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Newspaper

Malvern Leader

Location

Malvern, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Mar 11, 1937

Page

6

March menus and marches through a school week

The sophomore and junior groups planned menus for three meals with per person costs ranging from 10c to 40c, hosted by Darlene Davis Ethel Storey Mable Edie and Arlene Fickel. The kids also study balance in art, prepare an objective Civil War test, and explore March history from Mars to Saint Patrick to presidential birthdays and constitutional milestones.

Darlene Davis Ethel Storey Mable Edie Darlene Knop Alice Hatfield Arlene Fickel

Freshman Girls Study Home Nursing First Aid

Freshman girls study home nursing focusing on applying bandages for minor injuries, organizing a medicine chest, arranging a sick room, taking temperatures, and understanding food digestion to avoid the wrong diet for a patient.

Fourth Grade Spring Display and Attendance Report

Fourth grade students decorate the room with windmills tulips and Dutch motifs. Jackie Shere Charles Robertking Doris Weak va Jackson Margaret Herrick and Louise Hedlund scored 100 in spelling for six weeks. Tests were given this week and despite mud playgrounds show early spring signs. Attendance remained perfect for the week.

Jackie Shere Charles Robertking Doris Weak Va Jackson Margaret Herrick Louise Hedlund

Freshman News Notes Spring Studies Begin

Freshman classes report warm weather and a busy start. In home economics girls study home nursing. General science centers on the relation of solar energy to the weather. Two weeks are spent on factoring and fractions in algebra. English work focuses on correcting sentences and rewriting forms.

Classroom Attendance and Spelling Highlights

Third Grade Joan Wingett visited on Friday afternoon. Students with perfect attendance over six weeks include Audrey Herrick Joan Johnson Betty Orchard Donna Lee Ranne Martha Rosenblatt Donna Tackett Gail Bell Leonard Hedlund Sonny Swain Dal lace Perkins and Edwin Edie. Orla Jones transferred to Hastings last week. Donna Tackett and Richard Smith show perfect spelling grades for six weeks.

Joan Wingett Audrey Herrick Joan Johnson Betty Orchard Donna Lee Ranne Martha Rosenblatt Donna Tackett Gail Bell Leonard Hedlund Sonny Swain Dallace Perkins Edwin Edie Orla Jones Orla Hastings Donna Tacket Richard Smith

Fifth Grade Creative Week Sparks Laughter and Practice

Fifth grade classes spent the week reviewing for tests and reading comical poems. Oliver Wendell Holmes’s The Height of the Ridiculous drew laughs as servants laughed and one man needed ten days of nursing. A skit called Noticed Morning proved very true to life while other activities included business letter practice and decorative articles for one day.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Senior News Six Weeks Left With Six Weeks Exams

The senior class met to choose a studio for portraits and settled on Cleveland Studios in Omaha, with pictures due March 19 if not postponed. Lewis Storey, a 1935 Malvern high senior, represented Cleveland. Other notes include English class reading stories, government class voting for caps and gowns, physics review for exams, history moving to post 1900 topics, and a 15 minute typing speed test with Florence Swoheda posting 42 wpm.

Cleveland Omaha Lewis Storey Malvern High School Florence Swoheda

Yearning Learner and Schoolroom Tales at Glenwood

A fragment from a school notes page recounts students searching for a mascot for a Glenwood visit, misattributed romances, and classroom mischief. Lively vignettes mention Alan Hasselquist with Lillian Needham, a mouse-eraser scare in Am. Goy, and jokes in arithmetic and geometry classes.

Wearin Urges Emergency Relief Concessions Aid Farmers

Congressman Wearin reports continued negotiations with the Resettlement Administration yielding limited emergency loans, continued grants, and feed money. He notes difficult local conditions, urges prompt assistance for farmers, and calls for cooperative funding to prevent failures while stressing that federal and local bodies must act swiftly to maintain credit and seed supplies.

Washington Harrison County Fanny Credit Administration Threof Sedan

Fragmentary schoolyard chatter described by freshmen

A garbled exchange among students recounts a freshman girl claiming a fate, with others mishearing and denying, including Roberta who notes only three people heard it. The overheard chatter involves teasing about being fettered and written notes in a messy dialogue that lacks clear context.

Glenwood Declamatory Contest Second in Declama

Contestants from our school placed second in each division at the Glenwood declamatory contest. Peggy McCormick represented us in oratory with A Challenge to American Women while Carolyn Bochner performed Litt Duh and Shirley Bacon spoke Anne of Green Gables. We are proud of their work and hope absent pupils return soon. Six weeks of tests caused sad expressions last week as we look toward two more such periods this year. We thank the senior high sector for inviting us to hear the Iowa highways patrolman talk and for the pep meeting participation.

Nur Scholening Glenweaerd Jt Spuale Peggy McCormick Carolyn Bochner Shirley Bacon Iowa Highways

Rural electrification plan offered to farmers and towns

A historical notice outlines cooperative and municipal options to obtain cheap electricity. It notes REA and Public Works Administration support, urges communities to contact local offices for data, and cites Williet town’s steam unit as a successful example. It warns against unnecessary professional help and invites farmers to request a marial statement and basic data from their county office.

Public Works Administration Mainy Williet Tow Phasiti

Watling’s Island Theater Columnist Uncovers Amelia

A columnist on Watling’s Island details a discovery titled Amelia in a southern theater of Butuernue REOUTT, outlining a dramatic reveal and local interest in the production.

Watling Isla Amelia

Local misread leads to unclear plea in court case

A garbled OCR fragment shows a court filing reference with names and actions unclear. The readable pieces point to a legal matter involving individuals and a request for consideration, but specifics are obscured by transcription errors.

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