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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1953
Page
6
Families from Des Moines, Ottumwa, Centerville, Albia, and Keosauqua hosted relatives and friends on weekend visits. Guests included Neff, DuVall, Spencer, Tadlock, and Hoyer families, with travel from Rockford, Illinois. Wyoming. and Canada. Several attendees also attended hospital stays, church events, and social gatherings across Albia and nearby towns.
New Hope church night shifted to Thursday the 19th at New Hope schoolhouse for Tay lor Farm Bureau. Residents and visitors join a cooperative supper and report on community visits and weekend activities across Centerville Ottumwa Des Moines Rockford.
Mrs. John Moffatt hosts Franklin pieces. Mr and Mrs Coy Swift accompany George Ostemier to St Joseph hospital in Centerville to see son Ray who had an emergency appendectomy on Wednesday. Mr and Mrs Ed Coady and children Kareen Jimmy Joe and Bernadine visited Ed McDonald. Mr and Mrs Roy Moffatt called at Lester Housley home.
In Moravia on Saturday evening Mrs. Frank Cox visited the Roy Moffatt home and Frank Cox was an evening caller. George Ostemier called at the Coy Swift home last week. Bernard Kitterman spent Thursday afternoon with Roy Moffatt. Jackie Kasper and Casey Jones were Saturday guests at the Fdt McDonald home. Mrs. Joe Lucas Jr. and her son Roy spent the weekend at Roy Moffatt’s home. The Lucas family and Roy Moffatt with Benile Linda and Francis and Mrs. Olive Moffatt visited Sunday afternoon at Henry Eliott’s home.
Snow fell Thursday night then milder weather followed. Urbana Township meeting at Enon school drew a large crowd Tuesday evening with Mr and Mrs Frank Rogers and Patty visiting. Visitors included Bill Wilson Sheila at Sylvan VanDorin's. Various locals attended church and neighborhood gatherings through the week.
Sunday afternoon guests at Harold Hawk's included Lowell Followwill and family and Belmond's Floyd Broshar family. The community notes a milk fever loss of their best milk cow. Mrs. R. S. Faber stayed with sister Mrs. Carl Bettis and visited Lowell VanDorin. Leo VanDorin works second shift at John Deere in Ottumwa, joining Gerald Hawk of Moravia along with others from Albia.
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