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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1948
Page
6
Numerous locals visited relatives and attended social events across the week. Families including Mikels Burns Pennington and O Conner held a shower, while others called at homes of Callen Lemaster Miller and Roblenz. A Missouri trip was noted for Perry Mikels and Emily.
Daughters spent Sunday at Mrs Levi Coulson home in Mo ravia and families visited various homes including the Lea Thompson Max Cleaver Russell Burns and Mikels households. The Black Wool Brothers from Shenandoah sang at Centerville Methodist services that evening.
Halbert Hughes of Aberdeen visiting sister in Centerville Gatledt on friends last Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Mitler were dinner guests Sunday at the D. L. Strunk home. Isaac Brashay and children of Watersburg California visited last week at Clifford Burger home. Orville Swartz and family of Numa and Lester Hopkins and sons were Sunday guests at Lazelle Strunk. Lawrence Roland of Moravia visited with Martha McKim and Watson Roland Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Dwight Ogden hosted a Stanley party. Zoe Rankin of Ottumwa demonstrated as Stanley representative. Floyd Harvel and daughters returned to DeKalb after weeks with Perry Cross. Russell Kelley and son of Packwood visited Perry Cross and John Kelley. Shirley Townsend and son Le Roy visited Homer Weldon. A pink and blue shower honored Mrs Jack Martin. Out-of-town guests included Mrs Joe Guernsey, Mrs Hugh Guernsey of Centerville and Mrs Orville Foglesong of Ottumwa.
Betty Jean Foster reports on Phyllis Lockman and Norris O Connner wedding at Center ville First Baptist Church on June 21. Attendees included Kenneth O Connner Gary Sharon and others. Also mentions a large shower for the couple, family dinners, visits, Gary O Connner seven th birthday party and a Blackwood Bros. Quartet concert.
Attendance at Sunday school and church at the Church of Christ was 139. Various local families and guests attended picnics and dinners in Centerville and nearby towns. Names include the Browns Argo Turner Colwell and Dicks among many others. Activities featured Blackwood quartet attendance and a birthday dinner for A. J. Brown with numerous relations and friends listed.
Appanoose County Fair Association plans a July 4 dwarfism auto race on Centerville’s new one fifth mile track as part of Independence Day festivities. Time trials at 12 45 p m, first race at 2 p m, six races plus finals with a 20 lap climax. Admission 1.00, children half price. rain checks honored for the July 20 race. Tickets include a large purse from gross gate. Notables include Joe Gustaf Quent Cowles Vic Ellis Dick Murphy and Cliff Cox with 19 cars already entered and more expected.
A playful kitchen table scene unfolds as a voice quizzes Johnny on grammar and a bride asks about a trousseau. The engaged couple, amid wedding plans, try to keep calm while relatives add comic confusion and a colored pastor delivers a candid moment to his congregation.
In a humorous aside before a sermon, a long serving pastor jokes that yearly gifts of parishioner pig feet must stop if he is to remain pastor, proposing a shift to "eat higher up on the hog" as a metaphor for improving offerings.
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