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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1961
Page
6
Local notices recount weekend visits across Seymour Ottumwa Newton and Des Moines area families including Wilbur Millers Blanches Harshfield and Ita Boyer families. Airman Robert Woodward at Offutt visits with Woodward relatives. multiple gatherings, dinners and funerals noted with relatives from Osceola Des Moines Muscatine and Buckeye Arizona.
Gary Argo fell from a granary Friday morning breaking his arm and cutting a place about one eye. The rest of the brief notes mention social visits and gatherings, including Mrs. Anna Hiatt hosting, Elsie Callen as a guest, and several local households sharing weekday evenings with neighbors.
Lent Horne and Ernest Weat with Don joined the Boulerizs. Lee Kellys visited W C Anderson over the weekend as he plans a three week vacation. Curtin Mikels and Debbie and David spent Sunday with Geo Baldwin. Connie Boblenz stayed with Linda Davis Tuesday night. Johnnie Crow visited Nelson Ballanger on Monday. Patsy McIntire and Mary Martin stayed Friday at the Mikels home. Kenneth Hiatt and boys spent Sunday with Ernest Hiatt. Nelson Ballanger and family visited Clyde Stevens Wednesday evening.
Mrs. Dick Lewn hosts and a wide circle of relatives visit at multiple homes during a week. Leta Haver Mona Rinehart and others spend Tuesday with Ber Rinehart while the Dick family hosts gatherings and guests include Laws Dicks Brown Swift Laws Jordan Spaar and Callen with several dinner and supper visits across Ottumwa area.
Mrs. Mearl Dicks hosted Sunday dinner at the Gilbert Callen home with guests. Russell Brown Debbie Dunham Dick Brown plus Lewis Rinehart Franklin Rinehart and family visited or called on multiple households in Centerville and Moravia. Phyllis Dicks attended an Eastern Star installation in Moravia Monday evening.
Mrs Dallas Faber and Mr and Mrs Richard Bentzinger hosted Tuesday supper with birthday observances. Various visits and gatherings followed including Joanne Hawk at Mor Jan home, Janell and Janan Morlan with Hawk, Prayer Circle at Ray Lockman, Stocker grandchildren with Gomer Stocker, and dinners with Bobby Faber’s guests Max McAninch Melvin McDanel and Fred die Strong. Week included belated Christmas exchange by LaVern Horn family, Bachelor club New Year party at Ralph Davis home, and weekend hospital guest Steve Milletich from Iowa City. Paragraph notes Sunday visitors for Mrs Lawrence Dommer and Randy and illness at John Kelly house.
West Point social notes recount visits and dinners across the community. Mr and Mrs Leo Hoffman hosted and hosted guests including Roscoe Argo Glen Wakefield and Rex Haver while others dropped by the Hoffman and Argo households for Sunday dinners and evening calls. Gerry Kosman visited Monday forenoon.
Frew Strong home hosts include Mr and Mrs Jess Enloe and family Mr and Mrs John Ashmore Mr and Mrs Bob Collins and baby Mr and Mrs Darwin Strong and family and Mrs Eliza Enloe all of Ot tumwa Mrs Kenneth Doud and Doug Joe Irland and Melvin Mc Danes Mr and Mrs Gomer Stocker visited Sunday afternoon with his brother Harry Stocker who is in
Franklin and Mrs Earl Swift along with Rev Glen Lochhead and family called at the James Calhoun home Thursday evening. Coy Swift hosted Maude Turner and Dwight Runnells Friday. Lloyd Ammons family and Ben Pickrells hosted Saturday. Clair Long and Jeffrey visited Earl Swifts Sunday. Lloyd Ammons family and children were in Ottumwa Thursday. Don Whitehead Sally and Randy visited James Calhouns Tuesday evening. Several men cut wood for the James Calhoun family. James returned home from the hospital Thursday.
Dick Brown and Mrs Delbert Calhoun helped with the noon meal. Mrs Dorothy Pickrell visited her father at Monroe hospital. Several afternoons last week Mr and Mrs Mearl Dicks spent Thursday evening with Mr and Mrs Earl Swift. Freda Swift called on Reva Ammons and children Wednesday afternoon. Des Moines visitors Robert Carlson and Gerald Evang joined others at Jack LaMars Sunday. James Calhoun home hosts Delbert and Karl Lee Calhoun, Bob McGillery family, Bill Mosley, Alicia, Al Derby, Lovilia, Elmer Kellogg, Clarence Bell and Lloyd Ammons, Coy Swift guests Sunday at Sam Eastlick home.
State of Iowa Appanoose County notices a Special Execution from the district court clerk, issued on a judgment for Mary B. Greenleaf et al versus Myrtin Coltrain and Emery L. Coltrain. Levies describe the property to be sold to satisfy the judgment.
On Tuesday January 17 1961 at 10:00 AM at the south door of the Courthouse Centerville Iowa Paul W Thomas Sheriff will sell the Northeast Quarter of Section 13 Township 70 Range 17 as property of Myrris Col train and Emery L Coltrain to satisfy a debt of 1274.40 dollars plus 73.23 dollars costs and accruing costs at public auction to the highest bidder for cash.
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