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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1976
Page
2
Classified notices show dry maple wood for sale and various local services and events. Includes contact numbers 724-3348 724-3688 724-3297 and addresses Moravia Iconium. Also listings for auction service carpentry tax service laundry and a bake/cook schedule for early January. A PITCH PARTY at American Legion Home and a raffle style event are noted.
Local residents shared Christmas meals with relatives including Walter Scott Jr and Verlin Stocker. Kenneth Daniels attended Freeman Jolly and Mintia Shoemaker’s funeral. Moravia hosts welcomed Danies Sievers Tadlock Caltrain Tisue and Herron families with additional guests from Del Rio and Gamaliel. The Payne and Turnipseed gatherings included Paul Benell Jr and family in Washington and Brighton overnight stays at Lloyd Gray home.
An Iowa Southern Utilities official outlines storm response steps as ice, wind, and outages threaten power. Don Hood stresses maintaining energized main lines first, using alternate feeders, and mobilizing crews. He warns not to touch downed lines and to call the company with name and address for service restoration.
Proceedings detail tax withholdings, fund disbursements, and contracts across multiple county funds including Flood and Erosion, Civil Defense, Secondary Road, and IPERS. The board authorizes a warranty deed for land in Belleaire Township, sets budget for 1977 Secondary Road, and approves matching funds for an Iowa Crime Commission project. Signatures of Kermit Strickler and others appear with attestations by County Auditor Etta Tean Laursons.
Sunday and Christmas Day gatherings span Boone Muscatine and Ottumwa areas. Mr and Mrs Roger Temple and family from Boone visited Birdie Main while Mr and Mrs John Benns and their children called on their grandmother. Revelries at Dallas Faber and Jack Martin homes included all their children and kin. Wanda Johnson moved from Iowa City to Lucas County Hospital in Chariton for care, then received gifts from Ralph Robinson and others. Zula Taylor Elsa DeLong joined Jack Hayes family home near Blakesburg for Christmas. Mary Ward Dan Brooks and family joined Ralph Wallace household for Christmas.
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