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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1934
Page
8
A social gathering on Friday honored Mrs. Fred Martin with a birthday celebration. Attendees included Mr and Mrs A Crownes, Mr and Mrs A H Gpenge, Mrs Briste Hall, and many others. Refreshments featured oysters and celery as part of a pleasant evening for all_present.
A surprise party last Monday honored Violet Guatth and Donald Williams on their shared birthdays at the Gustin residence. Guests included Rether, Harold, June and Eugene Kidwell, Robert and Dorle Williams, Lillian and Warren Crawford, Jane Christy, Vanita Ord, Josephine Haden, Allen Christie, Koetth Rhaw, Denver Waterworth, Pauline and Kenneth Gustin, Clittora Drelsee, Violet Gustin, and Donald Williams. Lorraine Clark visited Omaha with Mrs. Carl Linn. Nedra Crawford returned from Shenandoah Sunday.
Last week the Ladies Thimble Bee held a monthly meeting. Plans were made for the annual bazaar on December 14. Birthdays for November honored Mrs Brazerton Mrs Fred Martin Mrs Ira Turner and Mrs Williams. Mrs Ripley baked a birthday cake. A program included a booth titled November and a talk by Mrs Fred Martin about the pewter serving dish handed down since the 1800s. Mrs Durbin spoke on cranberries and their growth. Next meeting is December 6 to prepare for the bazaar.
Himo Hites completed a new green house north of his home. The structure measures 27 feet long and 10 feet wide with a tur nate on the north side. He plans to store vegetables there in winter and plant early in spring.
Church services listed with Sunday school times and youth hour for the congregation. Local obituaries note deaths, funerals, and family travels. community members visit relatives, celebrate anniversaries, and attend services in nearby towns. Hastings Cemetery Association meeting details and members referenced.
Gladys Hites reports on Haiti public school news with exams this Thursday and Friday, a Thanksgiving vacation, and continued study of national finances. The history period 1789 to 1800 is covered, American Literature includes Snowbound, and Whittier, while physics reviews Newton's three laws.
Faculty News item notes Mr Bitther, a former Cornhusker, returning to Lincoln for homecoming on Saturday. He greeted old friends and reminisced about past times, then attended the Nebraska Missouri football clash in the afternoon.
Velma Mingas reports juniors and 68 sophomores at H. H. B. clashing over loud sweaters in the assembly. Advanced home economics served a luncheon to Mine Allen with escalloped tuna and lettuce sandwiches. Juniors rehearse a mystery comedy The Yellow Shadow with no date yet set for the presentation.
Six weeks of examinations are over. In home economics the girls served a breakfast of muffins and chocolate. In manual training Warren Crawford makes a medicine cabinet, Leslie Benedict completed a small reading table for Mize Switzer and is making a bulletin board for the home economics room.
Doris Darland presented an engaging report on Treasure Island by Stevenson last week in Englay. The discussion raised questions about why Mr. Bittner forbids thumb tacks in sophomore postings and class notices.
Readability shows student names and scores from spelling and addition tests. Fourth graders start a unit on Eskimos, while the Pilgrim book set nears completion. Second six weeks attendance lists include Bonnie Rutledge Dean Davis Robert Shaw Roberta Clark Harold Fellows Della Yargent Melvin Trimmer Loyoda Bowen Lovens Bowen Mary Gue Grouse and Alta Moe Btkes.
The six week attendance record shows Gene Courter Waldo Crawford and several others listed as not absent or tardy. Names include Clary Clark Clark Clites Gurl sin Hamilton Hudson Martin Johnsn Miller Bind and Freddie with partial spellings indicating OCR errors.
On Wednesday November 21 about 60 friends teachers and Pupsia Parenté staged a surprise shower for Miss Marie Carr at the Imogene public school the event featured a playful rock wedding with Mrs Jake Bossard as the bride and Mrs M Printy as the groom a later gift guessing game and many practical presents for her new home The following day a second shower hosted by Mrs C C Maher drew around 60 relatives and friends at her Imogene home with entertainment contests and gifts for the bride to be Miss Carr departed Saturday for Maley to wed James Laughlin Jr on November 28.
Miss Maxine Bell daughter of Mr and Mrs Orville Bell north of Imogene wed Terry Smilivan of Shenandoah in Nebraska City Nov 18. She is a Strahan consolidated school graduate class of 1828 and has worked at Montgomery Ward in Shenandoah. The couple plan to live in Shenandoah where the groom is employed. Also noted are upcoming weddings and local family updates, hospital news, travel notes, social events and community announcements.
Harold Kellenbarger, champion of last year in Missouri, returned home last week to wait for Navy call. He has enlisted and will travel to California when his summons arrives.
Monthly report notes unusually large cold storage egg movement and lighter fresh receipts in October, improving egg prices. Close culling and flock management are highlighted as important this year to stabilize markets and sustain pricing. Entities include October timing and egg market terms.
Extension workers at Town State College say the 1936 corn hog contract offers two key advantages over 1934: no land use restrictions on shifted acres and no cap on the number of feeder pigs a signer may purchase from another signer. The plan lets shifted corn acres be used for any crop and relaxes compliance checks to help farmers amid drought and feed shortages.
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