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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1933
Page
5
Malrarn residential section will be dark from next winter as town council voted Monday to shut off all lights to save about 12 per month in the municipal budget. Water department officials discussed leaks and the northeast area shows an estimated 26 000 gallons daily loss, with tests to locate and repair mains to improve efficiency.
The Empress offers a wartime thriller with star turns by Cary Grant and Jack Oakie. The cast includes Empress Theatre regulars as the Royal Flying Corps faces peril and big adventures in a realistic film era production.
A fractured OCR snippet mentions a club congress in Chicago in December. The fragment references a prize accompanying a hopeful laugh, fresh vegetables, and activities like football and baseball, with scattered phrases about hearty laughter.
Night Blooming Cerene blooms on Mrs. C. C. Knight’s porch despite harsh habits of the local climate. The plant, valued for pure white petals and midnight maturity, is noted for sporadic flowering and a distinctive vertical growth pattern.
Mrs A H Culver from south of Glenwood, county president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, plans the county convention at First Baptist Church Malvern next Thursday. Rev Ada Halgley, state officer, will attend as the high speaker. Program includes registration at 10:00 AM, noon luncheon, and afternoon and evening activities. Public invited to join temperance cause.
Fragmentary OCR text yields no clear people, organizations, dates, or places to summarize into a coherent news item.
Mills county 4-H members earned top honors at the state fair with two champions and multiple winners. Merjots Dohtet and Indley Conner led the clothing demonstration, Margaret Angus and Wilma Bradlay earned a trip to Ames for the Girls H club convention, and the Poultry judging team placed sixth among fourteen. Exhibitors included James Summers, Ed Wearin, Dick Hyde, John Pitser with top prizes in beef and poultry.
G C Boston recalls Wayne Nebraska visit where Mr and Mrs Chan Norton urged more old timer coverage. The editor explains scarcity and poor behavior of remaining figures, promising to do best with available material and inviting readers to call Roy Pew for news.
Q B Davis proprietor of City Meat Market expands in Malvern by purchasing stock and name of the Red and White store from C Juinquist. Davis and Albert Johs took possession immediately. Linguist notes Davis has long grocery and meat experience and aims to run the best in town.
Marjorie Dowher, representing Mills County, wins five firsts and the grand champion title in the Town’s Style Show at the state fair. Her semi tailored gown earns top marks for color, workmanship, and posture, with a national 4-H trip to Chicago in December. Her rose colored semi-tailored dress cost 1.50 for fabric plus 1.90 for accessories. another note on costs is not included. Dowher is the daughter of Roy and Mrs. Dowher, a seven year 4-H member and Malvern High valedictorian who plans to enter Peru State Teachers College this fall. The Leader received the photo from the Des Moines Register.
Rica' of Town Godford R Byington this week will go check to various Malvernians Mills countlana and others totaling more than 11000. The money will pay town obligations settlement for which had been hanging fre for more than a year. Confronted last year by steadily mounting sum of antial patory warrants drawing six per cent Interest the town council set about to devise some method of taking these up furnishing hard pressed Warrant holders with their ju el amount of cash and cutting down the nterest rate on the debt. The Money sent out the week dogs all that. First step of their plan was the appointment of Allen Wortman as trustee to act for warrant holders and then to induce each holder to assign his warrant to the trestes for collection. The trustees was granted a judgment against the town for the amount of the warrants in a friendly suit early last cummey. Bithn the judgment was granted the council has been workioEe toward bond issue to take up the Judgment. During August ne gotiations for the issue were completed with the Carleton D Beh company of Des Moines which is sued the bonds at five per cent interest. Town Clerk Byington received a check from the Beh company Monday morning and believed that all of the checks to warrant holders would be maked out by the end of the week. In addition to saving the town 140 a year in interest the deal will supply a considerable amount of cash to warrant holders of the community and spable the town to continue on its present policy of pay-as-you-go without the press of comet obligations.
Data compiled by Supt. F. M. Davison shows Malvern Schools’ total enrollment rising slightly from last year. The report notes a modest year over year gain across the district’s main school, with the count near 125 more students than the prior term.
A fine Christian Endeavor meeting was held Sunday evening at the Presbyterian church in Malvern with Glenwood, Henderson, and Champion Hill societies represented by ten, three, and two members respectively. A business meeting followed, with study of the topic. The next rally is planned for Henderson on Friday Sept. 29. The group aims to meet again after school and a pot luck supper at 6130 will precede an address by George Hamlin, state C H secretary. Mr and Mrs H T Beattie were in Omaha and Council Bluffs Tuesday.
A fragmented report claims Iowagrams Jews produce more wealth annually than all the world's gold mines, stating Milly county has never faced a complete crop failure. The text is unclear and includes several nonstandard spellings.
School opened Monday with a short session to check enrollments in the varied grades and to outline plans for the year. Enrollment totals show 245 in one class and 194 in another with more pupils expected. teachers Hessle and Herts will direct grades two through four in a staggered schedule to increase instructional time. Plans for a fifth year of normal training were dropped due to enrollment, with junior year psychology and school management offered to maintain funding.
Louis Knop built his own home in Malvern’s Bunnyside addition to realize owning a dwelling. He planned, sourced materials, and completed a 14 by 28 foot four room residence with modern plumbing, moving in last weekend. Knop did all work himself except plumbing by J R Cardwell, with a wraparound porch and garden space.
Readable fragments show Montaga Novian of the Bank of England meeting U S officials in New York and Hyde Park about gold currencies and dollar stability. Roosevelt hints a shift to gold or devaluation, while Federal Reserve and Treasury officials discuss the path for exchange and commodity markets amid embargo effects and international talks.
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