Malvern Club and BPW Back Municipal Pool Plan
The Malvern Commercial Club and the BPW pledged strong support for a municipal swimming pool. A secret ballot of 15 to 4 favored backing the project. Robert Salyers was named committee chair to study site, size, and construction, with report due at the November 14 meeting. The BPW voted unanimously to support. Proponents urge public ideas and park-board coordination for approval and site selection likely at Boehner Park.
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Malvern
Malvern Commercial Club
B.P.W
Lentz Powles
Commercial Club
Powles
Robert Salyers
Myra
Mary Spiker
BPW
Conmercial Club
Boehner
Salyers
Mat
Park Board
Lantz Powles
Gordon Mulholland
Chas
D. Costello
Jim Benton
Malvern Antique Days Weekend Festival Opens
The Malvern community hosts an Old Settlers Day and Antique Festival this weekend on October 18 and 19. Stores display antiques to attract visitors with varied events appealing to both young and old as local businesses stage their first annual festival of its kind in the area.
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Malvern
Big Parade to Start at 2 Sat
A 2 pm main parade and a kids parade are planned with antique cars, farming gear, floats, five bands, costumes and pets. Entries welcome, prize for each entry. The route goes east of the high school to main street then five blocks south to Ford Service Station. A new Continental Trailways bus will be on Main street 1 to 6 pm for public rides.
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Ford
Continental Trailways
Travel slides entertain Mills County crowd at Wesley Chapel
Mr and Mrs Earl Gross of Des Moines showed world travel slides to a large Wesley Chapel audience. They visited relatives in Hastings area and featured points Barrows Alaska among others. Also in Malvern ministers met for a Methodist district study session as extra copies of the issue were printed for demand with 10 cent price, 15 cent mailed copy.
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Wesley Chapel
Earl Gross
Des Moines
Grosses
Alaska
Council Bluffs
The
Methodist Church
Malvern
Collins Drug
Jack’s
Hastings
Dixon
Emerson
Voters Approve Town Council Term Change at Malvern
Malvern voters show limited interest in switching council terms from two to four years. Only 62 cast ballots. 53 favor the plan, 9 oppose. The result means the top two finishers in November will serve four-year terms, others two, reshaping biennial elections. Local events include a Baptist bazaar and a World War I veterans meeting in Glenwood.
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Malvern
Band at State Meet Earns I Rating in Parade
Janet Jones reports the MCHS band earned an I rating at the State Marching Contest. After the performance Saturday afternoon, crowds along the route cheered as buses escorted the band into town. The group will march again on Saturday October 19 at Old Settlers Days in Malvern.
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Janet Jones
Villisca
Malvern
MCHS
Four Corners
Warren joins Allen at Oskaloosa for William Penn Homecoming
Warren spent the weekend with Allen in Oskaloosa and attended William Penn Homecoming festivities, sharing time with the pair as the campus events unfolded.
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Warren
Allen
Oskaloosa
William Penn
Tools Stolen From Nishna Valley High School
Two break ins in Mills county were reported by Sheriff Edwin Barkus. Thieves gained entry to the Nishna Valley high school by a north window and pried open cabinets but left everything but $430 worth of manual training tools stolen. No other items were taken. A separate break in at Hastings Good Grain Co elevator yielded no losses.
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Mills County
Edwin Barkus
Nishna Valley High School
Good Grain Co
Hastings
Marching Band Ends Night Senior Uniforms Show
The 1963 school year marching activities included a final night where seniors will hang up their uniforms for the last time. The band prepares for the end of the current season with routines and farewell moments as students graduate.
F B Annual Meet Sat at Malvern Mills County Farm Bureau
Mills county Farm Bureau members will gather in Malvern this Saturday evening for their annual organization meeting at the Community building. The program opens with a smorgasbord at 6 30 p m. President Lester Knop invites all to attend or arrive by 7 30 p m for the meeting. C W McManamy director of the Omaha Livestock Exchange will discuss the plan for reapportionment of the Iowa General Assembly.
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Glenwwood Sun
New Armory
Glenwood
Mills Co
No. 1337
Mills County Farm Bureau
Malvern
Lester Knop
P. m
C. W. MccManamy
Omaha Livestock Exchange
Iowa General Assembly
Old Settlers Program Friday at Community Building
The county hosts an Old Settlers Program Friday with an afternoon display and coffee and donuts at 2 p.m. in the Community Building. A concurrent county extension family living committee tea is planned, and a public dance with the Jay Kay Orchestra tops the evening. Seniors over 75 attend free.
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County Extension
Jay Kay
Antique Auction Saturday Morning at Mills County
Antique auction slated for Saturday morning with public sale at 10 oclock. Sellers urged to bring antiques. no commissions charged. Auctioneers F. E. Bloomer and Jack Shadden. Pancakes and sausage served from 5 to 7. Mills County Historical Society hosts a display.
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F. E
Mike) Bloomer
Jack Shadden
Mills County Historical Society
Emersonian Named to State F B Committee
Bill McGrew of Emerson was named to a state committee on Beef Marketing by the Town Farm Bureau Federation. The committee, meeting in Des Moines, supports an advisory commodities act to the state farm bureau board of directors.
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Bill McGrew
Emerson
Town Farm Bureau Federation
Des Moines
F. B. Board of
Malvern Opera House Reopens With Shows and Dancers
A feature marks Malvern's historic opera house reopening on the third floor of Mansfield Furniture. Plans include can can dancers and the melodrama The Deestrick School. A street carnival, antique car display, and antique dealers in the Community building accompany Old Settlers Day with prizes for the oldest resident and longest-married couple.
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Malvern
Mansfield Furniture
Deestrick School
Mercer’s Tavern
SCS
Old Settlers
Red Dot
Days to Bring in Your Leader Serial Numbers
Friday and Saturday are the days to bring in your Leader serial numbers printed in last week's issue. More than 60 free gifts await holders, who should match their serial number with numbers displayed in town stores. Participating businesses include Bloeder Hardware, DeWitt's Store, Costello Insurance, Collins Drug, Mansfield-Morrow Furniture, Malvern Lumber, Malvern Leader, Johnson Grocery, Mulholland Grocery, Pace Service, Salyers Auto Co, Salyers Implement, Wilson Clothing, Malvern Milling Co, Noffsinger Cleaners, Adams Barber Shop, Schultz Bros, Lentz Powles Agency.
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