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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1935
Page
2
Entered as second class mail matter at Moravia post office Appanoose County Iowa under the act of March 8 1879. Published every Thursday H K and W T Smith publishers subscription rates
The article cites a News Week piece recalling 1935 as a year of rum and riots at major games. Crowds booed, bottles flew, goal posts were torn, and even police watched as Yale Dartmouth Army Notre Dame and other clashes sparked fear and disorder at football events nationwide.
Rioters disrupted celebrations as Princeton and Yale fans clashed on the field. In the final minutes Princeton extended a big lead while Yale supporters attempted to topple a goal post and a flare of punches and disorder followed, including a bowler knocking out three men and a Yale student tripping a mother and child amid the chaos.
Jennie Florence Lemaster daughter of Mr and Mrs W A Lemaster was born in Iconium Iowa March 4 1882 and lived there all her life She married Rollin E McCord December 17 1902 and had three sons Paul Carl Dwight She joined church as a child and became M E Ladies Aid president in 1982 She died December 6 in Oskaloosa after illness She leaves husband three sons daughter in law granddaughter four sisters and a brother in Sconium Jeunum cemetery burial noted
Garrett Kannegiesser outlined a economic and social snapshot from Germany noting limited public tolerance for dissent with only a few allowed to assemble. He described the Bible being altered with Hitler portrayed, and cautioned that ministers question the territorial implications in Henry County while observers note rising worker income pressures amid censorship.
The report notes 10 local government workers and five in courts on payrolls under the new regime. Wages fall, prices soar with clothes costing 100 marks, butter 7c a pound, hot dogs equal to an hour’s wage, and car fuel costly. Debts largely canceled, mortgages halved, Jews driven from business, and schooling steeped in Hitlerism as American travelers receive discounts.
Tonight and Wednesday the adult homemaking class will meet to study Making Christmas Candy. A vote will decide next year’s course. The ninth evening session on Wednesday Dec 11 at 7 30 p m covers Marketing Wool and Lamb Pools with notes on higher prices for pooled livestock. The final session on Dec 18 discusses Shelter Equipment for Sheep and the 1936 Outlook for Crops and Livestock.
The Willing Workers club met with Mrs Hazel Rinehart on Wednesday. Most members attended except one. They sewed quilt blocks, cut and mended rags, and picked hickory nuts. Visitors included Mrs Roy Gilliland Mrs Ben Alem and Miss Verna Parcel. The next meeting will be with Mrs Earl Swift on Wednesday January 1.
The King Theatre presents films from December 11 to 19 featuring Loretta Young Henry Wilcoxod and Alan Hale in The Crusades on Dec 11 12, Cary Grant and Edward Everett Horton in The Last Out Post and Your Uncle Dudley on Dec 13 14, William Powell Rosalind Russell in Rendezvous on Dec 15 16, King Solomon of Broadway and Too Tough to Kill on Dec 17, and Hugh Herbert Helen Broderick in To Beat the Band on Dec 18 19.
Iowa State College extension specialists say home butchering and canning remain cost effective despite higher hog prices. June 20 to 25 is Home Butchering Week with two day schools already beginning in Centerville and Knotville. Training sessions across 35 counties will cover cutting meat canning and curing led by McDonald Bev ing Airy and nutrition specialists with county agents distributing a new circular on Home Butchering in Iowa.
Tr T W Schultz head of the Agricultural Economics Department at Iowa State College comments on the recently announced American reciprocal trade treaty he calls a trial balloon. He says it will indicate America s attitude toward reevaluating its agriculture and Canadian American trade relations with more synchronized economic actions than past agreements.
Dr Schultz argues the Canada United States trade treaty aids consumer gains and tempers rising prices, while challenging tariff protected producers and lingering economic isolation. He notes Canada is America’s key foreign customer and U S exports to Canada declined since 1929. Mrs J C Hall of Cincinnati visits daughter Mrs T R Gordner and family.
White Dove notes mention Warren DuVall and helpers saw wood on Monday with Mrs Reva DuVall and Mrs Ben Blumer assisting. Jim McCumber visited with William and Clair Callen on Monday night. William Callen and Don Blumer visited Sunday. Fred Callen and daughter Anna called on Fred Hammond Sunday morning. Mrs Warren DuVall stayed with her father in Moravia over the weekend. Theo Thompson was a Moravia caller Saturday. Mr and Mrs Ben Blumer also noted in the entries.
And Mrs. Robert DuVall and Warren DuVall wore Moravia callers Saturday afternoon. Mrs. M. A. Lockman was a caller at the Fred Callan home Tuesday.
Mr and Mrs Gee their Winsler and daughter Georgiana visited Des Moines on Tuesday.
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