Northern Pacific Depot robbed

From the Pope County Tribune, Thursday, Aug. 3, 1922.

Methodist Church Dedicated. On August 15, 1921, Mr. E. H. Dahl was given a contract for the construction of a new Methodist church in Glenwood, and on September 11th, the corner-stone of the new building was laid. Although it was not in a completed condition, services were held in the church for the first time on Sunday, December 11th. Since that time the members, and friends have anxiously looked forward to the day when the church would be dedicated to the service of Almighty God, and their long cherished hope was realized last Sunday, July 30th, 1922.

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From the Glenwood Herald, Thursday, Aug. 3, 1922.

Northern Pacific Depot is robbed. The safe in the N. P. Depot in Glenwood was robbed last Sunday morning. About ten dollars is all they got. No clue has been found as to who the men are as it was twelve hours afterwards before it was discovered that something was wrong.

The door of the safe was torn off and a large piece of the door was sent by the explosion into the partition that separates the office from the waiting room and is imbedded in it.

The people living near there heard two dull thuds at about two o’clock in the morning, but did not realize that anything was doing and so did not spread the alarm. The men had entered the back window and gone out again thru the front door. They evidently knew that there would be no one there during Sunday.

The block containing the change from the cash drawer was taken. A cigar box containing about $40 of Western Union money was not touched. The blast had torn off then end of the cigar box, but they evidently did not realize that there was money in the box. The inner chamber of the safe contained $150, but this was not opened.

A crowed estimated at nearly three thousand gathered at Immanuel Church in Walden, Rev. Forde’s charge, last Sunday to witness and take part in the dedication of the splendid new church edifice and to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the organization of the congregation.

The golf grounds are being used considerable now. Many of the summer resorters are using it especially in the morning. In the afternoon and evening it is being used more by the city people. Quite a number of the business men are getting the bee and the golf fans are on the increase.  

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From the Starbuck Times, Friday, Aug. 4, 1922. 

Mr. Anton Ness, Manager of the Starbuck Lumber Company, is having coal trouble right in the middle of the hot summer. In one of the letters received by him this week his company tells him the following: “There is absolutely no use of your sending in orders for hard coal. There is not a pound of hard coal left on the docks that is not covered by orders. Some of this coal is being shipped out but it is coal that was ordered a long time ago. We cannot place any orders now and do not expect to be able to place any much before October 1, and will not be surprised if we do not get any hard coal at all.”

Mr. Ness is urging his customers to lay in a supply of soft coal for the furnaces as they can easily substitute it for hard coal. He says some who could easily do this now will be greatly disappointed later when they find both soft and hard short.

A number of business men of the village have expressed their opinion that the streel lights should be burned all night as a protection against robberies and other forms of lawlessness. The cost of burning the lights all night would not amount to a great deal on the tax payers and would do a great deal to afford protection against lawlessness.