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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1908
Page
3
An old style catalog advertisement from I J Humphrey Hardware touts a growing stock and new items like a Japanese Fireless Cooker and improved cream separator. It invites customers to learn about Lauer stoves, Red Seal coal oil and free coupons for china ware and Sanitos cooking utensils, plus dipping tanks loaned with bulk purchases.
The Mills County Teachers Institute meets in Glenwood with Superintendent Moore in charge for a one week session focusing on lectures and inspiration rather than exams. Instructors cover grammar, pedagogy, history, arithmetic, geography, writing, drawing, music, didactics, and primary work with a large enrollment from Malvern Glenwood Silver City Emerson Hastings Tabor Pacific Junction and several other towns. Evening lectures and a spelling match are planned with prizes, and study suggestions include Hunt's Progressive Speller pages 80 85 84 100 110 112 127 194 140 to end.
Three Albia women paid 83 each for corsets after a traveling seller claimed to fit them to the person. They believed they got a big bargain, and one woman ordered a custom fit. Later an Albia dry goods store revealed the seller had not fulfilled the arrangement.
A terse tip from Home Companion notes sharp scissors quickly slice a small glass bottle neck or an on ground plans stopper. The edge is steadied and cuts like new with the rapid, precise strike.
J D Hamaker of the First National Bank fished the Nishnabotna river with others and caught several large fish. He returned with a 23 pound yellow catfish, reportedly surpassing the others in the group.
Geo H White is in Des Moines this week showing his herd of shorthorns. He has won thirteen premiums at the State Fair including six seconds one third three fourths and three fifths. He won in every class at Shenandoah and Creston fairs before Des Moines. He will show next week at the Nebraska State Fair and the following week at Sioux City. Mill County is proud to be represented by him.
Mills County corn growers dominated southern section prizes at the state fair. Nims and Shaw earned 2nd on a single yellow ear and 6th on ten ears yellow. Covner won 1st on ten ears yellow and 2nd in sweepstakes. Cooiner took 3rd on ten ears yellow. Hilton brothers claimed multiple top awards including 1st on white ten ears, 1st in sweepstakes, 2nd in grand championship, and 5th on a single ear, with Frank Hilton placing 4th on ten ears white and 3rd on a single ear.
Mrs. Josie Snodgrass of Emerson surprised friends by marrying Henry McCoy last Monday August 12 in Seward Nebraska. McCoy, a prominent Ulis ses Nebr. grocery and meat businessman, will be her husband and the couple will reside in Seward. Mrs. McCoy is packing to move.
Record of instruments filed Aug 15 to Aug 22 1908 in Mills County Iowa via Mills County Abstract Co. Transactions include Anenet 17 JR Maynes to DL & OF Farrington for Lot 5 Block 12 Henderson at 1500 dollars. EJ Jones et al to M J Wilson. Jones family transfers in section 6-72-41. multiple deeds among EJ Jones, A S Jones, Wm TS Jones, and WTS Jones affecting sections 8-72-41 and adjacent blocks. HE Richards to Wr & Sadie Richards transferring set of owt pec 3-13-43 worth about 2000 dollars.
A Victorian note recalls a lord famed for spoiling a story by repetition. Two large houses at Albert Gate London drew the joke Malta and Gibraltar for never being taken. The tale spreads as a witty cruelty of speech and a riddle about the ark and the elephant.
John Worth Kern was formally notified of his nomination by the Denver convention and accepted before about 15,000 at the Indianapolis Coliseum. Theodore F. Bell announced the informing committee. William Jennings Bryan attended and spoke at length on trusts as Kern defended people rule and warned of Republican power opposing popular will.
Rev Albert H Trick a former Presbyterian pastor in Chicago and later of Saratoga New York killed himself in a New York hotel after denouncing the church as untruthful and insincere and attacking what he called America’s trinity success pleasure and gold. He had previously preached in Chicago and Saratoga.
Reports from the Lake Erie grape belt indicate this year's harvest will be unusually large and high quality. Early gathering, good prices promised, with several contracts already closed at $30 a ton. Miser murdered and robbed. John Pyle found dead in cabin near Craig Ma with a bullet hole. Pyle hid money. robbery suspected. Bank cashier missing. Funda Gashrey Alston of Stev enson Bravenson Ala vanished and is alleged to be short $24,000.
A judge in Blejra County Court ruled that Pennsylvania's pure food law is unconstitutional. Judge Martin Bell delivered the decision, detailing why the statute violated constitutional provisions and affecting state regulatory authority. The ruling raises questions about enforcement and future legislative revisions.
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