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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1938
Page
7
A mixed school update highlights Henry David Thoreau’s Self Reliance idea urging personal effort. The reading list spans freshmen to seniors with multiple student names and upcoming events. Included are class activities, basketball schedules, fever illness, public contests, and notes on music, art, and grade reports with student names and teachers.
Rural School News from Foster reports a weeklong closure due to scarlet fever, student recognitions for perfect spelling and attendance, and a new school mascot, a collie named Jack. It notes science lessons with moss from the south, geography study on watches, and gifts from the traveling library including The Oregon Trail. Local visits, sick lists, and various family and community notices fill the page.
Circle members met at Mrs Plant with Mrs Leslie for a last Sunday in the vicinity. sickness and bad roads kept some away. Visiting friends included Ray Lemaster, Walter Lemaster, Mr and Mrs Hilman, and Ben Jones with Albia callers.
Mr and Mrs Busey Jennings with daughter Janet Le Thoraday attend a gathering at Robert Je five, alongside Mr and Mrs Jess Glalfe.
The Helping Hand club assisted Curtis Tomlin who was ill with the flu by cutting wood and preparing dinner at the J. T. VanDorin home. The group sawed wood Friday afternoon while Tomlin’s family expressed gratitude.
Pleasant Grove residents and families shared a active week with calls and visits. Wilma VanZante and the Robb home hosted Tuesday night gatherings while Garretts and Woodwards hosted Wednesday and Thursday events.
Mrs. Arthur Sufficool and Mrs. Stanley Sufficool spent Friday night with sister Mrs. Pete Bonnell. Lyndon McDanel is on the sick list. Homer VanDorin, returned from Rockford Illinois, spent Thursday with Robert Foster. Ernestine Stauber, a college student in Indianola, spent the weekend with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Foster and daughters visited Lew Hiner in Moravia. Arthur McKern stayed Friday night at Robert Foster's. Mrs. Stanley Sufficool again visited sister Mrs. Bernard DeBoule Friday. Avery Lane of Sigourney spent Thursday and Friday with Cyril McDanes. Kenneth Gladfelder and wives visited Earl Main in Knoxville on Sunday. Margaret and Virginia DeBoyle spent Sunday at Joe Martin's home. Gearld Hawk staying with wife McDanel who is sick.
Willie McDanel slightly better with Gerald Hawk staying to help. Local callers include Chet Broshar Lyndon McDanel Clell Selah Ronald Shirley Townsend Charlene Clyde Gladfelder and many McDanel family members. The community mourns Mrs Geo Bateman death and extends sympathy to her family.
New Hope residents record a week of visits with neighbors and relatives. Mr B E Turner hosts Thursday gathering with Mrs Dick Wilson and others while Albia visitors stop by the W E Donavan and Pearl Hiatt households. Elsie Martin returns from Gallup New Mexico.
Iowa State College expert C. C. Culbertson emphasizes proper pregnancy nutrition for brood sows. Protein supplements with tankage and alfalfa improve litters, with growth needs higher for bred gilts. Oats or corn depend on price and home supplies. alfalfa hay serves as alternative forage when grinders are unavailable.
Brood sows need a balanced diet with tankage and alfalfa to complement soybeans. A mineral mix of 20 parts salt 40 parts limestone 40 parts bone meal plus ½ ounce potassium iodide per 100 pounds is recommended, ensuring essential vitamins and minerals at all times.
The Iconium M E Hymnal Songsters sponsor a carnival and radio variety show at the M E Church on Saturday evening February 5 at 7. Booths offer freaks and fortune tellers with one cent admission per booth. The radio show features impersonations of famous radio personalities and costs one cent per inch around the wrist. proceeds go to the Hymnal Songsters.
A description of Wisconsin Territory boundaries circa 1838 notes expansion from Lake Michigan to the Missouri and White Earth rivers and from Illinois to Lake Superior. Dr William J Petersen contributes a geography view in The Palimpsest, a State Historical Society publication. The territory, established July 4, 1836, marked sixty years after independence.
The piece traces Wisconsin’s transformation from a sparsely inhabited territory with Madison as planned capital and Burlington as a temporary seat to a rapidly expanding region. It notes the area’s vast forest and prairie empire, five state capitals within reach, and a population swelling to about nine million in the era, nearly matching the U.S. total in 1820.
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