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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1926
Page
4
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A. C. Nett antist tours week with cattle load. F. Chambers and party returned from western trip last Saturday. Elsie Cownett staying at Goeldner Moravia first week. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Johnson at J. M. Tucker home Sunday. Berniece Scott weekend with Marjorie Long Centerville. Paul Hiatt and Lloyd Rose with Dwight Powell Saturday night. Threshing begins in area. Elvin Cornett with Joe Tucker. Orpha McDanel weekend with Centerville relatives. Hethel Coulson of Rochester Minnesota visiting. Doyle McDanel at Cyril McDanel home Sunday. Girls party at Roy Hiatt home last Saturday for Esther’s tenth birthday. Refresments served. all had fine time.
Miller and Caylor couples and Wood couples visited Sunday various homes. Strunk family with children called afternoon at Coffin home. Eva Gibbs Mary Miller Sylvia Hart and Mrs Claud Paris attended the Farm Bureau meeting at Wal-.
Morrison house Thursday. Jeaneta Sapp spent the week with Sylvia Hart. The Logan Strunk family were business and pleasure callers in Centerville Wednesday. Mrs Rocet Coltrain of Moravia spent a few days of the week with Mrs Ray Goltrain.
Unionville residents and guests from Boone Marshalltown Ottumwa Udell Center ville Moravia and Omaha join weekly visits, circuses and chautauqua prep. Notable names include Frank and Maxine McKim Eton Bump Miller Ward Alden Hart Bills Swaim and Arnold. Local hospital update reports Mrs. Marion Miller's recovery and casted foot. Community gatherings feature circus attendance, ice cream supper for Swaim and Hermans birthdays and cattle market trips to St Joseph Kansas City.
Des Moines reports a major plan to showcase modern agriculture at the State Fair this summer. A cooperative display by Iowa farmers and their wives, with Iowa State College officials and the State Farm Bureau, will feature twenty four women’s projects and seven men’s projects from thirty one County Farm Bureaus. Demonstrations will highlight soil improvement, farm management, tuberculosis eradication, cooperative marketing, corn yield, clothing work, poultry culling, and citizenship along with a horticultural show, prize grain, and a extensive dairy exposition. Prizes total over 16000 dollars across agricultural and horticultural departments.
Iowa cattle raisers will see an unusual exhibit at the Iowa State Fair and National Livestock Show from August 25 to September 3. More than thirty feeder cattle of various kinds will be shown to help farmers identify the most profitable feeding stock and the types likely to incur losses. An accompanying display will feature the different meat cuts. Experts from the Omaha Stock Yards the U S Department of Agriculture and Iowa State College will offer feeding advice and stock purchasing guidance to visiting farmers.
The Iowa State Fair August 25 to September 1 will feature a stellar entertainment lineup. Thaviu and the 52 piece band, the 3rd District American Legion Band, Karl King’s Military Band, Halcyon Player and International Ballet, Old Soldier's Drum Corps, and two leading orchestras are set to perform. Massenet's Herodiade will be staged nightly before the grandstand with noted sopranos in leading roles.
Des Moines report notes a prominent science program at the Iowa State Fair from August 25 to September 10. It highlights demonstrations of power plant operation radium cures disease glass making radio science and medicine production. A special exhibit will showcase work to cure deformed and crippled children and many items from the natural life museum at Iowa City will be brought by the University of Iowa Museum Department.
Des Moines hosts the statewide Baby Health contest at the fair from August 24 to September. Entrants include champion boy and champion girl of Iowa, with entrants receiving guidance from a renowned pediatric consultant retained by the Fair Board for the event.
An enlarged Wild Life exhibit will open at the Iowa State Fair lake area featuring a wide array of fish, amphibians, animals, and birds. The State Fish and Game Department will curate the display with aquatic life in tanks and a connected wildlife show to follow.
Mr and Mrs Harold Clark and other locals visited Adda Robinson. Homecoming at Teonum drew many. Audrey Callen and Charley Jones plus Hazel joined Sunday guests at A F Woodcock. Orrin Callen helped Homer Brown with millet. G H Sweet welcomed eight pound baby girl Jeanie Louise born July 20.
Hedge College Pri at Rea and a family spent Monday evening at the BE. F. Wilson home, Harald Davis and family called at the O. G. Davis home recently. K. L. Tyrrell and family of Albia called at the Eph Wilson home Sunday afternoon, Clell Davis and family were Sunday visitors at the A. G. Davis home, Dwight Hiatt spent Sunday with T. C. Luge. Fred Rea and family arrived Tuesday after a vacation in Benton Harbor, Michigan. Mrs. R. C. Wilson and children spent Thursday afternoon at E. F. Wilson's. Vess Hiatt and family were Sunday visitors at the G. E. Luse home, John Johnson and family called at the E. F. Wilson home Sunday afternoon, Fred Rea and family spent Sunday afternoon at Dutch DaVabla, Vivien Wilson attended a Standard Heater picnic at Centerville Monday. Kathryn Rea spent Sunday night with Vivien Wilson.
Local residents attend events and shop in Moravia Centerville and Centerville park. Aunts, families and visitors from Cedar Rapids Albia Marshalltown and Centerville gather for homecoming shopping and Farm Bureau meetings. Cattle trade news from Chicago and a fall clothing course planning event are mentioned.
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