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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1908
Page
4
Postal schedule shows trains bound and east or west bound times for numbers 15 11 6 4 2 14 8 1. Mail service note: No. lb receives no mail. Lobby hours 7 00 am to 8 00 pm windows 7 30 am to 7 30 pm Sundays 9 30 to 10 am and 3 00 to 6 30 pm.
Fragmented ballot slate lists presidential and vice presidential picks William J Bryan and John W Kern. It names state and local tickets including governor US senator Porters Fred White, Keokuk and Audubon County seats, and county officials like auditor clerk and sheriff with several township designations.
Geo E Masters, Democratic candidate for County Superintendent, born in Mills County and devoted to public schools. He taught in rural schools at Heaton Station Evernham Mt. Vernon Goodfellow Maple Grove Peaceville. served as Rawson school principal at Corning Iowa for two years. taught grammar in Hastings. now in second year in Silver City. He is unmarried and asks voters to consider his candidacy.
Voters urged to back Bryan for President and Spencer for Congress to secure reforms. Emphasizes electing a pro reform Congress to advance popular Senate votes, tariff revision, and free admission of competing articles, opposing Republican Smith seen as obstructive.
The platform calls for deposits and strict bank inspections, physical valuation of railroads to set transport charges, economy in public spending, strict antimonopoly enforcement, protection against injunctive power, disclosure of campaign contributions, a broader income tax, liberal pensions for veterans and descendants, enforcement against land grafts, preservation of natural resources, and integrity as the core of civil service.
Henderson Sturgeon Bros are now snugly located in their new building. A large reception for Mr and Mrs Hollingsworth drew many locals Friday. The school building nears completion though occupancy awaits contractor settlement. Community updates include travels, visits, illness, and a lecture trip to Macedonia by local residents. Sturgeon Bros. offer a 20 cent saving plan starting October 24 with their Copyrighted Trade Check Department.
Miss Bessie Smith visited Massena over Sunday with old friends. Miss Dorothy Donner, a teacher near Glenwood, returned home for the weekend. Alva Donner traveled from Columbia Mo. for a visit with his daughter. Albert Baird arrived from Delta Colo. for a week's Malvern visit. he works at a Delta drug company. Henry Baird, his uncle, chairs the Republican county central committee. Ott Strahan received seven carloads of feeders from the South this week. Wallace Angus and Pat Kilmartin returned from a two month trip through the Northwest visiting Washington and Oregon.
Victoria reports and family news fill the column with names such as Henry Boyer and T G Markel enjoying new homes. A baby Mary Pearl dies in Decatur county. Koline Dye visits Macedonia. Harry Book of Omaha visits relative Mrs I J Humphrey. A land sale of Poland China swine on November 7. Rev WA Black preaches two sermons. Catholic parish begins erecting a brick priest residence under Frank Weatherhead. details of car delays and a Ramble car trip accompany the update.
Emerson Baptist ladies prepare election day meals at the church. Walter Clutes buys a new auto. Mrs George Cross visits her daughter in Hershey Nebraska. Mrs J H Mitchell returns from Illinois. Charles Abel greets friends from Glenwood. Miss Mamie Cheney visits Lewis relatives. V McDowell buys the old Oglevie property for 550 dollars. Henry Douglas plans to move to town after buying property from Wm Eaton, now occupied by Arthur McLain. Mrs R O Smithy remains seriously ill. Doctors Merritt, Riley, and Milroy consult. John Evans reports a bold attempted train hold up in British Columbia near Enderlin North Dakota. posse captures five bandits. Tra Alexander resigns Greenwood lumber yard post to farm. rents Sandiland farm northeast of Emerson. Ed Sherwin returns next spring, buys back his old home for 1500 dollars from Ira Alexander. John P McGill leaves for Hot Springs South Dakota for treatment at the soldiers sanitarium. Mrs McG visits daughters in Glenwood and Council Bluffs.
The Tribune notes readers can use its want columns to cheaply and easily list their wants. Each issue features multiple small ads offering a simple way to tell others what is needed and seek satisfaction.
A compact, period style item noting the French middle class focus on home and family, with caustic social quips about Britain, plus a light joke about Mrs Jinks and a toy scene, and an employment ad seeking a high school graduate over 19 for rapid advancement.
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