Iowa Old Press

Mills County Tribune
Glenwood, Mills County, Iowa
August 28, 1916

ITEMS PICKED UP HERE AND THERE

Brief Bits of News Clipped from the Numerous Exchanges Received by The Tribune.

Miss Louisa Carr of Shenandoah had her leg amputated at the hospital in that city last week. She had been suffering from sarcoma of the left leg, and had not responded to treatment. It was found that amputation of the limb was the only hope to save her life.

Relatives at Denison received a telegram on last Monday announcing the death of Miss Vera Poole at Toledo by an auto accident. Her father was the Northwestern engineer between Denison and Wall Lake for many years. Miss Poole was graduated from the Denison High School last June, and was one of the ablest and most promising of her class.

KICKED BY HORSE-DEATH RESULTS

Prominent Farmer Northwest of Macedonia Dies in Few Minutes After Injury.

Thomas Donnely, living 4 ½ miles northwest of Macedonia, on last Thursday afternoon about 5 o’clock, while unhitching his team, was kicked by one of the animals, and from its effects died in a few minutes. Mr. Donnely was kicked on his head and his skull crushed. The team was not a fractious one, but got frightened in some manner, when Mr. Donnely went behind one of them to unloose a tug. He was about 55 years old, and leaves a wife and children. He was a pioneer of his community and owned a farm.

ATTEND FUNERAL

Mr. and Mrs. C.H. Record and Mrs. F.M. Shriver of Glenwood went to Fremont, Neb., today to attend the funeral of Mrs. W.E. Hilllker, who was killed in an auto accident Saturday while enroute to her home at Grand Island, after a visit in Council Bluffs. They were joined at Pacific Junction by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Anderson. Mr. and Mrs. Hilliker were well known in western Mills County. Ed Hilliker, as he was called, was one of the prominent horse buyers of the west, and at the time of his wife’s death was in South Dakota buying horses. He was employed by the French government as inspector of the horses bought by it for shipment to France. The Hilllikers lived in Council Bluffs fifteen years ago, moving to Fremont, Neb., then, three weeks ago they moved into a new home at Grand Island.

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