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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1938
Page
2
A long column of community items from Malvern recounts visits, travels, illnesses, and events. Families such as the Wort Werter Wort and Davis families attend funerals, hospitalizations, weddings, and church activities. Clergy and residents travel to Des Moines, Chicago, and Hamburg for council meetings and gatherings. Big Bradley’s sale opens Saturday as local shoppers prepare.
London's fashionable Mayfair district derives its name from a historic May fair once held in the locality. The market tradition drew merchants and visitors, shaping the area's identity as a center of commerce and style.
A large audience enjoyed the high school operetta The Gypsy Rover with Elaine Andrews and Ralph Hall in leading roles. The cast included Mary Jean Ewing Clayton Hertz and Marlin Richardson, with strong gypsy characterizations by Winnifred Calkins and Mariluise Juelke. The production, directed by Miss Lydia M Thiedeman, featured a vibrant chorus, school band, and elaborate costumes provided by cast mothers, delivering colorful scenes and lively music.
Orlo Kilgore, 34, president of National Finance Co., collapsed from heart blockage at 3 PM Monday in Dr. F C Armstrong's Red Oak offices. A former grocery clerk who moved to Red Oak in 1933, Kilgore built a loan firm handling about half a million dollars annually and had wide ties in Malvern and the county.
A list of newly licensed vehicles includes Innes Malvern Plymouth sedan driven by L Allensworth Henderson Chevrolet sedan with Lucille Churchill Malvern and R L South Henderson Ford sedan, reflecting recent registrations in the region.
The Glenwood Oak Homemakers 4 H club met Saturday January 15 at Jessie and Janice Redman’s home with assistance from Jean Ann Diamond. New officers were installed and members heard talks on posture table manners and pajama making. Virginia Hopp spoke on table manners and Mary Kathryn Mayberry on pajama sewing. Nora Stille demonstrated pajama making with Miss Klingaman and other mothers present. Refreshments were served by the hostesses as the Witch’s dance played on the victrola.
Iowa farmers seeking to grow more wheat amid ration constraints may adopt a new spring wheat variety named Niateher. In five years of tests at Atlas and Kanawha it outyielded other spring types and surpassed winter wheat in multiple comparisons. University of Minnesota official O. Burnett notes Thatcher introduced to counter rust epidemics.
East Liberty reports Mrs Daisy Kinwl of Bedford was admitted to a hospital in Les Moines Suslay with her son Me G W. Rint. The family, including Floydated, traveled from Chega to Des Moines for a few days of training and observation amid ongoing postoperative reports.
The Malvern Volunteer firemen for 1938 are listed with divisions and names. Roles include grivers, pump operators, nozzlemens, ladders, axes-pike poles, warrants, electricians, first aid, police, equipment and apparatus, fire prevention, hydrant inspection, city water system, audit, purchasing, ways and means, printing, social, floral, and officers. Key figures include Grover Graves, W.R. Byington, Albert Nelban, J. H. Ball, Glen Dalrymple, and A. M. Kilne among many others.
In Hillsdale many dinner gatherings occurred including the Kesterson and Sawyers families at different homes, with neighbors and relatives from Council Bluffs and Corning attending. Mrs Graces recovery follows a weeklong illness, and Beatrice funeral attendance featured A Culver party. The Hillsdale Sunday School class hosted a basement party at the community church, with plans for another soon as attendance climbs, and the Ruse and LePrahter families relocated from a local farm near Sidney.
A statistical bulletin from an insurance company states that the eleventh year of life is the safest. The finding emphasizes little risk in early adolescence, highlighting protective factors and age-based insurance considerations.
Mt Vernon dates show Haines visit with ill father at Silverity while Mrs Demat Raines of California stayed with Mrs Ralph Bower. County seventh and eighth grade exams set in Glenwood Friday with local students Helen Stevesee Elman Holden Max Boles and Maria Hickman listed. Mr and Mrs W A Bower hosted week at daughter’s home near Tasher. Mrs Ralph Bater honors Miss Ocle Candell at dinner and engagement to Blaine Dickersbach announced. Keb. 23 wedding planned. Guests included Kathryn Bryan and many Miss Candell’s relatives and friends.
Local church services listed with pastors and times across St Jain’s Lutheran, Methodist, First Baptist, Church of Christ, and others. Sunday school at 9:30 to 10:00 a.m. Morning worship 10:30 to 11:00 a.m. Lutheran Hour broadcast on KEAB Sundays 4:30 p.m. Women’s group and youth events noted. A regional ministers’ youth rally and a district Christian Endeavor convention planned for February and March in Council Bluffs area.
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