Glenwood's Youthful Electrician Fred Stillwagon
An 18 year old Glenwood boy, Fred Stillwagon, works in Mills County tele phone service while attending high school. He built a working wireless telegraphy setup between two poles, studied electricity and birds, saved about 700 dollars, and hosts a den with home made electrical appliances. He notes wireless is common at sea but rare inland, with privacy via tuning, and he warns that his listening device may hear conversations on nearby telephone lines.
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Fred Stillwagon
Glenwood
L. A. Stilwagon
Mills County Telephone Company
Underwood
Fred
Iowa
Council Bluffs
Carleton Wheeler
Stilwagon
Fred’s den
St. Louis
Omaha
High Seas
Property Held 32 Years After Pioneer Death sparks suit
Attorney Norman Genung filed in district court a claim by Ryan Owens heirs for a Council Bluffs residence valued at ten to twelve thousand dollars. They assert administrator Francis Williams wrongfully concealed Owens’s ownership, keeping the property since 1875. Heirs include James Owens Gee Spencer and Martha Wright with others scattered.
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Norman Genung
Council Bluffs
Ryan Owens
Mills County
Owens
Eubank
Francis M. Williams
Williams
Gee. Spencer
Glenwood
Oak Township
James Owens
Spencer
Fred Wair
Mounterville Owens
Martha Wright
Lizzie Dunn
Damage suit seeks 5000 against Donnelly over Glenwood assault
John Wrenwick of Glenwood sues James Donnelly for 5000 dollars claiming injury from an unprovoked March 31 assault on Donnelly farm east of Glenwood. Wrenwick says he was beaten with a monkey wrench and left near death for 21 days, permanently disfigured and disabled from work. He is 44, earning capacity 800 to 1000 dollars yearly.
Mills County births total 262 in 1906 report
The 1906 Mills County birth tally shows 136 boys and 126 girls, a boys majority of ten. Clerk Davis sent the names to the Department of Vital Statistics in Des Moines. The text notes the clerk and deputy spend much time on divorce filings, marriage licenses, and birth records.
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Mills County
Davis
Department of Vital Statistics
Des Moines
Fruit Prospects Bright After Frost in Lyons Township
J. M. 81. John from Lyons township reports thriving peach and apple buds, with a peach limb bearing many peaches. St John expects about half a crop on Duchess and Wealthy apples while late varieties show little damage. Other fruit men echo optimism as cherries form well and small fruit remains common after April May freezes.
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J. M
John
Glenwood
Lyons Township
Tribune
Mills county wealth totals near 21 million says assessors
A Tribune table shows Mills county wealth at 18,008,404 in assessed value with corporations adding about 3,500,000 and total taxable wealth likely exceeding 21,000,000 after state equalization. Real estate values rise modestly with land averaging 45.75 per acre this year, up from 42.50 in 1905, while land quality varies from Platteville to Silver Creek amid drainage improvements.
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Tribune
Mills County
Agan
Des Moines
State Executive Council
United States
Platteville
Silver Creek
Anderson Township
Little St. Mary
Anderson
Indian Creek
White Cloud
Pat
Deer Creek
Ingraham
Rawles
Center
Ne Tenes
Lyons
Glenwood Seeiee
Eeege
Mary
Wee
Towne
Glenwood
Seeeae Feeeene
Malvern
Wmerson
Werd
Silver City
Henderson
Resydee-Be
Hastings
Pacific Junction
Court House Snake Escapes From Coworker Cage
A six foot bull snake kept as a court house pet escaped its cage at the court house offices Wednesday night. Janitor W H Brooks captured the reptile the next morning after it stretched along the south window sill. Brooks used a stick and towel to secure the snake before returning it to its cage. Supervisor Greig noted a larger ten foot bull snake on his Henderson farm and praised snakes as effective rat and pest exterminators.
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Court House
Smith
Mr. Smith
W. H. Brooks
Mr. B. Snake
Recorder Rhoads
Granite Works
Greig
Henderson
Wolf Pack Destroyed Near Silver City by Al Weber
Near Prank Plumer's farm northeast of Silver City wolves had terrorized livestock for years. Al Weber from Sidney used hounds to locate a den in a ravine bank and secured seven young wolves. He trapped the old she-wolf and chased the old dog wolf. Neimolley from Oak township delivered pelts of three young wolf cubs to the Auditor.
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Prank Plumer
Silver City
al Weber
Sidney
Weber
Plumer
Charles Neimolley
Oak Township
Auditor Avan
Quarantine on Smallpox at Tabor Home
Homer Schwartz and family at Tabor are quarantined after exposure to smallpox. He worked at a lumber yard in Greenwood Nebraska. Officials say precautions are in place and danger of spread is limited.
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Homer Schwartz
Greenwood
Neb
Glenwood High School graduates celebrate class of 1908 09 and 10
Fifteen graduates in white dresses and flowers receive diplomas at Glenwood opera house after a varied program. Florence Wickham, Inslee Bogart and Gifford Hale earn notices for solo and oratorical work. Teachers Myrtle Wilson and others organized a morning breakfast social to mark the close of events.
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Opera House
Glenwood High School
Girls Glee Club
Florence Wickham
Inslee Bogart
Estella Carter
Carrie Durk
Alexander Hamilton
Alta Hale
Edith Dean
Ruth Whipple
Alta Goodell
Gifford Hale
Bryan
Virginia Johnson
Zada Ostrander
Elsa Taylor
Lena Well
Idwin Dean
Clifford Kelly
Myrtle Wilson
Louise Woodruff
Alice Ward
Nelle Bogart
Friends Church
Debs Backing Haywood for 1908 Socialist Ticket
Debs urges nominating William D. Haywood, a miners union official on trial in Boise City, for president on the Socialist ticket in 1908. He extols Haywood in a page article in the Appeal to Reason, the Socialist paper published at Girard, Kansas.
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Hugene
Debs
William D. Haywood
Miners Union
Boise City
Haywood
Appeal
Reason
Girard
Kan
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