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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1930
Page
4
A satirical note on low wheat prices and rising prices for staples. The piece mocks politicians for large nomination gifts and recalls a bank robbery in Ohio where a cashier shot the robber dead. Farmers protest calls to cut wheat production amid public fuss.
Hot weekend with thermometers at 110 to 112 near Main Station. Kenneth Gladfelder and son visited Jesse Gladfelder home. Moravia residents aided Daphne McDanel with threshers. Numerous locals, including Townsend McDanel and families, attended gatherings at E Boyer, Veach, and Foster homes. Ice cream social after Sunday activities.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Abbott of Cedar Rapids visit at Jim Moore’s home. Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Patrick join Moravia callera Saturday. Pauline and LaZelle Williams spend Wednesday with Helen Hamilton. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Moore visit Des Moines with their son Talbert. Charley Long and son of Oklahoma visit the Van Long home last week. Mrs. Jeff Patrick and Mrs. Ben Jones visit with Mrs. Cass Hamilton and Helen Friday. Mrs. Lloyd Brown and baby spend Monday with Mrs. Rolla Brown. Civele met Wednesday with Mrs Ed Delong.
Town council met in regular session on August 4, 1830, with Mayor W. G. Firking and members E. D. Kennedy C. O. Jones Fred Hiatt and clerk B. S. Carter. Bills from various funds were approved including labor marshal duties park maintenance and hall rent. The meeting adjourned after budget and highway fund items. A military anecdote from the 112th Regiment Magazine closes the item.
Dorothy Murphy called Sunday at the Gray Penfield home. Mr. and Mrs. W. Abbott and family and Mr. and Mrs. Jim Moore and daughter Fio spent Sunday with Des Moines relatives. Rosa and Josephine Murphy visited the Merle Dicks home. Various neighbors, including Mrs. Dolph Tarbell and Hollis, called on Millie Chadwick and Mrs. Ella Blue, while Laura Dicks and Leo Beaty hosted visits. Billie, the Beaty child, is ill. threshing and multiple visits mark a busy period with many small gatherings.
In the district court of Iowa Appanoose County a notice to Michael Hornish and others warns of a quiet title suit filed by M Y Lockman. The petition describes the Southwest quarter of the Northwest quarter in Section Three Township Seventy North Range Sixteen West, alleges record title defects, and seeks to bar all adverse claims. Default may be entered if respondents fail to appear before noon on October Term 1930 starting October 27 in Centerville.
Mr and Mrs Maunie Fool and son Charles and daughter Alma visited the J. J. Stevens home Friday and Saturday nights. Centerville visitors included Mrs. Alice Sandera at the bedside of her grandson, Charley Crow's infant. The community shared local errands, visits, and church attendance with numerous neighbors in Centerville Moravia and Ottumwa areas.
In an 11 year battle with constipation Chas E Blair credits Adlerika a glycerin mix with buckhorn bark saline for rapid relief. The ad claims it cleans upper and lower bowels and removes unseen poisons, urging readers to try the product at Smith Drug Co. M-2 amid a Will Rogers joke.
National Confectionery Association notes the average person spends only about two cents a day on confections, highlighting modest costs and consumer habits in a brief industry update.
Scarface Al Capone reportedly told a Chicago gangster that the conflict over a rocket project was finished, signaling an end to a long running feud in the city. The claim appears in a clipped section of a historical ledger.
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