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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1939
Page
3
Subscriptions to Mrs Jack Niday are being coordinated by Hastings correspondent. The notice urges residents to renew or start subscriptions to support local reporting and community updates.
Hastings news covers a busy period with a senior class trip to Omaha for Golden Spike Days and plans for the spring mystery play The Green Light at the Hastings Community Building. Highlights include senior sponsor Mr. Fellows, cast members Jerome Poruster and Mary Moreton, and a banquet hosted by juniors.
The seventh and eighth grades hosted a farewell party at the school house for Fred Lytle, a seventh to eighth grade student and Scout Troop 85 member. He was promoted to assistant patrol leader and to the ninth stage before leaving for California, with a pocket watch presented by his teacher. The event featured fire escape lights, games on the ball diamond, and refreshments, while church notices and birthday mentions followed.
Imogene S E Mills Miscellaneous Shower honors daughter Maxine now Mrs Donald Tory at Shenandoah home. Guests, bingo, gifts for new home. ice cream and cake served. Local visits, road survey, illness, and social notes from Imogene area.
East Liberty residents mourn M H Phillips longtime church custodian and township assessor, survived by three daughters and two sons. interment at East Liberty Cemetery. Doane College recital features Katherine Kerney a Doane senior music major with Bach English Suite Chopin Sonata and Liszt concert, accompanied by her teacher Professor Arthur Byler. Local visitors attend, including Catherine Kearney, Laura Kerney, Mrs Maddocks, Ralph and Edna, and Betty Barger staying with Clye and Mrs Burger. weekly community events noted with illness and attendance details.
Marvin Miller missed several school days due to a severe tonsillitis attack. Fern Maddocks, a student nurse at Edmundson hospital in Council Bluffs, spent Sunday with her parents Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Maddocks. Mary Henderson Evelyn Latehan and Lucile Daugherty, student nurses at Mercy hospital in Council Bluffs, visited the Henderson home for dinner with several Miller family members. Afternoon callers included Miss Edith Brewer of Malvern and Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Latchaw. A good turnout at Sunday services featured Rev. Geo W Hall whose two messages were well received. son Clarence drove out to bring him.
Hillsdale area notes record a Rural Improvement club gathering at Mrs Walter Hilton's home with 40 attendees. Program included a short business session, poetry, song Little Brown Church in the Vale, Religion at the Home panel, and piano selections. Refreshments served. next meeting May 17 at Mrs Edwin Howard.
Local notes record Mr and Mrs Edwin Howard at the Golden Spike parade in Omaha on Thursday. Mayo Basa did business in Council Bluffs Monday. Various couples hosted dinners and visits near Emerson, Council Bluffs, and Pacific Junction, with multiple Golden Spike visitors listed. The piece ends with a clipped historical reference to the Centennial Exposition opening in 1876 and Columbus’s voyage in 1502.
Egyptian writing dates back to at least 4000 B C. A cartouche, an oblong frame on monuments, bears the name of Send, a second dynasty pharaoh, and is regarded as the earliest extant writing.
A sequence of local notices reports on A J Wegrin starting a brick stucco home on Marion avenue bought from Wm Angus. Cadwell and Salyers broker a sale moving Dr Thos W Gidtey properties to G Nellen bern with Nollen 240 acre Kansas farm as exchange. Dr R L South opens veterinary office in Malvern and demand grows. D Gibson opens a new grocer delivery wagon in Tabor. Tabor and Northern railroad surveys to Hillsdale and Malvern chosen. water well near Box Elder hits water at 116 feet with rapid rise.
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