Local Happenings and Bids for Moravia Post Office
Local notices recount visits and gatherings in Moravia including Flora Jones’s six week trip to Rockford Illinois and numerous calls on Obe Burns and relatives. Nearby residents Loulla Marengo Albia and Fairfield list social visits while a Moravia post office bid solicitation seeks space with utilities for five to ten years. a correction notes a music clinic went to Fairfield, not Bloomfield.
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Moravia Post Office
Moravia
Charles Turner
Fairfield
Bloomfield
Salem Social Notes From Hazel Hellyer Sectional Event Attendance
Salem residents and families are listed as attendees and visitors around a sectional tournament in Moulton. Names include Carl and Loyd Tisue, Perry, Whitehead, Hellyer, Bogart, Gladfelder, Gladfelder family, Jess Gladfelder, Leanne Main, and others. Multiple Sundays and midweek visits are noted, with daily calls to homes such as the Jess Gladfelder, Fred Sheldon, Charley Jones, and Pearlie Boyer households. The record also mentions mumps affecting Dorothy Brown and Dick Hellyer’s illness last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moulton
Carl Tisue
Loyd Brown and Jerry
Albert Perry
Clarence Whitehead
Hazel
Clark Hellyer
Organ Dedication Planned at Moravia Methodist Church
The Hammond electric organ was delivered to Moravia Methodist Church on Tuesday with a dedication planned for Sunday, February 13. Subscriptions renewals at The Union and Farm Bureau activity in Appanoose County are noted, along with local business upgrades and residents abroad reporting on California winter conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moravia Methodist Church
Floyd R. Bankgon
Kaiser-Frazer
Centerville
Moravia
Lee Benz
H. L. Hilton
Harold Cartwright
Appanoose County
Friends From Across the Tracks
A five year old boy named Bobby, socially younger than peers, befriends classmates with unusual traits and mischief. His parents avoid censorship and instead enrich his home, welcoming “queer” children. Bobby grows to treat them kindly and forms friendships.
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Bobby
Ben
Jim
No Hunting Notice on Local Farmland
No hunting trapping or trespassing on farms owned or controlled by Gabe Johnson and Elmer Lockman under this heading. Additional names listed. 25 cents for the season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gabe Johnson
Elmer Lockman
Boyer Ridge Community News and Births
Carl Tomlin sawed wood for Olin Foster Monday afternoon. Helpers were Lester Cochran Hubert Benge Dean Hoffman and W C Easter. No school at Boyer Thursday and Friday due to the illness of Betty Jean Foster. Moravia Centerville basketball attendees from the community included Lester Wanda Norma Cochran and Qlin Rex Foster. Frank Moffitt spent Saturday night with his parents F E Moffitt. Mr and Mrs Ciff Plannebecker and children visited the Kaster home. James Kaster hosts with the Broshar and Kaster families Sunday. Dean Hoffman drives the Standard OU truck for Kenneth Condra. Born to Lester Cochran and wife a daughter Sunday Feb 6 at St Joseph hospital Centerville.
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Carl Tomlin
Olin Foster
Lester Cochran
Hubert Benge
Dean Hoffman
W. C. Easter
Boyer
Betty Jean Foster
Ciff Plannebecker
A. C. Kaster
Charles Broshar
Vernon Kaster
James Kaster
Kenneth Condra
St. Joseph Hospital
Centerville
Quirky Tales and Pies From A Railroad Café
A string of humorous vignettes unfolds including two drunks trading life stories and a shop worker adjusting a center punch. A traveling man pays 25 cents for a spoonful of beans and receives a cryptic telegram. A joked housing shortage ends with a quip about handles on a coffin. The tone mimics late 19th century newspaper humor.
Pleasant Hill Socials and Club Meeting Notes
Verna McAninch visited with Mrs Clara Mass man and Mrs Harry McNeeley. Families gathered at Otha Fenton and Elbert Moore homes. Florence Dicks hosted Glover Leaf club on Feb 4 with a cooperative noon dinner and quilting. Next meeting Feb 16 with Verna McAninch. Max McAninch improving from illness. Oswald Irwin family visited Ashael Cozads to see Ronnie sick with pneumonia.
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George Hammond
Lawrence
Loraine
Otha Fentons
Carl Fenton
Duane Sulcer
Glen Huffman
Florence Dicks
Glover Leaf Club
Ben Allem
Russell Brown
Truxton Dicks
Merle Dicks
Gilbert Callen
Roy Argo
Gerald
Jay Argo
Gertrude Penfield
Tommy
Clarence Whitehead
Sandra
Fern Penfield
Verna McAninch
Mabel Hammond
Mildred Tarbell
Myrtle Fenton
Lloyd Massmen
Beryl Brown
Clyde Dicks
Ana Allen
Max McAninch
Oswald Irwin
Ashael Cozads
Ronnie
Dorman Irwin
T Larry
Lindy
George Hammonds
Utopian club hostesses as Birthday cake honors Mrs Underwood
Mrs C W McCarty hosted the Utopian club gathering last Wednesday with a quiz led by Mrs Willard Brain and the highest score by Mrs Wayne Hinote. A birthday cake for Mrs David Underwood was served. J C Cross funeral services were held Sunday at the Baptist church after a stroke in Genterville.
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C. W. McCarty
Willard Brain
America
Wayne Hinote
David Underwood
Baptist Church
J. C. Cross
St. Joseph Hospital
Genterville
Perry
Virgil Bailey
Unionville
Baptist Ladies Aid Meeting Summary
Thursday afternoon session of the Baptist Ladies Aid was led by Miss Lulu Koehler in place of president Mrs Harry Herman who was absent.
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Baptist Ladies Aid
Lulu Koehler
Harry Herman
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I. F
Janice Bisby
Publishera
Appanoose
Monroe
United States
Flora Jones
Bayard Neff
Charley McIntire
Rockford, Il
Leon Burns
Plano
Mrs. Obe Burns and
Nayne Taylor
Gus Hiatt
Larry Hiatt
A. 8. Hiatt
Mrs. Chas. Johnson
Lewis Rouse
Hilton
James Rousseau
Louilla
Frank Wilson
Obe Burns
Glen Burns
Marvin Underwood
Carl Hiatt
U. S. Hiatt’s
Harold Brown
Louise Rouse
Marengo
Mildred Thompson
Dayne Taylor
Florence
Gwendolyn
Donna Underwood
Burdette Cross
Leo Dudley
Savannah
Ill
U. S. Sears
Roy Underwood
Lindy Florence
Albia
James Morrison
Richard Smith
Mrs Maxine Smith
The
Simpson , College
Indianola
Harold Taylor
Near Melrose
Mrs
Otha Taylor
Leo Thompson
Don Burns
Roy Underwoad
Dorothy Leach
Kansas City
Morrison
Mark
Forrest Eastern
Dayne Taylors
California School House
Ray Harrison
Darlene Gladfelder
Henry Cordes
Pesrlie Boyer
Gena
Butch
Clyde Gladfelder
Darlene
Elbert
Harley Tisue
Bert McKern
Salem
Hazel Hellyer
Chris Bogart
Jess Hiner
Kenneth Gladfelder
Jess Gladfelder
Mrs. Raymond Perry
Fred Sheldon
Mrs. Horton Potts
Charley Jonesome
Horton Potts
Leanne Main
Pearlie Boyer Home
James Nash
George Hellyer
Dell Hellyer
Bert Rinehart
George
Mary Lou
Argo Brothers
Max McAnineh
Cass Hamilton
Lloyd Brown
Dorothy
Harry Jennings
Robert Jennings
Harold Argo
Sandra Whitehead
Harold RO
Dick Hellyer
W. C. Bivin
Union
Ermal Thaden
Doniphan
Nebraska
Art Fox
California
Florence M. Weathers
Craig Weathers
Oroville
Iowa
Hall
Walter Hannam
Fort Riley
Kansas
R.C.T
Walter E. Hannam
A. S
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Fort, Riley, Kansas
Elbers Moores
Freeman Joey
Wilbur C. Harris
Roy Scott
Albert Kluger
George Scott Delmont Moffitt
Gene McGuire Samuel Dicks
W. E. McNabb
Patty Sawyer
Clarence Dowd
R. E. Winsler
Clarence Johnson
Don Wolf
Frank Swaim
Rev
Halk Swaim
W. E. Swaim
Jack F. Swaim
M. H. Johnson
Herschel Johnson
Herbert Johnson
Russell Johnson
Moravia Theatre
Iowa Child Welfare Research Station
Burton Grocery
Boyer Ridge
Pat
Mike
Pleasant Hill
Clara Massman
Harry McNeeley
Ed Bradley
Doris
Elbert Moores
James Nasks
Moravia Dairy and Pasteurizing Plant
Zola Saum
Belle Andrews
Jill Marie
Robert Morlan
Jack
Donald Hull
Addie Hull
Floyd Garden
Udell
Don Blumer
Max Brown
Bonnie, Larry
Rex
Verner Hawk Home
Harry Rumley
Turner
Ambulance Service
Floyd R. Bankson & CO
Main Street
gurEnclanou
Carpenter Produce
Iconium
F. N. Catterlin
Centerville, Iowa
McCormick-Deering
Finternational Harvester Service
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