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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1944
Page
4
The MHS Newsbasket notes a freshmen class party held Tuesday November 28. Food committee members listed include Norma Allison Dorothy Casebolt Gerald Hannum and Eugene Boyer.
The program committee includes Patty Awvel Margaret Johnson Max Turner and Jo Hannum. Freshments of sandwiches and pop. First grade made Santa Claus sleigh drawings and swap gifts. Second grade read Think and Do workbooks. framed Christmas pictures and trees. fourth grade kept up with spelling books. junior high students created Christmas poem booklets and planned a small program with mothers visiting from Fifth and Sixth grades.
Salem columns describe visits among Centerville and Albia residents including Mr. and Mrs. Newton Long, Bonnie Jean Frame, Dee Fenton, Mrs. Carrie Turner, Clarence Whitehead, Dell Hellyer, Argo brothers, Raymond Perry home, Bert Rinehart, Mary Lou Rinehart, and James Nash. Multiple gatherings span Wednesday through Saturday with relatives and friends visiting and hosting in Centerville and Albia.
A sequence of brief social touches shows local residents visiting relatives and friends across Centerville. Names include McDanel, Kaster, Walker, Easter, Boyer, O Conner, Whicker, Moffitt, and others as they share weekend and midweek calls and birthday dinners.
The band begins work on Christmas music with pieces including Reverie a horn solo by Mary Lou Main and Uncle Tom's Cabin as a specialty. A small band will perform at the Junior class play.
Imogene Tadlock and Mary Fullerton of Wisconsin visited Maple Grove school with Mardeena and Deloris Hiatt on Wednesday. Fred Coltrain called at Berl Arnold's Wednesday morning. Mr and Mrs Grant Tadlock and family and Berl Arnold were business visitors in Centerville Tuesday. Imogene Tadlock spent the weekend with her parents. Arlene and Charles Arnold and others attended the basketball game in Numa Thursday night.
Mrs J T VanDor and Mary Jo Faber helped decorate a Christmas tree for Nancy Carol Sunday afternoon. The community, digging out from eight inches of snow, faced drifting and mail service disruption as the Enon school bus could not pass and Ruth Gibbons, the Enon teacher, assisted residents.
A local note dated December recalls school ma am dedication and Helping Hand club embroidery while men cut wood. Families gather for anniversaries oyster soup and visits, with most events centered on neighbors and kin in a quiet winter week.
Unionville happenings include Miss Essie Whisler hosting and visiting relatives such as Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Herman, Fonda, and Sandra at the William Morrison home. Local residents note Mrs. Gerald Irelan’s return from Ottumwa and Cpl. Howard Underwood’s Richmond visit. A doctor treated Mrs. George Brain for an infected foot while Cpl. Bob Cross returned from Aberdeen for furlough. Mrs. George M. Brooke and Essie Whisler shopped in Des Moines and dined with Mrs. R. J. Bell in Ottumwa.
Mrs Dell Wilson led a Friday evening session on Better Foods for Post War America at the Utopian club. Thomas S Denham has returned from Deep River Iowa and will stay a few days. Mr and Mrs Joe Harrington Mrs Ralph Elder and Miss Agnes were in Ottumwa on business Wednesday.
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