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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1937
Page
3
Main Station residents recount a week of birthday greetings at the Lynn Hilton home with Canty refreshments and several family visits. Numerous relatives and neighbors, including the McDanels and Luses, Stop by at various homes, share meals, and note Doyle Luse's illness. Des Moines visitors Hiatt and family also seen. West grandmother obituary mentioned.
Coulson residents and relatives mingle at a series of Sunday and week end visits. Names mentioned include Reeves Hilton Callen Jones Cline Walter Hilton and Luse with trips to Moravia Centerville Rathbun and Albin Mondey for a horse sale.
Salem Mrs Newton Long Dean spear Sunday aftersiven at the Guy McKerr home. Mr and Mrs Tommy Maw and daughters and Mr and Mrs Kenneth Gladfelder and sons attend Sunday at Gladfelder's. Mr and Mrs Del Hellyer and...
Families visited friends and relatives across the community with Sunday calls and Friday gatherings. Several households including Derby, Perry, Testers, Johnsons, Argo, Jennings, and Tarr hosted or attended events while nearby sick lists and visits to Theola Teaters and Jess Gladfelder's homes are noted.
Bible School paused for a time while Helping Hand club met with J. J. Selby and the Gillespies. Twenty four attended Thursday. Visitors included Mrs Velma Johnson Mrs Mary Main and daughters. Quilting occurred and men cut logs and wood. Upcoming meeting planned with Geo Reid and the Giltners. Several are ill with flu including G Hawk injured when a beef enraged and stepped on his leg. he was taken to Albia for X rays and remains resting. Claude Hawk family returns to the farm as children resume school Lois back. Mrs Keith Roberts learned her grandmother West died this morning. sympathy extended. Mrs J L Jones recovering from flu unable to attend Rockford trip with Bayard Neff and son.
Moravia callers Mr Pleasant C C Smith and W A Brown visited Tuesday Howard Besco called from Albin Wednesday Dorothy and John R Kenton spent New Years Eve at Homer Brown s Tom and Mrs McCrory spent New Years day with Mrs Roe McCrory Buel Taylor remains not fully recovered from a horse kick accident Edward Points returned home from Centerville Albia callers included Harold Brown Edward Points Homer and W A Brown visited John Carlen home in Moravia Floyd King and C C Smith Albia callers Saturday Harold Brown visited Tom McCrory Sunday afternoon W A Brown and Harold helped Charles Foster move Monday.
Unionville residents share family visits and travels as Ruth Stanley hosts daughter Myrta Leavelle from Oakland on a 11 year reunion. Joe Scott Inez Gordy return from Ottumwa after a weekend with George and Ruth Van DeGore. Community members visit relatives, with updates on Mrs J C Cross and Bert Bartlett Cross planning Cedar Rapids studies and moves.
A long festive note lists relatives visiting from Chicago Columbus Junction Ottumwa and Oakland Calif along with local residents. The piece records Christmas gatherings in Ottumwa and rural routes, a 30th wedding anniversary celebration, and a death in the area, noting names such as the West family Lippert and Earl West among rural residents.
The week's notes show multiple calls and visits. Biddle and C. S. Foster families moved to Albia Monday while Mrs. Sam Bell called on business in Centerville. Perry Miller visited his sister Mary Putman, and Ernest Hiatt hosted Hiatt family members. Various other callers and visits occurred, including Mr. and Mrs. Fern Wright at Moulton, Mr. and Mrs. Edward McCord at Ralph Turner’s, John Hutton on Albia business, and Chas. McCurdy of Blakesburg at Pearl Hiner’s New Year’s Day. The Hiatt household reported the small child ill on New Year’s Day at Frank Wilson’s, with continued calls at Van Dorin’s and Foster’s late in the week.
The Merry Mixers gathered at the Matt Watts home for a watch party and oyster supper to welcome 1937. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Ivan Harsh and baby Jeane Potts, along with Mr and Mrs Wendl Coulson and children. Others visited, dined, and caravans formed around New Year celebrations as Clair met at Bert Nash home, and the next meeting was set for January 12 at Matt Watts residence.
Hiattsville residents Mr and Mrs John Chambers and family with Mrs Elsie Martin of Centerville visited Sunday. The Sad Aid will meet Thursday at Mrs Pearl Scott to quilt, with Maggy Callen presiding. Mr and Mrs Lloyd Rose arrived from Albia Sunday. Mrs BE Turner was ill but improving. Mr and Mrs Bert Meadows hosted visitors Sunday with friends in Ville and Mr Kollie Carter family. Miss Lulu Burton spent Sunday with relatives.
The King Theatre in Albia Iowa lists January showings starting Jan 6 7 and 8 with Shirley Temple Alice Faye and Bobert Young in Stowaway Also March Of Time and a double feature Ray Milland and Dorothy Lamour in Jungle Princess and Warren Hull in The Fugitive in the Sky Jan 10 11 Irene Dunne in Theodora Goes Wild and Gene Autry in The Old Corral Jan 12 Gladys George in Valiant Is the Word for Carrie Jan 18 14 Dick Powell and Joan Blondell in Gold Diggers of 1937
Neff who had been in the hospital at Iowa City for several days has returned home to Blakesburg. Mrs. Mildred Wynes of Albia visited Monday at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs J F Chambers. Scott Tucker visited from Saturday evening to Monday with Joe Tucker near Seymour.
Franklin John Moffatt and Roy visited Iconium on Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Brown and children called at the Earl Swift home Thursday afternoon. E. F. Stansberry visited the Wes Scott home Friday forenoon. Maxine Stansberry spent the weekend with her sister Mrs. Charles Brown and family of Moravia. Mr. and Mrs. John Repp and son Leo called at the Wes Scott home Thursday. Harry Brown helped John Moffatt butcher Friday. E. F. Stansberry called at the Fred Argo home Friday afternoon. John Moffatt called at the A. X. LaMar and Harry Brown homes Sunday.
Kinser Valley resident Russell Darby spent the week in Blakesburg with grandparents. G. R. Darby visited Rollie Carter home Thursday and Rollie was able to sit up. Zel Wilson family joined Henry Sytsma to Albia Saturday. G. R. Darby and E. C. Caster traded hogs Thursday and weighed them at Willie Van Dorin's. Lloyd Johnson was in the valley.
Mr and Mrs Wendl Coulson and others visited at the Harve Beaty home Tuesday afternoon. Mrs Will Free and Deloris Ammons recoveries noted. Richard Massman from Centerville stayed with grandparents. Several locals hosted visits around New Year and family movements are detailed.
Saturday reports note D J Denvin arranging for a horse and a caw at John Witko s. Cooperatives sale in Albia shows stock selling higher than a month ago. Visitors include H C Peterson Jack Shultz Harry Duvall and family. Frank Brain and kin from Cheyenne visited. Leo Caster helped with fodder. and a local business caller in Albia.
Wednesday through the weekend brought mixed weather with a taste of winter plus rain. The Sheldon family enjoyed nicer days while Iconium school children had a spring vacation. Cap Dicks visited Mrs Page and family. Verna Parcel visited kin near Centerville. Harry Browns spent Saturday at the Russell Brown home as they butchered two hogs.
Travelers on Highway 6 will see a new roadside marker two miles west of Iowa City. The stone marker, a gift from the Towa Daughters of the American Revolution, recalls the 1856 arrival of about thirteen hundred Mormon immigrants who camped near Clear Creek before building handcarts for their trek to Salt Lake City.
The piece recalls the Mormon handcart brigade's arduous overland journey and the eighty year remembrance of the historic camp site in Iowa. It notes the sacrifices of the immigrants and their lasting place in local annals amid brief society notices of Woodbine and Centerville residents and travel.
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