22 Jul 1943
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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1943
Page
1
A community update records visits and gatherings among VanDorin Faber and Hiatt families in Albia and nearby areas. Residents attend Sunday gatherings, birthdays, and funerals. mentions include parcels of kinship, Camp Haan related family, and neighbors sharing meals and chores amid oat cutting season.
Maple Grove social notes describe numerous Sunday and weekend visits among Johnson Harp Felton Tadlock Dowd Scott and Wil son families plus friends. Activities include oat cutting help, care duties for a ailing father, and multiple callers at the Dowd Scott and Johnson households. Maxine Scott is staying with her grandparents Gabe Johnson for two weeks.
Local entries record social calls by C D Cubit, R R Pennington, LeRoy Wilson, and Oliver Elswick. Seabee recruit Bob Campbell lists Williamsburg, Virginia as his location. Rain totals and a creek flood are noted, with cattle concern from Albia visitors.
The narrator notes oats cut and shocked alfalfa windrows, corn cultivated twice, and concerns about July crops. Rain and sun alternate as farmers harvest hay and grain, fearing low yields and extra work before meat needs. A slice of rural life reflects on farm labor and fickle weather.
Attendance at Sunday School was 62. A Sunday dinner at the Paul Boyer home honored Bobby Boyer bound for the navy, with many relatives and friends listed. Additional Sunday visits include Gladfelders, Main, Harrison, Townsend, and other neighbors. a daughter born to Keith and Gladfelder. and various church and home gatherings.
Local families and friends shared Sunday gatherings and weekend visits across Moravia Des Moines Albia and nearby towns. Residents such as Mrs W G Donovan John VanZante and Mary Fran tes Carter hosted and visited relatives including Dick Wilson Roy Scott and Delmont Moffitt with stops at the Lee Hiatt and John Wood homes and a Des Moines trip for Bethel Coulson and Elaie Martin.
The fragment lists attendees and visits across Oskaloosa and nearby areas including Mrs Stella Lockman and Mrs Leta Grey at summer school in Oskaloosa. It notes social calls at various homes, a Bible verse roll call, Char lie Blumer moving to Blakesburg, a coal mishap injuring a finger, visits by Mr and Mrs Gena Boyer and others, a death of Mrs Walter Gideon at St Joseph hospital, and families visiting in Unionville Albia and Centerville. It mentions Molly Johnston moving to Albia and furloughs for Clair Lincox.
The board met in adjourned session with all members present and transacted numerous expenses and services including rent, groceries, medical and dental costs, school and instruction expenses, fuel, clothing, and various service bills recorded for the county offices and departments. County officials and the Board of Review list payments to doctors, grocers, stores, and suppliers totaling a wide array of small charges and reimbursements.
Mrs T J Luse and Oren Davis with Jerry visited the Luse family last Monday. Shoppers and kinfolk gathered in Albia Tuesday afternoon and Ottumwa for funeral rites occurred for a Johnson cousin. Visitors included Mrs Elizabeth Mulhollen of Des Moines and the Vanderpole family, plus Wendell Murdy hosts from Kansas City with W V Murdy. Continuous visits show community ties across Des Moines Avery Rathbun Centerville and Ottumwa areas.
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