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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1934
Page
4
A long list of Malvern and surrounding area families spent Christmas Day with relatives across Iowa. Many hosts hosted dinners at homes in Malvern, Oakland, Council Bluffs, Omaha, Glenwood, and nearby towns, with numerous siblings and in laws joining celebrations and travels noted throughout the day.
Oaks December social scene lists Huawell Opal Hall of Glenwood visiting Henry Schitting home Saturday night. Residents include Marion Mahan, Elmo Druaback Jr, Vern Harris, Lorene, Margaret, Grant Harrig, Cecil Harrig, Fleming Harria and family from Council Bluffs. Several small gatherings follow, with neighbors, and a school play shown at Walox School Saturday evening.
Hastings high school faculty hosted a Christmas party for students with ten groups competing in games such as wheelbarrow races blowing contests newspaper fights and a peanut rolling test. The evening ended with gift distribution and refreshments including popcorn balls candy bars and apples.
The Juniors staged Play The Yellow Shadow on Wednesday and Thursday evenings at the Onera theatre. They sold pop beer and candy made by junior girls in home economics class. Proceeds go to fund the upcoming Junior-Senior banquet in spring.
The home economics group prepared gifts for mothers including hot pad holders tea towels and dust rags during the noon hour. Doris Darland led a science experiment requiring five similarly sized eyes while Leslie Benedict volunteered to fetch a twin ergs downtown. In English class Friday Miss Allen read Christmas stories and led a theme writing on an ideal Christmas.
Third and fourth grades completed a unit on Eskimo life making a winter scene box and a summer store display. Orpha Davis Alta Mae Clark Della Sargent and Bonnie Lee Rutledge read Christmas stories to younger grades. Spelling stars include Robert Shaw Roberta Clark Harota Fallows Larry Kidwell Dean Davis Doyal Waterworth Gordon Bell Clarence Martin and Alta Mue Clark.
Fifth and sixth graders enjoyed the Christmas program on Tuesday evening and the Christmas party on Friday afternoon. They sang carols and shared stories before gifts were distributed.
Second grade students listed with perfect spelling honors include Henrietta Clark Vernon Crouse Dan Johnson Richard Johnson and Freddie Courtier. A death in the family of Clarence Smith’s father in Kansag prompts funeral travel. Numerous local visits and holiday plans are noted among families including L. Courtier, Orville Starr, Alene Quimby, Carl Cox, Charlie Johnson, Ralph and Elaine, George Schurr Velma Mingg, John Trybom A. J. Gustafson, Mary Katherine Gittins, Ben Shaw and others with Christmas gatherings at Wesley Chapel and various homes. A new daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Luin Muro Dec 18. Congratulations extended to Mrs. Lemon Cox and Kathrine Poindexter.
Mrs Herman Sehurp entertained 22 boys for her son Ede ward's fifteenth birthday. The party featured cards and checkers and a light supper of sandwiches, pickles, cocoa, angel food cake, and fruit salad.
The Edear Christy home hosted a Christmas Day gathering with Dr and Mrs Christy, their relatives Mr and Mrs Francis Westphalia, Tom Christy, Valerie Christy, and Mrs Christy’s mother Mrs Scharfen berg. They enjoyed a big dinner and a pleasant visit.
Minted Mrs. E H Crouse hosts a Christmas Day dinner at home with Ray Hatfield and family, Mr and Mrs Henry Schilling, Mrs Lauri Hall, and Mr and Mrs Irvin Selurpeoty attending.
A Christmas gathering at the W E Purcell home featured Mr and Mrs Purcell presiding over a large reunion. Relatives including Alfred Tles and family and others shared the holiday meal and celebrated the children and grandchildren in a warm, family-filled event.
The To O F P will meet in Hastings Saturday evening December 29 for work in the initiatory degree. All members are requested to attend. Many visiting relatives and local residents attended a surprise party for Mrs. Blackwell on December 19 with prizes won by Arthur Hatfield and Violet Dailey.
Alfred Scott and family visited Malvern Saturday while Mr and Mrs Scott Edie and Mrs Wendell Ord traveled this week toward Excelsior Springs Missouri. The holiday season brought them together and extended travels.
Farmers operating the same farm with identical corn and hog bases as 1934 face streamlined 1935 sign ups. Bruce Kilpatrick notes that production frames and 1932-33 data from 1934 contracts will aid the process, speeding validation and reducing paperwork. Grouped into three categories, applicants may only update bases or rents if the farm changes shape. otherwise, fewer forms are needed.
Mr KEI Natrick stated that the county association will call for the same time in January for the next gathering along with other details.
A fragment notes an estimate that eight tons of witchblend yield about a half tenspoontnl of radium, with the text suggesting extraction from a pitchblend type mixture. The wording is garbled but centers on quantities and radium content.
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