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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1958
Page
1
Rays Ramblins notes rain delays and heavy Northeast Moravia area showers. The piece hints at festival plans with premium list changes and a supposed largest weed entry sparking curiosity, while festival officials collaborate on minor adjustments and crowd interest.
The article reflects on changing gardening costs and practices from past to present, noting cheap lawnmowers and family gardens replaced by larger lawns and grocery buys. It commends Moravia residents for neat lawns during a wet season and calls for weed corner cleanups before Fall Festival.
Mrs H B Spring hosts and travels are reported with numerous visits by the Spring, Duty, Glas gow, Moore, Houser, Pugh, Stuckey, and Kilpatrick families. Relatives from Morrison, Centerville, Beacon, Clemens Town, and Thousand Oaks travel to and from Unionville and Odell areas for dinners, church, and gatherings as storm plans and trips to Mexico, Missouri are noted.
Mrs. Alice Urick of West Des Moines visited recently with her sister Mrs. Rex Albertson and other relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Yeager and family of Manchester are spending a few days at the parental Lester Murdy home.
The record lists expenditures from various vendors including Peatmes Plumbing Co Phillips Oil Co Premier Autoware Co Pullman Motor Co Putnam Welding Service Quarry Supply Co Sebben Machine Shop Sidles Company and Skelly Oil Co with amounts ranging from 5.44 to 187.40 and totals around seventeen thousand dollars for ongoing county operations.
A cash ledger lists fuel and lubricant suppliers including Socony Mobil Co., Staley F C, Standard Oil Co, Tidewater Oil Co, Wood Oil Co, and Veach Implement Co with amounts and transactions. It records pension approvals for Creech and Ford, land additions in Centerville Mystic and Cincinnati, and the Aug 4 1958 Conservation Board appointments by the Appanoose County Board of Supervisors with named members and terms.
The Board adjourned to meet at the call of the Auditor. Chairman initiated the session with directing officials to reconvene under the auditor’s call and outlined subsequent procedural steps.
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