The items mention Glenwood Iowa and nearby towns with multiple names and addresses.
Glenwood high School Alumni association schedules a banquet for alumni and friends at the Amory on Wednesday May 31 at 7 oclock Tickets available from W C Rathke at Mills County National Bank or from Mrs J Q Records president If possible obtain by May 24 Junior Annuals will be sold at the banquet Proposals for a schoolhouse erection in Goheen District Glenwood Township are invited until May 29 1916 5 percent certified check required with bids Board may reject any bids May 18 1916 Mrs Frank
Glenwood city schools fill several teaching vacancies with new appointments at the junior and senior grades. Miss Monroe of Ogden Iowa was elected domestic science teacher. Other hires include Miss Blomenkatup, Miss Rheba White, Miss Lela Miler, Miss Ida Goodell, Miss Pearl Gurst, Miss Nancy Lamb, Miss Nellie Goodell, Miss Laura Cunningham, Miss Mary Sigler, and Miss Carrie Sherwood for various grade levels. High School vacancies remain in mathematics Latin English Vish agriculture and manual training.
A runaway evening crash near Emersion injures Mrs. Newquist, while her two children escape unharmed. The U S war department offers a West Point course to three Iowa military company members, with Walter Lewis named first from Company 1 and others to follow. Jadias Congregational church cancels and reschedules their rummage sale for the same event.
Two score of her girl friends held a surprise shower Friday evening at the Kemp home. The M E church orchestra and choir led music while Ernest Zimmer read, and a ring in the bride’s cake signaled a forthcoming marriage between Ernest Seeger and Miss Jessie Timmons on Tuesday May 16.
Congregational church studies set for May 16 at Mrs. G J Dunn home. May 17 Bible Classes postponed to May 24 due to county Sunday School convention in Glenwood May 17-18. Mother Wheaton spoke at the Christian church praising prison reform. Epworth League led a mothers tribute at the Methodist Episcopal church with special music and readings. The league notes America’s mission work now over 100,000 dollars yearly and 1100 Haworthians in foreign service since 1903.
A Methodist conference committee in Saratoga Springs New York recommended relaxing prohibitions on amusement with a close 10 to 8 vote. The move suggests the church may loosen bans on entertainment forms previously forbidden.
Debate follows a proposal to remove the enforcement of penalties on church members for dancing and related amusements. Opponents say lifting the restriction signals lax norms, while proponents argue the effect on youth would be greater if unenforceable provisions are dropped and a general warning is issued about activities barred by the church. The dispute centers on church authority versus social freedom.
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