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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1944
Page
6
EMAITCHESS reports biology posters created by students to promote health from a unit on The Control of Diseases and the Improvement of Health. Posters featured mottos about hygiene and disease prevention, designed to attract attention with bright construction paper.
Seven children attended the Library Club meeting on April 15 Ruth Joy Byington Janet Lea Martin Gordon Mul holland Marjorie Clark Harold Adams Jimmie Hansen and Ruth Davison. They read further in the story dplke of Bwitt River and helped Mrs Campbell unpack the new junior and senior encyclopedias. The junior class learned they would deliver class flags around May 12 after orders placed last September.
The junior class president announces the junior committee heads for the upcoming prom. Decoration chair Jean Clem with members Doris Weak George Pratt Wayne Maddocks Donald Freeman. Program Lola Knop with Lois Robinson Ernestine Nell Ioa Jewell Jackson. Dance programs and favors Louise Hedlund with Marjorie Frazier Dorothy Battesler Wilma Qrof. Invitation Carol Nagle with Grace Cardwell Betty Lou Bennett Velma Jean Stogdill Volney Smith. Food Flo Plumb chair with Wanda Leu DeWayne Huey Robert Hansen. Plans are under way for a nice prom for the senior class.
Snippets from class chatter swirl around thumb tack shortages and odd habits. Bernadine W knits, Lois R is puzzled by twins, Velma Bateman trips on a chair, Mary Swadsey remains unfazed, and Mary Jane’s mood is questioned. Sys Jackson Moo days and Sunday hangovers are whispered through the gossip chain.
The Student Council is sponsoring a dance on Friday night, April 21, to raise funds for the School Activity fund and to buy new athletic equipment for both boys and girls. There will be square and round dancing. Admission is 35 cents for high school and adults, 25 cents for grade children. Refreshments available in basement. Public invited.
The R I C met April 12 at the Ben Jackson home with Vice President Mrs Walter Hilton presiding. In the absence of the president Mrs Leonard Seeger, Mrs Laura Shepard led the program on first aid and home surfing, socialized medicine, a piano solo, and refreshments were served. Next meeting set for May 3 at Hillsdate church with Mrs Ed Gilbert as hostess.
Louise Rist Henderson of Henderson was mourned in a April 11 service at Raynor chapel with Rev George Tyner officiating. Casket bearers included Everet Butterfield W H Stout Fay Butterfield Ernest White Percy Rist and Bert McPherron. Interment followed in Tabor cemetery. Louises life spanned from May 26 1879 on a farm north of Tabor to marriage with Robert A Henderson in 1907 in Omaha. She had two children Martha Elisabeth and a son who died in infancy. Her husband died in October 1948 in Danville Illinois. Louise lived in Glenwood and Omaha later affiliated with St Georges Episcopal in Kansas City. She leaves a daughter Martha Elisabeth a sister Mrs A H Culver and other relatives.
Sunday entertainments at the Wolfe and Seeger households include Mr. and Mrs. Guy Wolfe and children, Mr. and Mrs. Carter Wolfe, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Wolfe, and others from Council Bluffs and Tabor. Illnesses such as Mrs. Wm. Fitzpatrick and notes on Miss Jeanne Seegey, a Des Moines cadet nurse, share a busy social scene with church paper drives yielding $22.57. Pvt Roy Beeger returns from gunnery school for a five day furlough. Leo Power from Iran visits relatives before training.
Imogene and Mrs Frank Dorsey joyfully report their sons Edward and Jack Dorsey, prisoners in Germany since February 17, 1943, have begun receiving letters via Red Cross. First letters home dated Christmas recount camp life near Berlin, camp 60 miles east of the city, Stalag 8 B. Edward 202817 and Jack 202818 describe health issues and morale boosts from home, plus mail and rations.
Mr and Mrs Delphas Bussard and family of Red Oak spent Sunday with his parents. Ed Powers and family visited over Sunday with her parents the Regans. Eileen and Agnes, employed in Shenandoah, were Sunday visitors. Willie Kammerer and family traveled to Conception Missouri to visit her parents the Jacksons. Mrs Jackson accompanied them home Monday night. Donald Schieber moved to the Woods property near the ladies club room. Pete Dempsey spent Monday in Omaha. Mary McGarrill returned from Dabagde to visit her sister, brother Cpl Lee McGargtti visited and returned to Amarillo. Howard Bishop of Contell Biatis and Lill en Bishop of Glenwood visited Hillyers. Lillian Bishop stayed through the week.
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