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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1939
Page
6
The Malvern Leader lists Mills County’s official paper status with full Board of Supervisors proceedings. It details subscription rates, ad pricing per column inch, and local notices including obituary poetry and resolutions, emphasizing paid time and delivery terms.
A wartime editorial urges adult education as a supplement to schooling and highlights optimistic housing prospects in Mills and nearby counties. It argues for practical courses to train initiative and notes appetites for simple, inventive meals with two contributed recipes for hunters stew and hamburger dish, reflecting communal thrift.
Box Elder P T A met Thursday evening drawing a large audience. Mrs Vinson Goog and Mrs Glenn Sawers shared talks about trips to the New York Worlds Fair Canada and California with vivid details. A lunch followed. next program planned near Christmas. John Ayre and wife celebrated 45th wedding anniversary and her 69th birthday at a family dinner with children and grandchildren present.
Subscribers are urged to notify the subscription department promptly of address changes. New postal laws require newspapers to pay postage due for notices of changes furnished by the post office, with risks of delivery delays. The plan is to send address changes in advance.
Ayre directed a Friday night school program near Wheeler Grove with nine pupils. Don ald McKenzey received a turkey and Dorothy Frain a candy box for contest efforts. Families planned a three week Oklahoma vacation. Local health notes include flu for Glenn Skerritt and Ed Sowers in poor health. A daughter named Donna Mary was born to John Curry and Mercy hospital on Sunday November 19. The Prank Alexander family plans a farm sale and soon moves to Oregon.
The article notes a sharp drop in hog production and below average slaughter after the 1934 and 1936 droughts, but bumper corn harvests in the prior two years let farmers market more hogs in the current year than the 1929 to 1933 average. Projections show federally inspected hog slaughter near 40 million for the year ending Sept 40 and 46 million for the year starting Oct 1, 1938, per Iowa State extension economists relayed by County Agent John Longstreet.
CHAMPION HILL family notes announce the birth of a baby boy named Frank Lewis on Friday November 24. Everett Bowyer travels from California to visit his brother Frank, while various locals share visits, dinners, and social gatherings. Community activities include Ladies Aid meetings, church basement work, and multiple oyster suppers and holiday exchanges.
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