The Opinion-Tribune from Glenwood, Iowa • Page 2

IOWA. Mny 21. C. FIELD, Editor. tl.88 A YtAH IK APVAltOt CITY AND COUNTY The Cemetery Apeoeintidir will ttipet r.t the hi of Mro.

Bnfeeos Tnes- tlny June 1st at 3 P. M. Street Commissioner Walling has been pulling in number of cropsings in vBiions purls of (he city a much uetded improvement. Following is the list of letters remaining uncalled for in the post office in Glenwood, for week ending May 27th, '97: jHiBte Woodxvorlb, M. Wadsworth(pkg).

'ILe i cf I be sidewalk and crossing of the city council to Glenwood citizens is having a salutary effect and t'idewKlks are bring repaired on all sides. Mr. ntd Mrs. W. F.

Cooper of Columbus, are the proud parents of a fine boy which arrived at their home lost Friday. Mrs. C. was formerly Miss Cora Laraway of this city. Mr.

I. N. Whittaker is having his lots on West Hill graded and terraced preparatory to building a residence soon. The location is a beautiful one and will make a most desirable place for a residence. The Salvation Atmy social held in the old Christian church in Glenwood Thursday niybt was a big success and good deal (f cash taken in as the result of the bustling of the good sisters of th.nt organization.

The home of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Smith was the scene of two tasty afternoon teas on Wednesday and Thursday of last week.

On Wednesday afternoon the elderly 1 adies were eutertained and Thursday the young ladies were looked after. A number of Dr. F. M. Powell's friends and neighbors dropped in on him Monday evening for the purpose of giving him a little surprise party the occasion being the fifteenth anniversary of his appointment as superintendent of the Institution.

A number of excellent speeches were made and a general good time was had. There were fourteen people from Western Iowa that went on the last excursion to the famous Snake River Valley Idaho. Among the number was A. Williams of Glenwood. R.

B. Mo- Milieu, the enterprising real estate agent of this city is local agent for this irrigated laud and the next excursion JurAher ticnlars call on or address local agent. The Glenwood public library so we are informed by the librarians Mrs. J. L.

Bellatti and Miss Kyle Wright will be open hereafter in the mornings instead of the afteinoons as has been the custom hitherto. The hours will be from 9 to 11:30 o'clock. The change was made necessary on account of the warm weather, it being cooler to work in the morning than afternoon. Patrons of the library will please bear this change of hours in mind. Among the other events that will occur during the Commencement week of the Glenwood High School the following are perhaps of the most importance: Sermon to the graduating class to be preached at request of the class at the Christian church by Rev.

F. Grim, Sunday evening May 30th; Alumni banquet at I. O. O. F.

Hall at 8 o'clock p. m. on Friday evening, June 4th; Field Day at Donelaii's Grove three miles southwest of Glenwood on Monday, June 7th. The graduating exercises of the class of '97 will be held at the Opera House Thursday evening, June 3rd. Supt.

J. F. Saylor will deliver an address entitled "The New Present." Mr. Saylor has won an enviable reputation as an ed- uoatcr, and all persons interested in education should hear him. Tickets on sale at Robinson's next week.

The members of the class are thirteen iu number if all pass the final examination. It is an unlucky number aud possibly some might fail to get through. The names of the class are as follows: Helen Moultou, Frances To wslee, Grace McDonough, Pearl Miller, May Kisby, Maggie Kisby, Maude Holleubacb, Elsa VanPelt, Phoebe Pitzer, Pearle Gillil- laud, Glen Wilkins, Beu Williams and Harry Tubbs, The "Holy City," which ia to be produced by the Glenwood Oratorio Society to-night (Thursday) will be given at the new Institution Chapel instead of the Opera House as was previously announced. This promises to be one of the the most tuecessfnl musical euter- tiiiiuaeutB ever giveu iu Gleuwood, its tLe best hoiae talent -U8 well ae outside talent is represented. The chorus, which is composed of thirty voices and w.Lich has been rehearsing for this ora- March, promises to do excellent work, as also do the solo singers.

Judging from the number of tickets already sold aud the interest being taken the entertainment will have the large patronage which it undoubtedly de serves, A large carryall will leave the post office at 7 o'clock, at 7:30 and 8:00 to carry passengers to the Institution ut 5 cents each, Return trips will be made at the close of the concert for the tame price. Corn planting pfnctteRlly cott- pletedin parts ot Mills connty laftt week. All persons interested in the tnent of the Liberty Cemeteay are requested to meet at the Cemetery for work Wednesday morning, June 2. Clerk Potter was notified by the asylum authorities last Friday that John Swaney a Mills connty patient had just escaped from Clarinda. Swnney formerly lived near Hen ton and was sent to the insane asylum some years ago.

As yet no cine to his whereabouts has been discovered. The apprehension which was felt in many quarters that considerable difficulty would be experienced in getting seed corn to grow has happily proved groundless. We only know of one field of corn in Mills connty that had to be replanted on account of poor seed. It has pra ctioally all grown except where the moles have gotten in their disastrous work. This however is not the fault of poor seed.

The town of Malvern is somewhat stirred up over the indictment of a gang of gnmblers who have infested that place for some time past. The indictment was returned by the grand jury Tuesday and Tuesday evening Sheriff Tubbs went down and arrested John Meeks and Wm. Tunisou and brought them up and placed them in the county jail where they are now languishing for lack of bail. The rest of the gang that were indicted had evidently sniffed danger in the air as they had skipped out before the grand jury met. In a recent interview with Mr.

L. C. Stevesson of Stratum that gentleman informed us that the moles in his vicinity were thicke this season than they were ever known to be before. The high waters of April had driven them out of the Botna valley to the np- lan and thty were creating frightful havoc in corn fields. He said they were a good deal thicker than the snakes had been in that locality about which so much has bean said.

Mr. Stevessou added that a good deal of corn in his neighborhood had to" be replanted on account of the ravages of the moles. In a recent interview with Mr. C. E.

Bruen of Emerson he tells us that he has been making some big money on the hay he has just shipped. He ped nine tons from Griswold and sixteen tons from Emerson within the past few days and every ton sold for $7 per ton on track. It cost Mr. Bruen $1 per ton to get his hay baled and $1 additional to get it to market and meet other incidental expenses. This would still leave him a clear profit of $5 per ton which is very satisfactory indeed considering the low prices" for produce which prevail at the present time.

Mr 'Bruen's hay is No. 1 Timothy aud it goes to Chattanooga, Tenn. The bootlegging industry iu Gleu- wood will receive something of a back- set we apprehend by the indictment and arrest of Lee Barkus. Like his historic namesako in Dickens, "Barkus is willin" it seems at all times and on all occasions for a consid eration, to minister not to the spiritual, but to the spiritous needs of his thirsty friends and acquasntances and it is this accommodating disposition of histhat has gotten him into trouble. It appears from evidence before the grand jury that a lot of young boys, among others Fred Clingersmith, Ed Doty and Jay Russell, bought beer at his place a circumstance which is particularly reprehensible.

Barkus was released 01, $600 bond which was sigued by 0. H. Jackson. He will probably be tried at the present term of court. "Slim Jim" the noted chimney sweep has been "doing" Glenwood the past ten days and as far as furnishing fun i for the rabble is concerned, he divided i the honors pretty evenly with the Sal! vation Army freak, the pseudoludian, mention of whom is made elsewhere.

"Jim" gave an exhibition on the streets of Glenwood last Saturday iu which he accomplished some really marvelous feats of strength. For instance he took solid iron rods an inch in diameter placed the middle of the rod in his teeth aud with his hands at each end positively bent the rod. He then had two men hold a hugh rock in position ou his breast, then had a third man strike the rock with a sledge hammer with all his strength but it didn't budge the doughty sweep. These and other exhibitions of his strength and fortitude that he has given are certainly astonishing. Quite a sensational affair occurred last week in Deer Creek township, the trouble arising from the expelling of a boy and girl, Hartsou and Lettie Driskell, from school in District No.

4. The girl is 16 aud the boy 14 and they are pretty lively children. Their mother Mrs. L. C.

Driskell, came to the school house and created au interesting scene before the school children, by giving the teacher apiece of her mind. Mrs. Driskell also brought a letter froYn he daughter Mildred who lives at home, and this letter contains five pages of decidedly caustic comment on what had been done. From all we can learn it seems that the action of the teacher was entirely justifiable. At least the board of directors thought so because after a careful investigation iuto the affair they unanimously sustained the teacher in the course of conduct she had pursued.

Bat things were pretty lively for awhile before the excitement subsided. Hit. too, fHiwef WAI tost Week appointed adfirtflliftrttor of the uttfeh tangled tip estate. Mr. Bfower can now pretty confidently eottnt OQ having a pionid for the next year or A.

B. Jtidson of Center township has just put another big lot of cattle on feed. They are apparently doing well. Mr. Hemab Hastings has just completed the erection of a substantial barn and wagon shed ou his farm northeast of Glenwood, which will set off his new home to excellent advantage.

There will be union temperance prayer meeting at the Baptist church on next Wednesday night, June 2nd, under the leadership of A. D. French. This is something new in the way of a prayer meeting aud should be largely attended. Mr.

aud Mrs. H. F. Cool of Hender sou left last Thursday for Boulder, where they will locate at least for the coming year and probably they will make their removal to that point permanent. This change was rendered necessary on account of Mrs.

Cool's health which has been very poor for some time pust. T. C. Jones, the proprietor of the "Brick Store" in Hastings, was one of the most persistent prophets of a return of prosperity restoration of confidence in the event of McKinley's election, but it don't seem to have worked that way with him. He was obliged one day last week to place a chattel mortgage on the entire contents of his store for $1,840.

i The mortgagee is a man named E. A. Peck. If the wave of predicted prosperity struck this vicinity, Jones wasn't one of the fellows who was caught in it. The grand jury went to a good deal ef unnecessary expense it occurs to us when it had a dozen people over from Malvern Tuesday to give expert testimony on the national game (draw poker) when they could have picked up a half dozen local experts here in Glenwood that know more in a minute about a full hand or a royal flush than those Mal- veru novices know in a month.

It is uufortuhate that the grand jurors had not been apprised of this fact and governed themselves accordingly. It would have been money in the pockets of Mills county's taxpayers. The indictment of G. C. Cross, S.

F. Noel, E. M. Shane and George Hall the four Hillsdale citizens charged with keeping and distributing intoxicating liquors contrary will come something in the "nature -surprise to these gentlemen. It may regarded as a signal triumph for friend Hitchcock who ''has established reputation for renovation and reform in Hillsdale during the short period of his administration as mayor, second only to that of the famous Mayor Pingree of Detroit.

Our friend Howard Is indeed a veritable Pingree on a somewhat smaller scale, aud right thinking people everywhere cannot but admire the backbone he has displayed though some might possibly be inclined to question his judgment. Bro. Hitchcock hasn't a particle of policy but he has lots of grit. In conversation a few days ago with Mr. J.

B. MoKown, the well known manager of J. D. Bobbins Go's Hastings elevator, he informed us that there was three cents difference on the market between the price of white and yellow corn, the former bringing three cents more than the latter. At one time Mr.

McEowu said there was as much as five oeuts difference iu the two colors of corn. There were a variety of reasons assigned for this difference iu price. Oue was the scarcity of corn iu the south where a great deal of corn bread is eaten, the white varieties being used for that purpose exclusively. Another and perhaps the principal reason Mr. McKown said, was the fact that flour manufacturers have taken to mixing white corn meal in with flour, the meal being so much cheaper than flour as to make such adulteration extremely pro fit able.

To so greo.t an extent is this practice carried that au entire ship load of flour just ready for was re jected by the inspector in New York harbor on account of its being too liberally mixed with meal. Nowhere in all the universe is there finer scenery than can be found in the vicinity of Gleuwood at this season of tha year. The forest embowered vales, the vine crowned hills and the fruit covered plains all combine to make a vista of beauty and a patorama of delight that cannot be equalled even in the imagination of the poet. a journalist we could find material here for a lay that would outclass the mighty Vergil's Bucolics. It is certainly region that is favored of the goda and were we a follower of the heathen Hypatia instead of the strait, orthodox Christian that we are.

we could almost imagine that Apollo aud Aphrodite who loved the beautiful even as they themselves were beautiful, occasionally come down from Olympus when the eyes of the mortals-are closed iu slumber and revel among the nocturnal suado.vs of Gen. Jno. Y. Stone's orchard or disport themselves iuthe sylvan shades of the Tinkle branch. But being as we have said, a Christian we must relegate such fanciful Pagan dreams to the limbo of the unthinkable and indulge iu soms- tbing more practical.

most fervenl Indeed were we a poet instead of 'One pout office fight in Mills oottnty DM been settled any way and that the one at pacific Junction: Mr. Prank Anderson last week received the appointment and as soon as the necessary preliminaries can be adjusted he will enter upon the perforrniuoe of bis duties. We dont believe that any better appointment could have been made than that ot Mr. Anderson or one that would have given such general satisfaction. He will make an excellent official.

Mr. Peter Olson the gen al and gentlemanly emissary of the postal service who retires has also made exemplary record and the patrons of the office will be sorry to see him go. The TRIBUNE hails with delight the announcement that our old friend Mar- I vin of the Shenandoah Sentinel has I been appointed postmaster of that city with a handsome salary attachment of 82,000 per year. There is nothing too grod for editors and it appears that the people are finding it out from the blessings that have been falling thick and fast recently upon the heads of our editorial brethren everywhere. If all the fleshpots of the present Egyptian administration were as worthily bestowed as in the case of Bro.

Marvin, we would say amen to all its proceedings with an emphasis that would discount a Methodist evangelist at a camp meeting. Mr. I. N. Whitaker, Glenwood's popular liverjman, was overwhelmed by a delegation of twelve charming young ladies who came np from Shenandoah last Sunday to visit him.

The secret of so many of these nice young ladies calling upon our friend Whitaker is not difficult to discover. They were the members of the Sunday school class which be taught iu the Christian church at Shenandoah and they conceived the happy notion of paying their old time teacher a visit. They came up to Malvern on the Wabash in the morning aud were met there by Whitaker with his carry-all and taken to Glenwood and then were taken back to Malvern in the evening in time for them to catch the evening train for Sueuandoah. Mr. S.

W. Creech of Rawles township will probably take the honors for the best hogs marketed in Mills county this season. He sold two -car loads to Butcher Howe of Glenwood who shipped them to Ottumwa last Friday and got a fancy price for them. They went to Merrill's big packing house in that ity. The Ottumwa Press of Saturday has the following complimetary mention of Mr.

Creech's hogs: "Onenotice- able feature yesterday morning which speaks wgjl market was the appearance of two oar Ioa3l some ot the beat received by the companyi They were from Glenwood, away across the line of Omaha district and were shipped by J. H. Howe. These hogs were all prime, their hair looking as though it had been combed, they were of equal size practically and as fat as could be wished for. Ottumwa got these hogs instead of Omaha, but this matter of taking hogs from another market's district is getting to be quite the style here." Miss May London of Waubonsie, it appears from testimony before the grand jury, is one of that large number of confiding females whose affections are more easily appealed to than their judgment.

The cause of May's downfall is a young man named Frank Study au account of whose arrest has previously been given. After investigating the case pretty thoroughly the grand jury returned au indictment against Study for seduction instead of lewdness which was the offense previously charged and he is now languishing in the county jail iu default of the requisite bail. The unfortunate victim of Frank's fickleness aud guile will now have ample time, and occasion as well, to ponder over the truth of the following lines from Bryant "Maidens give their love too oft To the careless wooer, Maidens' hearts are always soft Would that men's were truer!" the above was put in print the case has been compromised by Study marrying the girl aud thus everything has ended happily for all parties concerned. A succession of irresistibly comical occurrences took place on the public square iu Gleuwood last Friday evening. In one corner "Young Mau Who Wants the Squaws To Admire Him" had congregated with his crowd of Salvation Army enthusiasts and in another corner "Slim Jim" the chimney sweep was haranguing a gang of curiosity seeking loungers and announcing the meeting which he proposed having Saturday afternoon.

In still another corner, a company of sports were having a free for all horse race much to their own amusement as well as to the edification of a lot of loafers attracted thither by the prospect of a little diversion tha would be out of the ordinary. Just about the time all of these various circuses got under full headway, a horse broke loose aud started to run away, occasioning not a little excitement and alarm aud as a fitting round up for the general pandemonium that now existed, a pack of about sixteen yelping, howling canines started ou a gallop down the middle of the street causing terror to the teams tied arouud and no little apprehension on the part of the email boys and women who thought they were mad dogs. Taken all together it was better tha a variety show as long as the various entertainments lasted. Mr. f.

ginw I property in and will tnote bock upon bin farm in Anderson township abotifffnty Isr, A. crowd nf fotir Malviirti boyti were over Tnoriday to have niflo, little visit with the iffand jury. all boys were of will not' i (five their will ndvioo to wnlk the utruight, arid iinrrow path of rectitude hereafter ah 1 Riioh Mr. C. E.

Brueti of Emerson has laid in'afcupply'ffpffltf purchased lust Friday in averaged about, 9oO pounds apiece aiiil cost him 8125 per hundred at the yards. They cost about 40 per hundml delivered in Emerpon. They are two and three year olds. Clerk Potter's marrjaae mill started up ag.iin and the result is four licenses have boeii ground out. We I subjoin the lint of couples made happy I with oiie fxccption.

license we! withhold by special request from being I made public. The others are as Andrew Swnrens 25. Nettie Long 22; I Geo. S. MoMillenSl, Rose Howe 80; F.

J. Laoey 26, Sarulj Kisterson 20. I The Green Bay Lumber Company like some gigantic octopus is swallow- ing up all the lumber yards ia this to- i cality. The latest victim of this greedy and avaricious monster is the Burnes Taylor lumber yard in Malvern which i wi bought by the corporation in question last Friday. The Green Bay peo- pie pay' $3.000 for the real estate and) then invoice the lumber at its actual value and pay whatever it foots up to.

The yard entire sold for about $9,000 that being what the realestate and stock of lumber on hands figured up to in the invoice. The former owners give possesssou at once. Mills county's hustling Suudayschool missionar T. D. Thomas, has gotten his work again.

Two Sunday schools were organized by him last Sunday one at the Big Mud school bouse 6 miles northwest of Hastings with Mrs. J. B. Adams superintendent, Mrs. Wm.

Moraine assistant and Miss Daisy Granteer "Secretary. An attendance of 51 is promised. The other one was at the Sandiland school house four miles northeast of Hastings with Mrs. David Sandiland as superintendent and Miss Ella Fisher secretary aud treasurer. An attendance 45 is promised.

It will meet at 3 P. M. while the schol at the Big Mud will meet at 10 A. M. Mr.

James Jones was circulating a petition in Malvern last Saturday in favor of A. W. Pease the Malvern, 19 recently bounced from the employ oi" 'pn' of his alleged connection with the recent woman scrape which was investigated by the grand jury. Mr. Jones was inclined to believe if the scriptural injunction was obeyed and nobody would throw stones except those without sin, there would be precious few stones thrown.

He had secured the signatures ot quite a number of prominent people and was desirous of getting enough names to send in to the railroad company to induce the management to restore Pease to his former position as' operator. Just what success Mr. Jones will meet remains to be seen. There was a world of fun in the court room when "Dr." S. F.

Hunter of Pacific Junction was put ou the witness stand in the Shields damage suit yesterday. The "Doctor" was being cross examined by Lawyer McCabe from Council Bluffs in regard to the circulation of the blood. Among other remarkable statements which the "Doctor" made was one to the effect that the "vital fluid," meaning no doubt the blood, '-was forced by the heart down into the feet and then it was sucked up again by the lungs." The "Doctor" got pretty badly tangled up iu his testimony throughout and it become'painfully apparent before MoOabe got through asking questions that the quondam physician didn't know any more about the circulation of the blood than he did did about the money question when he was spouting arouud last fall making republioau speeches in the interest of "honest money" and the "maintenance of the nation's honor." Mr. Geo. H.

Pettinger our honored guest from Manchester, England, whose presence in our midst has been previously noted is receiving some very curious impressions from observing sundry manners, customs aud practices of the American people. He attended court one day last week during the tnal of the old Bethlehem curio, Asa Howard and when on inquiry he found it was a criminal case on trial, he naturally wanted to see the criminal. Asa was I mixed up pretty promiscuously with his lawyers Messrs. Starbuok and Gering and County Attorney Gillillaud, consequently the gentleman who was with Mr. Pettiuger had considerable difficulty in making the latter understand who was Asa and who were the attorneys.

Our English friend was astounded, aud disgusted as well. "Why" said he, is no dignity about your courts at all. A person isn't able to tell the difference between the criminals aud the lawyers!" Mr. Pettiuger's point can be better appreciated wb.au we explain that iu England judges aud attorneys are attired in regulation gown and wig and in that way if in no other, they are easily distinguishable from ike malefactor ou trial. to Omdbx foe 8100.

Mfn. Nrtrft $75 and the mttttpf has tmwi Nora after calm better of tho tu Supreme Conft. AfrP. Hiirri-t E. MilN ronntv readmit bill Who in Lincoln for uome yertMjitrtt, Sunday from the effects of pnrts of Mills county who Will be deatl: Practically the whole force of thB emplou-i'p at Piit'ifio WHS in Glenwood and day the retabfiitpd' if in ft suit of Shields vs the C.

B. Among others we noticed Station Dykes, Raggagu Waiter pot Policeman Ballanl, YaHm Young, Clerk Swan, MHSSM. Zi Hewetti and several ire. about the only man left wan Freight Clerk McCartney who In I to the depot all by himself. Asa Howard the antique old Batllle- liemite received sentence on Monday iifternoou.

Tne judgment of the court was that Aea should pay tine of $75 ot goto jail for 22 duya. Oi'. course the Judge couldn't make Asa syllable of the sentence so-he'commissioned the old gentleman's l.iwjer Attorney, Stm-buck to "communicate it to) Mr. Starbuck took the old- fell.nvl our- side aud attempted to tell 'him whjat the decision of the court had been. By dint of a good deal ol! energetic bellowing, Mr.

Starbuck made his client understand three words, "jail," "fine" and "75." "I won't pay atiy fine" Ana protested, "I'll go to jail." Aud go he When he arrived at the bastile anJ tha- jailer asked him how long he was in for the old gentleman wailed out inimitable mouotoue, "Mr. Starbuofcaaid I was iu for 75 days!" Aud so yet. The citizens of Hastings are in a furon, i over north isze, Vae" come resent of excitement at the present ti proposed change in the highwa of town. It proposed tocha road from its present location it in another direction having' into town at a point west of its entrance. But the proposed change does not seem to meet with the approbation of the majority of the people.

On the contrary they are protesting very vigorously and petitions are now being 1 industriously circulated and q'iite gefi- erally signed to have the road where it is. is a bad tStEeif be repaired or replace). opinion of rnrftliy, this would expense that woiikj.be triflingo with what it would 7ake'td' the new road available. The matter will probably come up for adjustment when the Board of Supervisors meet in June. Mrs.

Judge Williams met wituj what might have been'a very serious accident yesterday morning but which luokily turned out much better thani one would imagine possible. She wasTiriv- ing a single horse near the 0. F. Guyer homestead when suddenly the became frightened and started; to run. Mrs.

Williams exerted all her strength to hold the runaway but in The animal dashed on and finally run fyto a barbed wire fence throwing Mrs. Williams out into the fence. The horse at this point broke loose from the vphiole, stripped itself of its harness, and. continued its way toward home until it was captured near Wayne Ohoate's place Mrs. Williams had almost a miraouloq escape.

It was found on examinat that the only injury she had su was a out over the eye which was not all dangerous. The buggy up somewhat however and tb was a complete wreck. "Young Man Who Wants to Admire Him" is the euphonious as well as suggests tion belonging to the pretend' breed Indian who has been pran and down tho streets of Glenw the past week tricked out in fantastic toggery supposed to pe the wearing apparel of the most fi ably dressed and up to date Co brave. "Young Man, Who Wan is connected with the Salvation contingent that invaded Gli some weeks ago and is out even furnishing no end of fun for th boys'as well as providing divertisement for persons of years by cutting up didoes an iug a spectacle of himself genet the meetings and elsewhere. endeavors to make his fantastic 1 auce a drawing card but as tt have been able to discover it has ed nobody but the rabble, Pe good sound sense are sorely di to see such mummery and associated with the cause of This fellow may really have a two of Indian blood iu his vein? is difficult to believe it.

For of Massasoit, Uncas, Tecumse! Hawk, Red Cloud and a fe tolerably decent Indians wh lived in tradition or history, he hasn't. To say that he l' part or parcel either by asspci inheritance with the "noble red an affront which we sure worthies we have just raeatiour they alive, would resent. va 6.