Home-Coming Day parade and banquet details update
Mills County residents prepare for a large Home-Coming event with 10 am soldier assembly at the Armory, 2 pm parade review, and 6:30 pm banquet. Addresses and speakers listed, rest rooms provided, decorations urged, and safety rules stressed including no firearms or giant crackers.
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Glenwood
Pacific Junction
Millis County
Guy Mayberry
Mills County National Bank
Lamb Bank
Malvern
Pache
Married pairs set in West Oak and Sioux City
George Iven White and Goldie Viola Boyce of West Oak will wed at the D S Thompson home Thursday afternoon with Rev. Thompson officiating. The Tribune notes the May 16 Sioux City ceremony of Miss Josephine Coil and Nove Haralson, daughter of Mr and Mrs J H Coil, former Glenwood residents. Haralson, recently home from France service, is a foreman at a Cudahy Packing plant in Sioux City. The couples will reside in Sioux City and rural well wishes flow from their communities.
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George Iven White
Goldie Viola Boyce
West Oak
D. S. Thompson
Rev. Thompson
Tribune
The
Sioux City
Joesphine Coil
Nove. Haralson
J. H. Coil
Glenwood
France
Cudahy Packing Company
Glenwood High Ends Term With Banquet Plays and Graduates
Glenwood High closes for term next week with events led by the Junior-Senior banquet at 140 C. F. hall Friday May 28 and a Baccalaureate sermon Sunday May 25 at 8 p m by Rev D S Thompson at the Baptist church. Senior class play Fi F of the Doll Shop June 28 29 and commencement at Rex Theatre Friday May 30 8 p m. Graduates listed include Lee Miller Viva Evans Eien Terry Dorothy Lyon Wauneta Dunn Carrie Heyern Charley Wirth Mable Walling Dodwin Mogridge Mina Valentine Grace Gunselley Leonard Fitzgibbons Neva Lamb Homer Fair Betty Jones Hattie Royle Robert Evans Edith Muffley Wayne Gilmore Marvel Wright Robert Record Pauline Sawyer Lorna Plimpton Anna Donelan. The Woman's Club finished its year with a closing program and social hour. retiring president Mrs T Q Records to be succeeded by Mrs George Haley. Other officers named. Additional notes on local arrivals and honor roll additions listed.
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Glenwood
Rex Theatre
Lee Miller
Viva Evans
Eien Terry
Dorothy Lyon
Wauneta Dunn
Carrie Heyern
Charley Wirth
Mable Walling
Dodwin Mogridge
Mina Valentine
Grace Gunselley
Leonard Fitzgibsons
Neva Lamb
Homer Fair
Betty Jones
Hattie Royle
Robert Evans
Edith Muffley
Wayne Gilmore
Marvel Wright
Robert Record
Pauline Sawyer
Lorna Plimpton
Anna Donelan
Glenwood Proclaims May 26 as Homecoming Holiday
The City of Glenwood Iowa proclaims Monday May 26 a legal holiday to honor returning service members. Businesses to close and the city square plus adjacent side streets are to be traffic free unless parade committee orders. Fireworks and explosives are banned on this day.
Glenwood social notes and visits from local residents
Mrs. D. O. Gwinn of St. Louis arrived Tuesday awaiting her overseas husband. Glenwood friends discuss Mrs. A. B. Judson funeral plans. Perdue of Wayne Neb visited with J. W. Bartlett, planning to stay for homecoming. Reafleng of Lyons township in town after flu and smallpox quarantine, amid Iowa’s spring scenery.
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D. O. Gwinn
St. Louis
Silver Grange
Glenwood
A. B. Judson
Harold
The
D. Harold
Folsom
Carl Gustafson
Brown Miller
Jim Sawyers
Red Oak
Jack
Otto Judkins
Perdue
Wayne
Neb
Per
J. W. Bartlett
Malvern
Iowa
Keg Creek
Glenwood Lake
George Reafleng
Lyons Township
Reafleng
Willie T. Johnson
Deaths in Center township and abroad
Notices announce the death of Mrs. Warren Young in Glenwood after a sinking spell and pending funeral plans for Ft. Pierre. Another obituary honors Mrs. A. B. Judson of Center township, active in Grange circles, with funeral arrangements in Silver City. Washington reports the death in France of 1st class Private Ralph Reeves, son of Mrs. Maggie Reeves, from hemorrhage and shell shock after service since July 1918.
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Washington, D. C
Maggie Reeves
France
Ralph Reeves
Wynnts Post Office Hours On Homecoming Day May 26
On Monday May 26 Homecoming Day the Wynnts post office hours will close at 10 a m General delivery at the post office will be closed in the forenoon City delivery will be made only in the forenoon Rural carriers will perform their regular deliveries Mail will be dispatched as usual.
Howe couple learn of son's safe Boston arrival
Mr and Mrs A J Howe received a telegram Wednesday morning confirming the safe arrival in Boston of their son Lieut Ewart Howe. He likely travelled on to New York today and is expected to come to Camp Grant NL to obtain his discharge.
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A. J. Howe
Boston
Lieut. Ewart Howe
New York
Camp Grant
Multiple Obituaries and Death Notices Across Mills County
Obituaries report the 1918 death of Ralph in France with survivors including parents and two brothers, and note a July farewell crowd in No. 4. Mrs. C V B Russell dies in Forest Grove Oregon aged 73, survived by husband and two daughters with funeral held Wednesday. Dr J M Barstow, Glenwood physician, dies at home after a long Mills County career. he taught in St Marys township and lectured at Creighton College.
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Fimes
Inisa
Ralph
Clarence
France
Fred
Gound Bluffs
No. 4
G. W. B. Russell
Glenwood
C. V. B. Russell
Forest Grove
Ore
H. GC. Atwell
J. M. Barstow
Council Bluffs
Baratow
Mills County
St. Marys Township
Bellevue
Neb
Creighton College
Fi Fi Rehearsal Caper Draws Crowds at Armory
Cynthia recalls a wild rehearsal scene at the Fi Fi club with shouting, dancing, and a flirtatious Fi Fi. The narrator describes masked revelry, a lively crowd, and a dramatic exit as the director storms out, leaving spectators amused and astonished. The tale ends with a lunch encore and thee entertaining Luncheon heading.
Memorial Sunday and church notices in a local paper
Sunday school at 9 45 a m followed by a memorial observance at the Methodist Episcopal church. Baccalaureate and sermons scheduled at Baptist and Congregational churches. Gospel Team meets next Sunday at Congregational church. Evening service adjustments noted. Dayhoff missionaries to Africa. Social session of the C B on Tuesday with tulip prize tale. Shout-ins requested from readers.
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Methodist Episcopal Church
Thoas
Congregational Church
Baptist Church
Thomas Evans
Holiness
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T. Q. Records
George Haley
Jas. Swope
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Enore Wolfe
F. E. L. Hester
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Ed Mc|Clure
Pacific Tynction
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Charles Abshire
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Frank Anderson
Pacific Jet
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F. J. Wallace
City OF
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Mirandy
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Relief Corp
Grand Army of ‘61
Grand Army
William Stevenson
Prgram
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