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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1936
Page
7
A notice records the combined Eli party and dinner plan postponed to Wednesday evening February 5. The Community building was the venue for the event and no clubs in the vicinity were holding activities that night. The article then gives brief social items from the area.
The C B Q Railroad Co inaugurates a pick up and delivery of less than carload shipments at agency stations per interstate tariff filed Jan 20 with the Interstate Commerce Commission. It provides complete transport from consignor to consignee origin to destination at no extra charge or an allowance for freight to/from the freight house.
The American Legion Auxiliary bridge benefit set for Friday afternoon has been postponed to February 22 at 2 o'clock PM in the Community building.
Mr and Mrs Ab Scott near Malvern report two daughters admitted to Edmundson hospital in Council Bluffs within a week. On Thursday Mrs Wayne Killion underwent appendicitis surgery and is rapidly improving. On Monday sister Mrs Edwin Fleer of Glenwood was treated for kidney trouble and awaits operation. Both share a ward for mutual support.
The article recalls dangerously cold conditions with temperatures below zero. Cars struggled as drivers had to move their immobilized vehicles. owners had to push or drag cars to get them started and head home.
Word has just been received of the death of Les G. McCoy, a former Mills county resident, at Twin Falls, Idaho, on January 28. He will be brought to Silver City next Sunday, January 26, for funeral and burial.
A correction notes the omission of the name of Parker’s second wife Rose Salyers of Fort Collins Colorado who could not attend the funeral. The item includes unrelated garbled lines about a successful man and a platform at Roosevelt and a party in Kansas.
Mills County Farm Bureau directors met in the Community building Wednesday afternoon to plan the coming year’s activities. Attendance was modest but productive. They will meet again next Wednesday afternoon January 29 at the same location to finalize their work.
Lyford of the Shenantteal erosion camp is named the new agronomist, replacing R E Liljedahl who departs for Greenfield. Lt HR B Holst, Brinacomb and RK uA Bailey attend an educ ational meeting in Denigon. Seventeen men from Shenandoah camp join the unit, bringing total strength to 194. Two bumps cases last week led to one barracks quarantine. patients hospitalized and nearly recovered. A piano from Ames arrives to boost recreation. locally skilled men may form musical groups as facilities improve.
R S McDonough moved with his family to Greely Colorado for health reasons, and remained in Hastings for decades where he served as secretary of the Hastings school board for 45 years. He was active in community affairs, survived by two daughters Grace and Jeannette, and his wife died in 1929. Born 1849 in Johnstown Pennsylvania, he moved to Iowa as a boy, later worked as a traveling salesman, and eventually settled in Hastings before relocating to Colorado.
Fred Durbin suffered a very serious relapse early Sunday morning and remained in critical condition after the attack. He lost speech and became partially paralyzed on one side, but showed improvement over the next two days and was described as mend after Tuesday night.
Record of instruments filed Jan 9 and 10 1936 with Mills County Recorder and District Court Clerk listing transfers between Julia S Vranman and Carl Vranman Fred Durbin Trustees to Equitable Life Insurance Company E Sec 18 NW Sec 17 71 40 Land in Sec 7 8 17 and 18 73 43 Hattle M Evans to John L and Kenneth A Evans Coe J Peppers to Geo A Phelps Securities Insurance Corp to Wm R Bingham et al Edwin H Towle to Edwin S Towle Parcels in Malvern Paritic Junction and Glenwood A D French to Walter Walker etc Tax Deed to A D French Emerson Cemetery deeds and associated lots and addresses Big bundle of old papers at The Leader office.
The Civilian Conservation Corps Camp authorizes camp labor to load and haul lime from the rail line refuse byProduct to stock piles at the State Institution pumping plant Malvern fairgrounds and private farms This winter effort aims to remove about six thousand tons of lime to aid Mills County soils conservation and farmers Lime is needed on fields mainly in western Mills County with one to two ton applications planned for many fields The county teachers exams will be held January 29 30 and 31 at the courthouse in Glenwood Amy Hammers County Superintendent
Firemen and town officials rushed to the Cottage Hotel Sunday as a detector flue caused a blaze. The flames caused little damage and were contained before any serious harm. It marked the second local fire of the month.
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