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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1933
Page
2
The notice lists Bible School at 10 a m preaching at 11 a m Christian Endeavor at 7 p m and evening worship at 8 p m with prayer meeting Thursday at 8 p m It also notes a time change from Wednesday to Thursday evening for the service
United Brethren Church plans a 10 a.m. Sunday School with Marion Mounts, formerly Moravian, giving a prohibition address at 11 a.m. Rev Hullis of Lovilla preaches at 8 p.m. Otterbein student Rev Philip Deever arrives to assume pastor duties for the rest of the conference year and will not preach Sunday. Ladies Aid meets every Wednesday.
Sabbath School at 9 45 a m Dale Schreiner Supt Divine Worship at 11 a m Epworth League at 7 p m Evening service at o o clock Prayer meeting Wednesday 7 30 Clana No 9 picnic supper Thursday 7 oclock All members invited Wesley Divine Worship 9 8 c a m Sabbath School 10 30 a m S C Behrens Pastor
Teonium Circuit announces Sunday School at 10 a.m. led by Superintendent Ralph Turner. Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts meet Tuesday evening at L. H. Priebe’s home. Flag Day services Wednesday at 7 45 p.m. with a Young Peoples meeting before. A Young Peoples rally is planned at City Park Centerville next Sunday at 2 p.m. A Dry rally is set for Iconium Saturday at 7 45 p.m. Speakers include J RK Barkley Moullan Dr Clow Centervilla Rev O My Morgan Albis and N Clark Albin. Services Sunday evening follow the Young Peoples meeting.
The family thanks neighbors and friends for kindness and assistance during the illness and death of Mrs. America Mounty. They note Sunday School at 9 a.m. led by Paul Roy and express gratitude to those who sent flowers and offered support.
Morning worship at 9 46 Father's Day wear a white rose if he is dead and 4 red roses if he lives Epworth League on Tuesday evening at 745 Miss Dorothy McDanel leader Hilton Sunday School at 10 a m Lewis Rouse Sept Morning Worship at 11 a m Young peoples choir Fathers Day Epworth League on Friday evening Harold Spath leader Miss Christina Humphrey led a fine meeting last Sunday evening and the Young Peoples Gospel Team of Albia First Methodist church had charge of the services Miss Esther Hjort Miss Lucile Freed Roy and George Teol 1 Children's Day program will be held Sunday evening Community Mother and Daughter banquet soon If you have no church home you are invited to come to one of these churches J W Zerba minister
America McCracken daughter of Ipancat Susan McCracken born Indiana October 29 1846 died June 8 1933 at her daughter Mrs Geo Parker home Mahaska county Iowa aged 87 years 7 months 7 days survived by one son and five daughters twelve grandchildren and fourteen great grandchildren funeral at United Brethren Mora- Yea June 8 officiated by Rev J C Behrens with six grandsons as pallbearers Burial Mounts cemetery died at home after long life linked to Davis county Iowa family near Drakenville suburbs.
Sunday afternoon visitors included Mr and Mrs Geo Bran Mrs Ad He Harrison and others. G M T P club welcomed three new members at Lera Behrens home on June 12. Initiation was set for June 19 at Helen Mc Crory with a covered dish luncheon plus games and a note of fines for constitutional disobedience.
The article traces silk worm history from a Chinese empress wife around 2000 B C to its spread in Europe by Persian monks to Constantinople. It notes France and England accelerating silk production after the Edict of Nantes, English efforts to seed colonies with cocoons, and attempts in Virginia, South Carolina, Connecticut, and California, where all failed.
Dr George V Bebringkoy, assistant professor of Sanskrit at the University of Chicago, notes that ancient Indians around 1700 B C practiced a tooth brushing rite using a twig from a living fig tree with bark, and an alternate mouth cleansing on certain days. The rite included a daily dawn and dusk prayer asking for long life, strength, glory, progeny, cattle, riches and knowledge.
The text defines stale bread by consumer perception of feel and taste. Fresh bread is translucent, elastic, and springy while stale bread becomes opaque, initially tough then crumbly, and lacks savor with perceptible dryness and haziness. Multiple degrees of staleness exist and no exact dividing line is defined.
A rapid-fire local column lists visitors and social ties across Moravia and nearby towns. Mrs Frank Selby visited Centerville. Edd Neff of Russell called in Moravia. Earl McDonough, New Sharon. Hert Moore, Burlington. births and family notices mingle with visits from Des Moines, Des Moines area, Ottumwa, Chariton, Centerville and Albia. Several groups attend meetings and lodge sessions. many relatives appear in Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, and nearby.
Gertrude Loudema Johnson born March 28 1871 west of Moravia Iowa died June 8 1988 at home near Moravia aged 42 2 18 married November 6 1890 to Wm CG Tisue had one son and four grandchildren survived by husband son Gus three sisters Nora Bestlack Effie Gollaher Carrie Wolfe and three brothers Neil Chas M H Johnson. Funeral at United Brethren church Moravia June 8 conducted by Rev Z C Behrens burial Moravia cemetery.
We express sincere thanks to friends and neighbors for their kindness and sympathy in our bereavement in the loss of our wife and mother. We also thank for the beautiful floral offerings from W. and Tisue, G. C. Tisue and family.
RR, Pennington, Paul Coffin and Dale Schreiner traveled to Moline NL on Friday for a truck load at farm machinery for the J IH Sepreiner store and returned the same day. Newton Murdy of Greenfield, a former resident, visited Moravia on Tuesday. His sons Paul and Gordon recently graduated from the Des Moines School of Pharmacy.
Fred Tillmont offers two lawn mowers and a low wheel wagon for sale. Contact details are not provided in the fragment.
Mr and Mrs Egbert Firking left Sunday night for Chicago to attend the Century of Progress. They visit her parents in Arizona with their children. Four Epworth League members Evelyn Hiatt Jackie Winsler Donald Darby and Donald Gardiner were chosen for an Institute at Mt Pleasant June 17 24. Mrs Albert Hoskinson and Mrs Richard Banister of Wayne Nebr Mrs Jerinie Jones of Windsor Mo Mr and Mrs C M Lavely visited with Mr and Mrs Marion Mounts and daughter in Centerville Friday.
Relatives traveled from Windsor Missouri Wayne Nebraska Bussey Iowa Centerville Albia Blakesburg and other locations to attend the funeral of the late Mrs Mary Mounts. Attendees included Mrs Jennie Jones Mrs Rich ard Banister Mrs Edna Hull and others with multiple families represented.
An exhibit in the Hall of Deience at Chicago's 1933 World's Fair will use micro-projection to enlarge life in a single water drop. Dr George Roemmer introduces moving pictures of Protozoa and other tiny organisms, showing their battles, growth, and complex life cycles for millions of visitors June 1 to November 1.
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