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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1937
Page
5
A long list of visitors and social calls fills Moravia notes including Miss Jackie Winsler in Kirksville, Centerville callers, Otumwa and Ottumwa visits, and relatives from Unionville Des Moines and Galesburg. Town residents host dinners and gardens, travel to Des Moines Newton and Cedar Falls, and announce new births and health updates across families and friends.
Kinser Valley Willie Van Dorin and wife attended Will Hoadley funeral in Albia. G B Darby and family visited Fairfield. Russell Darby and Leroy Wilson accompanied them. Burl was threshing. Fragments mention ice cream, visits with Harry Felton family, Buz leaving for Larnie Wyoming, Ed Peterson of Flint Michigan, and Donald Darby with Jennie Robinson visiting two weeks. Hoadley died after a mine accident north of Blakesburg. Funeral at Humeston funeral home. burial Eslinger cemetery. Rev. Young officiated.
The writer recounts a cross country journey from Flint and Pontiac through Dearborn Detroit and Windsor to Niagara Falls and New York City. Highlights include Ford plants in Dearborn, views of Greenfield Village and the Ford Museum, a Giants game, Gettysburg and Lincoln sites, and reflections on labor in Canada and American civilization.
Walden T. Smith formerly associate publisher of the Moravian Union will earn a Master Degree in Education at the University of Iowa this week. He serves as superintendent of schools in Mediapolis, Iowa, and will complete the degree at the close of the summer session.
Hazel College group led by Mr and Mrs Ed Johnson and Francis joined by Billy Spencer spent Sunday at Keosauqua for the C C Camp alongside Laurence Johnson Rollie Carter and family. Henry Sytsma visited Des Moines while Grant Sincox and Kenneth Johnson attended the funeral of Will Hoadley with the Herman Johnson household. Geo Darby and Hazel Wilson attended the Will Hoadley funeral as relatives. E G Sincox and Albia based family visited the Grant Sincox home Sunday evening. Helen Carter was with friends in Moravia on Wednesday afternoon. Herman Johnson and family also mentioned.
Wanted at once plug horse win Gardner. Whipping cream for sale Blumenstock's twenty six per quart. Wanted to buy gak timber will pay cash on stump. Also will hire man with will toy saw. R BR. Ties Milwaukee inspection will finance. Gaddis Lumber Co Arning lowe n for sale refrigerators same as new tugs rockers dishware kitchen utensils and many other household furnishings priced very low. Saturday first door south of Postoffice Centerville.
Mr and Mrs Grant Lincox spent Thursday evening at the Ed Johnson home for a social visit, sharing hospitality with the host and other guests.
An article explains Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematics professor at Oxford, wrote Alice in Wonderland under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll after telling tales to Dean Liddell’s daughter Alice. It notes Dodgson’s other works and the manuscript’s later sale price in 1928.
A rose breeding program has been started by the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station in Ames. Funded by the American Rose Society, the effort is directed by Tom J. Maney of the Pomology Section. The goal is to develop hardy new rose stocks and varieties suited to many varieties. The program notes that about 96 percent of commercial roses are derived from the multiflora rose.
The work explores creating diverse vigor and traits by grafting roses onto hardy stocks. About 200 combinations have been tested this season using a hardy variety as stock crossed with various varieties and species. The goal is good stock roses and hardy roses with strong blooming traits of hybrid teas.
Ad lerika relieves headaches by cleansing poisons from both upper and lower bowels. Ends bad sleep and nervousness. C A Veach, druggist.
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