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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1903
Page
1
Reports from Glenwood describe a damaging storm near Keg Creek with flooding over tracks and depot areas. Local notables, repairs, and social notes include births, weddings, and the town’s push to straighten waterways, plus a real estate sale of Ora Clark’s farm and multiple property plans.
Rev St Clair of Des Moines visits with son Dr St Clair. Edith Maley of Malvern visits Miss Alice Dull. John Flanagan of Ingraham town ship makes county seat call. Mary Boeckman of Vinton visits sister Bert French. Frank Bromley and family in Tabor at Walling home. Olive Cooper leaves for Horton Kan after two weeks with Rostige Hanks. Harry Sale arrives from Chicago visiting sister L W Frissell. Bertha Lloyd of Athol Kan visits CAPER home. L D Brainerd leaves for Davenport for Episcopal convention. Jay Hughes leaves for Pender Neb then Shelly Idaho. J M Anthony of Center township returns from Des Moines where he served on federal petit jury. J T Musselman leaves for Council Bluffs then Motherville to visit mother and brother. sister of Alfred Davis. Mase Nichols and wife Dwight visit Andrew Schappel. Nichols now in Ottumwa manufacturing patents. John McKinley from Chicago joins wife and son visiting Potter. return to Chicago for Marshal Mield accounting job. Thorne Richards returns to Glenwood after six weeks in Council Bluffs running a soda fountain in a drugstore. Backward season limits fountain help. A T L Cuudle returns from northern Iowa where he sold insurance. his wife expected back. Friends plan building on west town lots. Will Walling, Ox Hanks, Davies, and Alice Lavan enjoy Haynie’s slaugh day. fishing slim due to closed slough. Severe storms trigger school year cut, teachers depart. engine house wreck, steam cooking, water and power cuts. Pine Wheat Screenings for Chickens noted at Duttington’s feed store.
Glenwood prepares for commencement at the opera house with Dr. Dan F F Bradley slated to speak on The Sacredness of Life. A large class of 21 graduates will be honored, with future plans listed for each student and music by local girls and boys.
Details of the death by fire of Rev Henry Storey of Glenwood who had lived in Richmond with his wife and adopted daughter Laura. Mrs Storey and Laura escaped badly burned, while Storey failed to reach the door and perished. He had recently moved from Glenwood and was soon to lead a church in Armada Michigan.
Fred W. Kelley and Miss Nelle E. Wilkins married at the First M. E. Church with Dr. Smith officiating after a short trip to Omaha. Fred is a Jamison store clerk and Nelle resigns to begin housekeeping. The Glenwood adjourned circuit term was postponed a week and will open in June with jurors and Athenians governing themselves.
Dor Lillian Nuckolls GHice on Vine Street thirteen blocks north of the square lists diseases of women and children only with contact phones.
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