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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1951
Page
3
Classified items list shop work, flooring rental, and a potpourri of sales. Mentions Admiral appliances, school supplies, pocket stapler, uniforms, honey, paper, grains, studio couch, washing machine, real estate, coal, and live stock with contact notes and prices. Includes Moravia and surrounding area notices and vendor names like Success Barber Supply and Goode Seed & Feed Co.
Local notices list Grace Methodist Wesley Methodist and Evangelical United Brethren churches with service times scripture topics and Sunday school details Pastor Rev Martin Greer and Pastor Rev Evan Stroud are named along with Sunday school superintendents and weekly prayer and youth activities. A reflection about attendance and a reminder about Sunday schedule concludes with promotional blurbs for a Sunday magazine feature about wives and marriage.
Mrs. Fannie Callen hosted a Western Ladies Civilization Society meeting on Wednesday afternoon assisted by Mrs. Mary Burns Mrs. Clarence Dowd and Mrs. T R Gardner. Mrs Burns led devotions with parts by Mrs Etta Halden and Mrs W W Murdy. Mrs Gardner led the program and refreshments followed during the social hour with guest Mrs. Alice Wilson present.
Community dinners honor anniversaries and visit relatives across Albia and nearby towns. Notable events include a lightening shattered barn at the Coffin farm with total loss of contents, and weekend visits by extended families from Des Moines Hopkinton and Denver.
Dita and Mrs. Brian Karr with Martina Kate of Otley stay with her parents Mr and Mrs W V Murdy. Mrs James Weinman and Joe of Indianola spend two weeks at Howard Smith home. Leonard Bruner and family from Lebanon Indiana visit Averill Easter and sister Clifford Pfannebecker. Lowell McElderry Donna travel to Rochester Minnesota to bring Mrs McElderry home after minor surgery. John Ullem visits Baraboo Wisconsin with the Hunts at Moravia. R R Pennington attends Derby races at the Davis County Fair in Bloomfield. races highlight noted.
Otto Buhr of Maynard reports selling OCCO fed fall pigs at five months and five days old, averaging 24844 pounds each. He credits Occolab with boosting protein utilization to 97 percent, reducing yeast costs, and improving feed efficiency. USDA notes antibiotics lose value after 75 pounds, so natural proteins like oil meals and meat scraps are emphasized for economy and gains. Cultured seeds and starch changes in corn aid digestion, with worming benefits promised to hog men.
Mara Jean Tubbs of Elmhurst Tl spends the week with cousin Lois Fowler. Miss Madge Hough and Mrs. Bernice Porter, attendants at Mt Pleasant State Hospital, visited Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Tilmont.
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