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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1937
Page
5
Plans for a birthday party program began Monday evening at the home of chairman Mrs W M Hiett. The event will be held in the Malvern Community building on Saturday January 30 with a varied program preceding the dancing. Committee members expect entertainment to include several features.
A spelling contest offers a substantial cash prize for the winner at the Birth day Party event. Entries can be sent to The Leader office or entered at the party. The program includes music, a male quartet, dancing acts, and ventriloquism, with time reserved for other portions of the celebration.
A Malvern Birthday Party event on Saturday January 30 features a mammoth locally baked cake to be awarded to a party attendee. The program starts at 8:15 PM and runs under an hour. Proceeds benefit infantile paralysis efforts with 70 percent devoted to county care and 30 percent to the Warm Springs foundation.
Official opening of the Towa Nebraska Light and Power Co plant in Red Oak with an open house for the public. Two giant engines will operate generating about 24 000 kilowatts to light the southwestern Iowa system. The $250 000 Iowa Nebraska plant features first of their type engines in the United States. Guides from Red Oak and Lincoln officials welcome crowds. Final tests were completed earlier in the week and electrical charges have been sent over to southwestern Iowa lines.
Patrons and pupils at Mt. Vernon school in Silver Creek township enjoyed a bobsled party Friday evening. Two sleds carried a full group as they toured the icy countryside. They returned to the school for gurties tarda and a social hour with hot dogs coffee and cocoa. Ralph Wederquist teaches the school.
A night report notes a suspect being captured after a Tuesday evening incident. The arrestee, linked to local crime activity, was taken to Glenwood for questioning and further disposition.
William Maxwell Shepard, 60, died in a Clarinda hospital after months of illness. A longtime Malvern figure, he served as custodian of the community building and was active in local politics. Born Dec 27, 1857, he married Jennie Mudd on July 18, 1882, and had six children. Surviving are wife, three children Harry, Donald, and Mrs. Clara Butchart, brother Lang of Los Angeles, 15 grandchildren, one great grandchild. Funeral services were held Sunday at Mansfield Funeral Home with Rev. C. A. Calkins officiating. Burial in Malvern Cemetery.
About $43,000 distributed to Mills County soil conservation cooperators last week with more payments due. Nearly 500 checks issued in first group. except in St. Marys Mattville and Rawles townships. Offices set in Glenwood and Deer Creek hall for pickup. farmers visit centers in Center Glenwood Lyons Oak townships and Malvern to receive funds. Payments based on acres planted to designated cash crops under the program.
Farmers setting closing dates for safes report favorable weather so far with only one sale postponed. The Ola Johnson farm sale near Malvern was moved after the Jan 7 icy snow, yet Tuesday drew a large crowd and strong bidding. Overall, farm sales advertised in The Leader this season have been unusually good and gratifying to owners.
The Malvern conservation service camp extended enrollment by five days and welcomed 81 new enrollees to southern Town Camps during the period ending Jan 20, bringing the Malvern camp to 152. Sixty percent of the enrollees were reassigned to camps in Ottumwa Shenandoah Red Oak and Whiting. Notable enrollees include Harold Blackman Delmer Hambsch Herman Gray and Elmer Garges.
Mills county faced a varied week with below freezing spells and a mix of clear and cloudy days. Temperatures ranged from four below to 28 above, with the coldest night dipping to four below and a midweek thaw bringing rain and snow. An icy sheet followed the Wednesday rise, making driving hazardous as records from the Iowa Nebraska Light and Power sub station tracked the week.
Malvern markets list prices for corn at 1.15, wheat 1.30, oats 0.08, hens at 0.06, leghorn hens 0.07, roosters 0.07, and cream receipts of 34, 32, 30, and 16.
Mes Vinny Geos and Johny Ho Lawy travel to Des Moines for the State Farm Bureau Convention. President DoW. Methew of the Milla County organization attended Tuesday and plans to stay through Friday.
Cadet James Newton Summers of Malvern Ta today earned the Green Service Medal for proficiency in military training. The award, presented by Major O W Reed, recognizes cadets rated superior in individual drills, manual of arms, squad drill, and parade.
County notices two marriages with licenses issued January. James E Monre Jr aged 30 from Little Rock and Verona DeVore Teachout Cavanaugh aged 30 from Omaha wed after a third trip to the altar, officiated by Dr. Fred W. Long. Otto Petersen aged 43 and Clara Petersen aged 30 from Council Bluffs renewly married after prior separation. Carl Demitroff 43 and Margaret Djurdjevich 30 from Oma had a license issued January 16 along with Larry A. Smith 22 from Chnaha and Lavernia Gibson 19 from Kellerton.
Paul V. Haynie a long time Mills County resident died Monday evening after a long illness at his Glenwood home. Born June 1 1849 in St Clair County Missouri he spent most of his life in Lyons township farming. Funeral services were held Wednesday at Raynor funeral home Glenwood with many neighbors in attendance. He married Elmira Elizabeth Williams in 1875 and is survived by three sons Wood in California Charles and Ralph in Omaha who were with him at his passing.
County Treasurer Maurice Mayberry dispatched nearly sixty thousand dollars in tri annual tax disbursements to Mills County school districts towns and cities. Schools received 49122.02 dollars leaving 10525.46 dollars for cities and towns.
County board members traveled to Atlantic Tuesday to study the new courthouse design and gather ideas for a potential county building project.
An important change in relief policies in this county was effected last Thursday when relief workers on roads were removed from work relief and placed on direct relief rolls. Under direct relief, relief recipients receive grocery orders instead of wages. The shift was prompted by cold weather making road work impractical and by high overhead costs relative to work done. About 60 men were affected.
December sales at the Glenwood state liquor store rose sharply with receipts near $2,148.40, up from November’s $2,701.08. The month showed a strong rise in liquor purchases among county residents, reflecting heightened demand during the holiday period.
Justice Martin of Randolph presided over two libel suits from Imogene where Tom Conner sued Lew Maher for 30 dollars and Maher sued Conner for 12.50. The judge granted each man his suit and ordered costs divided equally between them.
A series of radio broadcasts titled Americans to Rescue will be presented over stations including KALA. The program dramatizes how alcohol contributes to traffic accidents and frames temperance as a solution, aiming to educate listeners through engaging dramatized content.
Malvern Scouts, with Junior Chamber cooperation, announce a Father and Son Banquet at the Community building on Monday February 1. Tickets will be sold at age or do, with a full banquet and program to follow. Melvin Turler of Council Bluffs will be main speaker, addressing the Boy Scout movement and related talks.
M T Munsinger 72 longtime Tabor resident died at his home Sunday after a life spent on the family homestead and farming in southwest Iowa. He was active in local politics and church work, an alumnus of old Tabor College, and helped push its reopening as a state school. He married Minnie Johnson in 1894 and is survived by his widow three children and seven grandchildren. Funeral Tuesday at Reeves funeral home in Tabor, with interment in Tabor cemetery.
We thank friends and neighbors for kindnesses during the illness and death of our husband and father Mrs. W. M. Shepard and family
A Red Oak man was identified as the robber who held up a Union Pacific depot in Sheldon on December 22. An enrollee of the Malvern CCC camp aided by providing a description, aiding sheriffs in locating the suspect during a prisoner transfer en route to Primghar. The case hinges on testimony from the ticket agent and investigators rely on the witness description.
Ambiguous report notes Auly J Berkhimer attending a sale event after illness confinement. Mentions Talbott and a record of two years without missing a fate at the Mal vern pavilion. Details are unclear due to OCR errors but imply a local ceremony or sale with noted individuals and a long attendance streak.
Malvern firms accelerate relocation with at least two moving next month while a third has already shifted to new offices. The Malvern Real Estate Co. moves to offices above the Malvern Trust and Savings Bank with Guy Lowrey and Paul Swobodia continuing real estate and insurance work. Mrs. Tennant relocates her women s apparel shop mid month to the vacated real estate building, with interior remodeling underway. Collins Drug Co plans to move into the new east side to west side transfer, awaiting remodeling and a target move by late February.
The Vth annual Mills County tournament returns with seven teams competing for county supremacy from Feb 4 to 6. Malvern seeks a third straight title as Strahan Silver City Emerson Glesword Pacific Junction Henderson and others vie for trophies and bragging rights in a three game per night format culminating in a Saturday final.
Mrs. Paul Mayberry died Thursday morning after a brief illness from pneumonia. Funeral services were conducted Saturday at the Christian church in Glenwood with Rev. Don Crewdson officiating. Interment followed in Glenwood cemetery. Music was provided by Mrs. Crewdson, Norma Bruce, and Ruth Miller. Pallbearers were Elmer Mitchell, Kenneth Mack, R. Phil lips, John Thomas, Gail Dalton, and Gene Fitch. Martha Lea Hauger, born May 17, 1904 near Cedar Bluffs, Kan., daughter of Y. L. and Martha Hauger, died January 14, 1937 at her Glenwood home. She moved with her parents to Town in 1910 and later to Malvern before marrying Paul Mayberry on May 17, 1924. Surviving are six children aged 17 to nine months, the husband, her parents, four sisters Sadie Haines, Beulah Brake, Vera Hansen, Leona Benedict, and three brothers Floyd, Fred, and Verne.
Ruth Ellen Bryan, daughter of Dan and Ona Bryan, died January 17 at St Anthony's hospital Rock Island. Funeral services were held at Strahan Methodist church with Rev C B Guest officiating and a girls quartet providing music. Burial was in Imogene cemetery. She was 26 years old.
Hope Wortz is reported dead in Los Angeles with unclear cause mentioned. The notice references Mae Win and Miss Tape Winks in a garbled obituary fragment from a local millinery revue context. The surviving details are fragmented and non-specific due to the damaged source text.
Final rites for Mrs. Mary Roth were held last Thursday at Fairfield her former home. The service was conducted by Rev. M. A. Gable pastor of the Fairfield Methodist Church and former Malvern pastor. A family mausoleum was planned at Fairfield. Mrs. Roth died January leaving behind her son in law and daughter in law.
Losers in a local club contest held a party to celebrate the winners, hosting a supper with Nadia, Carly, Pho, and others. The gathering echoed lighthearted sportsmanship as participants shared snacks and stories after the event.
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