21 lb. pickerel caught in Lake Pelican

From the Pope County Tribune, Thursday, January 31, 1924.

A 21 pound pickerel was caught in Lake Pelican by Dick Southward this week. The fish was on display in the Daylight Meat Market.

Sunday, January 27, Gene Callaghan, Glenwood’s best known and most popular citizen reached his 70th years’ milestone. Seventy years is nothing to Gene, who is still as spry as an 18-year-old lad. Even though Gene lost a leg, so far back that he can’t remember that he ever had more than one, and he has been on the operating table enough times to kill an army, Gene is still as spry as ever. Gene is good for another hundred years at least. A number of friends, including members of the Woodmen lodge, of which he has been a member, called and presented him with an Angel Food cake and their sincere congratulations.

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From the Starbuck Times, Friday, February 1, 1924. 

An accident that might easily have ended disastrously happened Tuesday noon when friction started a fire in the New Prairie Elevator on a belt pulley in the cleaning mill. The presence of mind of the owner, Gust Engebretson, and his speedy action in extinguishing the flames undoubtedly averted a serious fire.

Alma Roll and Clayton Kirkwold and Gustav Kirkwold called at Johnnie Lee’s Sunday, where they listened to Clayton’s radio.

Martin Rorvig and L.L. Hanse are the victims involved in a little collision which took place near the corner by the St. Petri Church last Tuesday. Mr. Rorvig came driving from the north and was watching one of the ice haulers and did not see Mr. Hanse’s dray wagon until it was too late to stop. When they struck. Mr. Hanse was knocked over and the rear axle of his dray wagon cracked. Mr. Rorvig bent the axle on his Ford and received a little jarring. We must surely say the Ford must be an extra good one if it can hit a dray wagon and come out of it with as little damage as this one did. Our conclusion is, “Buy a Ford.”