This Week in Mills County Farming and Weather Notes
Read Coach Dale Dyke on the Malvern sit in football and follow EMAITCHESS department analysis. Spring appears early with peach blossoms at Harry Stout’s orchard and apple trees blooming, while drought limits fruit size and chinch bug swarms spread. County Agent Longstreet warns infestation risk remains for next year. Monday seminars at CC Camp invite participation, with next week’s focus on county taxation by County Auditor EB Schade.
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Malvern
Dale Dyke
Mille County
Hob Moore
Harry Stout
John Longstreet
EB. A. Schade
Postpone Wight Sale To GCT In Henderson Event
A notice states A. Wight of Henderson postpones his annual sale of purebred Spotted Poland China boars. The event, previously set for Oct. 18, is rescheduled to a later date at the Hendrix Building in Henderson.
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Wight
GCT
A. Wight
Henderson
Poland
He Henderson
He. Hendrix Building
Mills 4-H Members to Exhibit at Ak-Sar-Ben Show
Mills county plans to send fourteen 4-H club members to the Ak-Sar-Ben Live Stock and Horse Show in Omaha from October 22 to 28. Participants include Edwin and Everett McGrew, Virginia and Twyla Chamberlain, Dwight Kellay, Bill Summers, Max Boles, Herbert Nansel, Lester Shook, Kenneth Sowers, Keith Bruce, LeRoy McKee, Kenneth Morrical, and Kenneth Evans. The county marching band will compete in midweek events on October 26, and the entertainment lineup features Ken Maynard with Tarzan, Necker’s Doberman Pinschers, and the Regional Flower and Garden Show.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mills County
Omaha
4- H Club
Edwin
Everett McGrew
Virginia
Twyla Chamberlain
Dwight Kellay
Bill Summers
Max Boles
Herbert Nansel
Lester Shook
Kenneth Sowers
Keith Bruce
LeRoy McKee
Kenneth Morrical
Kenneth Evans
Ken Maynard
Tarzan
Necker
Tabor Auxiliary Plans Book Review Event
The Tabor American Legion Auxiliary 6 sponsors a book review to be held Wednesday October 18. Mrs. Clark Howard will review Maude Smith Delavan's Wrest book A Rummelhart Must Room. Admission 28c for adults and 10c for students. Refreshments of coffee and doughnuts will be served. The review begins at 8 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tabor American Legion Auxiliary
Clark Howard
Maude Smith Delavan
Wrest
Work on New Bridge Near Malvern Progress Report
A crew of one man works this week on a new bridge over a draw for the Wabash railroad. The construction is located about four miles northwest of Malvern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malvern
Malvern Anderson Game Called Off
The football game between Malvern and Anderson scheduled for Friday night has been cancelled as Anderson was unavailable. Coach Dale Dyke was reassigned to another team. details remain unclear due to incomplete source text.
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Malvern
Anderson
Dale Dyke
County receives large sum in parity payments for corn and wheat
Checks for corn parity total $144,588.08 across 1,520 payments with about 400 more expected. Wheat parity payments reach $18,912.34 from 678 checks with around 150 more due. Overall parity payments in the county this fall amount to $162,600.42.
Fourteen 4-H girls contest canning awards across clubs
Fourteen nutrition record books for 1939 were sent to the Farm Bureau office in competition for Kerr and Ball jar awards. Bettie Haroff of Hastings Hustlers had the outstanding record earning Kerr wide mouthed jars and a volley of jars across meats vegetables fruits and juices. The program shifts to the Home Efficiency Project in Mills county with music health and home beautification. A 4-H training school led by Ming Selma Ekquilat will be held November 14 in Malvern Community building with more landscape training planned for spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Bureau
Kerr and Ball Jar Co
Alica Klindt
Belles of St. Marys Club
Kathryn Smith
Clever Cooks Club
Bettie Haroff
Hastings Hustlers Club
Kerr Jara
Kerr Glass Manufacturing Corp
Mills County
Ming Selma Ekquilat
Malvern
Southwest Iowa Teachers Meet in Council Bluffs
Southwest Iowa teachers gather in Council Bluffs this Thursday and Friday as county schools close to allow attendance. Noted educators will speak, and Thursday evening a student concert at Abraham Lincoln High School gymnasium features 32 Malvern students performing with hundreds more in attendance.
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Iowa
Council Bluffs
Teachers of Southwest Laws
Southwest Lowe
Malvernacho
Abraham Lincoln
Plans for County Achievement Day Meeting
Mrs N May Larson, state home demonstration agent, will meet county and township leaders at the Community building on Wednesday October 28 to plan the County Achievement Day set for spring after the clothing project ends. The session aims to spotlight township progress and guide the year's program.
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Mra
N. May Larson
Home Project
Older boys and girls meet in Hastings Friday
The Mills county Older Boys and Girls conference begins Friday morning at Hastings Methodist Church with 8 36 registration. LaVerne Carson Emerson leads morning sessions on Personal Standards for Kingdom Youth Social Ideals in the Kingdom and Youth Action Toward the Kingdom. C. G. Herbrecht directs and delivers If Your Kingdom Came as pre closing feature. Afternoon continues with same topics in new groups. 3 pm group singing elects officers and Rev Tra Carney Glenwood closes. No evening banquet this year. Registration is 25 cents and delegates bring sack lunches. church provides a drink. About 100 youths expected.
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Mills County
Hastings
County Conference
LaVerne Carson
Emerson
Kingdom
Evan R. Stroud
Roy V. Felt
C. G. Herbrecht
QO. G. Herbrecht
Howard Gerarhart
Tra Carney
Glenwood
Funeral of Joseph Gradle in Council Bluffs
Funeral services were held at St Peter's Catholic Church for Joseph John Gradle who died at his Glenwood home last Thursday. Burial followed at St Joseph's cemetery. Born in Saint John Germany in 1860, he came to the area in 1881 and worked at the Omaha smelter before farming in Pottawattamie and Mills counties. He married Mary Wartzinger in 1864 and is survived by his widow and seven children: Anna Jens and Fred Grudie of Glenwood, Joseph and Arthur Grudie of Council Bluffs, John Grudie of Malvern, Helen Bruce of Hastings, and Edward Grudie of Portland, Oregon.
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St. Peter's Catholic Church
Council Bluffs
Joseph John Gradle
Glanwood
St. Joseph’s Cemetery
Gradle
Saint John
Germany
J. 8
Omaha
Pottawattamie
Mills
Mary Wartzinger
He Iy
Anna Jens
Fred Grudie
Glenwood
Joseph
Arthur Grudie
John Grudie
Malvern
Helen Bruce
Hastings
Edward Grudie
Portland
Ore
Malvern Board Studies School Needs and Improvements
The Malvern board reviewed several school improvements at the October meeting. A visual education equipment demonstration claimed 30 percent learning efficiency gains with sound movies. Directors asked staff to study accident insurance for athletes, portable phonograph purchase, and new maps, with routine bills approved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malvern
Board of Education
Trappers Get Tags to License Trapa County
County Recorder Hattie Brown announced trapping licenses with tags now available. Each license grants 15 tags. traps must be tagged, and trappers with more than 18 tags must buy extra at 160 each. The trapper license fee is $1.50.
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Hattie Brown
Jones Starts On Malvern Route For Malvern Rural Letter Carriers
Lawrence Jones, often a substitute for the Malvern rural letter carrier, begins the mail route in Malvern on Monday. He temporarily replaces Carrier Virgil Poy until a permanent arrangement is formed.
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Jones
Malvern
Lawrence Jones
Fie
Virgil Poy
Iowa farm tenancy deadline clarified for 1940 lease term
Francis Kutish of the Iowa State College agricultural economics staff explains amended regulations allowing tenants to continue under current terms after March 1 1940 unless the landlord or tenant gives notice by November 1. If defaults occur, the landlord may appoint a new tenant with 30 days notice.
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Iowa
Francis Kutish
Iowa State College Agricultural Economic Staff
Last Rites Held for L W Wilhelm in Malvern
Funeral services were held for Lewis W. Wilhelm at 2 30 p m last Wednesday in Silver City. He died October 2 1939 at the Malvern home of Mrs Rosa Ewing after a long illness. Born March 26 1868 in Barton county Missouri he was 71 years six months old. He married Belle and they had five children two daughters preceded him in death. Surviving are his wife Belle of Clarinda two sons Lyman Jefferson of Silver City and Jesse Henry of Glenwood one daughter Beulah Pettis of Clarinda one brother N W Wilhelm of Macedonia eight nieces and nephews and many friends.
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Silver City
Lewis W. Wilhelm
Rosa Ewing
Malvern
Wilhelm
Tom
Charles
Gilbert
Marlon
Leonard
Roy Wilhelm
Mr. Wilhelm
N. W. Wilhelm
Macedonia
Lewis William Wilhelm
Sylvester
Mary Wilhelm
Barton County
S.wes
Han “Oly
Missouri
Silver Grey
Belle
Clarinda
Beulah Pettis
Lyman Jefferson
Jesse Henry
Glenwood
Methodist District Conference at Griswold Friday
Mills county residents plan to attend a Methodist district conference at Griswold for a day of study on church problems and activities. Rev Evan R Stroud of Malvern will lead afternoon devotions. Speakers include Katherine Boege on Missionary Service in War Torn China Lut Payne of Council Bluffs on laymen organizations and President John Gross of Simpson College will speak in the afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mills County
Methodist District
Griswold
Evan R. Stroud
Malvern
Katherine Boege
Chungking
China
Lut? Payne
Council Bluffs
John Gross
Simpson College
Notice to remit debt to M. Guy Martin for music lessons
Legible portion of an aged notice requests all debtors to remit owed amounts to M. Guy Martin at 142 Guy C. Martin Martella Iowa for music lessons instruments or piano tuning.
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M. Guy Martin
Martella
Schade to Talk on Taxation at Mills County Seminar
County Auditor B A Schade will discuss taxation in Mills County at a Monday 7:00 p m seminar at the COCamp education building. The event is open to the public as part of a fall series on public interest topics. Last week Wayne Dr Choate of Glenwood spoke on Relationship Between Farmers and Businessmen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mills County
B. A. Schade
Cocamp
Wayne Dr. Choate
Glenwood
Change of Date Mee FDR Chantry Receives Word
District director informs Yoderated Garden clubs of Iowa that the meeting date changes to today at Waubousle State Park. It will be held near Sidawy with plans to revisit the memory of Meihediat church and related events.
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Mee
Fdr
Chantry
Garden Clubs of
Iowa
Waubousle State Park
Sidawy
Leader Installs Automatic Printing Press This Week
The Malvern Leader plant added a new automatic press from Brantsen & Kluge of St Paul. The machine, automatic and high throughput, prints sheets from calling card size to 16 by 21 inches on various papers. It features advanced ink distribution ensuring solid color and full coverage, expanding capabilities for commercial printing.
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Hrandtsen & Kluge
St. Paul
Henderson Family Reunion Near Silver City Notch
A large Henderson family reunion was held near Silver City at Roy Henderson's home. All brothers and sisters attended, including 71 people from multiple states. A cafeteria dinner, photos, and jovial moments marked the day, the first gathering of all siblings since their mother’s death many years ago.
Field Day Demonstrates Huskers At J.P. Weather Farm
Farmers visit the J.P. Weather farm northwest of Hustga to watch corm husking with several huskers showing husking methods. Demonstrations led by Hat bert Sead feature Bilster hybrid corn in elemental fields and the use of 40 weapon twil and voutaipaid replicas. Multiple picture aspects will be on hand to showcase abilities.
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J.P
Husttga
Hatbert Sead
Hed Oguk
Weather Update on Malvern Rainfall This Week
Moisture improved conditions in Mills County with measured rainfall over a series of days. Malvern reported .02 inches on Monday and earlier totals noted from Sunday and Wednesday. Temperature highs and lows ranged from the mid forties to mid seventies across the period.
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Mills County
Malvern
College Springs Scorers Hit Malvern In Six-Man Clash
College Springs upset Malvern as reserves sparked a late push though Malvern led 26 0 at halftime. Robinson Johnson and others scored early for Malvern while Adams Robbing Collins and Jackson helped Springs rally, with final period touchdowns from third and fourth stringers.
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College Springs
Seaton
Malvern High School
Springs
Malvern
Dale Dyke
Robinson
Johnson
Jackson
Lee Robbing
Rubenking
Sackson
Collins
Enokeey
Adams
Robbing
Colltins
Herrick Transfers to Red Oak Power Line Crew
Charles Herrick began work Monday at Red Oak as part of the Iowa Nebraska Light and Power Co line crew. He has spent several years in similar work here, and his transfer marks an advancement. His family plans to move this week. Fred Harshbarger of Wymore Nebraska will replace him, with the Harshbargers lodging at Mrs. Geo. F. Salyers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Herrick
Red Oak
Iowa-Nebraska Light and Power Co
Fred Harshbarger
Wymore
Neb
Errick
Baptist Bargain Sale Next Saturday in Community Building
A Baptist Bargain Sale will be held in the Community building on Saturday October 14. People with donations should call 124 W or 277 adv for details.
Ardath Winget to Start Work in Nebraska City
Mrs Ardath Winget will leave this weekend for Nebraska City to be employed by Wessel's Apparel Shop. She has worked at the Tennsatt Shop for three years and was active in the business girls' club and local organizations.
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Ardath Winget
Nebraska City
Wessel
Winget
Tennsat
Business Girls' Club
Teachers Examinations Set for October in Glenwood
County Superintendent Amy Fluunerd announces the next set of teachers examinations on October 26 28 and 87 to recruit qualified educators. The meeting will be held at the courthouse in Glenwood L4-2.
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Court House
Glenwood
Amy Fluunerd
Chevrolets to Be Shown Here Saturday
Mille County Chevrolet show planned at Malvern with a new model debut. Public invited to visit displays and see the car at the exhibition on the upcoming Saturday.
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United
Btazen Baturday
Uet
Mille County
Malvern Plain
AAA Officials Meet in Malvern for 1940 Salt Program
Officials from townships across the area prepared for a Malvern meeting on October 14 to select 1940 county officers overseeing the salt conservation program. The last remaining township Oak held its election late last night, while lists from Center, Lyons, Ingham, St. Marys, and others show numerous chairmen, vice chairs, and managers slated for duties.
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Malvern
Oak Township
Anderson
C. E. Wilson
Ray V. Plumb
Tee
Donald Lewis
Ralph J. Viner
Glen DL. Sowers
B. F. Buff
Dory to Conduct First Aid School at Henderson
Rex Dory of Henderson will conduct a Red Cross first aid course this fall in the county. Those who complete the study receive first aid certificates. The first season begins Tuesday evening at the Henderson school and is open to all.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rex Dory
Henderson
Red Cross
Henderson School
Masonic Meeting Tonight With Work in Second Degree
A special Masonic meeting is held tonight Thursday at 7 30 with work in the second degree led by W C Donner Worshipful Master.
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Dagrea
W. C. Donner
W. M
Percival Wins Baseball Tourney At Emerson Field
Percival High School captured the district baseball tournament at Emerson last weekend defeating Wales Lincoln in round two after beating Elk Horn in round one and Extra in round one. Modale and Hlockton were eliminated in earlier rounds as Percival advances toward a state journey planned for Eddyville.
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Percival
Emerson
Mills County
Modale
Emnarson
Elk Horn
Extra
Wales-Lincoln
Zion
Wiote
Hlockton
Eddyville
More Malvernians Move This Week
Mr and Mrs Harry Gather sell household furniture and plan winter at the home of Mew Be Kavton. Raymond Swangen rents the Gurbin house and will move this week. Mr and Mrs Max Broa Wit move to the home occupied by Bwutivus and owned by Mya A Obl nok. Mr and Mrs Withle Dye guard the Gaus commanded by Nyro and Mev Prank Cri will move Cy Malyeri to their boat swat Hitshatl.
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Harry Gather
Mew BE
Kavton
Raymond Swangen
Gurbin
Gabhers
Mra
Max Broa
Muvy
Bwutivus
Mya. A. Obl Nok
Mie
Withle Dye
Nyro
Also Mentioned on This Page
J. E. Randerson
Ak-Sar-Ben
Tabor Auxiliary
Bluffs
L. W. Wilhelm
Malvern i
Schade
Leader
Millis County
Malvern Leader
Roy Henderson
Mary Miller
Floyd
Donald
Arvida
Colo
Jim Adams
Glen
Dean
Rosa Adama
M. H., Latcan
Near Henderson
Ralph Adams
Kieth
Misa Hettis Henderson
Miss Olson
R. E. Henderson
James
Mary
Lester Henderson
Bobby
Fred Alexander
Edith
J. E. Henderson
F. A. Butterfield
Lois and
Shirley
Herrick
AAA
Ingraham
Donald A. Goos
Charles V. Bell
J. Arethus Durgoin
Robert K. Henderson
Ormand CG. Goon
Lyons
Raymond F. Warner
Carl A. Phelps
V.c
Max Dashner
Amon Jensen
A. Hart Harmer
A. Plattville
Carl
Lincoln
Tra Nuss
W. H. Maddocks
J. M .Steele
A. St. Marys
Walter EB
Klindt
Cha
Dory
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