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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1938
Page
4
Albia visitors shuttle through Centerville and Des Moines. Local residents travel for family visits, hospital stays, and church events. Mary Rose Main hosts seventh birthday party. Montanan and Wyoming trips noted. Delays and medical updates mark daily life as Moravia community sustains ties with Keosauqua Madrid and Os kaloosa.
The fourth annual Boyer family picnic was held Sunday July 25 1938 at the old Boyer homestead with 67 attendees. After a noon dinner a brief program featured hymns recitations and songs by family members and grandchildren. Several marriages and one birth were noted since last year, with many relatives listed as present and planning a return next July.
Hedge College Ralph Davis visited near Hartford with his brother Russell Davis last week. Billy Luse spent Monday morning with grandparents Bert and Mrs. Luse. Gaylord McDanel family visited north of Albia at Hugh Meyers. Wilbur Cloyed stays this week with Burke Wilson in Woodward. Cody Luse family visited G E Luse home. Gretchen Luse and Leila visited Bert Luse. Glee Callen spent Friday with Cheree Dyphon. Mr. and Mrs. Q G Davis visited M P Maia and W P Davis homes Sunday. G E Luse and Gerald, Edna Mae and Jimisie Luse with Mrs. Vone Jones visited T J Luse home northeast of Des Moines. Git Kluckhohn of Gulva visited John Jubison’s and Wilson reunion in Dix. E F Wilson, Edna Dyphon, Cietee Dyphou, Larry Bishop, Wilbur Cloyed attended Stucker Locke reunion at Unaou Park Des Moines.
CaureneS Bible School opens at 10 a.m. with Irene Main as superintendent. Communion follows at 10:50 a.m. Ladies Aid meets Wednesday afternoon. GEO. A. CIVEY presides as pastor.
The United Brethren Church lists a school at 10 a m with M E Backman as superintendent. Worship at 11 a m, Y P C E U at 7 p m, evening service at 8 p m, all day aid Wednesday with dinner at noon, and election of church officers Sunday morning. A York college group presents the drama The Lost Church on Monday evening August 15 with an offering.
Rain kept many from our annual Homecoming but a good crowd gathered for an engaging program. Two sermons are planned next Sunday followed by a quarterly conference at Hilton led by J. F. Boege. Hilton members invite all to attend.
In Knoxville Mrs. Lyman Main marks her 83rd birthday while her son Earl Main attains his 45th anniversary. Mr and Mrs Lyman Main Mr and Mrs Kenneth Gladfelder and sons Mr and Mrs Jessa Gladfelder and Wanda Main gathered at the Earl Main home Sunday for a shared family celebration.
The menu lists fried chicken with gravy mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes plus corn sliced tomatoes baked apples butter jelly ice tea and coffee.
Hiattsville and Centerville residents hosted a Sunday School class at Centerville city park with sixteen children. Local families visited Memphis Missouri, attended gatherings in Iconium, and hosted guests at homes. Threshing machines began harvesting timothy seed at Lute Hiatt’s as Mrs. Shooser and others shared meals and family events.
Hundreds of Towa farmers query how to feed lightweight oats effectively. Experts at lows State College advise trials in alaint livestock feeding including beef cattle swine sheep and poultry to determine best use and digestion with balanced rations.
Agricultural experts discuss feeding light weight oats to cattle horses and ewes for winter nutrition. Recommendations cover grinding soaking de hulling costs and dairy poultry rations with ground shelled corn bran soy meal and bone meal. Experts note limited value for hog fattening due to bulk and potential wastage in poultry feeds.
Leonard Wilson recounts a high ridge elk drive in the Colorado Rockies where a 300 pound buck was taken and hunters prepare in dense spruce and balsam wilderness. The narrator describes careful stalking, safety, and a dramatic encounter as a huge elk charges through the trees near the open park.
A hunter recounts stalking an elk from concealment behind a spruce, misfires, a wounded animal, and a dramatic recovery as the elk regains movement. After a tense sequence the animal is killed and dressed near the fountain, with nine man loads and two horses carrying meat back to camp before nightfall as snow begins to fall.
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