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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1929
Page
2
Local Moravia residents and guests share visits across Des Moines Centerville and Osceola with many traveling relatives and friends. Mrs Hiatt remains seriously ill at home while Miss Strohl from Los Angeles visits Moravia relatives and teachers.
Moravia notes recall the Main reunion with Mr and Mrs Gua Main of Kansas City visiting. Gc Main and family return. Pearl and Milo Golinder of Grand Island Nebraska attend. Former Moravia residents Herman Stoops suffers ax injury while splitting wood with no serious outcomes. Local concerts draw large crowds as Moravia Concert Orchestra performs. Grant Everman family plans move to Centerville. Evermans lauded as good neighbors. Picnic and club events toast Evermans leaving. Visitors Frank Wilson and son James Nathan arrive from Buckeye Arizona. others report on relatives and funeral attendees. Valley Junction Rotary sends 25 youths touring the west including Yellowstone Park. Iowa State Fair features baby beef show with 75 counties competing.
An air party led by Ernest Sue Junke assistant secretary of Navy and six others paused at Council Blues Airport during a 16,000 mile tour of the United States Hawaii and Alaska. Henry Ford remarks that the perfect drilling engine is not yet invented. Nothing is perfect.
Mr and Mrs Frank Swaim return to Moravia from Centerville where they ran a restaurant for several months They traded their Cenerville restaurant to Will Hallingsworth for farm land west of Aberdeen Possession was given immediately and their son Hall stayed on briefly to help the new owner.
The Winslers hosted a large Sunday dinner and reunion at the R. W. Winsler home in Moravia with Mrs. G. B. Winsler assisting as hostess. Guests included R. W. Winsler and family, Jacquelyn and Jeraldine Winsler, FE Winsler, John Winsler, B. E. Winsler, John Rice, Hayes Winsler and children of Memphis, Miss Rudge Winsler, N. R. Ward and daughter Marguerite, G. B. Winsler and family, Frank Nichols, Dr. G. D. Lynch, Justine and Jack Boyd, Elizabeth Broshar, Pearl Eugene Broshar, Paul Broshar and daughter, J. D. Minnes, and Mildred Strohl.
Mail trains to Moravia have changed time and some correspondence arrives too late for publication. This affects items sent via Albia and Melrose post offices. Correspondents must submit their items one day earlier to ensure timely publication.
About sixty young people gathered at the E F Wilson home for games and music. Out of town guests included Claud Alden Unionville Elmer and Owen Smith and Ella Mae Combs Albia Fern and Harold Wright Moulton. Brick ice cream wafers were served on trimmed plates. A joyous time was had by all.
Sunday visits at the E F Wilson home include Hedge College x 8 and Carl Cloved families. Several families and individuals travel and host gatherings near Melrose and Coatsville with discussions of teaching placements and school surroundings. The Carroll Triad monoplane by Saul Aircraft Corp aims for a factory test in three weeks and a government inspection after, priced under ten thousand dollars. A tongue in cheek remark notes owing money as a test of friendship.
Hiatt followed with a reading and Brother Tucker gave a condensed church history touching Wesley's 52 year origin. Rev Coffin spoke and Rev Fix preached a short sermon then ice cream cooled the crowd. The Ladies Aid offered paint if men would apply it to the church.
Guests and neighbors from many churches and social circles offered prayers and flowers after Mrs. Thompson’s illness. The Thompson home has become a garden of fragrance and kindness, and the couple thanks all for sympathy and support, praying for divine strength.
The Iconium Circuit M. E. Church lists Sunday School at the regular hour next Sunday with preaching at Hilton 11 am and Fairview 9 45 am. Evening services are canceled at Hilton to allow attendance at Albia for Rev. Albert Peterson. The Fourth Quarterly conference is completed and plans to improve church finances are urged before August 27.
On August 4 the Blumer family hosted a large gathering at their Moravia home as children arrived with baskets to share. Attendees included J M Hoover of Snyder Oklahoma and many Blumer relatives plus visitors Chas Johnson family from Wilison Iowa and Wilbert Hiatt and daughter from Des Moines. Music, singing, and photos filled the evening.
Fall prep items including a Coke or coal heater a duofold stall heater bed springs and other goods offered by Mrs Grant at Everman. Buyers are invited to contact the seller as autumn approaches.
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