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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1960
Page
1
Official county paper published weekly on Thursdays editors C R and H K charity publish subscription rates set for Appanoose and Monroe counties at 2.00 dollars and 2.50 dollars for elsewhere in the United States in advance.
County faces higher next year taxes amid population loss and needed improvements. State findings show low valuations in Southern Town prompting blanket increases, complicating expansion efforts to retain residents. A Centerville developer warns rumors harm development plans and civic progress.
The article reports anger over State Conservation Commission measures at the Lake Wapello recreation area. It cites a $20 yearly boat-inspection-like fee, deteriorating docks, and fishermen from Centerville Moravia Bloomfield Ottumwa seeking other waters such as Lake Darling and the Des Moines river. Questions rise about lakes becoming a business enterprise of the Commission and concessionaires.
The Van Dorin annual reunion at McMillan Park Mt Pleasant Iowa drew 54 members for a basket dinner and program on Monday July 4. Velma Van Doren reported 31 births eight marriages and six deaths to add to the family tree. Officers elected for 1961 are Doris Telford president Ruth Gable vice president Velma Van Doren secretary treasurer and Mary Van Dorin historian. A large attendance list included many Van Dorons and related families from multiple towns.
Robert Ivan Harsh, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Harsh, left Saturday for Washington D C to work with the FBI at the Department of Justice building. He was a 1960 graduate of Moravia. Mrs. John Beaton and family headed home to Grover City California after visiting. Mrs. Cecil Schrodt, Mrs. Mary McAlister, and Mrs. Ivan Harsh drove them to Kansas City Missouri where they spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. L E Jordan in Polo en route.
The record lists Jay Wilson and family attending the Stocker reunion at Moravia Park on Sunday, with Ivan Harsh, Bob Harrington and others visiting Ottumwa, Albis, and Centerville. Several families including the Harringtons, Bells, Shields, and Martins are noted visiting hosts across Des Moines area venues and gatherings.
The Urbana Doers 4 H club held an all day meeting at Nancy Carol Faber's home with a noon picnic for twenty nine girls and guests including Miss Margaret Herring. Funeral services for Carl Cloyed were held at Moravia Methodist church attended by Harold Hawk family and others. Richard Bentzinger instructed at Lake Darling camp and returned home with his family.
Roy Crist visits grandmother for ten days while neighbors and relatives attend farewells and gatherings in Moravia, Unionville, Des Moines, Centreville, and Udell. Various households host dinners, reunions, and weekend trips, with youths bound for Waves duty in Maryland and trips to Cedar Rapids.
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