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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1941
Page
2
Local news from Malvern lists visits, hospital updates, a newborn named Car Tol Jean, and community notices. Scholarships, caregiver travels, and letters from service members are noted along with town events, weddings, and shopping plans.
Kenneth Parker visits from Simpson for a mid semester break while Lawrence Fickel stays in the college hospital with a badly infected foot. Jeannette Luther returns from Cherokee and Sidney. Local business moves include the High Bank station sale by the Adams family to Mr. and Mrs. Black of Stanton. Ezra Plumb is ill with influenza. Max Stonebraker visits relatives in Pennsylvania. Arthur Luther arrives from Town City for a few days before the new semester, active in social programs. The W S of Wesley Chapel plans a Valentine party with guests, pie exchanges, and prayers. other community groups meet at various homes for devotions and gal loping tea proceeds.
The First Baptist and Methodist churches announce Sunday services with morning worship at 11 led by Pastor Glenn W. South. Sunday school at 10 for all ages. Easter campaign preparations underway. The Methodist Church lists noon and evening events, including a 6:30 Young Peoples Forum led by Edith Brewer, followed by a 7:30 gospel program with stereopticon and hymns. Upcoming events include Relations Day February 3, Father and Son banquet February 12, and World Day of Prayer February 28.Junior service times, youth activities, and a Social Union meeting February 6 with Blanch Stevens as guest speaker. A voluntary offering will be accepted.
About 74 years ago in Tabor a town meeting denounced a visiting circus as immoral and urged landowners to bar it. Deacon G B Gaston chaired. 64 residents signed a petition, 17 women and several students. Protests aimed to pressure proprietors. no record of attendance or circus outcomes.
We express our deep thanks to friends neighbors and especially the Malvern Fire department for the sympathy shown at the death of our husband and father Mrs Geo E Pace and family
A congregational meeting Monday night extended a call to Rev. Samuel Lee to become Champion Hill’s first full time minister. Rev. Charles Speagh of Red Oak led the meeting. Pearl BE. McLain, Mrs. Sherman Allen, C. W. Bishop and Doris attended Presbytery at Shenandoah on Tuesday. Bertha Kellenbarger hosted Friday night guests including J. F. Shelley and others. C. W. Bishop attended a Farm Bureau convention in Des Moines midweek.
Sonja Henie brings Hollywood Ice Revue to Omaha for seven performances from February 7 to 13 at Ak-Sar-Ben Coliseum. No matinees. all shows start 6:15 P.M., with a single evening performance per day. Seats priced low, with reserved and box options, urging early reservations.
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