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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1931
Page
8
The Auxiliary met at Mrs. W. F. Cramer’s home on Wednesday for an all day session. Rags were sewn to be sent to the veterans hospital and a comfort top was prepared for department headquarters relief. A pot luck dinner followed for all attendees.
A party at Dr. J. D. Jones home celebrated Katherine Jones eleventh birthday with fifteen friends and three chaperones. After games, light refreshments were served and many pretty gifts were exchanged. Various local residents visited, moved, or assisted in homes around Creston, Emerson, Red Oak, and nearby towns, with ongoing community events and preparations for a new implement and hardware business.
Mr and Mrs R E Good entertained relatives at their Emerson home in honor of their twenty fifth wedding anniversary. A noon buffet dinner was followed by supper as guests stayed into the evening. The couple, wed January 28 1906 at Jonesboro Tennessee, have lived in Emerson area since. Four children Iva Ralph Ruth and Doris were present along with several relatives and friends.
An oyster supper was hosted at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Knight on Thursday to honor men who assisted in installing the officers of the I. O. O. T. lodge in Mills County, with wives included. Guests included Ed Hathaway and others from Emerson Hastings and Red Oak. American Legion remodeling of the enera house was completed last week and a free dance followed. Misses Grace Dixon and Grace Blonch visited Red Oak Saturday.
The community recounts a lively week with a prize fight in Omaha, birthday celebrations for Mrs. Karl Bobbitt and Mr. Wasserman, visits from George McDermott and families, and multiple social calls. Arlu Bichel resigns to help her father’s store, Herman Peters recovers at home, and several residents attend auxiliary meetings and hospital visits in Council Bluffs and Silver City.
Mr and Mrs Carl Rose hosted a dinner for John Kenney and Mrs Kenney at six o clock. A large birthday cake with 69 candles stood at the center while guests watched and sang Happy Birthday. Other attendees included Mr and Mrs Earl Bobbitt and additional guests.
Pacific Junction notes the fifth grade honor roll with Blaine Moore Dorothy Lee and Pauline Bartles named. One fourth grader Agnes Harris is listed. A mother and daughter banquet was held January 22 at Community church basement and high school students served the meal. The School Masters club banquet occurred January 20 in the high school gym with entertainment from Misner School of the Spoken Word and Darrah's Syn Copatori. Several pupils returned after illness and absences noted.
Simpson college student Miss Vara Mayberry spent several days at home after exemption from semester exams. She returned to resume college duties on Tuesday. Local social notes include visits by Miss Geneva Mintle, Mr. Floyd Parker, Miss Pearl Atterburry, and many others. The Hillsdale Ladies Aid hosted a 70 guest birthday party with games and refreshments in the church hall. Pneumonia illness affected Mas Merritt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Merritt, this past week.
The readable text fragment notes a relative timeline and a person named Joy tied to a topic on ivaporiast nitien, with context indicating a maritime or project focus and a possible misprint or scrambled terms. Further details are unclear from the fragment.
A long document surveys Farmers Union gains in Oklahoma with ten thousand new members over farm board policy. It criticizes political pledges to farmers as unfulfilled and attacks modern politics as favoring big business, naming many individuals and detailing land ownership cases and a quieted title suit filed in Mills County Iowa.
A fragmentary OCR list includes Ruben Statte Plalawn Mamie Higgins Frank Swarts G. Swarts Ed Swarts Mark Swarts Jim Swarts J P Swarts Mabel Swarts May Hil L D Mee Roight Minnie McKnight Doyle Esther Hesler Long David Long Martha Luther Margaret, indicating a memorial or community roster with several surnames and given names amid garbled text.
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