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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1930
Page
7
Russell Biggerstatt was elected captain of the 1931 football team at a supper Friday night hosted by Coach Paul Herts, Harry Gelliher, and Supt. B C Kincaid at the Cottage hotel.
The football squad, Coach Hertz and Mr Kincaid were entertained at an oyster supper in the Community building on Tuesday evening December 2. The table of 24 guests was decorated with orange and black crepe. Milk, oysters, celery, pickles, crackers and coffee were provided by Dr Gidley and Mr Hornsby. Mrs Salyers and Miss Hertz prepared the soup and dessert. Waitresses Vera Hummel Bernice Caudell Hazel Cox Dorothy Carvin Margaret Berkhimer Geneva Richardson served. The group praised the hosts and cooks with hearty approval.
Students discuss Christmas short plays and room decorations. Fractions remain easy with adding unlike fractions and mixed numbers. History focuses on early U.S. travel networks including the Erie Canal and first railroad. Two spelling errors last week, seventeen perfect words, and two perfect records noted for the period and year.
A diary style note details sophomore challenges across subjects. English emphasis on punctuation and book reports, geometry proving triangle parts, history on the French Revolution and Napoleon, and farm crops class focusing on boxes and bulletins. Students note workload and study expectations.
Third Grade announces a Christmas program to be held Thursday afternoon December 18. All parents and patrons are invited to attend.
The class awarded 100 percent in spelling last week includes Edgar Cook Lee Robbins Betty Lou Barkus Doris Barkus Marilyn Cupp Carolyn Hart Dorothy Johnson Peggy McCormick and Sylvia Smith. Genevieve Kelso was absent due to a witness. We hope she will return soon.
First grade students welcomed Mrs. Hedding and Mrs. Frazier this week. They enjoyed mother visits and prepared Christmas projects and room decorations to celebrate the season.
Raymond W entering lab. to the skeleton down here. Mr. Kincaid questions who are the third class folks around here during fever experiments as the scene turns personal.
In a quirky column readers learn of Gene Hover Nices oysters and their abundance. Clyde Dickersbach is praised for sweeping floors with dignity while Harry Thomas unexpectedly topples a chair, disrupting the assembly.
Seniors work on diverse topics with economic value including Divorce Aviation and Disarmament. They note Christmas is near and a vacation soon, expressing thanks and anticipation while teachers welcome the break.
Kindergarten students prepare a Christmas program for Friday December 19 at 2 o clock inviting parents and friends. They focus on gifts for mothers and fathers and note Christmas stories gongs and pictures spark interest during the season. The plane was tuned last Friday and the covered tone for each note can now be heard.
Maxine jokes about a doctor advising daily exercise. Wolfe and Heys Whette'80 tors Donald respond with surprised quips as Maxine innocently repeats the line about lifting a dumbbell per the doctor's orders.
Prairie Creek pupil Marjorie McClary has recovered from appendicitis after hospitalization. Sandiland hosts a crowded Valley View F T A meeting with a radio program and a planned Dec 12 meeting at Quks. Patrons’ Day at Silver school drew mothers for lessons and a PT demonstration. Leong Malskell’s eleventh birthday party came with games and refreshments. Mt Vernon pupils craft gifts and boys make bird houses and tool boxes for Christmas. Bethlehem hosted a fundraising event with proceeds around $40.
A large crowd attended a school gathering with latches of hoes, coffee, and pie selling beside hot lunches. Over $75 was cleared for the school to buy equipment and storm windows. The Pleasant Hill P T A met Friday at the schoolhouse with a strong program and a play as the main feature. F T A of Center District Deer Creek township held its first monthly meeting November 25 with student performances and sandwiches and coffee refreshments.
From day to day new names appear on the dental honor rolls. This week Elm Grove school adds Kathleen Harnie Verne Alda Wilkins and Marjorie Stout. Center School in Deer Creek township lists James Lloyd. Benton school now has eight names: Charles Haney Katie Haney Fern Rodaway Roy Rodaway Alvin Rodaway Bennie Rodaway Betty Plumb Robert Moore.
A rural Mills County school named Sandiland has reached 100 percent on the dental honor roll. Teacher Rhieha Wederquist led twenty pupils who submitted completed dental cards and will receive certificates.
A local appeal promotes buying Christmas seals to fund tuberculosis health work. The message urges December generosity, noting personal sacrifices and the impact of every cent. It emphasizes the seal’s role in aiding the sick, supporting children, and spreading hope through the postal campaign.
Record of instruments filed in Milla County Iowa from November 7 to November 14 1930 shows deeds and exchanges. Names include Andrew C Bosk W D Convers conveying 420 acres and Cytna C Brandt to Delilah Higging for 1200 dollars. Additional transfers: Washburn W D 1.00 to W C East Half of SHY 4-78-40. John Imel to Elizabeth Tmet 1.00 and tract 22-78-40. Jeppe Bundegard to Henry K Peterson 1.00 with exchange. A P Reeve executor to Addle Tucker 1800 dollars for part of Woodlawn Addition Silver City. Colling to Elizabeth I mel 2900 dollars. Lots 11 and 12 Add to town.
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