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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1954
Page
2
Community diary lists visits and gatherings across Main Station and surrounding area. Residents such as Lyndon McDanel, Gladfelder, Rosencrants, and Marlin families host and attend dinners, birthdays, Bible study, Farm Bureau events, and school functions. Attendees include many extended relatives and neighbors from Albia Ottumwa Burlington Osceola Centerville and Des Moines.
Mr and Mrs G C Swift were Albia callers Wednesday. Mr and Mrs Edward McDonald and son were in Ottumwa Monday.
Mrs. Lloyd Ammons and Mrs. Earl Swift attended a cancer crusade meeting in Albia Wednesday night. Miss Darla Eastlick of Ottumwa spent the weekend with her parents. Roy Miller home hosted guests Wednesday evening. Dorothy Pickrell Freda Swift and Rena Ammons were Albia callers Friday. Norris and Marvin Callen visited Albia Thursday. Duane Wilson and his wife were Sunday guests of her parents. Bernard Kitterman and Kay spent Sunday at Joe Scieszinski’s home. Lloyd Ammons visited John Martin Sunday.
West Point society notes list visits among Albia Centerville Ottumwa and Monmouth people including Mr and Mrs Lloyd Johnson Mrs Ben Pickrell Wayne Mr Hugh McFatridge and others. They report multiple calls dinners and 4 H club gatherings plus attendance at a cancer drive kickoff at Albin church and weekend visits to Davenport and Albia.
A sequence of social visits fills the week across Albia and nearby towns. Mrs. Lloyd Callen and Vera Corbin stop by the Ronald Coughenour home in Albia. Dan Mihelovich visits the Leo Hoffs family. Hugh McFatridge helps George McCombs with oats. numerous couples attend dinners, a cantata, and a district W. S. C. S. meeting in Ottumwa. Citations include Massman funeral services and several family gatherings at Exline, Argo, Hoffman, and Klingensmith households.
The report covers animal welfare issues from Tuesday and Wednesday, noting two thirds of bruises to meat animals stem from rushing and crowding. It highlights feed needs for a 1200 pound cow producing 10,000 pounds of 4 percent butterfat and cites seed potatoes as protection against viral diseases. It also notes fall calving yields higher and mentions March as late for breeding per Floyd Arnold and entomologists discussing sweet clover weevil control.
Iowa State extension engineer Ted Willrich outlines contour plowing steps to reduce erosion in drier springs. Begin back furrowing along contour lines, plow halves of intervals, maintain eight rows unplowed to avoid wheel compaction, and leave headlands in grass. Cross grass waterways to jag edges and reduce water concentration.
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