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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1942
Page
2
Local and personal notes list numerous relatives and friends visiting for weekends and holidays. Includes Mrs Bruce Gardner and Mrs Harry DuVall among hosts in Centerville and Moravia, with travels to Des Moines Cedar Rapids and Cedar Falls for family events and school assignments.
Main Station fifty nine attended Sunday School and Church services. Numerous locals, including the Boyers, Gladfelders, McDanels, and Reeses, spent Sundays visiting relatives at homes and parks. Several trips: Bill Reeves, Minnesota, York and Lincoln, and a West reunion were noted alongside farm chores and threshing helpers.
West Point residents Mr. and Mrs. Bill Steffin and Margaret Kay spent Sunday at the Will Piagermann home. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Davis and Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Easter enjoyed days at the Claude Fulton home in St. Joseph Missouri. Lloyd Brown and children hosted a Sunday afternoon at the Cass Hamilton home while Carl Derby and Robert traveled to Ottumwa to meet Junior Derby back from a two week visit. Ronald Lee joined Carl VanZante and the Browns for a shopping trip in Albia Saturday as Will Hagerman and Arlen Hagerman plus Ardyce Rex and others also shopped.
Classified items include seasoned walnut lumber up to 800 feet offered by F A Tarr of Iconium with contact J DC Firkins Moravia. Property listing for Blanche Graham estate in Hast Add with 4 lots and potential home or rental by Chet Broshar. Collections wanted for judgments notes mortgages and accounts, cash offers by R C Valentine Co Marshalltown Iowa.
Maple Grove Clarence Dowds attended a Wilson reunion at the Eph Wilson home. Numerous locals visited relatives in Albia, Centerville, Udell, and Moulton, with gatherings at the Harrison Scott, J. L. Dodd, and Eugene Huston homes. Relatives and friends circulated weekend travel and illness news, and Rev. Creech preached at Salem church.
Overnight guests included Mr and Mrs Eddie Anderson and sons of Dickens staying at the Kenneth Condra home after a week with Ja E Condra near Seymour. John Gashwiler and children visited Dr and Mrs Gashwiler in Novinger, Mo as his two younger brothers are drafted into the army. Dean Smithburg and daughter from Sion Falls ND and John Stithburg with his wife left for Chicago for a hospital visit. rest of the family will stay with Pearl Smithburg and another daughter in the city.
Joan Callen is reported to be in Albia with her grandmother Mrs. Clair Spencer for a period of about a week, according to local notes.
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