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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1908
Page
4
A notice from Glenwood Iowa dated September 1908 announces a full county bank or land bill involving W. F. Trine. The item names local parties and references official rolling dates and proceedings within the county. Further details appear in the public notice column of the issue.
Mills County Iowa delegates elected June 2 1908 are ordered to reconvene at the Glenwood Court House at 11 a m September 19 1908 to elect delegates to the State Convention and nominate a candidate for Supreme Judge to fill the Bishop vacancy. It is suggested that District 1 and District 2 delegates nominate supervisors candidates. Will M Donelan chairman. The Tribune offers Mills County news twice weekly.
John Maynes returned from Lincoln after attending Bryan’s speech as Henderson residents observed a split display with Taft on larger homes and Bryan on smaller ones. School opened with the same staff including Prof M Essex. Maxwell school near Henderson started with Virginia Johnson in charge. Several locals report travel, land deals near Greeley and Nebraska visits, along with health and accident notes. Local business shifts include the Odd Fellows trading property with the Farmers bank building second floor prepared for the three link boys.
A West African ape species builds waterproof nests by overlapping branches and leaves above shelters. They suspend the nests from trees upside down to protect themselves during heavy storms.
On the Barraclaw riverfrontJake Alders faces a flood as a levee breach looms. Miss Josie Derr pressures a reluctant Jake to marry Mandy before the rising creek can erase time for a spring funeral. The parson counsels action while the couple and neighbors scramble to shelter livestock and prepare Mandy's funeral arrangements.
In a March flood, a parson and Jake Alders lift a rafted family from a sinking cabin while Miss Josie, with her children, stabilizes the scene and later becomes the new Mrs. Alders. The era of hardship shifts as the Barraclaw rises and new guardianship forms.
A humorous exchange between a milkman and a lady questions milk quality. The milkman quips that cows lack grass and cry because their milk is not credited, while the customer responds with cautious belief and a sly wish for the future.
In historic London the headsman carried the ax before prisoners during transport to and from trial. The edge pointed forward until verdict, then ominously toward the condemned.
A Brooklyn man’s five year old daughter, obsessed with dolls, meets a real baby. She surveys the infant with a critical eye, noting its head is loose. The anecdote, cited from Lippincott's, captures the child’s amused appraisal of a new family member.
A description of Jean Henri, famed tambour major to Napoleon, as the most remarkable drummer of all time. He played fifteen different toned drums simultaneously with a soft, harmonious effect, and moved rapidly between drums, amazing spectators with his precise motions.
Fragmentary timetable from The Tribune RR shows Arrivas and Leavas services between Malvern and Tabor with times at 9.00am 4.20pm 11.20am 6.00pm and 1.20pm 7.15pm 8.00am 3.00pm unclear due to OCR errors and missing dates or days.
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