Traveling column fills space as this week’s feature
Mills County readers learn Allen Wortman’s Traveling column replaces Along Main Street this week due to author laziness and summer heat. Bruce Breeding reports a 4 am lightning strike on the First Baptist church steeple, leaving charred shingles on the ground and on the tower. Heavy rains helped prevent a fire. Farmers praise rain along Silver Creek, while Silver City area beans suffer flood damage from Tuesday’s downpour, with several acres of new beans lost.
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Main Street
Allen Wortman
Bruce Breeding
First Baptist
Breeding
Silver Creek
Bill Barber
Silver City
Malvern Council Swears Edie, Accepts Jones Resignation
In a rapid Monday session the Malvern Town Council accepted Councilwoman Marian Jones’s resignation and appointed Edwin Edie to fill her unexpired term through November. Edie, longtime resident and former Leader advertising manager, will co chair the sanitation committee and join the public safety panel. The vote also confirmed Robert Jones as permanent City Marshal as part of other business.
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Malvern
Marian Jones
Edwin Edie
Pace Service Co
Peggy
Jon Kemp
Edie
The
Leader
Public Safety
Chambers
W.R. Byington
Robert Jones
Jones
Hanson
Thieves Hit Area Businesses Amid Crime Wave
Mills County Sheriff Merle Brown reports a burglary at Jon's Service in Malvern with two color TVs and an 8 track stereo taken during a 1:30 to 2:30 a.m. window. Police tie the break-in to other incidents at an Iowa Power substation and Stan's TV in Tabor as part of a county wide crime wave.
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Mills County
Merle E. Brown
Jon’s Service, Inc
Malvern
Kemp
Brown
Iowa Power
Sheriff's Office
Stan’s TV
Tabor
Emerson Men Drown in Treynor Pond Tragedy
Two Emerson men, Martin Von Fecht aged 69 and Michael Jensen aged 20, drowned when a fishing boat capsized on a farm pond near Treynor. Jensen’s father Chris swam for help, Treynor Rescue Unit recovered the bodies after a 14 hour search. Services for Von Fecht scheduled at Zion Congregational Treynor with burial in the local cemetery. Michael Jensen, a Red Oak native and Emerson resident, was a 1971 graduate of Nishna Valley High School and active in local church matters.
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Emerson
Martin von Fecht
Michael Jensen
Treynor
Bernard Schnoor
Jensen
Chris
Lewis Township
von Fecht
Zion Congregational Church
AH. Hoersch
Velma
Tom McClain
Wayne
Nebr
Ken
Navy
Virginia Beach
Matilda Nagel
Lisa Hamaan
Germany
First Baptist Church
David Olsen
Emerson Cemetery
Michael
Red Oak
Nishna Valley Community High School
Hastings
Personal injuries in Car Cycle crashes Last Wir
Mills county Sheriff Merle Brown reports a June 28 motorcycle crash injuring 17 year old Mary Beth Thompson of Red Oak when her 1973 Suzuki struck a curve post on Highway 34 four miles east of Glenwood She was taken to Murphy Memorial hospital Red Oak then moved to an Omaha hospital Larry Keith Stouder of Malvern drove a Chevrolet pickup that struck a county bridge at 1 am causing about 1600 damage Gregory Lee Weis of Glenwood Rt 2 was charged with failure to have control of vehicle
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Mills County
Merle Brown
Mary Beth Thompson
Red Oak
Suzuki
Glenwood
Miss Thompson
Murphy Memorial Hospital
Omaha
Larry Keith Stouder
Malvern
Gregory Lee Weis
Rt. 2
Local Sharing Funds released to Malvern Emerson and Henderson
Three towns receive Federal Revenue Sharing allocations for local use. Malvern gets 3200 for transportation construction including curbs and gutters. Emerson receives 966 for transportation. Henderson earmarks 421 for health. Entitlement period runs January 10 to June 30, 1973. A legal notice covers all three communities.
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Malvern
Emerson
Henderson
Leahy Clark Colorful Acts Mark 26th Great July 4th Show
The 26th annual Independence Day celebration at the Dutchman’s club drew crowds for motorcycle races skydive acts and a stage show featuring Whizzo the Clown and Captain Eddie Ventura. United States Senator Dick Clark and former Omaha Mayor Eugene Leahy attended along with local officials and performers in a festive display of fireworks and auto pushball. A small fire at Gordon Axtell’s farm was contained with firefighters later aiding smoke removal.
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Whizzo the Clown
Alison Boyd
Eddie Ventura
F.E
Mike” Bloomer
C.W
Mac” McManamy
Bob Rabe
Malvern
Harry Hammons
American Legion
Omaha
Eugene Leahy
Leahy
United States
Dick Clark
Dem
Clark
Auto
Red Oak
Iowa
Bill Harbor
LaVerne Schroeder
Cal Hultman
Jane Scherle
Gene Leahy
Boehner Pond
Gerald Leu
Eddie Leu
Fairgrounds
Motorcycle theft reported to sheriff
Kenneth Clark of Route 2 Glenwood reported to Mills county Sheriff the theft of a 1972 Harley Davidson from his farm. The Malvern Rescue Unit alarm was triggered by lightning early Monday at about 1 a.m. and was turned off by unit members. The siren also activated early Tuesday morning for the same reason.
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Kenneth Clark
Glenwood
Mills County
Malvern
New Office for Magis Courtroom in Glenwood
Mills county supervisors announce the former Aistrope Insurance building on the east side of Glenwood square has been acquired for Magistrates court use. Magistrates Carold Rogers and Esther Engle will hold sessions there while Engle also presides in Malvern at the Liberty Memorial building on Tuesdays from 9 to 11 a.m.
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Mills County Board of Supervisors
Aistrope Insurance Agency
Glenwood
Carold Rogers
Esther Engle
Finale Becomes Longest and Most Colorful Dutchman Day
The finale was the longest and most colorful on record marking a perfect end to a perfect Dutchman day with vibrant spectacle and celebratory mood.
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M. Jones
Spirit Lake
Happy Ill
Mary L. Barton
Mills Co. Social Services
Mills County Dept. of Social Services
Carolyn Washburn
Barton
Social Service Office
Michael Kelley
Iowa State University
Chris Jensen
Chris W
Anna Jensen
Shenandoah
Ira Aistrope
Howard Clark
Patricia McGlade Weis
Pete
Gene
Gerald
Leu
Nuts
Inside
Wesley News
Malvernians
Church News
East Liberty
Reese Society
Emerson News
Hastings News
Strahan News
Henderson News
Mt. Vernon
Oaks
Howard Casel
Mike Bloomer
Red Men
Yellow Jackets
Gordon Axtell
Axtell
Magis
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