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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1908
Page
4
Henderson news items detail visits and travels of residents including John Bell in Kansas and Mrs Farnham organizing a music class in Henderson. Reports cover cattle sales, crop and bee yields, school activities, property trades, and local projects such as drainage ditches and new construction by T D Phillips and L W Triplett.
Emerson residents greet friends between trains and visit kin in Wisconsin, Kansas, and Illinois. Numerous extended visits and family affairs are noted, along with a new social club, a local meat market update, and recent stock shipments from Mills county to Chicago.
Mrs Sid Rew undergoes treatment in a Council Bluffs hospital. Omaha visitors include Mesdames L W Wuffaker Roy Lan don and J G McCue. Samson Howard and Grace depart for Dakota City for a week with relatives. A 10-pound girl born to Fred Cook and his wife. Grandfather Erastus Banister reacts with childlike delight. The ladies Kensington Baptist church Bazaar and evening entertainment will be held at the opera house on December 5. Sid Rew rents a farm near Randolph to move this winter after twenty years with Geo T Rew. Mr and Mrs WB Oake plan to leave for Washington in about two weeks.
The report mentions Mr Oaks seeking health benefits from a climate change with his wife and parents, Wil Burrows and John Prince buying tickets to return to England aboard the Adriatic around December 1. It notes a unique autumn entertainment for epi club ladies hosted by Mrs Lida Virtue and Miss Gertrude Lacock, with Mrs EA Stevens winning a turkey. It also covers the Ladies Kensington Baptist church sales, raising a dollar each through sewing, washing windows, baking, and cleaning, with sixteen members contributing.
Hastings community news lists residents visiting relatives and traveling to nearby towns, including Miss Flossie Christie visiting friends at Villisca and Mrs Deutzman in Omaha hospital. It notes local business changes such as a new elevator manager and county officials in town, with building plans and a modest but growing boom expected.
A woman holds three houses now, while B Hutchings returns from a western Nebraska trip with Genung and Winkler, visiting Winkler’s ranch near Brule. The Marion Kelso family near Hastings battles smallpox quarantined, with a 5 year old girl affected. Gorn husking time disrupts band practice. a teacher will be hired after harvest to form a music group. A telegram from Kirkwood, Illinois greets James F Martin on his grandson’s birth at Walter Oaks’s home, noting Mrs Oaks as former Mable Martin and recovering well.
Mineola ff and Kruse report a new platform built for scales at the local elevator. Cement walks finished in front of the opera house and Thantz pool hall. Postmaster Flammant patrolled near Papillion Nebraska last week. Albert Flammant visited from Coin to his parents and hunted ducks along the creek. Frauen Verein elects officers Mrs Kahler president Mrs Loof secretary Mrs Roented treasurer and two trustees.
Frank Anderson proprietor of Idlewild Herd Poland Chinas in Pacific Junction Iowa announces sale of his standout boar Black Diamond and several fine spring boars. Black Diamond, a top head of any herd, must be sold as he cannot remain with current stock. Anderson seeks to buy a herd boar in return.
A reader from Glenwood advertises Foley's Kidney Remedy noting Hexamethylenetetramine as a uric acid solvent and antiseptic for urine. The message urges taking the remedy at first signs of irregularities to avoid a ferocious malady and ends with a signature A. J. Howe. Tribune job work offered.
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