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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1945
Page
4
The Moravia publication compiles a weekly look at student activities. Editor Maxine Smith and Assistant Mary Lou Main coordinate the sections for the Moravia Public School.
Arlene Arnold attended Maple Grove and M.H.S. with three basketball years and three years in band sexaphone. She now serves in the Navy. Richard Benz, from Mystic area, moved from Udell to Jericho and Mystic to Moravia High Schools, played bass in band, completed Normal Training, and notes Centerville girls.
Receipts from the Girls County Basketball Tournament totaled $260.70 as brisk weather aided sales at concessions. The Thespians led first night earnings, followed by the Commercial club Thursday and Librarians Friday. March of Dimes reports are satisfactory, $22.30 in so far with more likely. Class standings: Pre-primary and First $1.80, Second $0.80, Third and Fourth $2.00, Fifth and Sixth $2.00, Seventh and Eighth $2.00, Freshmen $3.00, Sophomores $4.30, Juniors $3.20, Seniors $3.70. Mr. Link, photographer, visited Tuesday and Wednesday for the annual. remaining pictures were taken Tuesday.
The senior typists now take turns as mike and deliver speedy precise pages of typed articles. This proves their required skill and ability. Some Typing IL Pupils are making programs and others bulletins on the mimeograph machine.
Pre primary welcomes Teddy Garrison as Lester Allen adds two new books Noahs Ark and No Good the Dancing Donkey Billy brings Black Beauty. Second Grade notes bean and corn roots sprouting yet leaves absent. Joyful Times readers begin. Five students donate dimes for March of Dimes. Classes resume weekly job rotations. Third and Fourth Grades report several returns including Billy Bishops mother and sister visiting. Bonnie Main Nellie Du Wall and Mitzi Sawyer lead twirlers at Thursday basketball. Read aloud of Black Beauty begins with growing interest.
The seventh and eighth grade classes complete geometry with a unit test planned this week. English lessons include characterizations and a twenty questions game. Eighth graders learned to write checks correctly last Friday.
The excerpt records a string of locker disclaimers and quirky messages in a school setting. It notes names such as Beverly Callen Velma Overturf Dee Fenton Dorothy Brown Norma Allison and Mickey Mouse, with lines about keeping out and guarding belongings. It conveys a chaotic, playful atmosphere around lockers and authority figures.
Franklin and nearby towns see a flurry of visits with families such as Moffatts Coxes and Argos stopping by homes of Brock Lemaster Sheldon and Moffatts. Attendees attend a funeral in Moulton and celebrate a birthday in Iconium while others share time at the Cox and McFatridge residences and with kin in Moravia Knoxville Centerville and Iconium.
Harrison Barth and his sons Jessie and Raymond maintain a near Decorah Ford equipped with a caterpillar-drive and chest high meter runner rig for all emergencies.
Salem notes a busy social week with visits among Hellyer, Perry, Whitehead, Gladfelder, Nash, McKern, and Long families. Resignations and birthdays accompany gatherings, with Darlene Gladfelder birthday dinner and 90th birthday for W K Colburn marked amid community events.
Attendance at Sunday School was 653. Yvonne Harrison and Nora Callen spent the weekend at the Ray Harrison home. Darlene Gladfelder spent Friday.
A neighborhood gathering at the Farm Bureau meeting in Moravia Community Center is noted along with numerous visits and social calls. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Hilton made Centerville calls, Louise McDanel and Richard visited, Marilyn Rose stayed with Virginia Hiatt, and many others spent time at Bert Luse’s or Bert Luse family homes.
Lola Boyer and Mrs Allie Boyer visited at the David Weston home from Thursday evening to Friday evening They called on Friday evening at the Tom Workman home and stayed overnight at the Olin Foster home They attended a Moravia basketball game with them Sunday dinner guests included Mr and Mrs Charles Quick Rosemary and George Boyer The afternoon featured the funeral of Edd Whicker at Turner Funeral Home Moravia Other locals included Linnie Hilton Mrs Allie Boyer and Lola Mr and Mrs Slyde McDonald Harry Phillips Encil Hiatt Norma and Elmer Hiatt at the Phillips home Encil Hiatt visited Mrs Luella Mishler Monday They had word Orvil in service was wounded Mr and Mrs Moon and Mrs Bateman spent Tuesday evening at Linnie Hilton’s home Evening ended with ice cream.
Mrs. Adala Daniels has been ill but is improving. Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Dooley and sons and Evelyn Hiatt visited Ottumwa Saturday. Virgil Dooley, Clair McDanel, Merton Rose and Elmer Hiatt attended a county 4-H meeting in Centerville Monday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Meadows were supper guests at the Hiatt Dooley home last week. Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Harsh and children, and Mr. and Mrs. Troy Adams spent Monday evening at the Lloyd Rose home. Elmer Hiatt spent Monday night with Clair McDanel. Mr. and Mrs. Carol Braes attended a party at Ronald Woodward's home Tuesday evening.
The Douglas Doughboys 4-H club met at Lloyd Rose home with twenty eight boys present. Mary Beth and Jimmy Turner spent the weekend in Centerville with grandparents. Lloyd Rose and family visited George Scott Sunday. Margie Gordon resumed school at Denny Monday. Cyril McDanel and family and Ileta Argo and daughter Colleen visited McDanel's parents Burdatta Utterback in Moulton Sunday. Sympathy extended to the relatives of Mrs Jake Stevens who died last week in Moulton. Evelyn Hiatt could not return to school in Centerville due to a heavy cold.
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