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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1907
Page
3
Hastings area social notes recount visits and travel among residents. Harry Benedict returns from ten days with family. others visit Council Bluffs, Logan, Malvern, Sidney, Emerson, and Creston. Local events include Epworth League delegates, a cattle shipment to Chicago, and community notices plus a residential move. Medical notes mention Glen Dixon on the sick list. summer cough remedies promote Bees Laxative Cough Syrup.
Clarence Genung was ill early in the week but now up. Billy Wheeler hauled corn to the elevator earning 46c per bushel. John Berard visited en route to Oklahoma to fetch his wife. Red Store offered temperance drinks. Ferdinand Detlef lost two milk cows to clover bloat last week. Rain washed out much listed corn. Agent Mitchell stopped by Hillsdale Tuesday evening. A. S. Bennett and family traveled to Glenwood Saturday to view the balloon ascent and came within 10 rods of the goose.
Lightning struck the dwelling of Wm Clay 34 miles east Sunday around 2 a.m. and burned it to the ground. Clay and family were away visiting in Pottawattamie county. Insured for both building and contents. Theories on entry include chimney or telephone wire, the latter unlikely due to an undisturbed nearby pole.
J J Maurath had business in Omaha Thursday and Friday. Miss Mabel McCoy returned Friday from Omaha after attending a friend's wedding the prior Wednesday. Miss Emma Huffaker visited Council Bluffs Friday. Mert Morris and his little daughter visited Omaha last Friday. Frances McCoy is improving from illness. A P Reeve returned Thursday from a week with relatives in Illinois. C H Kruse’s new dwelling foundation work delayed by bad weather. J G Flanagan went to South Dakota for several days on a land prospecting trip. Mr and Mrs J B Taylor of Tabor arrived Saturday morning for a few days with relatives in Silver City. Mrs Louie Zanders returned from two weeks with relatives at Anita. J B Anderson of Hopkins Mo visiting his parents, Mr and Mrs J W Anderson. Hon C G Greenwood and wife spent the past week with relatives.
Wyoming and Blue Springs Nebraska items report Miss Clara Plumb seriously ill with appendicitis at her uncle's home in Oakland. Community news covers local visits, travels, and upcoming assignments including postmaster vacancy and clerical moves.
Randolph visitors join Tabor friends at a Sunday gathering. Property sale on New Street transfers to Mrs Etta Hill for 1150 dollars. Ad Utterback escorted Lou Genung from Glenwood in a common Ivory rig. Delegates to Epworth League convene in Woodbine this week including Rev Peter Jacobs and several local residents. Stella Hackett closes a four term term at Hill school with 24 visitors. L B H Lundeen to begin an 83000 residence east of Tabor with Hunter and Wells carpenters. Mrs Myrtle Darling of Oktaha visits Sidney and Tabor until the Golden Jubilee. L Tall visits Shenandoah and attends Fred Rowland and Mabel Crose nuptials. H G White returns from Pine County after timber clearing and wood shipping to Minneapolis. John White works in an assay office in northern Iowa. H Robbing family travels through Tabor returning from Cortland Nebraska, en route from Malvern to Hastings.
Local column lists residents returning from colleges in Fairfield Northfield Ames and Yale with travel by car and train. Cattle and hog shipments to Chicago Omaha and markets noted. Miss Draheim enhances teaching at Macedonia and Iowa City. July Woodmen and Farmers picnic planned. tennis club forming. M W A policy payout to Mrs Roath. Death of infant Earl Snodgrass prompts community sympathy.
Strahan Miss Della Whalen of Emerson visited her sister Rheba this week. Mrs John Dull of Malvern and Mrs Harry Dull of Glenwood visited Mrs W D Kayton. Mrs James Criswell was from Malvern. Miss Mabel Reasoner visited Hillsdale. Miss Marjorie Buffington returned home with her for a visit. Children Day exercises at church next Sunday at 2 30. A good program arranged. Geo F Salyers Co. sell two row John Deere cultivators. Nellie Horrigan closed a public school in Nahley last Friday. Three graduates Lizale Maher Clare Slater and Tna Balyers.
Henderson brief notes report progress on Wilson brick building and new church pastor arrival. Miss Flora Wilson departs for Des Moines summer school. George Liser returns from southern trip. Mrs. W. D. Craig back from Harlan visit. Prof. Davenport on business trip. Clarence Workman leaves Des Moines to work for J. W. Triplett. A son born to Robert McClennahan family. Joseph Parker and Z E Hughes ship cattle to Chicago market. Old elevators being torn down for W A Harbor’s new building. lumber stock noted.
Frank Townsend aged 35 died at his home near Pacific City last Monday morning after years of consumption. He leaves a wife. funeral held yesterday at Martins Chapel cemetery. In other news H H McCartney couple plan Wyoming visit next week. Local staff learn of a ten percent wage raise effective May 1. Mail weighing completes after 105 days. government to base four year road contracts on results. Young weighers gain civil service prospects. ex Pact to become mail clerks. John Peterson and cousin Adolph Olson sail from New York to Liverpool after visiting Niagara Falls and Buffalo. They expect to reach their old home mid next week.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Steen spent Saturday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Gibson, Mrs. C. E. McLain and daughter at Champion Hill.
Red Oak visitors and Emerson helpers feature in a round of school term closings. Miss Ollie Smith of Hastings wraps a successful term with a boxed supper netting 15 dollars, while Miss Mary Crandall of Red Oak returns home after closing No 3 School. Children’s Day program set for Sunday June 16 invites all. Miss Jessie McLain and Miss Elizabeth Waldron also report term ends at Keystone and No 4 respectively.
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