Summer hotel guests boast about Glenwood

From the Pope County Tribune, Thursday, Aug. 2, 1923.

When the “Dinky” left Glenwood for Lowry last Saturday, the train crew discovered a body lying on the track between the rails. The train was stopped and the crew found the body of a young man about 25 years of age on the track. Two limbs were severed from the body and his head was badly crushed. 

Coroner Berry went out at once and viewed the remains. It was evident that he had fallen off the freight train onto which he had been seen to go at Glenwood Monday. 

No clues were found on the body which could give information as to who the stranger was. He had on a brown suit of clothes and carried an overcoat. 

The body was held until Tuesday, when it was buried in the Glenwood Cemetery in a nameless grave. 

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From the Glenwood Herald, Thursday, Aug. 2, 1923. 

At the last meeting of the Kiwanis club at noon last Friday, Rev. Moe, a member of the Kiwanis club of Logan Square, Chicago, talked to the members. A large number of guests of the local summer hotels were present also and were called on. 

These summer hotel guests spoke on Glenwood and its summer possibilities. They stated that Glenwood was a very beautiful place, that the hotels here were the best ever, that Mr. and Mrs. Peters and Mr. and Mrs. Thoreson were ideal hosts, none better anywhere, that the lake and the lakeshore, the bathing beach and the water was the best in the state and that they were coming back year after year. They told us that the only thing the matter with Glenwood was that it was not sufficiently advertised. They stated that if Glenwood and its advantages were more advertised, we would have so many summer visitors here that we could not take care of them all. 

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From the Starbuck Times, Friday, Aug. 3, 1923. 

The Glenwood Circuit Young Peoples’ Convention was held in Starbuck last Saturday and Sunday and drew a large number of people from all parts of the district. At the concert in the big tent on Sunday afternoon, there were more than 2,000 people present. About 160 singers were part of the chorus.