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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1939
Page
6
Henderson community reports Mrs. Arthur Allensworth and her Methodist Sunday school class sent papers and quarterlies to the Manila book room in the Philippines with thanks for the shipment and the material’s usefulness to their readers.
A September 22 1939 special election will be held at the Forester School District No 2 schoolhouse in Indian Creek Township Mill County Iowa. Polls open 1 PM close 3 PM to determine if the board may incur an indebtedness of 3100.00 for building furnishing equipment and site for a new schoolhouse and to issue bonds for the amount. Harold Smith President Board of Directors authorized by the board. Piramen at Alton portion appears garbled in the transcript.
Box Elder Earnest Turner traveled Friday to southern Missouri to visit relatives taking his mother and sister Mrs Liza Miller and two children who had been visiting for 10 days in the Turner home and with the Jess Turner family at Hastings. Mrs Will Rew visits family from New Jersey. Jack Carlyons Construction Co moved from the farm last Monday and is grading two miles of road north of Silver City. Glenn Bakcrritt lost a valuable mire last week. Ernest Turner and children spent Sunday in John Ayra’s home. Ed Bowers was taken to Edmundson hospital Friday for treatment. Mr Sowers has been in poor health for a year and broke his hip Saturday. Mrs Sowers also poorly. Vers Sellore works at the Sowers home. Mr and Mrs Halph Speck and two children of Dew Molaen vacationed Friday to Sunday at Prod McVay home. Speck family recently toured southern Missouri and noted prices lower than before. 400 pound bales welling for a low gain. The town of Iowa is not as bad a place as once thought.
Messy OCR reveals a fragmented account of Mrs Meswathyy and danghoy visiting Kangas City last week at the Joli Ayty line. Carpenters are described as busy and the ACD appears in a vague context with references to Wable fara ugar Treyaut.
The Rural Improvement club met at Mrs Leonard Mayberry home with 45 present. A key exhibit was a sampler made by Mrs Warren's aunt in 1826 showing alphabets numerals a verse and maker details. Members viewed quilts rugs pillows and linens and refreshments were served. Next meeting Aug 30 at Mrs Charles Davies with planned display of old glass.
The piece notes early armored ships used by China with ox hide protection to shield crews from arrows and stones. It credits an American naval officer with a Span ish war carnival mette as a pivotal Allied aid in World War I and highlights Captain Richard F. Leary and the U S S San Francisco for the first zigzag tactic that aided ships at Morro Castle and later helped British ships at Jutland.
Arthur Pett of Waterloo fell into the Wapalpin near Littleton and was rescued by Dan Gorman and Harold Spooner. Artificial respiration saved him after 10 minutes, and he recovered with no lasting injuries. Merle Adams of Gillett Grove faced a biting incident where he allegedly attacked after being struck, with witnesses corroborating the sequence of events.
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