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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1930
Page
3
Recent figures reveal 9,740 licensed airplanes in the country, a large rise yet still far from common. There are 2,977 automobiles per airplane, signaling a widening gap that plane manufacturers must address as air travel remains uncommon despite growth.
Edna Burns visited Miss Josephine Foster over the weekend. The Raymond Stites and Delmar Wilson families visited Milo Foster home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Elingson Main and children visited John Plants' home Sunday afternoon. Ray and Walter Lemaster spent Sunday at Harley Tisue's. Dorothy Wilson had an unlucky week with a finger cut to the bone while chopping corn and a car collision while walking with friends. A Moravia man backs the Philadelphia Athletics to repeat. A twenty-dollar bill is described as one’s best friend in time of need.
J A Rice and J W Halden visited in Albis Friday. Several locals, including Ted and Francis Oehler, John Irwin back after flu, and Mr and Mrs Allen Hiatt, were Sunday visitors with friends in Iowa. Numerous travels to Centerville, Unionville, Moravia, Promise City and Newton noted. An Easter sale is planned and a local ambulance aided hospital transport for Jack Argo.
Moravia merchants promote fresh stock for spring and summer with seasonable, high quality merchandise at economical prices. Local ads highlight special inducements, urging shoppers to buy locally and browse Easter gifts.
The Appanoose county Ministerial Association will hold its monthly meeting at the Centerville Presbyterian Church on Monday April 14 starting at 10 o clock. The afternoon session will again discuss John Hammond Des Moines plan for unified enforcement, and ministers are urged to be prompt. The public is invited.
Dr Watts the Colored Corn and Foot Doctor visits Moravia for a few days at the Moravia Hotel Room 2. He removes hard and soft corns and callouses, ingrown nails, and weak arches without pain. Foot care offered by appointment with no extra charge. Tell your friends.
A collection of quips and brief sayings from various publications. It comments on photography accuracy in London Punch style, jokes about Congressmen, doctors, and parities with punchy one liners. The snippets reference Humorists, newspapers, and a reference to an Easter a week away.
A collection of informal reports from Martinsdale and nearby, noting visits and family events. Names include Neff Coulson Thompson Miller Turner and others as residents and visitors. Several clusters mention babies born, birthdays, and Sunday gatherings at various homes, with travel to Burlingame Ottumwa Centerville and Moravia referenced.
Wanted parties with home money at per cent for good farm loans. McFatridge & Coulson advertise for sale or rent the 20 RETO farm near Foster known as the J. J. Knool farm. They offer Town Standard Accredited Chicks produced by an inspected hatchery with insured poultry profits. Leghorns 10c Barred and White Rock Buff Orpington and White Wyandottes available at hatchery. Custom hatching services. Liv-an-Gro electric brooder for fifty chicks. Price $2.25. Phone 187 Gardner Hatchery Moravia Tawa.
Mr and Mrs BR C Wilson and their children spent Sunday at E F Wilson's home. J T Hiatt and sister Ellen Hiatt and J A Hiatt and wife visited their cousin John Eaton in Lucas county. Carl Coffin attended Wesley Institute church and Sunday school. A Kansas editor says Spring is here but does not want poetry about it.
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