Mills County Bond Purchases Lag Statewide Averages
State War Finance committee figures show Mills County up to May 28 lagging behind the state average in bond purchases at 35.9 percent versus 41.3 percent. Dr Cole of Thurman led a Decoration Day martial band, buoyed by a letter from his son reported missing at Anzio. Clyde Bartley Jr and family sang Don’t Fence Me In with feeling as Silver Creek swelled and washed out the bridges to their home.
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State War Finance Committee
Mills County
Dr. Cole
Thurman
Decoration Day
Anzio
Cole Porter
Clyde Bartley Jr
Silver Creek
Bartley
Malvern 4-H Rally Day Names Officers for Year
Milly county 4-H girls Rally day drew 60 members mothers and friends. Evelyn Bryan Hastings elected president with Marjorie Hofmeckel Glenwood as vice president Rose Marie Williams Silver City secretary and Doris Boyd Glenwood historian. Haroff Hastings named honorary member. Helen Jamison judged better groomed girls. Ribbon winners included Marilyn Phelps Hastings Rose Marie Williams Silver City Evelyn Bryan Hastings Dallas Boyd Glenwood Marjorie Hoffmockel Glenwood Mary Lua White Silver City. Phelps named county representative to state Rally day.
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Evelyn Bryan
Hastings
Marjorie Hofmeckel
Glenwood
Rose Marie Williams
Silver City
Doris Boyd
Benj. Haroff
Hastings Hustlers Club
Helen Jamison
Page County
Marilyn Phelps
Dallas Boyd
Marjorie Hoffmockel
Mary Lua White
Hastings Hustlers
Funeral Rites for Mrs H A Walker
Funeral services were held Friday at Mansfield Funeral home for Mrs Harriet Costello Walker born Lillian Keen in Chariton Iowa. She married Homer A Walker in 1914 and is survived by husband one daughter two granddaughters and three sisters with many relatives. She was active in the First Baptist church and Eastern Star and was laid to rest in Malvern cemetery.
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H. A. Walker
Mansfield Funeral Home
Gordon F. MacLean
The
Presbyterian Church
Harriet Costello
Zelma Fletcher
Lillian V. Keen
Edmund H
Nancy Newman Keen
Chariton
Lutess County
Mfe
First Baptist Church
Order of the Eastern Star
Malvern
MacLean
Walker
R. L. Hale
W. A. Caldwell
Pearl Kilne
Mae Wolfe
W. D. Slothower
J. H. Beckwith
H. L. Gearhart
S. J. Anderson
Thos. Gidley
W. M. Hiett
Glen Holmes
Mildred Carney
North Grove Cemetery Association Meeting Set for June 8
The North Grove Cemetery Association will meet at Mrs. Mark Bowen's home on Friday June 8. All members are invited and visitors will be welcome.
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North Grove Cemetery
Mark. Bowen
Glenwood Robbery Suspects Jailed In County
Investigation of robberies in Glenwood and nearby towns continues under Sheriff Robert I. Moore. Six convicts from Ft. Madison penitentiary, employed at Glenwood State School, are held as suspects, two in Glenwood jail, two in Red Oak, and two in Council Bluffs. County Superintendent Amy Hammers and assistant Margaret Helen White went to Creston for a conference of southern Iowa superintendents to discuss new measures passed by the last legislature.
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Glenwood
Robert I. Moore
Ft. Madison
Glenwood State School
Red Oak
Amy Hammers
Margaret Helen White
Creston
Iowa
Pvt. Robert Wynn Killed on Luzon in World War II
Mrs. Robert Wynn of El Monte California received word May 16 that her husband Private Robert C Wynn had been killed in action April 25 on Luzon in the Philippine Islands. Wynn formerly lived in Malvern and worked as a butcher at the Malvern Cold Storage plant.
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Robert Wynn
el Monte
Cal
Pvt
Robert C. Wynn
Luzon
Philippine Islands
Pvt. Wynn
Malvern
Next shipment to service center June 6
June 6 marks another shipment to the service center in Omaha where servicemen are traveling more each day and demand for home cooked food rises. Donors are urged to be generous with cookies cakes fruit and hard boiled eggs while noting buying bonds as a future planning measure and cheap money set aside for later needs.
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Service Men’s Center
Omaha
Grass Field Day At Steele Farm Saturday
A Grass Field Day is set for Saturday at the 3 M Greale farm on the north edge of Malvern in Mile county. Thirteen varieties of grasses will be shown, including nine chrome grasses, with 18 varieties of legumes for observation. Farmers may compare plots and observations on site.
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Steele Farm
Mile County
Gerd & Aph
Mills County E Bond Drive Falls Short of Quota
E bond sales in Mills County total $55,986.25 from May 21 to May 26 with 256 individual purchases, while previous reporting shows $111,581.25 from 816 sales. The county still must raise $236,582.50 to reach the quota before the drive ends June 30, with average daily sales of about $7,800 needed over the next 30 days.
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Mills County
County War Activites Committee
Campbell and Holden Paroled After Short Jail Term
Judge Vernon Johnson granted paroles last week to Havey Campbell and Othel Holden on good conduct after each serving three months of a six month sentence for resisting an officer. Campbell was paroled May 23 to Sheriff Robert S. Moore and Holden May 26 to A. J. Berkheimer for War Bonds.
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Vernon Johnson
Havey Campbell
Othel Holden
Campbell
Robert S. Moore
Holden
A. J. Berkhimer
A P Barnard Injured in Car Accident at Balfour Junction
A P Barnard sustained deep facial cuts bruises and a shoulder injury in a Wednesday morning crash at Balfour junction. His car traveling west collided with a northbound car driven by Frank Buffington. Barnard’s vehicle rolled twice. Buffington was unhurt.
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A. P. Barnard
Balfour Junction
Frank Buffington
Union Vacation Bible School Opens in Malvern Church
A union school for Malvern youth will run two weeks at the Baptist Church starting Monday June 4 at 9 a.m. It is open to all school age children and above with two Minneapolis workers directing activities. Daily hours are 8 to noon, Monday through Friday, kept by voluntary free will offerings.
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Baptist Church
Malvern
Minneapolis
Minin
Mills County OPA Debate Shows Ration Board Struggles
A Mills County reader letter expresses mixed support and requests to the wartime OPA rationing program. The missive notes shortages, school lunches, and pay promises, while praising ration board members who operate without pay amid broad public scrutiny.
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OPA
Busy day for Dr Parsons treating local injuries
Dr I V W Parsons treated several patients in Hastings today. Mervin Turner suffered severe facial and eye burns after a calcium carbonate explosion in his garage. Mrs Max Hunmel broke a toe kicking a caster on a bed. Lonzo Bennett broke both bones in his left arm in a wheelbarrow accident while yard work.
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Dr. I. VW. Parsons
Mervin Turner
Hastings
Alleda
Max Hunmel
Lonzo Bennett
Clinton Jackson
Ray Plumb Seriously Injured After Creek Bank Collapse
Ray Plumb was seriously injured Tuesday evening while eating corn near Mud Creek when the bank caved in. He fell 16 feet with a tractor and mower into the creek, suffering a broken rib and kidney injury. He crawled to a neighbor’s home and was taken to Dr. Kline in Malvern. confined to bed with injuries. The Waller Transfer pulled the tractor and lister from the ditch with their wrecker.
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Ray Plumb
Mud Creek
Neigbor
Dra Kline
Malvern
Plumb Sn
Waller
Tractor
Lister
PVT Berl Bushnell Killed In Action On Okinawa
Mrs C W Bushnell received notice from the war department that her son Pfc Berl Bushnell was killed in action May 2 on Okinawa. She lives with Mr and Mrs Nathan Moore where she is an invalid resident.
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Mra
C. W. Bushnell
War Department
Pfc
Berl Bushnell
Okinawa
Edna Bingham Jones Injured in California Horse Incident
Mr and Mrs W R Bingham learn their daughter Edna Bingham Jones was thrown from a horse near Santa Ana California last Tuesday suffering a serious knee injury and brain concussion. She was treated at the air base hospital and her condition later reported as good after several updates.
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W. R. Bingham
Edna Bingham Jones
Santa Ana
Cal
Red Cross
Jones
Binghams
Veterans Auxiliary Poppy Sale Nets $307.93
American Legion Auxiliary members sold veteran made pop pies on Saturday raising 307.93 after costs. Proceeds fund rehabilitation work for veterans. Mrs. B.E. Strahan led Malvern and Strahan efforts with Mrs. Vernon Crouse coordinating Hastings sales.
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American Legion Auxiliary
Be, G, Wederqvist
Strahan
Malvern
Vernon Crouse
Hastings
Public Invited to Attend Glenwood State School Exhibit
The public is invited to view Manual and Industrial Art works from Glenwood State School on Tuesday June 6 from 7 to 10 p m. A sale of these articles will be held Wednesday June 6 at 2 p m to avoid past year confusion.
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Glenwood State School
Memorial Day Observed With Fine Program
The community observed Memorial Day on Wednesday with martial music at 9:30 a.m. under George Davis of Tea Movies and Bert Shaul of Strahan, aided by musicians from Thurman and Council Bluffs. Rev. P. N. McDermott of Atlantic gave an address honoring veterans, stressing democratic peace and Christian living. Ralph Hall sang, girls sextet performed, and the school band provided music. at the cemetery no ritual was held at the unknown soldier grave.
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George Davis
Tea Movies
Bert Shaul
Strahan
Thurman
Council Bluffs
P. N. McDermott
Atlantic
Ralph Hall
Former Malvernian dies in Nebraska
Myra Gunnarson formerly of Malvern died at her daughter and son in law home in Newman Grove Nebraska on May 17 at age 71. Funeral was May 21 at 2 30 p m at the Methodist church in Newman Grove conducted by Rev Norman Sitheram Burial followed in Newman Grove cemetery She was born May 4 1879 the youngest daughter of Silas and Mary Montgomery She married John D Newman in 1883 five children were born two died in infancy and one in World War I She married Edward Gunnarson in 1910 who died in 1940 She had lived in Newman Grove for 40 years She was a Gold Star mother of the American Legion Auxiliary and lifelong Methodist member Her Montgomery parents lived south of Malvern and owned the farm now part of W Carl Wilsons property
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Myra Dunnarvon
Malvern
Geo
Newboff
Methodiat Church
Newman Grove
Neb
Norman Sinttheram
Gunnarson
Methodist Church
Montgomery
W. Carl Wilson
Card of Thanks for Kindness and Flowers
The Mart family expresses appreciation to relatives and friends for acts of kindness and floral offerings received. Mrs. W. Mart and family.
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W. Mart
The Missouri Will Entertain With Hig Muddy Tale
The Malvern library adds The Missouri by Stanley Vestal to its Rivers of America series. Mills county readers are promised a pleasant fireside evening with this natural asset tale. The piece recalls local Missouri river history and legends including Hobo Island and old boundary shifts with Nebraska.
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A. Wortman
Malvern Public Library
Mills County
Stanley Vestal
Countiaus
Northers
Lakes
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Milly County
Silver Urn
North Growe
Robt
Wynn
Barnard
Mr. Buffington
Union Vacation Bible School Mere
Suse
Avery Hogle Clilaan
U. S
A. F. Standiford
Dorothy Largent
H. E. Greenwood
Emerson
Carolyn Breeding
Garoline
Wynn Castor
Henderson
Phyllis Ponton
H. W. Washburn
Bert Colwell
Pvt. Bushnell
Edna
California
Rev. McDermott
Malvernian
Nebraska
Myra Gunnarsson
Missouri
Board of Supervisors
Hobo Island
Hurvhcank Woodrow
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