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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1970
Page
2
Moravia sees heavy summer activity as baseball games fill the field nearly every evening and plans emerge for a four team softball league. If enough players join, activity will continue through summer alongside progressing crop conditions with a strong haying season and a heavy first cut followed by a second.
The Appanoose fair opens Monday July 20 with a tractor contest in the evening followed by rodeo Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Thursday features a Nashville country music show starring Harry King Cole Leroy Van Dyke and the Auctioneers. Many plan a long weekend. fireworks face state law but remain scarce and costly.
Attendance at Simdlay school stood at 14. Visitors included Anissa Mitchell and three of Duane Adams' children. Daphne Shepard spent Tuesday with sister Gladys Townsend. Russell Baker and his wife of Q heen with daughter Melinda and a niece from Omaha visited uncle Fred Shepard Thursday evening. George Lain and family went to Plano Thursday to see grandson Terry play ball. Richard Lowe and Harold Huff hosted Thursday evening. Fred Shepard hosts Wednesday evening with Merrill Shepard family present on Thursday. Dick Baldwin Beverly and Nevella Shepard visited Thursday.
The Mitchell children visited grandparents Lynn Lemsey this week. Russell and Sharon Shepard attended a Unionville wedding for Shar Riegel and Danny McDanel. Several families hosted card parties and visited in Kirksville Des Moines and Winfield. Delores Shepard prepared for surgery, and Jody Martin stayed with Lewis Beaty grandparents.
News from Salem shows Hazel Hellyer hosting and visiting friends at multiple homes. The DeWitts from Iowa City and Ottumwa crew visited Clarence Whitehead and Jim DeWitt departed from Des Moines airport for Vietnam. Local 4-H events and Sunday dinners mark a busy week with many callers and gatherings.
The notice lists numerous visits and gatherings across Ottumwa and nearby towns. Names include Van Essen Sandeen Ruff Sandeen Cloyed Huff Cloyed McDanes Riegel Hellyer Whitehead Brown McAninch Shoemaker Barker Boblenz Callen Hartsook Laws Evans Osteen Boatright Christy and others. It notes picnics at the park and various family and friend visits through the weekend and midweek.
Mr and Mrs Charles Burton and Frances Burton called on relatives in Coulson. The note appears in a society column detailing visits and local social happenings.
Pine Bluffs Wyoming Post reports a concentrated thunderstorm on June 18 forming a 40 mile long and 1 mile wide destruction path across the panhandle. McKinley attended the Rose Festival in State Center Saturday.
A Nebraska weather event left 12 inches of hail in its wake destroying crops. The worst damage occurred east of Dix near Potter Lodgepole and Sumol with Trailstones reaching about half an inch in diameter near Sidney.
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