Local visitors in Centerville and Unionville households
Unionville and Centerville residents visit Miller and Atanda households. John Andrews shows improvement after a month with throat infection. Abra Smith and family, Darlene and Rex Underwood travel to Centerville to see Santa Clara. George Brooke visits with his grandmother Maggie Me Donald. Zola Saum Ruth Allender and BE Place with son are also noted in the weekend social round.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abra Smith
Junior
Darlene
Rex Underwood
Centerville
Santa Clara
George Brooke
Maggie Me. Donald
Zola Saum
Ruth Allender
BE. A. Place
Utopian Club Hosts Meeting And Women in National Defense Talk
Ottumwa community notes show Utopian club entertained by Mrs Callie Place with Dell Wilson as study leader on Women in National Defense. Refreshments served. Also reports of diners at the Goodwins, visits from Nick and Fred Detricks, and Veitchs leaving for California for winter. Officers installed for WSC 8 under Veitch and Bair with social room exchange planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Badle
Centerville
Nick Detrick
Clem Hunt
Fred Detrick
Ottumwa
Jess Goodwin
Harl Goodwin
Bunch
Pearl Alden
Amanda Miller
Utopian Club
Callie Place
Dell Wilson
P. L. Veitch
California
Veitch
P. A. Bair
Thanksgiving Socials Span Centerville and Surrounding Towns
The week includes numerous Thanksgiving gatherings at Centerville area homes with relatives from Bloomfield Ottumwa Mt. Pleasant and Moravia. Attendees include the Wilson Guernsey Rogers Henderson Underwood and Robb families among others. John Andrews is ill with throat and ear infection and others face minor injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clifford Boyer
DuPont
Joliet
E. Boyer
Dell Wilson
Joe Guernsey
Hugh Guernsey
Catherine
Marguerite
Centerville
C. C. Rogers
Bloomfield
Harry Pabst
Moravia
Baptist Ladies Aid
P. E. More
G. N. Brain
Luther Childs
Childs
Temperance Childs
Baptist
Orville Rogers
Ross Stark
Marilyn
Lee Walker
Jack
Joyce
Alva Criddlebaugh
Aby
Rey
Jas
A. Wilson
Wilson
O. M. Wilson
John I Wilson
Mt. Pleasant
Virgil Terrell
Betty Lou
Sandra. Lee
Oskaloosa
Charles Henderson
Phyllis Derby
Blakesburg
P. A. Bair
Liseter
Mabel Robb
Robb
C. L. Alden
Amanda Miller
H. M. Underwood
Will Lyman
Walter Selix
George van DeGore
Ottumwa
Maggie McDonald
George Brooke
H. A. Herman
John Andrews
Charles Swaim
Betty Hopkins
Sigourney
F. M. Hopkins
Mattie Raison
Maynard More
Minnie Linden
Sadie Erskin
Mary Stanfel
Bertie Gray
Mattie Rais
E. A. Place
Edward
Farmington
Williamson
Place
West
Church School and Worship Service Schedule Update
Church School led by Carl VanZante at 10 00 a m followed by Worship Service at 10 50 a m A musical program at the school house replaces evening worship There is a Thursday prayer meeting at 7 30 p m and a note urging prayer Meeting of the finance committee and official Board Friday night All are welcome to attend these services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl VanZante
Rayer
Thanksgiving Gatherings and Family Visits across Ottumwa and Chariton
The community shares Thanksgiving time with unions and kin. Arthur Eugene Brown visits grandfathers in Homer Brown's home. Miss Prudence Jones spends holidays at her parents' home in Fairfield. Mr. and Mrs. Cross visit Perry Cross and family. Mrs. Maggie McDonald recovers from a stroke at home after St Joseph hospital care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Joseph Hospital
Centerville
George Brooke
Dolly Cross
Methodist Church Services and Upcoming Concert Notice
Methodist Church schedule lists E LeRoy Pullman as pastor with church school at 10:00 a m and worship at 11:00 a m in Glen Garrett's supervision. Wesley Chapel offers services at 9:30 a m and 10:80 a m with Virgil Dooley as superintendent. Due to a sacred musical concert by the Moravia school band, Sunday evening worship and Youth Fellowship are canceled. A Wesley Chapel W 8 C S meeting is postponed to Thursday afternoon with Mrs Encil Hiatt hosting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glen Garrett
Wesley Chapel
Virgil
Dooley
Methodist
Moravia
Encil Hiatt
Social visits and barn work in Centerville region
The record lists numerous sample visits and calls across Centerville, Albia, Ottumwa, and nearby homes. Names include Tom McCrory, Pearl, Arthur Points, John W. Kenton, Ruth, Dortha, Barbara Ann, Mary Lois, Harry Robinson, Homer Brown, Ethel Brown, Chas Smith, Harold Hull, and Barbara Moran. People are noted visiting relatives, assisting with barn work, and traveling between towns on several afternoons and Sundays. Tom McCrory is mentioned as recovering and able to get about.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom McCrory
Pearl
Arthur
Edward “Points
Clell Long
John W. Kenton
Ruth
Dortha
John Sharp
Centerville
Howard Besco
Ed DeLong
Homer Brown
Arthur Points
Albia
Centerville l
Harry Robinson
Ethel Brown
Charles Smith
TomcCrory
Ruth Kenton
Chas. Smith
W. A. Brown
Barry Robinson
Barbara Ann
Mary Lois
Charlea Stith’srandson
Harold Hull
Ottumwa
Albin
Babe Moran
Kansas City
Edmond Brown
Ottumwa Hit Parade Lights Red Nichols Orchestra
Red Nichols headlines Ottumwa Coliseum in a Thursday night performance part of Ottumwa's hit parade of favorite bands. Born amid a musical family, he showed early talent on trumpet and rose from Culver Military Academy to Broadway revues, radio, and the famed Five Pennies era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red” Nichols
Ottumwa Coliseum
Ottumwa
West Point
Culver Military Academy
Red
Ogden
Tad
Theatrical life and early stars under Red's leadership
The era featured five Earl Carroll's Vanities editions and three Gershwin productions with major engagements from Hollywood to New York. Idhol's training helped future icons like Jon Venuti Jimmy Dorsey Benny Goodman Arita Shaw and Glenn Miller form bands. A violent note ends with two forks driven into Phillip Pan's wrist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Carroll
George Gershwin
Hollywood
New York
Idhol
Jon Venuti
Jimmy Dorsey
Benny Goodman
Arita ‘Shaw
Glenn Miller
Red
Derhurst of Waukon Injury From Ladder Fall
A report notes that Derhurst of Waukon fell from a ladder on a silo. Details on injuries or cause remain sparse in the surviving text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Derhurst
Waukon
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Atandaer
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West Side Square
Turner
Iowa
Ambulance Service
Ward
Harrison Scott
B. Bt
United Brethren
G. M. Talbott
E. Leroy Pullman
Mr. Pleasant
Beau
Bissell
Autll
Turner & Son
C. T. Slavin
M. D
Phillip Pan
Marshall D. Huston
Cor. Sq
Moravia Union
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