Christmas travel and visits span the region
Dr and Mrs W M Hlett head to Sacramento to spend holidays with daughter Mrs Mark Megiladdery. Miss Jessie Wortman travels from Birmingham to visit home folks. Several families plan Christmas gatherings in Council Bluffs Omaha and nearby towns, with news of subscriptions and new births. Barbara Ann Shonka born to Dr and Mrs T B Shonka in Council Bluffs Mercy Hospital. R W Salyers brings father George F Salyers home from Clarkson hospital. he is recovering well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. M. Hlett
Sacramento
Calif
Mark E. Megiladdery
Megiiddery
Frank G. Merriam
Hietts
Jessie Wortman
Birmingham
Ala
J. F. Wearin
Coyncil Bluffs
Joe Wearin
Edmundson Hospital
Fred Newell
Frederic
Floyd Wadaley
Clyde Wilson
Dorly
Minneapolis
Misa Arline Howard
Hastings
F. . Howard
Vivian Priest
Kearney
Nebr
P. S. Priest
Velma Martens
Milady Beauty Shop
Persia
Helen Zene Wortman
Mary Hardin-Baylor College For Women
Helton
Tex
Barbara Ann
T. B. Shonka
Mercy Hospital
Connell Bluffs
Bruce M. Kilpatrick
Harlan
Albert Mensehel
R. W. Salyers
Omaha
George F. Salyers
Clarkson Hospital
Mr. Salyers
Robert Criswell
Frank Higgins
Dallas Criswell
Christmas Festivities in Malvern Leader Call for News
The Malvern Leader invites readers to share how they celebrate Christmas with dinners, family gatherings, and homecomings. Readers are asked to phone 100 with details and to call on Thursday to report special visits or guest happenings during the holidays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ora
Guesta
Outlook discussions map 1936 farm outlook meetings county
Series of county outlook meetings will cover 1936 farming prospects and prices for seeds hogs cattle dairy fruit vegetables and more. Sessions include St Marys Anderson White Cloud Platville Lyons Pacific Junction Silver Creek Malvern Malvern Center Glenwood and Silver City with schedules in late December and early January.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruppiles
St. Marys Township
Claus Hrandt
Anderson
Wesley Chapel
White Cloud
Deer Creek
Indian Creek
Strahan School
Platwille and
Lyons
Students Return Home for Holidays Across Colleges
Readable fragments show university students returning to homes for a two week vacation with plans for parties and dances. Institutions named include University of Iowa Iowa City with Robert Benton James Beckwith Dorothy Durbin Nebraska State Teachers College Peru Dorothy Galligher Charlotte Wederquist Eugene Hertz, and many others across Iowa Nebraska Missouri Illinois and surrounding areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milly County
University of Iowa
Iowa
Robert Benton
James Beckwith
Dorothy Durbin
Nebrawyka State Teachers’ College
Peru
Dorothy Galiiher
Charlotte Wederquist
Eugene Hertz
Malyyrn
Sthelyn Crawford
Ruth Dalgell
Huaatings
Ruby Curr
Glenwood
University of Nebraska
Ldncoln
Albert Menton
Malvern
Ruth Pieree
Edgar Lookabill
Huntings
Margaret Standiford
Due Schoenleg
Merrill Plwpten
Diuvlla Plumer
Lyllyan’ Talboy
Gilver City
Bue Xeny Woody
Ihendurgon
Ruth Chovey
Emeregu
Methodists Elect School Officers
Church Sunday school board of the Methodist church named Lloyd Short as superintendent for the coming year with Dale Dyke as assistant and Clara Wise as treasurer. Edith Brewer was librarian, Mary Jean Ewing planner, Mrs. Lloyd Short led the primary, and Mrs. B E Knight led the junior department. Other business was postponed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist Enhurch
Lloyd Short
Dale Dyke
Clara Wise
Guy Parker
Edith Brewer
Mary Jean Ewing
Plantat
BE. W. Knight
Edna Hertz Heads Eastern Star Here
Miss Edna Hertz was named Worthy Matron of Silver Urn chapter Order of the Eastern Star at the regular meeting and annual election Tuesday evening. Other officers named include E. Davis as worthy patron Ruth Salyers associate matron EM Springer associate patron Edith Barkus secretary Abbie Kunce treasurer Bees Kavich conductress Darla Beckwith associate conductress. Installation will be a joint affair with the Masons Thursday evening Jan 9 at the Masonic hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edna Hertz
Order of the Eastern Star
Paces to Reequip Empress Theater
Mr and Mrs F E Pace plan to take over Empress Theater management after January 1 and install new projection gear and wide range high fidelity sound. Seating will be updated with red velvet chairs as the floor is renovated. The opening date will be announced later. The piece also notes turret gun shells weighing 46 pounds travel about 938000 yards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. E. Pace
Empress
Malvern School Operetta Delights Large Audience
The Malvern grade students staged In Quest of Santa Claus in the Community building. Miss Lydia Thlede man directed a well trained cast with Margie Miller as the girl, guides the woods folk the fairies rescue by the Spirit of Love and Santa Clara, with choruses of rabbits snowflakes soldiers dolls sunbeams and bears. Peggy Hall sang a solo as Delpha Donner accompanied.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malvern
Santa Claus
Lydia Thledeman
Margie Miller
8. M. Miller
Margie
Elizabeth Trively
Babs Randerson
Ruth Clark
Peggy Cox
Wongaroo
John Slothower
Love
Shirley Bacon
Santa Clara
David Herks
Bang
Peggy Hall
Delpha Donner
Compliance Forms Ready for Checking
Mills county's corn hog force has been busy completing compliance forms after the hog count began December 1. Administrative assistant Jess Allen released all forms December 18, sending 1100 forms to the state office for checking. Plans aim to present information on the new contract early in January, with the remaining forms forwarded as producers finish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mills County
Jess Allen
State Office
Malvern Trainer's Car Catches Fire Monday
Fire crews responded to a blaze damaging a car owned by Mills Ora Hays a normal training instructor for Malvern schools. The fire started with a fuel ignition and was quickly extinguished with no report of injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malvern
Soucue
Mills Ora Hays
Thanks for support at uncle Charence Hunt’s funeral
Our heartfelt thanks to friends and neighbors for aid and sympathy after the death of our uncle Charence Hunt. Gratitude to Mr Wad Mew and Glarence Hunt for their help during this difficult time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gure
Mr Wad
Glarence Hunt
Resignation of Dr Winslow Brown from Kenwood Park Church
Dr E Winslow Brown, longtime Cedar Rapids pastor and Malvern native, resigns from Kenwood Park Presbyterian Church effective November 10 after pastoring since May 1 1928. He will join Westminster Church to do pastoral work via its Sunday school. The move follows, and is approved by, Cedar Rapids Presbytery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Winslow Brown
Malvern Presbyterian Church
Cedar Rapids
Westminster Presbyterian Church
F. D. Miller
Brown
Kenwood Park
J. Renwick McCullough
Westminster Church
Wooster College
Wooster
Ohio
Princeton Theological Seminary
Newton
Greenwich Church
Stewartsville
N. J
Greenwich
Iowa
Malvern
Spirit Lake
Knoxville
Olivet Presbyterian Church
Mechanicsville
Synod of Iowa
Fairfield
Presbytery
Cedar Rapida
Albert Pontow obituary sketch and service details
The service for Albert Pontow drew a large crowd at St John’s Lutheran Church with burial in Hast Liberty cemetery. The life sketch notes he was born December 20, 1878, on a home farm northwest of Hastings, served on the Golden Hill school board, township clerk, and Indian Crash township trustee, and was a longtime church officer. He married Martha Hulda Leu on March 36, 1904 and had eight children including Evarette Hunt and Victor Pontow, with a wide circle of friends and civic involvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emil Leu
Walter Pontow
Hast Liberty Cemetery
Jrs L. Turner
Oscar Leu
Emil Pontow
Edwin Leu
Herman Knop
Otto Rich
Ammon
Albert Pontow
Laura
Julia Pontow
Hastings
St. Johns Church
Golden Hill
Indian Crash Township
Ponton
Lee
Martha Hulda Leu
Worou
Evarette
Nulvern
Walter Hunt
Oulland
Victor
Hoy
Mire
Albert Mengohel
Haatingy
Merbest
Malvern
Eldon
Par
Plans Under Way for Annual Poppy Day
Plans underway for Poppy Day 1932 with production of memorial poppies by disabled World War veterans. Employment targets hundreds in government hospitals and Auxiliary rooms, aiming to pay veterans before Christmas and raise funds for the American Legion and Auxiliary. More than ten million poppies expected to be made this winter, generating about 100000 dollars for disabled veterans, widows, and orphans. Dependent families prioritized. workers with little government pay preferred. Poppies to be worn on the Saturday before Memorial Day in remembrance of the war dead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion and Auxiliary
Lottie Nelson
Malvern
Auxiliary
France
Belgium
Legion
Death of Dan Anderson in Malvern At 66
Don and Marvin report Dan Anderson died at 4 a m Thursday December 1985 after a cerebral hemorrhage in Malvern at age 66 near 67. He leaves three sisters Mrs Jones Anderson of Tabor Mrs Andrew Anderson of St Edwards Neb and Mrs Adolph Donner of Malvern along with his parents two brothers and a late sister. He was a loving husband and father remembered as a kind thoughtful friend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don
Marvin
Malvern
Jones Anderson
Tabor
Andrew Anderson
St. Edwards
Nebr
Adolph Donner
Funeral Services Held for Clarence Hunt Jr Friday
Funeral services were conducted Friday afternoon at the Hunt home for nine month old Clarence Junior Hunt by Rev. K E Nesbitt. Burial followed in Malvern cemetery. He leaves his parents Helen and Clarence Hunt twin sister Jean three brothers John Howard and Kenneth. The obituary describes his brief life and the family’s sorrow with a poem about his brief stay and bright light.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Hunt
Clarence Junior
K. E. Nesbitt
Malvern
Clarence
Helen Hunt
Jean
John
Howard
Kenneth
Card of Thanks from Mrs Emil Pontow
I express sincere appreciation to friends who sent flowers, cards and letters during my recent illness and stay in the hospital. Mrs. Emil Pontow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emil Pontow
Churches St Johns Lutheran Church Services and Hymns
St Johns Lutheran Church seven miles northeast of Malvern announces no religious instruction on Saturday December 28 and no services on Sunday. New Year services with Holy Communion planned for January 1 at 10:30 a.m. Christmas day communion after services. Hymn text cites Jesus name as sun and shield and promises relief from pain and sorrow turning to blessings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Johns Lutheran Church
Miles N. E
Malvern
P. Dahl
Paator
Jesus
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George Wederquist
Charlotte
Ralph
Wederquist
R. E. Wederquist
Randolph
Nicot
Colo
Eacrett
Frank Steele
Strahan
North Platte
Paul Gates
Indianola
Mrs. Salyers
Robert
Mrs. Morris
Leland Starry
Gary
Brinacombe
Shenandoah
FL. Brinacombe
Joe Deurdorff
M. Cunningham
Ethel Hume
Olympia
Wash
Oliver Taintor
Baby
Ashtabula
Taintor
Drake University
Des Moines
Anna Itose Bass
Alice Amick
Keith Bell
Henderson
Grinnell College
Grinnell
James Benton
Simpson College
Evelyn Calkins
June Fletcher
Jeannette Luther
Lorance Lisla
Joe Robbing
Alan DuVal
Donald Hays
Silver City
Elizabeth
Eleanor Phillips
Bill Phillips
Laul Rainbow
Henderson- Stephens College
Columbia
Mary Elizabeth Bummera
Christian College
Phyllig Wilson
Wentworth Military Academy
Lexington
Dick Hyde
James Summers
Mary Nardin
CCC
Malvern Camp
M. Miller
Jeff
R. F. Campbell
Shave
Short Again
Eastern Star
Empress Theater
OPTO
Fey Te
Robliwonu
Vatluelvely
Gleywound
Winslow Brown
Clarence Hunt Jr
Warren Williams
Guy Kibbee
Gary Cooper
Anna Sten
Bert Wheeler and
Robin Woolsey
Baldpate
Gene Raymond
Margaret Callahan
Carol Stone
Tom Brown
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