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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1934
Page
5
Malvern High invites parents and patrons to Friday evening classes to view a condensed, hour and a half program of a typical school day. Faculty will guide ten minute class sessions in regular rooms to show aims and methods, followed by a short musical program.
Stasey and M E Wiseman offer 46 head of Guernsey cattle at a special dispersion sale. Includes 26 milking cows 16 yearling heifers five heifer calves and one Guernsey bull. Sale at the farm four miles south and half a mile east of Hastings and two miles northeast of Strahan. Piper and Talbott are auctioneers.
An obituary note reports the death of Rickabaugh on Sunday at a local farm. The fragment references Harty and other names in a terse notice, indicating a community obituary.
Early returns from Milla County show results compiled by The Leader staff as printers worked overnight to prepare type and reporters filed returns as they came in. Final decisions on county contests depend on late precincts, but the table below outlines the current figures.
Local workers will launch the annual Red Cross membership drive in Mal vern next Monday as part of a national effort. A community-wide membership campaign is planned with a $1 fee, half of which stays locally for relief. Last year funds bought shoes for needy schoolchildren. A quota of up to 100 members was set, and volunteers urge all interested residents to respond promptly.
Local residents faced the heaviest rainfall of the month with 1.48 inches recorded at the sub station gauge on Friday night and Saturday. Forecasts suggest this fall may surpass last summer’s total, hinting at a wetter season ahead.
Malvern town council discussed a proposed ordinance covering the milk industry but found it had excessive material. Distributors urged a simpler sample ordinance, while a health department notice said the town would soon be placed on approved water supply status. Expenditures at the new water plant totaled 5640, with only an oil store remaining to finish.
Foxworthy School reports pupils completing biography notebooks. All students turn in books with full and interesting accounts of various authors. Cover designs are very good and exhibit excellent work throughout.
M. T. Davis went to the polls Tuesday to cast his vote in a general election for the thirty fifth time. He began voting for Abraham Lincoln in 1864 when he was 17 and serving after enlisting. He will be 88 next spring and recalls the era when Malvern’s county farms began.
Members of the Mills county drouth committee led by W M Estes Pacific Junction LeRoy Rodman Malvern D N McGrew Henderson and County Agent Bruce M Kilpatrick announce a series of town hall meetings starting Thursday evening Nov 8 in Mills county. Speakers will discuss feed and livestock needs for winter outlining feed utilization especially corn fodder disease feed and economic value plus emergency options. Seed problems will also be discussed with inventories and needs by township. Next week meetings include Thursday Plattville township at the M E church Pacific Junction at 8 p m.
Mills County youth and stock shown at Ak-Sar-Ben compete in Angus and Shorthorn calves, fat barrows, and showmanship. Participants include Dick Hyde Hastings and Ed Wearin Malvern with top placements in multiple classes. Mills County earn third in herdsmanship and showmanship among baby beeves and swine. Omaha Chamber boosts local sale prospects with favorable results.
Mrs Kate Sowers passed away at her home in Hetdergen Monday morning, November 6. She was 73 years old. Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at 2 30 in the Weasley Chapel church.
In 1981 A J Wearin and A E Platt argued over buying a dog. The price was set but payment depended on corn at 76 cents per bushel. Elevators paid 75 cents that day, and Wearin finally paid with a five dollar bill. The dog is now dead.
Legionnaires led by Malvern’s Harry Hammona plan Armistice Day shoot at Follett farm grounds a half mile north of Malvern. Auto traps reconditioned for the day and hot lunches by Legion Auxiliary. Legal games of skill and other activities draw a wide following. prizes include turkeys ducks geese and other fowl.
Malvern firefighters rushed to the Lewis Anthony residence near Strahan on Thursday as a fire broke out in the house. Neighbors arrived first and had the blaze under control before the department reached the scene. The fire started from a defective fuse.
Mills County voters poured to the polls Tuesday with Emerson exhausting ballots in Malvern and large turnout in Glenwood. By early Wednesday Herring led by about 39 000 statewide as Democrats captured most county offices while Republicans Bohade Judkina Crown won in their races and Raynor became coroner. Otha Wearin appears to lead Swanton in Congress with a close race. The final county tally surpassed 4 000, a record for the area.
Petit jurors for the November term of the district court have been announced by Clerk J. F. Greens Sr. Court opens in Glenwood on November 27 with Judge Ernest M. Miller presiding. Names include Loran Boyer Glenwood J Barbour Pacific Junction Ben Bothwell Glenwood Wearly Bowen Hastings Oscar Carlson Malvern Chas Coffey Glenwood Martin Christofferson Henderson Nellie Crouse Henderson Henrietta Newitt Glenwood R B Dunn Emerson Joe Doyle Imogene W E Pritcher Henderson Johanie Fisher Pacific Junction Mrs B W Harmey Pacific Junction J D Heabler Glenwood Joe Haden Hastings M K Hicks Emerson Auntie H Jens Glenwood Vera Judkina Glenwood Lillian Lewis Glenwood Adiga Lookabill Hastings Lucille Lawler Glenwood T C Lake Malvern O C Lipsett Glenwood Paul Mayberry Glenwood Albert Menghel Hastings RB McCormick Glenwood Theo Powles Pacific Junction Lusia Priest Hastings Marthe Postow Hastings Ogil Powers Glenwood Reeser Malvern.
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