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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1944
Page
4
Lewsbasket ancing rations notes they are trying to organize a basketball game with the Alb in FFA boys. They prepared stationery for the FFA and have been butchering for locals last week, including a hog and a beef for Emil Halden, with two hogs to be butchered for Delmar Dowd next Wednesday if weather allows.
Freshmen homemakers try on colors and start studying clothing while sophomores work on made over garments. Week menus list meals: Jan 27 Baked Beans with Pork Cabbage Salad Bread and Butter Fruit and Cookies Milk. Jan 23 Chili Soup and Crackers Apple Salad Miponoliite Cake.
The article notes My VanDorin plans to complete a well by Tuesday afternoon or early Wednesday morning. It reports transport of eight hospital bags and twelve flannel hot water bottle holders to the Junior Red Cross office, with manual training and home economics classes assisting by preparing other items for delivery.
Rolin Dille attended parade school three years at Carters and five years at Moravia. He has no definite plans after graduation. His favorites include a Pontiac car, Baby Ruth candy bar, government as favorite subject, and Mr. Blackman as teacher. He likes movie stars Dorothy Lamour and Gary Cooper, orchestra leader Jimmy Dorsey, and stands six feet high with brown hair.
Student bios celebrate Rolin, Betty Lou, and Gene, detailing hair color eye color and preferences while noting activities in band, drama, speech, glee club, orchestra, and future goals. Ambitions span state government, stenography, farming, and electrical engineering with fond recollections of favorite sweets, cars, and stars.
First grade children build a room house and plan furniture. Ruth Dudley tops reading with many books. Sha j has 86. Second grade runs a grocery, two clerks daily, and absences noted for Scarcliff Fett McDanel. New pupil Paul Woodward joins. Wanda Jordan leads home reading with 118. Beverly Woodward joins fourth grade. country living noted with bus partners. Fifth and sixth grades report 18 spelling okays, ongoing English invitations, bright bulletin boards, history books finished, Iowa history ahead. Seventh and eighth grades assign leaders for eighth grade setup, letters to John Wilson. Delma Veach, Mary Rose Main absent. Cleo Walker added as new senior from Udell.
Maple Grove households headed social coverage with multiple visits and gatherings. Bernice Johnson shopped in Centerville. families including Dowd Johnsons and Wilbert Johnsons visited relatives in Ottumwa and Des Moines. Lespedeza banquet attendees Dodd and Tadlack. Feltons and Feltons families shopped Albia. numerous Sunday visits to Johnson, Boyer, Whicker, McDanel, O’Conner, Hart Boyer and others noted.
Mrs. John VanZante attended the funeral of Mrs. Ayrault in Moravia Saturday morning. Mrs. Jon Patch returned to Waukeshall Wisconsin after a 10 day visit with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Jones and Donald shopped in Albia Thursday morning. Mrs. Raymond Williams of Centerville visited the Ben Williams home helping care for LaZelle. Raymond Williams spent Wednesday night at the Williams home. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Woodward moving from Pierson Iowa reside on the Gas Main farm until March first. Sam Shepard Lora Elain and Kenneth of Albia spent Friday at the VanZante home. Ralph Shelquist visited Ottumwa Sunday at the Roy Burgason home and with their son Francis. Donald were Sardar dinner guests of Mrs. Pearl Lavely. In the afternoon they called on the Wendell Murdy family. Mr. and Mrs. Jake Simbro of Glenwood Missouri with Edd DeHaas of Monroe, Cass Hamilton and Ray Lemaster of Albia spent Saturday afternoon at Homer Hamilton's home. Mr. and Mrs. Allie Pence spent Sunday at the Homer Hamilton. Ralph Boyer of Centerville visited the Ben Williams home Saturday and Sunday.
Betty Jean Foster reports a sequence of social visits across families in the community. Several couples and relatives including the Boyers, Davisons, Eagles, Tarbells, Irwins, and Oehlers are noted visiting relatives at Averil Easter, Lloyd Davison, William Whicker, and Frank O Connor Dixie Kay Oehler households, with overnight stays and weekday calls.
Mrs. Mary Meadows spent last weekend in Centerville and W S C 5 plans a Thursday meeting January 27 with Lulu and Frances Burton. Dooley and Hare Burton families visited Ciryl McDanel and Bert Meadows households. several Ottumwa visitors joined Sunday dinners and afternoon calls with Hiatt, Rose, McDanel, and Argo families.
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