09 Oct 1908
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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1908
Page
1
Glenwood residents report a flurry of activity with farm loans and plumbing work, unsettled business deals, and visits from relatives and friends across Nebraska and beyond. Highlights include weddings, professional changes, church plans, and a new flour and feed store opening on the square.
Local notices describe morning and evening sermons at Glenwood churches with themes on consecrated motherhood and eternal punishment, plus Bible school times and youth meetings. Further entries mention a Congregational Church without a pastor, Methodist sermons on Examples to Others and Self Development, St Johns Episcopal services and Sunday school, and a report of a house turning over and theft of coins and a gold watch with no identified suspects.
The piece urges farmers to check local advertising columns before ordering by mail. It argues local merchants fight mail order by advertising and that readers should compare home and foreign ads while preferring local trade if they find what they need.
Classifieds for Oct 14 edition include tool sales band saws buck saws butcher saws licenses by E F Trisler, a German heater for sale via G A Knolle, a lost return tip ticket from Omaha to Pasadena, Cal, return to Fred Clingersmith, Foley's Honey and Tar cough remedy, genuine yellow package, J A Howe Glenwood Hardy Bulbs Ferns palms and winter blooming plants via Mrs Whipple, a 73 acre farm 14 miles south of Glenwood by J C Davidson Sr, Scott Public Sale Oct 15 at Scott farm eight miles SE Glenwood, unclaimed letters at Glenwood post office, and 25 cents for four Pacific Monthly issues. The Tribune promises Mille County news twice weekly.
Mrs A Seitz made two trips to Omaha with onions this week while J M James Belden Mosher and Harl Goodrich bought 70 acres of grass six miles south of Glenwood and are offering it for hay. J W Lohse and family visited F Covert at Council Bluffs Sunday. John Seitz sold onions in Omaha Wednesday. Silas Scott sought specialist care in Omaha for stomach trouble. Mrs Salem Curtis cut half of her right thumb with a kraut cutter. the wound heals. Rev Ferdinand Sietz and wife of Burr Oak visit their parents and friends this week. German neighbors attended church at Nansen Sunday. Anna Sietz travels from the Institution for vacation with old friends... A neighborless house entry occurred while C W Lohse’s family were away Sunday via door key.
Capt. P. Fowler of Glenwood has led several days of sales at the Weidman stock auction. Known for the gift of gab and fluent talk, he has achieved marked success and remains a veteran in his line.
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