Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-28
GLENwooD KEEPS OPEN HOUSE.
Apple Jubilee One of the Greatest
ENcnts Mcstcrn Town ENer Snyy.

Apple Jubilee one of the Greatest
Events Western Iowa Ever saw.
The town Of Glenwood, twenty miles south
OF Council Bluffs on the Burlington road,
was dressed in gala attire yesterday. For
several weeks past arrangements have been
in progress for an apple jubilee, and the
plans eliminated in an affair which was a
surprise, almost as much to the Mills county
people as to the 500 or 600 visitors who were
attracted there from the neighboring cities
by the announcements circulated by w. ].
Davenport Of the Burlington road, and the
citizens who had the affair in charge. Among
the visitors were about 100 from Council
Bluffs, who left on the morning train at
1907, and returned in the evening.
The decorations in the town were magnifi-
cent, apples being the predominating feature.
Every store in the place was almost hidden
from view by the wealth Of different colored
fruits that were fastened to the fronts. There
were also many special designs, the most
striking being a huge map of Mills county,
with the townships divided and marked with
apples, a figure representing The Goddess of
Mills County, and a shaft four feet square
and fully thirty feet in height. all of apples.
On every street corner stood a barrel,
whose contents were as free to the visitors
as the air they breathed. Every train was
stopped long enough for the passengers to
fill their pockets with the shining fruit. The
schools were closed, as well as the banks
and most of the business houses, and every
one was made to feel a holiday spirit in
honor OF the magnificent fruit crop that is
about TO be garnered.
After dinner had been served at the various
stands that were set up by the different
churches and societies of the town a drive
through the orchard region was in order.
Every citizen Of Glenwood. and almost every
one in the county, had furnished his rig for
the occasion. There is probably not a county
in the United States where there Is so large
an acreage devoted exclusively to raising
apples, and as the long procession wendell its
way along many were the expressions OF
admiration. Not since 1891 has the county
seen such a fruit harvest. The one orchard
OF John Y. Stone, embracing between 500 and
800 acres, and containing 1876, 900 trees, was
in itself a sight to be remembered for a life
time, but there were others, and plenty of
them, which, If not so large, contained a
store Of fruit that will make their owners
rich for a season or two at least.
Said w. j. Davenport, after looking at the
sight that aroused so much enthusiasm in the
guests, to whom 1t was a revelation: Eff
teen or sixteen years ago | would not have
given Is cents an acre for any of this land.
| could not for the life of me see how It
would ever be worth anything. Great stumps
and logs covered as much Of the ground as
the Underbrush left vacant, and it was al
together as uninviting a place as you would
wish to see. Today not a stump or a log re-
mains, the underbrush and trees have all
been cleared out, and the whole territory is
devoted to fruit raising. The crop this year
is not a circumstance to what we shall have
in the future, for new trees are continually
being planted"
The intention is to make the fruit display
a regular thing every year. Next year the
citizens of Mills county will be able perhaps
to make SOM improvements in their facilities
for handling their guests, and the crowd will
undoubtedly be quadrupled.