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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1952
Page
2
The article lists numerous Sunday and weekday visits and dinners among residents of Blakesburg Centerville and surrounding towns. Attendees include the West Harsh Burton Hiatt Gladfelder and Wilson families, with credit given to weddings and family events. Notable mentions include the funeral of Mrs Spencer Cloved and the Blakesburg wedding of Richard Rose and Carolyn Peterson.
Os kaloosa social notes list visits and gatherings including Delmar Dowd and family, Keith Gladfelder, Norma, Kenneth O Conner, Frank O Conner, Theo Miller, Nancy Burns, and others. Several members attended a funeral in Chariton for Nate Schrader and illness mentions include Donald Dowd Nellie Argo and Sharon Argo.
Enon reports no school on Thursday. Mrs. Venetah Tubaugh substituted Friday for Mrs. Fern Hudgens. Mrs. Hudgens mourning her mother. Urbana PMA met in Enon Friday night. Numerous VanDorin family members hosted and attended meals and gatherings through the week, including birthday celebrations for Marie VanDorin and Awit Etta and Marie. Ev eryone’s social visits included Faber, Walter, Schroeder, and Cloyed households with multiple dinners and Sunday visits. DaVonpa Vance missed work due to a severe cold and Betty Vance was absent from school with mumps.
Ida Caylor and Floyd Wood have pneumonia. Mrs Lee Fadiock cared for them at the Wood home. Ben Williams spent Monday at the Charles Andrews home. Dean Andrews visited W M Tolbert. Logan Strunk and family received several callers, including Alders, Caster, Gates, Collins, and Strunk families from Freemont and Eldon. Logan remains about the same. Spring birds have appeared locally.
A baby girl Sharon Lynn was born February 20 at Centerville hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Dale Reigel. Relatives traveling and visiting included the Miller and Hawk families, while Unionville classmates noted a day without school due to a new furnace installation. Local residents appeared in Ottumwa and AustinMinn. events as weekend absences and travels populated the community notices.
Evening activities center on family visits and greetings. Mrs Ina Miller and relatives joined to accompany Delmar to see Hazel Miller and family in Oskaloosa. Corporal Robert Charles Gladfelder, home on a 30 day furlough from Korea, is honored at a dinner hosted by Jess Gladfelder. Various local visits follow through Sunday and midweek.
Local residents hosted and visited in Centerville and nearby towns with dinners and Sunday calls. Notable attendees included Mr. and Mrs. Dean Tomlin, Rolla Foster, George Boyer, Chas Quick, Caleb Bail, Floyd Broshar and Billy, Robert Foster and Twyla, Fern Lermonds and children, and many others. Social activity included guests from Albia Fairfield Page N. D. and Liberty church events plus family gatherings for Neva’s birthday and Steven Eugene Marlin’s arrival.
Mr and Mrs Bill Wilson were Sunday visitors at the W H Van Dorin home Zell Wilson was in Albia Wednesday for dental work He and family attended the tractor demonstration at the airport and Zell drew a prize Clifford Caster was a business visitor in Moravia Saturday LeRoy Wilson hauled phosphate from Albia Tuesday and spreading it today About one inch of snow fell here Friday afternoon and night The road maintainer went over our roads Monday
The column lists a string of community events in Albia Ottumwa and Moravia including visits by H H Derby and Ervin Long, attendance at a funeral for Mrs Laura Wilcox in Ottumwa, and a cooperative dinner at the Clarence Rowley home. Neighbors Mrs Clarence Stocker and Priscilla Mehrhoff host gatherings, birthdays celebrated, and residents such as Dwight McCordie and Beryl Brown receive updates.
Mrs George Hammond and Mr and Mrs Bert Rinehart spent Thursday at the George Hin er home. Relatives and friends were visited as Iconium residents. Fox hunt attendees at Hilton last Thursday included Donald and Clarence Whitehead and Gerald Rinehart. Mrs Rex Wells of Plano joined Beryl Brown and Laura Dicks for a Thursday visit. Mrs Flo Frame traveled to Columbus Junction to visit her daughter Mrs Donald Clark. Mr and Mrs George Hammond Laurence and Lorraine Gerald Rinehart attended a supper for Larry Derby's fourth birthday at Emmett Derby's last Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Jack Penfield and sons spent Monday evening there.
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