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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1940
Page
1
The listing shows pricing for obituary poetry five cents per line inch, association resolutions six cents per line inch, and a card of thanks sixty cents. It notes extra charges for guaranteed position and locating.
Subscribers are urged to notify the subscription department promptly of address changes. Under new laws, newspapers must receive changes in addresses from the post office. Delays in delivery or failure to receive the paper remain concerns, with plans to send changes in advance.
Editorial cautions Malvern lawns and gardens will burn in drought urging the water department to adopt summer lower rates. Notes Mills County fair exhibits due Aug 3 and upcoming Hastings Homecoming and Henderson rodeo. Discusses national debt shares, Roosevelt’s presidency, and looming food shortages in France with Nazi expansion. Ends with notice to bring old papers to The Leader office.
The discussion centers on the long held anti third term sentiment, but ongoing partisan framing obscures broader implications. The piece notes that despite rhetoric, practical governance and constitutional norms merit careful scrutiny rather than mere political scratch work.
A Malvern tale recounts a shoe string seller leaving town in an expensive car with two assistants after a string of visits to business houses. Owen Hamaker's Rotary talk describes fish piled against a mill race during a cold winter when river ice blocked water flow, trapping about 76 fish until the water resumed. A separate vignette recalls R W Salyers taunting a victim during 100 degree heat while roaming the Colorado Rockies.
The Mills County Auditor reports petitions for vacation of two roads in the Henderson and Glenwood areas. Objections or damage claims must be filed by noon August 12, 1840, in the Auditor’s office, or the roads will be vacated as proposed. Names include J I Daugherty, R L Parrington, Josephine Houser, Jesse Curran, W B Woods, Alberta Maloy, Rush Kammerer, Edward Laughlin, Theresa Laughlin, Michael Doyle, and the Wabash Railroad Company.
Home demonstration agent Jennie Marle Warren led meetings to aid 4-H teams as they prepare for the Mills County Fair. Hastings Hustlers under Mrs Benj Haroff and Miss Virginia Scott plan to show cleaning equipment storage in a girl's bedroom while Silverette club members demonstrate caring for milk and equipment. Other groups rehearse dish washing storage and silverware care under various leaders. Demonstrations set for August 6 at Floral Hall with judging to follow.
Hog raisers face erysipelas and similar diseases that mimic cholera, complicating diagnosis and treatment. Positive diagnosis is needed before control. Erysipelas serum may confer short term immunity and shows curative value for the ill. A Nebraska culture project aims to provide permanent immunity with serum, with field tests by veterinarians. The disease lowers hog production and market value, and chronic arthritis from infection disrupts interstate hog movement due to enlarged joints.
Barbara Sawyers hosted the Homemakers 4-H club on July 11 with ten members, three visitors, leader Mrs. Lyle Hunt, and assistant leader Mrs. A. H. Mayberry present. Virginia Mayberry and Esther Graalis reported on the Ames state convention program. Plans were made for the Mills County Fair August 6 to 8 including the Achievement Show and exhibits, with special piano music by visitors.
A dramatic notice proclaims a nationwide fight against rats using Scotty Hat and Mouse Hiller as harmless to dogs, cats, chickens, and humans. The wartime rhetoric frames pest control as a public defense measure and urges immediate action.
Farm Bureau broadcast July 18 under Jennie Marie Warren outlined the 1940 Mills County Fair program. Ray Hilton, 4-H leader, discussed agricultural and 4-H livestock exhibits. Miss Warren covered 4-H girls and women schedules. Rolland Bird, 14, sang Home on the Range and There’s a Gold Mine in the Sky with Zelma Fletcher on piano.
4-H delegates to Camp Brewster led camp songs and stunts at the Hastings Hustlers Club meeting on July 12. Harriet Crawford spoke on a conservation book, Betty Haden and Deloris Kelley started conservation books, and Lorraine Brice directed posture painters. Betty Crouse discussed Home Safety. a silverware cleaning demonstration was given. Virginia Scott assisted. The next meeting is set for July 26.
L Evans of the Federal Bureau of Plant Industry says droughts since 1934 with two extra dry seasons in 1934 and 1946 have driven an unusually severe weed problem in the Great Plains. The drought periods have increased weed growth and spread.
The passage notes that windweed and wild morning glory spread with drought, aided by dry soil. Deep rooted perennial weeds outcompete cultivated crops when moisture is scarce, allowing weed growth to thrive while farmers abandon weed-killing cultivation.
Tom Stansell of Osceola plans to move to Hollywood California soon to manage a young comedian from Mexico Missouri who aspires to become a movie star.
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