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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1937
Page
3
The ladies hosted a surprise farewell for Mrs. M. R. McCoy at her Fuller home with twenty guests bringing dishes and sandwiches. A school farewell for J. W. McCoy followed with a book memento. Several area families shared visits and guests, and a M. R. McCoy sale drew good attendance before the couple moved to Springfield Missouri.
Udell Route 1 Harry Rumley in Unionville Friday and Ross Starks assessor in vicinity last week. Neighbors report visits, sickness, and school absences among Rumley Sanders and Foster families. One milk cow was injured after slipping on an icy hillside. animal recovered.
Salem families including Kenneth Gladfelder and sons, Gus Luse and Gerald, Vone Jones, Charley Jones and Clair Easter, Edward McCord, Carrie Turner, and Ralph Turner attended visits at various homes. Others like Dell Hellyer and Bert Nash families were noted for recent outings and calls.
Will Haver is noted as visiting plans for Sunday afternoon. The item lists several small social notes including attendance at sales and visits to homes among local residents, with mentions of health concerns such as pneumonia and scarlet fever affecting families in the area.
Many residents near Main Station report recovering patients and ongoing family visits. Mrs. Jack LuseSit up and enjoy flowers and sunshine. neighbors and friends have called. Several local families including McDanel, Gladfelder, Hilton, and Luse attended gatherings and shared caregiving. A stroke left Mrs Idx Townsend critically ill, while others extended support through visits and small parties.
Mrs Eph Wilson spent Thursday at Tilman Stocker home. Mrs Gaylord McDanel visited Friday with Mrs Harold Davis. Mr and Mrs Guss Luse entertained at a rock party Thursday night Curtis Burton won high score. Ruth Johnson spends a few days at home. Mrs Guss Luse and Gerald visited Friday with her mother. Alvin Donahoo from CCGC camp Centerville spent the weekend at home. O G Davis family recovered from influenza. Mrs Bertha Luse and Guss Luse helped care for Mrs Luse at Jack Luse home. Dorothy Ralph Davis Sim Howell spent Sunday evening at Guss Luse home. Fern Wright visitors at Eph Wilson’s Sunday. Guss Luse family spent Sunday at Horton Potts home. Fern Wrights visited John Johnson Sunday evening.
The report covers a busy weekend with visitors at the Glen and Bert Sheldon homes, including the Clell Sheldon family and Mrs Yeats and Herbert, plus Beaty and Coulson families calling. It mentions church notes, school absences due to illness, and weather with ice and snow causing slick conditions.
Albia Iowa program listing Feb 4 to 11 features CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE with Erro Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. Also double bill GAY DESPERADO with Tina Lupino and Nino Martini and WOMAN IN DISTRESS with May Robson on Feb 7 8. ONE IN A MILLION with Sonja Henie Don Ameche Adolph Menjou on Feb 9. DODSWORTH with Walter Huston and Mary Astor Feb 10 11. COME AND GET IT with Edna Arnold Frances Farmer on Feb 12.
The article lists a traveling prize won by Thelma Luse and notes guests including Mr. and Mrs. Ralph McDonough. It mentions several local residents visiting homes, sick lists, a hospital bed, and illness affecting Miss Margaret Hiatt and Mr. E F Tucker, with New Hope school dismissed due to the teacher’s illness.
Enon Helping Hand club met Thursday at the Jimmie Martin farm east of Brompton with Mr and Mrs Chas Hackett present. Effie Dale and Helen Vidas visited. Members cut eight point star blocks while men cut wood. A shower for Hiatt Selby was hosted Friday at the Selby Gilespie home with 31 relatives and friends attending despite icy roads. Oyster soup and crackers were served and gifts were exchanged.
Moravia Route 1 residents attended gatherings at the Rollie Brown and Lloyd Beaty homes with visits from Albia caller Will Davis. The Merry Mixers hosted a rock party at the Beaty home on Thursday night. Lloyd Beaty and Lloyd Brown hauled hay for John Platt on Friday. Other visits included Carl Derby at Ross Argo, and Mrs Will Davis with Mrs Harold Mason at Edward McCord’s.
More than 200 staff members from the Agricultural and Home Economies divisions and the extension service will guide Farm and Home Week at Iowa State College February 8 to 13, with 70 guest speakers. H D Hughes leads the crops program while A B Caine, C Y Cannon, P S Shearer, W F LaGrange, A L Anderson, and H L Wilcke head animal husbandry sessions.
Volz and others across Scharge and Hamlin and Starrak lead rural education forums. Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology direct land values tenancy discussions and a farm marketing conference. Topics include rural electrification flood control and several farm and home week activities involve Genetics Landscape Architecture Dairy Industry and Technical Journalism.
On a pleasant Sabbath morning the Transquility parishioners gathered for worship reflecting their Scottish heritage. The rural church service began with the usual hour of prayer as attendees settled.
Janette Stevenson Murray recounts in The Palimpsest how in a small Iowa church in Tranquility the married men sit with their wives while the young men linger at the back delaying singing. Squire Wilson and Tama Jim’s uncle are central figures, and the story notes the boys in kilts awaiting emancipation from childhood garb at seven.
Mrs Earl Brain and her children from Hedrick spent part of last week with her parents Mr and Mrs H E Watts.
Tuesday afternoon saw Mr. Pleasant Homer Brown and Ethel among Albia callers while Mrs Ed Delong visited Mrs Howard Besco. Homer Brown called at J E Callen in Moravia Tuesday evening. Charles Brown and Floyd Long joined W A Brown’s visitors Wednesday with the Foster family. Sunday saw Foster families and Brown households call, and John Kenton hosted Kenton. Floyd Long and C C Smith were Moravia callers Monday afternoon.
Argo visited with his sister and family one day last week. Lloyd Massman and children spent Wednesday with John Medland in Mystic. Ben Allem visited Clara Massman. Rosalie Beaty visited with Jessie Sheldon. Ida Townsend fell ill with paralysis Thursday evening. condition serious. She lives with daughter Mrs. Gilbert Callen. son Shirley Townsend and a Melrose nurse help care for others. Merle Dicks aided with the hen house and stayed with sister Mrs. Bard Swift. Dean Snook appeared Friday evening. A large gathering attended the coming party near Vosburga. Pridey night included guests and activity.
Last week at George Turner home Mr. and Mrs. Frank Turner and Ed Shutts of Centerville joined Tuesday supper. Coasting parties were held. Cecil Howell and Roy Brooks visited Mismis with new care. New Hope club met Wednesday with twenty-one present as guests Mrs. Lloyd Carter Virginia and Robert. Visitors at W. E. Denavon home included Mr. and Mrs. Georgy Howell Clyde Alfred and Mr. and Mrs. Keith. Robert Udder of Centerville spent part of the week at Don Wiese’s home. George Trier high score prizes went to Ralph McDonough and Cloyd Pester.
Omega Ray and Mrs Lockman and Miley Lockman visit J R Lockman home. Gomer Stocker visits Wm Stocker near Blakesburg. Stocker’s condition worsens. H S McCumber visits Roy Gideon. Mrs Elmer Henderson helps care for the sick at Otis Ballenger. Milton Stocker calls on T I Fletcher. Jim McCumber stays at Billy Carter and Moravia high school visit. Lawrence Ward moves three down cows off ice with help from a Moravia truck. Elmer Henderson assists a distressed cow. Farms keep stock in barns as some water transport is used.
Coulson reports only four of eleven enrolled pupils present Monday due to illness and icy roads. Several local residents visited or hosted gatherings including Mr. and Mrs. Simmons and Mr. and Mrs. Walter. Multiple calls and visits noted with neighbors and relatives via Moravia and area addresses.
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