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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1973
Page
19
The West Pottawattamie County Fair Board plans an $80,000 fundraising drive to move the fair 12 miles east of Highway 80 to a new 80 acre site. The drive, starting December, aims to build two buildings and expand facilities, with local finance and township committees guiding efforts and major contributors to receive recognition.
Seven members braved a snowstorm at Ruth Karr’s home for a potluck and Christmas party. donations to Goodfellows and Salvation Army. Elections named Della Mass chair, Delphine Chambers vice chair, Emma Hansen sec treas, Barb Deitchler and Ruth Karr as courtesy. Gift exchange, secret pals revealed, and club plans for 1974.
Em Krohn writes about a seismic enrollment sweeping Treynor as natives from the hamlet arrive in masses. Homes, the inn, church, academy, and barracks overflow as the town accommodates the influx of new arrivals.
Miss Ruth Hofsteter, missionary on leave from India, spoke at Zion Church Sunday in both Sunday School and worship. She described her nurse and midwife work at a Christian hospital in central India and shared details on local farming, cattle reverence, and irrigation practices. Hofsteter, whose mother lives near Wooster Ohio, plans Christmas with family before continuing her U S tour and returning to India in June.
Beginning this month the Easter Seal Society of Iowa joins the Iowa Chapter American Institute of Architects and the Iowa Governor's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped in a pilot project to survey federally financed buildings in Iowa. The survey aims to physically inspect structures to determine how well they conform to 1968 federal standards.
The funeral for Jack L. Forrester was held Tuesday at Zion Congregational Church with Rev. A H Hoersch officiating. Born April 1 1928 in Treynor to Harry and Ida Nee Clausen he was a Treynor resident who farmed and earlier served as a bus driver and mechanic for the Treynor School system. He died at age 45 leaving three sons four children and several siblings. Pallbearers were his nephews Rick Vierck Richard Forrester Wendell Brockman Kenneth Brockman.
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