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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1936
Page
2
Local news from Malvern lists scattered social visits, family trips, medical notes, and community updates. Residents like Miss Evelyn Callins and Miss Miriam Calkins are mentioned with travel plans, while illnesses including diphtheria and tonsil surgery affect families such as the Blanfield and Wolfe households. The item records relatives visiting Omaha and Hastings, plus small-town activities at homes, churches, and local events.
A crowded week at Oaks Sunday School includes visits from Jewell Mahan Velma Mahan and many families to Malvern and nearby farms. Guests at the Bertha Nims home and the Will Rathy Teame with Velma, plus a shower for Mr and Mrs Robert Hicks, mark a social stretch as townsfolk share meals, gifts, and greetings amid a busy period of hosting and traveling.
A traveling museum car stops at Bayliss Park in Council Bluffs as part of a nationwide educational tour. The car carries Lincoln relics, stamps, world exhibits, and a flea display from Mexico, with international pieces from China, Japan, Australia, Africa, and the Philippines. The driver is identified as Dp AbSord of the government displays, and the program aims to visit U.S. schools over about six years, urging children to view the educational car during its stay.
A fragmented note lists optometry related terms and several scattered names including Wey and Rubindon. The text is incomplete with missing context and unclear connections between the people and the field.
Jeannette Luther is set to sing at a 4-H initiation during the Kiwa Stan Fair in Des Moines. The event gathers about 447 girls from Malls County and honors Mrs. T. EK. Meredith as a States 4-H member. A garden party at Meredith’s Des Moines home is planned for Sunday after the initiation.
The Rural Young People's association of Mills county gathered at Dorothy Pein's Gleniwond home for the August meeting with attendance reported at 1 percent. Early in the evening, Dorothy and Tadle Mintle led folk games, then attendees discussed the organization and reasons for its decline in later years. Refreshments including ice cream, cake and sandwiches were served by Dorothy Mintle, the hostess and reporter.
Farmers consider sowing rye in August for fall and spring pasture. Iowa State experts note rye types like spring rye. planting can extend from August to December. Wentz of Sta College advises pasture can be grazed about four weeks after sprouts appear if moisture is adequate.
Nebraska experts report silage from drought damaged cornstalks yields about 73 percent of normal corn silage and roughly 25 percent of good alfalfa hay. A. Gramlich urged Iowa feeders at Hey Day to consider buying cattle that can utilize silage, noting a grain shortage may press prices up and trigger a spring demand for young stock.
Mills County demonstration team members Lorraine Dashner Harriett Talbott and Edna May Lowrey, led by Mrs W C Donner and home demonstration agent Phyllis Heins, depart Sunday for the Iowa State Fair Hastings Jeannette Luther to sing there. Talbert’s team won for “The whys and hows of Whole Wheat Bread” at the Mills County Achievement Show. Lowrey won Mills County health contest and will compete for state title against county entrants.
A local column recounts county fairs with livestock and pet displays, noting prize entry details and judging for animals. It mentions a canine executioner in Samandaak and a $167 license fee collection, plus quirky local oddities and historic notes about Maulisonian origins and a hens eye egg. Interstate items include weathered local events, river flow stoppage near West Nishnabetna, and wind tunnel history. Harlan plans $150,000 in street improvements and business district upgrades. references to Gov Alf Landon stop and train signals. The piece also notes the first U.S. wind tunnel by the Navy in 1912.
A fragmented East Deer Creek snippet notes Keystone school opens Monday August 3. Mentions Elma Moore family, Ward Thrapp, Laverne Allensworth, Howard Allensworth, and a Red Oak picnic. Morris Fender joins as a new John Deere trader to aid farm work. Patriotism defined as unselfish love of country and flag.
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