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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1935
Page
5
A collage of light notes and quips on culture in an old issue. Observations range from a Nebraska schoolroom joke to the origin of OK, plus anecdotes about a painted fire wagon and Iowa life spans. Various playful items touch on contests, lectures, and household humor amid a scatter of editorial asides.
Representatives of eight United Brethren churches in the second Iowa district gather in Moravia for an all day session starting at 10 a m with devotional by Rev C L Windsor. Reports on benevolence Otterbein home Christmas offering and revival meetings follow at 10 16 with speakers Rev Howard Mintle and Rev Ira Hawley. Afternoon program includes devotions by Rev H Robison and state work reports, with evening services by Rev W T Boston and Dr Hawley concluding with benediction.
Proficiency meeting to be held at Hall of Antipeity Lodge No.963 with officers including W M HL K Smith and W M AR SA Cia, TRUCAESy organizing details provided for attendees.
A compact meat dinner feature lists macaroni and tomatoes pear salad damson gravy as part of M E Friday menu offerings. The ad highlights simple, hearty dishes likely for a family or local diner setting.
A fragment notes a periodical’s perineremene section in the Des Moines Sunday Echo. It mentions a price remark of only 1.60 dollars annually, suggesting a subscription detail or promotion in that era.
The Moravia Union reports Gun Oehler offers to supply and maintain ten or more gasoline street lights, inclining to install by March 1. He will test several makes, including latest 1000 candlepower lamps, with city paying a monthly maintenance fee if satisfactory.
Albia Production Credit association will disburse approved loan proceeds this spring in half or less the time previously required. A cash fund will pay loan proceeds immediately upon local approval rather than awaiting note discounting by the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank. The plan aims to speed farming operations, with farmers urged to apply in advance of need.
Orph Kester of Rockford HL has purchased the Moris pool hall from Rollie McDonough and takes possession the first week of the month. Mrs B Wee TL of Sioux Falls with Mr Winsler plans to attend a church parlor meeting on Tuesday evening and enjoy the supper served by colored ladies.
Moravia high school boys basketball beat Corydon 25 to 15 last Friday night to claim their third conference victory in five games. Burton led with 14 points, Morris added a long shot, and Moravia rallied from an early deficit to stay ahead by halftime. Cincinnati visits Thursday Jan 24 for a feature doubleheader. Moravia’s girls aim to rebound for better form.
Moravia church hosts a supper Tuesday January 19 featuring stewed greens dried apples corn bread hot butter whipped cream and pumpkin pie with whipped cream. Minstrel entertainment and polls specify hours and price. Proceeds go to church funds.
Ezra Coltrain suffered a dislocated collar bone and bruises after a load of baled hay shifted on rough ground, two bales fell, and he and his son Kenneth were jolted across a grader ditch. He is confined to bed awaiting x rays at Centrville when possible.
Iowa township meetings outline changes in corn hog subsidies for 1935. R K Bliss notes reduced corn acreage by 10 percent of the base, 10 percent hog reduction, adjusted rental payments at 35 cents per bushel, and $16 hog payments, with two installments. New producers may obtain permitted hog reductions. base payments rely on long term yields.
County agent Howard Hamilton announced a schedule of township meetings for explanation of the 1985 corn hog program. The series opens Thursday afternoon and ends next Monday, with Seattle buying program to be discussed. Hamilton noted that farmers may sign corn hog applications on the same land as 1934, using a simpler procedure. County sign-up members discussed changes from last year.
Sub-zero temperatures hit Moravia and surrounding area with readings as low as 16 degrees below zero. An epidemic of house fires northwest of Moravia damaged multiple homes, including structures near Turner and Bates farms and the W. G. O'Hara residence, likely from overheated flues during the cold snap.
Moravia's volunteer fire department improved its equipment over the past two weeks with cleaning and painting of the chemical wagon. Additions include a dozen new buckets, two new ladders one hook type and a new axe, reducing old buckets to two. CWA help assisted in painting in red and black.
R. B. Johnson reports a very good farm sale with large attendance and brisk bidding. Everything sold well and he was pleased. Keberg, a two year old, sold as high as $39.00. One hundred gifts reached $17 and Mr Johnson praised the auctioneer U S Mangle for credit. The Fairview Aid served lunch, netting a nice sum for their efforts.
Nursery school mothers held their third group meeting last Wednesday evening at the school house. Weather kept some away but attendees valued the discussion led by Mrs. A. G. Broshar. The group studies reports from the Child Welfare Research Department at the University of Iowa. Next meeting is Wednesday evening January 30.
An organization outlines a series of township meetings with dates and times across multiple townships. Meetings include Urbans and Pleasant townships January 24 at township house and Cogl field, Monroe and Union townships January 24 at Hilton hall and Lovilis high school, Troy and Bluff Creek January 25 at Commercial club rooms and township house, Guilford and Idey January 25 at Georgetown and North Mt Carmel school, Mentus January 25 at center school, Franklin townships and Cedar January 28 at Weller ball.
Fourteen women joined a homemaking for adults session discussing left over foods and affordable luncheon dishes. The class met Wednesday January 28 at 7 30 p m in the homemaking room with a lesson on supplying minerals in salads while an agriculture class canceled due to weather and road conditions.
Mr and Mrs Jas Wright celebrated their sixty ninth wedding anniversary at home on Sunday. An extra feature was a fine fruit cake brought by Mrs O C Main of Rockford. Mr Wright managed to visit town Monday for the first time in several weeks.
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