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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1949
Page
5
Maple Grove society reports multiple Sunday dinners and visits among the Tucker Scott Tadlock Tubaugh and Arnold families. Neighbors like Walter Harpers, Walter Scott, Jim McGuire, and Albert Tubaugh host gatherings while others drop in for papering, cherry picking, or Bible school programs.
Miss Ruth Lockwood visited her parents Mr and Mrs Reece Lockwood last Tuesday evening. Numerous relatives and friends from Des Moines Corydon Humeston Centerville and Ottaman joined weekend visits and dinner gatherings at various homes including the Lockwoods Massmans Sheldon Tarbell Dicks and Dooleys with travel to Des Moines for auto races. LaVern Massman attended 4 11 camp at Indianola from Friday to Sunday and several others shared meals and social events across promise City and nearby towns.
Mrs Laura Dicks hosts at Iconium while Floyd Green Dian of Ottumwa visit Fred Taylor home. Albia calls on Lester Breese to see injured mother Rena Breese convalescing. Numerous relatives from Ottumwa Centerville Corydon Humeston Cambria attend. Bible study held Wednesday.
Community gatherings fill weekends as families visit and host. Social guests include Derbys from Alicia, Derby and Nash homes, Benze returning from China, and frames visiting Des Moines with kin. Alfalfa cutting advice appears with hay making tips and livestock feed notes alongside local recitals and church meetings.
Ron Woodward was elected superintendent of the Wesley Sunday school, with Charles Burton as assistant, for this year. Wesley W.S.C.S. set for June 23 at the Vet Callen home. Mrs. Pearl Hunter and children visited her father, Frank Chambers, while Virgil Dooley and Roy Dooley, of Centerville, went to Mt. Pleasant to see Mrs. Dooley's uncle Claudius McGrew. Irven Kalvig learned of the death of his niece Joyce Cook near Chicago, a 12 year old who drowned on a raft and could not be saved. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Sanders spent the weekend locally.
Mrs. Lloyd Rose and family returned home from Centerville after a week with grandparents. Local clubs met and hosted events including the Hiattsville 4-H rally attendance, WSCS meeting with former member Mrs. Pearl Scott, and open house for Sam Peetey’s birthday.
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