Printing Pointers From Malvern High Student Otha Dickersbach
Dorothy Cook profiles Malvern High School student Otha Dickersbach who learned printing in grade school and now offers various styles including Old English. The piece urges support for band uniforms and praises the band and basketball teams, noting Otha's three remaining years at the school.
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Emaitchess News Star
Othn Dickersbach
Acion
Qtha
Otha
Malvern High School
Junior Class Loses President Bob Stroud
The junior class learns their president, Bob Stroud, moved to Neola last week. He participated on the basketball team, glee club and mixed chorus. The juniors wish him luck in his new home.
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Bob Stroud
Neola
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Valentine Party Highlights In Grades Across School
The grades report Valentine parties with cake ice cream balloons and gifts for students. Second graders treated peers to ice cream and treats while third grade read Lincoln tales and crafted valentines. Fifth and sixth grades shared prizes crafts and boxes of candy and, in observance of Lincoln and Washington birthdays, made silhouettes in art class. Visitors included Mrs. Curtis Parrott Mrs. Dale Dyke Loren and Mrs. Frazier.
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Mabel Norton
Lee Beck
Curtis Parrott
Mra. L. Beck
Abraham Lincoln
Geiger
Dale Dyke
Loren
Mr. Shay
Richard Elliott
Barbara Chamberlain
Robert Frazier
Kenneth Juetke
Merton Norton
Gene Sullivan
Bobby Reed
Frazier
Editorial on Electric Clock for M.H.8 Faculty
Phillip Haneen reports that prominent M.H.8 faculty members urge installing an electric clock. The coach says funds cannot be raised by any school group in time. He suggests the school cover the cost now and reimburse later from the activity fund with only two weeks left before the sectional tournament.
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Phillip Haneen
M.H.8
Grades Display Beautifully Decorated Valentine Boxes
Sixth graders festooned a small red and white house with hearts and a glittering roof. The junior high showcased a giant hat box trimmed with white hearts, while a red crepe covered Witte box from first grade drew pride as their first valentine box. Allen Davison and Joyce Campbell made the red hat box with white hearts in Mise Gelger’s room. Second and fourth grade boxes used identical black boxes with white hearts and a red diamond. A third grade square flat box featured Cupid arrows and tiny hearts, keeping St Valentine alive in the grades.
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Witte
Allen Davison
Joyce Campbell
St. Valentine
Soloists Pick Songs for Grade Contest
Five vocalists of M. H. 8 choose solos for the music contest. Beverly Hamilton will sing The Holy City Adama Roberta Moore performs Night Wind Farley and Ah Love But a Day Beach Peggy Cox solos When Song is Sweet Sans Souci and The Fisher s Widow Edwards Carolyn Hall adds Swing Lo Sweet Chariot and Quiet Sanderson Philip Hangen to sing Spanish Gold Fisher. Glee club outfits will be pastel sweaters yellow blue pink with black skirts. Mothers of first and second graders sew capes for rhythm band appearing March 14 in grade operetta.
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Beverly Hamilton
Holy City
Adama
Roberta Moore
Farley
Sanderson
Philip Hangen
Fisher
Mothers of the Fist
Valentine Party for Girl Reserves Held at Meeting
The Girl Reserves held a Wednesday meeting with a brief business session. They discussed the annual conference in Creston and read a letter from the Avoca G.R. president. Mrs Farquhar spoke on the Des Moines GR council women. Valentines identifying the secret sisters were read. Miss Belzer, the new sponsor, gave ice cream as a Valentine gift, and the girls expressed thanks.
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Creston
Avoca G.R
Farquhar
GR. Council
Des Moines
Valentines
Secret Heart Sisters
Miss Belzer
Valetine Program Highlighted by Junior High E Union
The junior high held a Valentine program on Friday with the girls sextet singing two numbers. Marjorie Fraaier and Iva Jackson spoke on Valentine’s Day meaning and celebration. Teachers Mrs Blakely, Mrs Woods and Mrs Belzer treated students to eatidy bars. The Citizenship club met Wednesday and discussed Lincoln and the motto I shall prepare myself and some day perhaps my time will come. They have been making maps of the War of 1812 with several good examples.
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Marjorie Fraaier
Iva Jackson
Miss Blakely
Miss Woods
Miss Belzer
Citizenship Club
Tsat
Lincoln
Klass Keynotes: Topics in a 20th century classroom list
A catalog of classroom topics includes domestic and foreign postage English reading Silas Marner plain geometry linoleum rug designs American literature tests over Bret Harte poems solid geometry hexagonal and octahedral figures American government Senate and House of Representatives American history era following the Spanish American War world history European colonial expansion methods observing language lessons in fourth through sixth grades
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Silas Marner
Bret Harte
Senate
House of Representatives
Week's Events and Birthdays Feb
Highlights of the week include Malvern games against Strahan on Feb 18 and Emerson on Feb 21, with a G R conference at Creston on Feb 22. Five notable birthdays occur this week: Bill and Shirley Walker on Feb 16, F M Davison and Jean Winslow on Feb 18, Keith McClure on Feb 19, and Frank Beli on Feb 21.
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Malvern
Strahan
Emerson
G. R
Creston
Miss Hammers
Miss Chantry
Mrs. Pruden
G.A
Bill
Shirley Walker
F. M. Davison
Jean Winslow
Keith McClure
Frank Beli
Fravel trouble in school bulletin mixed notes
A cluttered school bulletin references missing senior girl last week and reason, a senior girl skilled at poker, and a brazen note era. It notes Marianna Estes from Glenwood and pay phone calls to Malvern, plus Miss Belzer rescues a panicked Bunny Things In Funny Places item and a mood of a teacher tied to a Valentine oversight.
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M.H
M.H.S
Marianna Estes
Glenwood
Malvern
Rormeo
United States
Hillsdale Pre-Nuptial Shower for Marjorie Van Orsdri
A Hillsdale church event honored Marjorie Van Orsdri with a pre nuptial shower after a Wednesday afternoon program. Guests enjoyed gifts, an alarm clock treasure search, fruit salad and coffee. Multiple local families hosted and attended various social visits and celebrations in the area.
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Marjorie van Orsdri
Marjorie van Oradell
George Powers
Miss Marjorie
East Liberty Community News and Social Visits
Regular services at East Liberty will resume when weather and road conditions improve. Local residents and guests stop by for visits, including Alfred Clark family from Loveland and relatives of Miss Betty Farger from Qimaha. Prairie Valley school held a community program with a mirror gifted to the Mayberry family. Wayne Stuart, Robert, and other locals shared Sunday dinners, and Mr and Mrs Hen Guyer prepared for a trip to South Carolina to sell livestock and visit a mother.
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East Liberty
Alfred Clark
Loveland
Colo
Clark
Fred Alexander
Betty Farger
Qimaha
Clyde Sarger
Sam Shaw
Dewey Bowman
Pete Jacobson
Reta
Hancock
Mary Henderson
Marie Gray
Council Bluffa
Mae Magill
Wyoming
Hoy Henderson
Familly
Dorothy MrClure
Silver City
Clyde Barker
C. M. Nelson
Ralph Zanders
W. H. Braddocks
Gerald Leu
Pleasant Valley School Board
Glenwood
Nelson
Maddocks
Glen Fitch
Council Bluffs
Prairie Valley School
Joe Mayberry
Mayberrys
Macedonia
Wayne Stuart
Robert
Elmer Fleseimin
Ordination for Samuel Lee as pastor at Champion Hill Church
Samuel Lee will be ordained and installed as full time pastor at Champion Hill Church Monday at 8 pm. The event follows a service with attendance invited. Also noted are social gatherings, visits, and guests involving the Lee, Cooper, Conrad, Allen, Shelley, and related families in nearby towns.
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Samuel Lee
Lee
Cost of Civil War Drain on Government and Society
The Civil War drained the government at nearly 3,000,000 daily and left a public debt of 2,844,000,000 by August 1885. Expenditures by states and cities, southern costs, property destruction, interest, pensions to soldiers widows and orphans all add to the toll, with total likely exceeding 10,000,000,000.
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W. W. Wheeler
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Cleve Howard
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Mayo Bass
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Roy Mayberry
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Carolyn
Fred Rensolter
Mary Sasvyers
A. H. Culver
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Tabor
W. J. Fitzpatrick
Less Pippitt
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Eleanor Fitzpatrick
Everett Hutterfield
Margaret
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Jeanent
Mercy Hospital
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R. W. Richardson
Magnolia
Stanley Rowe
Ladies Aid
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Mra
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Cornell Bluffs
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Stanton
Claude Rector
J.F. Shelley
Bransford Burlington
Donnie
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L. O
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Max
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Arthur Frazier
Florence
Wilma Cooper
Joe Allen
Omeaha
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Frank Conrad
Stanley Allen
Sherman Allen
Gayle Eastwood
Danghters
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