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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1937
Page
7
An Iowa report discusses shifts in diet from past generations due to food handling and transport. It notes refining removes nutrients, pasteurization reduces vitamins, and storage alters foods while urging alternative sources for essential elements. Local community notes follow.
Marie and Evelyn Dicks visited with Maxine Frame one afternoon last week. Mr and Mrs Ray Ball Billie and Yvonne of Wichita Kans, Mr and Mrs J Carter and Mary Jane of Plano visited Monday afternoon with their sister Mrs Berle Beaty and family. Ekett and Kathryn Argo arrived Sunday from Fort Dodge to visit grandparents and relatives. Donald Priebe of Albia is visiting a few days in this vicinity.
Brompton residents report visitors and social calls across neighbors and relatives including Mrs. Nora Neff Mrs. Katie Miller and Mrs. Etna Smith ill. the Fisher infant buried at Eslinger cemetery. and various Sunday meetings at homes of Johnson Lincox Boardman Stafford and Anderson in Chariton Albia and nearby areas.
Oliver Elswick is notified that Lots 12 7 and B Block 1 Range 18 Town of Scouium in Appanoose County Iowa were sold for 1992 taxes on April 1 1924. The sale certificate is now owned by J K McCord. Redemption ends in ninety days from service. A Treasurer's Deed will be issued if not redeemed. Dated May 1937. Gamble Bicycle ad follows.
Coulson and Luse families visited after church in Centerville with Hixsons and Cooper. Graysville residents Seth Brown and his mother spent Sunday with Virgil Johnson. Lorene Brown returned home with them. 4-H club met at Madeline Rose’s. Callens and Andersons mentioned. Ottumwa weekend visits noted. death of Mrs. R. E. Turner mourned. Coulson, Martha and Edith in Centerville Saturday.
Main Station Junior Townsend recovers from tonsil and adenoids removal at Centerville last week. Relatives and friends visit. many families share Sunday meals and visits at various homes, including Gladfelder, Hoyer, Boger, and Townsend households.
A serious outbreak of canker worms in southern Iowa is reported by entomologist Lloyd Andre of Iowa State College. Infestation is severe in the Oskaloosa area, affecting apple, elm and other shade and fruit trees.
The spring canker worm defoliates elm and other trees with larvae 1 to 1 1/2 inches long feeding until mid to late June. Control emphasizes preventing female moths, using tanglefoot bands on trunks in early year, with soil cultivation near trunks to reduce pupation. Arsenate of lead spray is possible but less effective.
The Iowa Agricultural Experiment Association announces stricter rules for certifying small grains soybeans clovers sorghum and brome grass as part of promoting high quality seed. Farmers outside hybrid corn must request application blanks promptly. Seed qualifies only if foundation stock or certified seed was planted and fields are inspected for pests and weed content before harvest or full bloom.
A list of 1937 crop varieties and dealers includes Barley Ingles Barley Barley in Wisconsin 88 Spartan oats Iowa 105 Jogold Columbia winter wheat Iowin Tobred spring wheat Ko mar Thatcher flax Redwing Bison soybeans Mukden sor ghum Atlas Waconia Orange red clover DeCook Emerson Beaver Fleck Schnell hardy strains sweet clover lowa Late White lespedeza Early Korean chrome grass Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Watts Mrs.
W F Horner and Mrs Frank Wilson were in Centerville Thursday. Miss Elizabeth Dalby of Cleveland Ohio visited her uncle Eli Lawrence during Thursday and Friday of last week.
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