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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1941
Page
4
A rambling spring column ponders the season’s renewal from cleaning yards to seeds sprouting, spring fever and garden chores. It notes student activities, mumps recoveries, and senior year focus, along with classroom updates across grades from primary to sixth.
Hazel M Hellyer reports on Denny School activities in rural Iowa. Third and fourth graders read new readers while the fourth graders learn Indian sign language. Students work on window tulip decor and honor rolls tied to charted behavior. The note mentions several families, sickness like mumps, and local travel to Des Moines and Centerville.
Rev Van Dellen spent the weekend in the area and attended Sunday school at Centerville. Ernest West visited the West home in Blakesburg Sunday afternoon. Mildred West returned from Ottumwa hospital Sunday afternoon. Grandmother Johnson is ill at the West home. Carl Fisher ill with measles. Sara Coltrain visited the Ernest West home Saturday morning. Sterianella Coop has recovered from mumps. Tevin Faber improving though weak. Mr and Mrs Leroy Harbour of Rathbun in a Kansas car wreck last week. Mrs Harbour seriously injured and not brought home. Leroy once lived in the vicinity. Ernest West’s daughter received word her father will return to Rochester, Minnesota, Sunday night for treatment.
Brompton and C L Jones and their son Curtis shopped in Albia Saturday evening. Wilma Boardman was home last week with illness. Miss Erma Johnson, recently released from Miners hospital Albia, returned home Thursday. Ed Mosby family visited J E Robinson home. Ralph Johnson and De Wayne Robinson called on Clifton Boardman Sunday morning. Arthur Anderson and Otia Stafford, Blakesburg residents, were callers Thursday evening. M E B Boardman and son Clifton along with Archie Billings Russell Darby and son Jimmie dined Sunday at F and E Boardman home. Phoebe Watkins spent weekend with Clarence Wilson family. Carl Fisher has measles.
Seconium x 7A reports moves and visits around Addie Free property south of town. Mrs Carl Wetterland travels to Red Oak for her father’s illness and attends funeral of Mrs Frank Swan. Several residents care for sick relatives while others host guests and visit kin.
My and Mrs. Raymond Locker man and family spent Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Trelan. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Tomilson and daughter Sandra Kay are visiting a few days at Bert Drake's parental home. Mr. and Mrs. Edd Taylor visited Friday with Mr. and Mrs. T. Fletcher. Mr. and Mrs. Burdette Cox went to Centerville Saturday to consult a doctor about their baby.
Unionville notes list visitors and moves including Mr. and Mrs. David Adama of Chicago at C Hendersons, Hale Hicks en route to Knoxville veterans hospital, Opal Crawley finishing beauty course in Des Moines visiting T. 8. Crawley home, multiple Sunday dinners with Harrington and Smith families, Ruth Stanley's gradual recovery, J M Dudley visiting Corydon with relatives Arnold, Hendersons moving to East Main Street, Burge family moving from Ottumwa to Henderson farm, Burge patriarch John Strunk visiting, St. Ella Hammett callers Rev A M Smith Mora vis and Lou Halbert Moulton, F D Horniday leaving for Cleveland Ohio.
William Underwood died March 26 at St. Joseph hospital in Centerville. Funeral services were held Saturday at 2 p m at the F A Miller funeral home conducted by Rev Jan A Wilson with burial by Unionville Lodge No 119 A F and A M. Several out of town relatives attended. Additional local notices follow.
Scattersburg notes show Mr and Mrs Price Gideon visiting Elmer Lockman on Monday morning. Mr and Mrs Marve Lockman spent Sunday afternoon with J Lockman. Mr and Mrs Tom Burdock called on Elbert Lockman Sunday. Doyle McDanel and family spent Sunday in Unionville at the parental Will Wood home.
Mrs. Jim Hayes and Mrs. Lester Proctor spent a day with Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Hayes and son Larry. Ezra Coltrain and Walter Gideon returned from Kirksville Missouri where they were consulting a doctor. Dora Lockman and Mae Bengon were Albis callers. Glen Lockman was on the sick list. Roy Gilland visits daughter in Waukee Iowa. Raymond Lockman and family spent Sunday in Unionville. Clifton Grimes and Edwin Ray hosted visitors near Livonia Missouri. Most farmers in the community began sowing on the last day. Harold Mason and Richard Lee visited the W. P. Davis home. C C Smith spent Sunday at Frank Wilson’s. Glen Garrett and children visited his parents near Columbia Iowa.
Pleasant Grove reports Marilyn Hiatt daughter of Mr and Mrs Lee Hiatt recovering from measles after a prior mumps illness. John Wilson also listed as a mumps patient. Mr and Mrs Denny Homerin and Jo Rilen visited the parental McCloud home. Dr and Mrs T G Wheeler of Des Moines stayed with Mr and Mrs Harvey Main. Albia shoppers were in town Saturday afternoon.
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