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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1971
Page
4
Ottumwa guests visit Mo ravia cemeteries and Rathbun lake to view boaters and campers. Families share ice cream and cake after outings. Several callers visit Mina Dowd Ina Miller and others. Memorial weekend brings visits from Des Moines Wichita and Council Bluffs families with dinners and outdoor gatherings.
Mrs. Dick Brown reports from Vosburg on Tom Hartz's cousin Sandra Huedepohl's graduation in Williamsburg. Local residents visit Otumwa Hospital. Ned Argo remains hospitalized. Des Moines visitors join Doug Messamaker's family. Church cleaning at Iconium and Moravia Garden Club breakfast featured, with multiple locals attending. May Fellowship Team hosts guests including Edith Callen and Whitehead sisters. Wayne Christy and Edith Callen attend Moravia Elementary Music Program.
A fragmented weekly schedule lists summer music lessons by day and time from Monday through Friday with multiple instructors and student groups. The text includes many names, guitars, trumpets, saxophone groups, clarinet quartet, and lunch break, but contains several garbled times and misspellings.
Mr and Mrs E G Clayton and family spent the weekend with Edith Callen. Don Whitehead and family attended Annette Tharp s graduation in Iowa City. Melodie Clayton stayed with Carol Christy. Dick Brown and Brad went to an Albia ball game and visited Joe Mitchell. Russell Brown and Vera Firkins went to Concord cemetery Saturday evening. Sunday saw Christy at Callen s, Pearl Brozhar at Russell Brown s, B F Whitehead at Cuba cemetery, and Duff s funeral in Centerville. The Whiteshead and Brown families joined in multiple dinners and visits around town. Ray Lemaster visited Russell Brown Monday evening.
Mrs Carl Weber and guests attended the Tharp reunion at Moulton city park Sunday noon. Another group from Moulton and Centerville joined commencement exercises at Penn College Oske loosa May 31 where Miss Janie Spurgeon graduated. Various local visits and travels are noted including Hedgecock and Hargrave families, Zola Saum returning for the summer after months in Bloomfield, and a California visitor Cletus Leonard.
A long roster records attendees and visitors connected to Udell school alumni events. Names include Laura and Lena Florence Woods Vera Ulium and Mark Benz plus families from Boone Des Moines Ottumwa and Des Moines. Visitors Frank and Earl Kelley plus others from Missouri Iowa and Kentucky shared weekend activities at Lake Thunderhead and Graysville co op dinner.
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