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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1935
Page
5
Eugene Van Orsdel and Mabel Coffey Weed with Mr and Mrs Olaf Coffey traveled to Omaha Saturday for their wedding. The couple, from Hillsdale, are young, and they have not yet announced future plans.
Edna Lutz became the bride of Roy E Proctor of Ottumwa in a high noon ceremony at the Lutz home in Malvern on Tuesday December 17. Rev Louis Berks officiated as Corwyn Parker acted as best man and Misa Huth Lutz served as brides maid. The couple will reside in Ottumwa where Proctor runs a business and they will begin housekeeping after their wedding.
Malvern hosts plan a New Year open house afternoon with multiple hostesses inviting callers to visit many homes. The Leader will publish invitations for readers to extend neighborly reception and help coordinate arrangements. The event aims to renew acquaintances dating back to 1886, with guests from both town and beyond welcome to attend.
The Woman's club of Pacific Junction hosted a Christmas party at Mrs. Joe Bottomly's home with a covered dish luncheon and a program by Mrs. Frank Boyle. New members Mrs. Clair Castner and Mrs. Harley Johnson joined, and gifts were exchanged. Other notes mention visits to Council Bluffs, medical stays in Savannah and Omaha, a birth at Jennie Edmundson Hospital, and school operetta plans.
Local notices from St Johns Lutheran, Christian and Presbyterian churches describe December activities including Holy Communion, religious instruction, English Christmas services, children’s programs, Sunday school at 10 a.m., prayer meetings, and a Candle Maker of St John’s play. Other items note Epworth League social, Christmas programs at Methodist Episcopal, church attendance gains, high school boys class, and parish updates. Community farmers report husking, weather-related illness, and a firemen’s frolic attendance.
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