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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1955
Page
2
In Mills County Iowa editors urge recognizing progress in public schools while seeking improvement. Malvern council service is praised for public dedication despite criticism. Readers discuss community character, civic effort, and the Highway 34 expressway proposal with caution about tolls and local impact.
Vows of Whalvernans Waite Saith daughter of Floyd and Smiths of Canada spent Friday and Saturday with Carol Wortman and attended echons here. The Smiths plan to move to California in about two weeks. A community food sale is scheduled at Town Power and Light office on Saturday November 11 from 10 9 a.m. to 2 07 p.m. Sponsored by the Clark Scouts. George Hilton of Council Bluffs visited Malvern friends and were dinner guests of Zelma Fletcher. Various neighbors from Omaha Kansas City and Denver spent weekends with Malvern families. Several local trips occurred to Noel Missouri and Camdenton Missouri.
Dick Mills reports on the Mansfield cooking school where Mrs. Bob Hopp won the Cosco serving table prize. Elizabeth Cragg demonstrated baking turkey dishes and selling milk products, with recipes for blue cheese spread and blue cheese dressing. Rex Beresford spoke at the Council Bluffs Savings Bank banquet on livestock markets and feeder cattle prices.
Final rites were held in Reid Chapel Glenwood for B. A. Reynolds 73 with burial in Malvern cemetery. A retired farmer he had lived in Mills county 65 years and once resided where the Rainbow couple now lives. He died in Mercy hospital Council Bluffs Nov 13 after years of poor health. He is survived by his wife Flossie Reynolds and three foster children.
A mixed update from Mills 4-H shows covers pig marketing day at the county fair with Producers Marketing Co and a Cudahy tour on market swine grades. It notes the first 4-H leader training in November, plans for January sessions, and praise for Mary Lou Evans’s National 4-H Club Congress trip along with recent national trips by Martha Wearin.
Funeral services for William Schiefelbein will be held Friday at 10 30 a m at Meyers Funeral Home in Council Bluffs. A German native who lived in Silver City and Council Bluffs for 20 years he died in his hotel room after suffering a heart attack in his sleep. He was born October 17 1878 and died November 16 1955 aged 77. Burial will be at East Liberty cemetery. Survived by a Hastings sister Mrs Hugo Ponton three nieces and three nephews.
Eighteen 4-H members enrolled in Mills County 1955 56 laying flock project. Gail Shellberg notes entries closed November 1. Participants will exhibit four hens and twelve eggs at the county 4 H Achievement Show next July, with top two earning a four day poultry study trip.
The Silver Cloud Jr. club held its November meeting at Sherry Stevens home with eleven members and five guests present. Committees were formed for Rally Bower Plaine Asm Beckwith Jorr ane Kline and others, planning a December event and a Legion Day program. Betty Baldozier spoke on Health and Sherry Stevens on Parliamentary Procedure, with refreshments served. next meeting set for December 12 at Jerry Trivelys home.
Five 4H members and leader traveled to Des Moines on November 5 to tour the Iowa Breeders Coop stud. Attendees included Ed Laughlin, Jay DuVal, Dyle and Delores Downing, and Kathleen Decker with Gail Decker as leader. Luncheon was served at noon and a dairying program aided by Extension dairy men of Iowa State College was presented. Sponsored by the Iowa Breeders Co-op.
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