Iowa Old Press

Mills County Tribune
Glenwood, Mills County, Iowa
October 9, 1916

GUINEA DAY AT BIG FESTIVAL

Special feature of the Fall Festival That Is Unique and Entertaining.

The amusement committee for the Fall Festival to be held October 11, 12, 13, 14, have decided to pull off a stunt that ought to interest many. They has purchased fifty guineas, and will attach a ticket to one leg of each, and the person capturing one of these fowls alive, and bringing it in, will be entitled to the amount of merchandise stated upon the ticket in the business place of the firm’s name upon the ticket. There will also be a special prize in cash attached to one guinea for the person bringing in the fowl. The fowls will be turned loose in Glenwood, either on Thursday or Friday. If weather conditions are anyway favorable, this will be a great week for Glenwood. While it is commendable to entertain strangers within your gates, still it is just as well to keeping mind our home people. Men, women, and children from all over the county will be here. They will come to note what the harvest has brought their neighbors. It ought to prove a splendid time to get acquainted and cement friendships. If there is a citizen in Glenwood, who has an acquaintance within twenty-five miles of this town, that acquaintance should be sent a personal invitation to come to the Fall Festival for a day and bring along, if he desires, samples of what the soil has done for him. Let every woman who comes with samples of her fancy work be made welcome. Glenwood, put your best foot foremost, for they are coming!

ED DELASHMUTT DIES AT HOSPITAL

Member of Well Known Pioneer Family Dies Week After Operation.

The unwelcome news came Saturday, that W.E. DeLashmutt had passed away at the Immanuel Hospital in Omaha. Mr. DeLashmutt had been taken to the hospital two weeks previous. After treatment some days, an operation was decided upon, and the same was made on Saturday, September 30. He rallied nicely from the effects, and face hope of recovery, but it was not to be, and he passed away as above stated. The body was brought to Genwood Sunday, and is at the W.C. DeLashmutt home. The funeral will be held tomorrow (Tuesday) at 2:30 o’clock from the DeLashmutt home. All of the brothers and sisters are now here. An obituary will be published in Thursday’s paper.

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