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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1939
Page
2
Local notes detail visits and travel among Ottumwa residents and nearby towns. Multiple households report weekend and weekday trips to Des Moines Centerville Fairfield Hartford Unionville Oskaloosa and Cedar Falls. Several families host relatives attend Memorial Day services and social events.
A blotchy notice collection lists residents socializing in Moravia Centerville and Unionville. Names include Udell Route 1 J or Mr and Mrs Tom Hiatt Donar Sanders Donald Narlene Doud and others, with several alfalfa tasks and visits noted across Centerville and Unionville. Several who attended gatherings at Harry Rumley home are named along with families from Blakesburg Gutumye and Dead Moines.
Church School at 10:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. at Wesley Chapel, with 11:00 a.m. Children's Day Service. Evening programs include Membership Training Clans at 6:00 p.m. and Epworth League at 7:00 p.m. Baptismal services for babies to adults scheduled. Class 9 picnic and cooperative supper set for Friday evening June 9 at 7:30.
Iconium Sunday School at 10 a m with Children's Day program beginning at 8 p m. Fairview Sunday School at 9 a m and preaching at 10 a m. Ilton Sunday School at 10 80 a m and preaching at 11 30 a m. No evening services due to Children's Day program. Iconium E P Spurlock pastor.
The school band schedules a Saturday performance with marches and tunes including Washington Post Sousa Overture and Shadwell Richards March. A string ensemble will rehearse Fridays at 7 pm, optional for players, to strengthen next year's orchestra. several local families and members are noted in attendance and visits.
Memorial services at Islinger Sunday afternoon followed by a gathering with Mr and Mrs Gotner Stocker Mr and Mrs Johnnie Hewitt and Mary Francea and Led Lukehart spending Sunday evening at Milton Stocker’s home.
Moravia High School class of 1931 held a reunion at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Sufficool last Wednesday evening. Ten of the seventeen members attended, socializing over homemade ice cream and cake. Attendees included Norman Firkins, Dorothea Darby, Donald Darbo, Lowell Van Dorin, Evelyn Hiatt, Reba Callen, Lois Davis Mason, Vera Easter Sufficool, and others such as Versel Hough and Harold Mason.
Mrs E G Sincox and Mrs Kenneth Free hosted a miscellaneous shower at the Sincox home Thursday evening for Dorothea Darby and Norman Firkin ahead of their Sunday wedding. About 65 guests attended, sharing warm wishes and gifts for the couple and their new home.
A Sunday gathering in the grove near the Boyer home celebrated the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Boyer and the June birthdays of Paul Boyer June 4, Mrs. George Boyer June 5, and Chas. Quick June 6. Attendees included family, friends, and neighbors such as Rev. Luther Childs, Wm. Whicker, Fay Paxston, the Boyer and Quick families, and Miss Helen Sears of Centerville.
Misa Manilla O'Connor and Carl Boyer were united in marriage this Sunday and will reside on Boyer's father's farm. The couple is joined by James Easter and Veril Kaster and Cliff Kaster in a neighborhood wedding notice.
Sunday guests included Patty at Grover Easter home and Opal Goughnour visiting Ira Roger’s family. Will McDanel’s 1858 letter to Mrs Easter was read, noting corn 50 cents per bushel oats 25 cents and wheat 1.26. Moravia area families, Mrs Kaster kin to Mina Luse and Hannah Gladfelder, were mentioned along with Delmont Moffitt and F A Boyer hosting dinners near Walnut City.
We thank the community relatives neighbors and the Magonie brethren for their kindness during the illness death and burial of our loved one and for the beautiful floral offerings.
Moravia area residents visited and hosted events over the weekend. Ralph and Helen Davis joined Alicia callers, while Paul and Pearl Broshar hosted and Lloyd Brown hosted ice cream gatherings. The Merry Mixers club enjoyed a supper at Carl Van Zante's home. Leslia Plants sheared a sheep for Frank Wilson and Matt Watts family made Albia calls. Barbara and Jo Ellen Broshar stayed with Dorothy Brown.
Fragmentary OCR notes mention Jon's family, Hiatt, Rubye, Mr and Mrs John Van Zante, Wilma, Suridil after church, Carl Van Zantaff, Casa Hamilton, Helen, Libby town and Betty Lou Harsh visiting Sunday at her grandfather. The text reads as a family social roundup with names and a church reference.
Classified items include eight burnet stove cheap by Mrs M H Johnson combined Nikni seed beans 86 cents per bushel by C I Jones rent three rooms inquire Union office partly furnished 9 F F A Sheep dipping portable tank reasonable Hurliman Moravia advisor Moravia York and Lott Tronic phone Floyd Johnson 99 pure bred Poland China male hog one year old Wilbur J Miller Udell RFD
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