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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1930
Page
3
Katherine Blair placed a Nehted candle in the window to guide travelers on Christmas Eve as Kenneth kept missing home. A late arriving Kenneth Jr. surprised John and Katherine, declaring he came home by train and the candle’s glow spelled welcome home. Manche Tanner Dilitn.
A bustling page of greeting ads in The Union highlights Santa Claus as the most popular figure this week. Multiple messages from local shops and residents celebrate the season with festive greetings and charitable appeals.
Centerville visitors Mrs Culters and Sheriff Gaughenbaugh, Moravia and Mt Pleasant business contacts, and numerous students and relatives travel for Christmas. Miss Pauline Jones visits father G W Jones in Burlington. Delco dealer Paul Gergely reports Delco plant installation near Moravia. Kensington Christmas party hosts and Twentieth Century Club gathering mark season.
Etymology shows cantare the source of carol, with ging and rola as joyful interjections. Scholars note the term evolved from Latin cantare via vernacular forms to express festive singing and communal rejoicing.
In Montelpal court Andrew Merritt, a colored driver, was charged with operating a wagon at 6:25 p m without lights, causing a collision. Lawyer W B Henry admitted no light but cited a law permitting driving until half an hour after sundown. Henry used an almanac to prove sundown at six o'clock, giving Merritt five minutes. Judge Paul Wetter ruled the almanac sufficient proof.
A Hartford listener tuned WTIO in a Central American jungle and requested a song. An amateur in Porto Rico relayed the call to Paul Delgado of Buckhaho, New York, who then contacted Hartford, confirming the request approximately 45 minutes after the initial call.
A frightened eleven year old Mimi Sagnetti witnessed two bandits attempt a robbery at the National City bank in Bay Ridge Brooklyn. She ran into the street screaming for help causing police and citizens to react and the robbers fled without taking any money. Mimi had gone to deposit 51 dollars for her mother before the attempted theft.
A local rancher in Crawfordsville known as the deer king of Oregon runs a business raising and shipping deer across the United States. The herd numbers 75, led by the popular Babe, who years ago birthed a triplet litter.
Oscar Lindgren aged seventy two, weighing 125 pounds and five feet tall, faced four St Joseph policemen before being put in county jail after the incident described in a local report.
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