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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1949
Page
2
C R and H K Charity editors publish rates showing one year subscriptions at 1.50 for Appenoose and Monroe Counties and 2.00 for elsewhere in the United States in advance.
Moravia glows with the Christmas spirit as over a hundred colored lights illuminate the business district. Two long evergreen stringers each feature a large central star, adding festive brightness to the town’s decorations.
Booster club members Albert Witherby Howard Evans Maurice Walters and Harold Hudgens are coordinating Christmas decorations and promising music, Santa, treats, and a free movie. The Star Route mail dispatch shift to early evening will hasten paper delivery but may omit some late local news. editors urge faster copy arrival for publication.
Community notices recount visits and gatherings in Salem and nearby towns. Names include Hazel Hellyer Dell Hellyer Donna Rose and Richard with many family and neighbors attending celebrations, hospital reports, and weekend trips across Albia Centerville Ottumwa Des Moines and Moulton.
Centerville and nearby residents visited and hosted in a busy social day. Guests included Mr and Mrs Joe Voreece, Mr and Mrs Jesse Walker, Mr and Mrs Ross Starks, Mr and Mrs Alva Cradlebaugh, and Lee Walker with several relatives. New baby girl arrived for Milo Walker and family. Road work between Pearl Hiatt and Paul Cridlebaugh under way and welcomed.
The Union invites readers to telephone or send news items for publication. The paper expresses appreciation for timely submissions and highlights its readiness to receive local, community, or feature stories from residents and organizations.
Mrs William Gardner was named to Mora library board to fill the vacancy caused by Mrs Fred Blumenstock moving to California. The appointment was approved at Thursday's town council meeting. The board will meet January 7 at 7 30 p m in the library reading room.
Mrs Emmett Derby hosted the Happy Helpers club with quilt block sewing and a cooperative noon dinner. Freda Swift won the mystery prize as members including Ada McBeth Janice Dickie Epperly and many Derby and Calhoun family members attended. The next meeting is set for December 13 with Thelma Calhoun.
Neighbors and relatives are listed as visiting at Clyde Gladfelder and Ray Harrison homes across Saturday Sunday and Monday. The note records multiple gatherings and social visits including Fern Foster and Orman Lemons wedding attendance and local residents in Centerville Mora and Keokuk on various days.
Newton Long and daughter and Margaret Steffen were in Ottumwa Thursday night. A baby daughter was born prematurely to Mr and Mrs Duane Kindig in the hospital at Ottumwa.
Akron residents report a man named Henry Burnight, helped by his proud father, quickly constructing an incubator using an automatic heating unit from a local Akron hatchery. Both mother and child are reported to be doing well.
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