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A BRIEF HISTORY OF MALVERNBY JOHN I. PADDOCKConllmiml from last week Part 4.Malvern grain and produce market quotations in Iho firm issue of the Ulmmiele: Wheal 75c, (lorn 35c, Oats 30c, Flour $3.00 per hundred,Bacon 20c, Lard 20c, But.tor 35, Eggs 15c, Potatoes 35c, Onions $1.25, Bush Beans $3.00, Salt. $3.00 barrel.The first, child horn in the village was a hoy baby at. the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hawkins, October ift, 1 870, and they gave him the plain name of John. Mis home is now in Omaha. •October 20, The Chronicle publishes this notice Rev. O. W. Coolev will hold religious service in the dining room of the Malvern Mouse tomorrow morning at 10:30, all are invited/’ When the name of the townwas changed, Mr. Cullors gave the new name to hotel as the Malvern House.; We sometimes get our Christmas presents a little bit ahead of time. An early Christinas gift of a boy baby was left at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Dunn in the south part of town on December 19th, just two months to a day younger than baby Hawkins. He has not wandered away, for any length of time, but a few miles from his place of birth, and is counted in the class of old settlers as Itobt. E. Dunn near Emerson.They are unloading a train load of Texas cattle from the cars to day, November 25th, that have been shipped in by the stockmen Murphy Me Coy to sell as feeders. It would be a novelty for the young people at the present time in town and from the farm to see them, wild eyed, untamed brutes, Bhowng their relief in getting out of the close confines of their prison pen of many hours duration. Tall and gaunt with wide spreading horns, two feet or more in length and breadth and the savage use they made of them in goring each other, must have suggested to stockmen and breeders the dehorning process and the breeding for hornless cattle.Strahan’s addition of the hill and hillside to the town in December, 1870,was attractive to those who intended soon to build permanent homes, andlots were selected on Douglas, Center, Chase and Boundary Streets for ■early use.I The lumber men were about the first to build homes in the new addition, Mr. Bryson at the top of the hill on the south side of Douglas Street, now a part of the homo of Dr. Hiett, and Mr. Rlngland housed his family in a nice home at the foot of the hill on north side of Douglas street, which is now a part of the Cottage Hotel.There have been a number of business men and helpers that have come in so quietly during the year that the news gatherer has failed to introduce them as they came. The census taken has not reported and we have no record of the wives and youngsters in the homes, of the helpers in the business houses, shops and yards, the men with the teams, with saw and plane, with shovel, ax and spade, all helping to make historv and the village life. Some of them will get in lino farther on. The three that observed Thanksgiving day, 1869, have some helpers now and we will call the roll: Abbott, Knisely Co. Hardware; Mrs. Adams and M. J. McBride. Millinery;A. H. Adams, Clerk; Bryson Van Doren. Lumber; H. E. Boeli-ner Son, General Store; M. E. Boehner, Carpenter; B. Barnett, Drayman; Dell Billings, Clerk; Brothers Roberts Physiciaiub; Wm. Bennett, Lunchroom; Brothers Gastineau Co., Drugs; H. A. Wm. Copeland,’ Publishers; J. J. Curtis, Hotel; Curtis Sweetzer, General Store; W. E. Cain, Rest.; Elias Carsuer, Carpenter; S. A. Campbell, clerk and student; H. A. Copeland, Atty.; Jas; Churchill, Restaurant; J. M. Cullers, Malvern House; M. O. Dowd, surveyor; Wm. Dunn, Clerk; Dauthort Gorton, Real Estate and Insurance; Clarence Denmark, clerk; Evans Bros., Grain Elevator; Gus Gerber, Station Agent; J. J. Haight, Mgr. Hdwe.; Ira Hoople, saloon; E. B. Knapp, Harness; Johnie Kincannon, Barber; J. W. Lawson, Furniture; Lilly Clinedinst, Plasterers; Lord Kyle, Painters; Wm. McCrary, General Store; Moninger Ringiand, Lumber; James S. Miller, Blacksmith; Byron Merslion, Clerk; Pat Murray, Stone Mason; D. Me Farlane, Dry Goods; Bert Nichols, Jeweler; J. D. C. II. Paddock, General Store; Julius Pettee, Barber; Emerson Robinson, Clerk; Henry Robinson, Clerk; J. N. Sheldon, General Store; J. B. Stetson, M. D.; H, Slon-aker, Lunch room; F. P. Spencer, Grocer; I. J. Swain Book keeper; Frank Tubbs, Teamster; Eli Vickery, Carpenter; H. H. Webster, Meat Market;Fred Zanders, Boots Shoes: Quite a respectable gathering in a year of time. •Everything was new and our interests were more in common. We had not been rubbing up against each oilier long enough to make any sor spots and as a people we came more intimately together in our soeia and religious life; in union socials, festivals, in fairs and parties for socia pleasure and for Sunday school and church benefits; in the Dickens Clul Literary Club, Amateur Concerts and the drama, for intellectual improve •meat and pleasure. The amusement critic of the Chronicle comments oi one production January 1st, 1871. “The drama of ‘Ten Nights in a Ba Room’ was given last Saturday evening in Bennett’s Hall. J. W. Lawsoi in the character of Slade was inimitable; Miss McBride as Miss Slade \va represented with modest dignity; Miss McKcever took the part of Mrs Morgan with great success; Miss Boehner as Mehitable Cartwiglit wa attractive in her role of unsophisticated simplicity; Mr. Knapp, as Jolt; Morgan could not be excelled; Mr. Gaston as Romanie, Dr, Stetson a Switcliell, Mr. Curtis as Green, Mr. Swain*as Frank Slade, Mr. Kyle a young Squire Hammond, all carried their part with great credit.”The birth place of the first baby girl was at the home of Mr. and Mrs J. W. Lawson and they gave the bright little one the name of Nettie Mai verna, (Malverna the feminine of Malvern) as an honor to the name o the place of her birtli.Good progress has been made as a village in the temporal affairs o business and home building, but for continued progress, educational am moral forces must also be built up and fostered; the School and. tin Church the true foundation of good society, loyal homes and stable gov •ernment, in the school that the right direction and training may be giver to the expanding mind and intellect of the young life for the best service there is in them as they grow to manhood and womanhood and take u* their part in the work of the world. Without moral restraint of the tendencies of the human heart and control of human passions soeietj would make no progress toward better living. Like the regulator on the st^am engine, the Church and its divine teachings regulate and control the tendencies toward evil and strengthen that which is good- So these great forces must be taken up that a solid foundation be laid for good citizenship. The village plat was in the limits of the Foxworthy school ♦district. To provide for those pupils who could not well go so far until we could be legally set off as an independent district, Mr. Marshall Angel •opened up a school in a little shack of a building standing on 4th Avenue .at the north public park. This was the first effective start of the public
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Malvern, Iowa, US
Thu, Mar 29, 1917
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