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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1938
Page
5
A long list of Centerville Albia and Moravia residents visit relatives and attend services in Ottumwa Centerville Albia and Des Moines area. Trips include N G Wilson funeral in Moravia and a Webster City pastor renewing acquaintances. Family members, guests, and evacancies mark a busy period across nine communities.
The Territorial Centennial State Fair will host the century’s most colorful transportation parade Aug 26 to Sept 2 in Des Moines. Officials say pioneer buggies wagons and cars from 1898 forward will be shown alongside carriages and stages, highlighting Iowa life from Indian days through the auto era.
Carreae Moravia Sunday School at 10 a m and morning worship at 11 a m. Epworth League at 7 p m. Preaching at 8 p m. Wesley Chapel morning worship at 9 30 a m Sunday School at 10 30 a m. No preaching at Wasley Chapel or Moravia next Sunday due to pastor absence. Last quarterly conference set for Moravia church Friday August 19. All members urged to attend. CHAS L ELLIS pastor.
Irene I Main superintendent leads Bible School at 10 a m Divine Communion at 10 50 a m Preaching at 11 a m with GEO A CIVEY as pastor and shepherd.
Church of Christ Bible Class holds Bible School every Lord s Day morning with communion after and evening services. Bible Study Thursday evening. Baptismal services Tuesday afternoon admitted three into the kingdom. prayers for their growth in grace and knowledge of Christ. Everyone welcome. W G Lagle minister.
Easter and children of Long Beach California attend the funeral of N. G. Wilson Thursday. Relatives and friends travel from Des Moines Ottumwa Woodbine Minnesota Mystic Centerville to pay their respects, including Paul Miller Truman Meyers Barbara Erskine Lucile Terhune Nancy Rousseau and others.
The United Brethren Sunday School meets at 10 p m with M E Blackman as superintendent and worship at 11 a m. Y PLC E U holds a 7 15 p m service followed by an 8 o'clock evening service. On Monday August 15 York college students present a religious drama with an offertory for them. Revival meetings start August 29 led by Rev Sylvester Sanford of Galesburg Illinois. all are invited.
Detroit Free Press notes that Dr Joseph Ignace Guillotin did not invent the guillotine and died peacefully in bed, while France used various methods of capital punishment. The machine was proposed in 1789 to decapitate by machine, later perfected by Schmidt, and the practice varied across medieval Europe.
Lester Brain and family plus guests spent Sunday at the Sidney Helms home in Avonlake near Des Moines. Dorothy Lee remained for a week. Celia Robb returned home after a week in Unionville managing the store during Ira Robb’s vacation. Families from Millard and Webster attended a funeral in Centerville. W S Creech and relatives traveled, with hospital and work updates noted.
Nathan Gregory Wilson born March 3 1867 in Guilford County North Carolina grew up on farms in Iowa and Indiana. He died July 26 1988 after strokes at 81 years 4 months and 22 days. He married Sarah Coffin in 1877 and had three sons and four daughters. later marriages produced four more sons. Survived by widow Eunice Sutter Odile Wilson Nell Rousseau and four sons plus twelve grandchildren and a sister and brother. A landowner and trader who valued the Golden Rule he was member of Antiquity Lodge No 252 A F & A M and hosted friends at his Moravia home. Funeral July 28 at Moravia Methodist Church with Masonic service.
The week filled with visits and greetings as Albia residents hosted callers from Moravia Centerville Newton and Des Moines. Birthday gatherings included Mrs Long and Ethel Brown with relatives and friends. threshing finished in the community. multiple families visited Kenton McCrory and Brown households. A large 20th annual homecoming at the M E church is planned with Union Sunday School and a basket dinner. Rev Zerbe of Batavia is slated to speak.
A note of gratitude outlines thanks for sympathy and flowers after a bereavement. The passage analyzes Germany’s misjudgments at the outbreak of World War I, including beliefs about British troop deployments in Ireland and labor strife in England. It also cites German views on militant suffragist movements as evidence of Britain’s supposed decadence.
Sunday school attendance recorded for the M. E. church with forty seven in the Christian class and rain measured as one fourth inch here, three fourths inch three miles north. Numerous short-notice social calls and visits are listed including the Argo family moving to Des Moines due to illness, Rev. Geo Williams preaching, and multiple neighbors calling on Mrs. Funkhouser, Mrs. Breese, and others. Doris Callen contracted measles with siblings affected. Stella Stack’s relatives visited for a birthday celebration.
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