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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1961
Page
2
A packed memorial gathering recognized community members including Winnie Tutt af Treeline Bouter and Segal Tem e ume, with tributes to area residents such as Sorenson, Anderson, Zeimer, and Dewar. Attendees noted charitable work, school ties, and wartime service while local families shared memories and honored caregivers and teachers.
A garbled OCR style notice mentions early mail packets and a person named Gerry TOEIT. It references a rise in delays and urges caution with mail routing. The text preserves period voice while avoiding graphic details.
A garbled OCR snippet lists names and terms like Tasigs, Vans, Cer PRs, and references to referees and races. The fragment mentions people such as Dervis and E. Tasigs and includes scattered terms that resemble sports or event notes without coherent context.
Community calendar highlights church services including Sunday worship, youth group, Sunday school attendance at 164, and weekly prayer. Volunteers host picnics, circle meetings, and mystery circle events. Local visitors from Missouri Valley and Lincoln area attend gatherings. photos and trip summaries feature West trip slides and park visits.
A stream of short notices from Hastings reports visitors and extended stays at area homes. Names include Dan Vanderpaul, Dale Beiler, and Mrs Ban Kine, with visits to Georges Resh, Wendell Crawford, and the Bartlett area. Several local residents are noted for work, employment, and family announcements across nearby towns.
Hastings hosts quarterly postal workers meeting with 41 attendees including Dan Swoboc of Molvern as president and L J Weatherhead of Tabor as vice president. Tom Milliam of Hamburg serves as secretary treasurer. Postal Inspector Lune of Cornell Hinfis spoke. next meeting set for January at Imogene.
Partial OCR records show Edwin Ambrose visiting Wednesday with Mr Dublang and Thursday evening visitors Mr and Mrs Robert Hicks and TW Castor at the Merci Gowera home. Text is fragmented and lacks clear context or dates.
An Andersey observance for M foscitlis was held at the Glenwood home on Sunday Oct 6. The event marked Mrs Woodfill as the last of four children in her family to celebrate an anniversary of married life. Family members include Rose Prat rion Charlies Gips and Mrs Rena Raut. Mr and Mrs Woodfill were married Oct 16 1811 at the pioneer home near Strahan. They later lived near Strahan then Grey ity before settling on a farm south of Strahan and retired in 1955 to Glenwood. They have six grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
The Iowa Commerce Commission denied proposals to cut service on the Hastings to Sidney and Hastings to Carson branches. The decision upheld grain elevator operators' protests that reduced trains were not needed to meet Commodity Credit Corporation requirements. Elevator operators at Henderson, Macedonia, Sidney, and Randolph objected during the Glenwood hearing.
Virgil Forney of Malvern has been elected to membership in the American Angus Association at St. Joseph Missouri. He was among twenty Iowa breeders of purebred Aberdeen Angus chosen for membership this past month.
Mr and Mrs M C Woodall express gratitude for acts of kindness including phone calls flowers and gifts received during their 50th wedding anniversary celebration.
The East Liberty church board met Friday evening with Mrs. Dale Alexander chairing and Mrs. W. W. Windle reading minutes. Treasurer W. C. Stotts reported finances as plans were made for the Lord's Portion sale on the church lawn Tuesday November 7, Harvest Home Sunday to be observed on the second Sunday in October, and the next meeting flagged for November 9.
Mr and Mrs W C Stotts entertained at dinner on Sunday with her cousin and family, Mr and Mrs A P Briggs and Sadie from near McClelland. Mr and Mrs Art Darby of Ene rson were guests on Wednesday evening last week at the Claude and Empett Stephana families, antephens families.
Sheriff Edwin Barkas said he was continuing the investigation into the cause of an accident that caused total damage to both cars involved. The collision occurred at a country intersection a mile and a half south of the Sepper curve near Emerson around 7 20 p m Monday. Hastings Bishop and his family were en route to a Mal ver i Baptist church meeting. Eugene Bishop, 13, suffered lacerations as did Mckee.
A Pac. Jet vehicle struck a parked car owned by Francis P. Martin of Council Bluffs around 12:45 p.m. Friday. Martin's car sustained about 300 dollars in damage while the other vehicle was placed at 600 dollars. Harmon suffered a chin cut.
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