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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1931
Page
2
Local visitors include Frank Luse of Mystic and Rev Zerbe at Exline ministerial meeting. Families from Centerville, Galesburg, Albia, Des Moines, and Keokuk visit Moravia. A 1944 pound baby girl joins Clifford Lavell family. Numerous church and social visits, including Missionary Society meeting and Wesley Chapel program attendance. Several locals travel to Centerville Kiwanis, Mt Pleasant, and Shenandoah for events and outings.
Miss Zadia Van Dorin and a Centerville friend visited the D. T. Van Dorin home Sunday evening. John Zerbe left for Algona Iowa, and Miss Fannie Zerbe departed for Colon, SD, after visiting Rev. and Mrs. Zerbe. Mr. and Mrs. Geo Hiatt of Oskaloosa visited relatives in Moravia. Middlegrove IL visitors stayed with J. W. Albert’s family. Allen Proctor underwent a second surgery in Rochester, Minnesota, now improving. John Fulton returned from Brown University with a chemistry master's and will help farm this summer. Earnest F. Boyer and wife of Genoa, Colorado, announce the birth of an 8-pound son June 10, 1931, named after Francis Austin. G. C. Schember and family of Pekin AL visited Decoration Day. Patterson family joined for a week’s visit returning to Moravia next Tuesday.
An aging Yale guard Pudge Hoffelinger, at fifty, returns to campus and challenges Tag Jones to let him show the old charging style. He tears into the Yale varsity, prompting Tad to beg him to stop, after which Hoffelinger leaves muttering that football is a children’s game. Ghosts in Portchester Castle: skeletons found near sites of prior ghost sightings reinforce local tales. The site, once a British camp and Roman fortress, housed Napoleonic prison quarters with French prisoners dying of epidemics.
Karl Bohlman in Vertland Sweden netted a large pike and a hawk entangled in the same mesh. The hawk, drawn by the struggling fish, became the unexpected second catch and measured over a meter across its wings.
Houston’s fame rests on its growth as a shipping point and industrial center. The city’s more romantic past centers on General Sam Houston, hero of San Jacinto. The Texas Republic’s independence is tied to his legacy and the battlefield now sits as a state park about twenty two miles away.
A Toronto fisherman's odd tale ends with a trout and a slot machine found at home. He spent about half an hour hauling in the catch, amid a cluttered scene near the malls, as neighbors recall a curious episode and unusual haul from his day’s effort.
A reflection on how kinship governs Southern behavior in Virginia Georgia and South Carolina as marriages appointments and social ties ripple through society. The piece notes relatives influence conversations and politics, calling kinship a powerful yet often unrecognized force shaping life in the region.
In Georgia a summer drought prompts a church scene where congregants plead for rain. A parson prays aloud with a booming plea while a defiant elder interrupts demanding no useless drizzle. The hijacked service becomes a local vignette of drought hope.
The Detroit Free Press reports many in Ireland distrust disturbing tombs of ancient Egypt and grave sites of the poor. A Treland visitor from the United States faced resistance to drainage and cemetery improvements, while western regions fear raiding graves could trigger a great storm.
An exclaiming tourist challenges a guide at a famed beauty spot. The tale recounts a rival’s assault described as Hendish gusto, with the villain allegedly fleeing to Mila village and the spot deemed the scene of the crime.
A clergyman sent a wedding telegram that misquoted John 4 18 due to a missing character, shocking the bride with a misread line about husbands. Telegraph workers corrected the message noting the error in the scripture, with John 1 4 18 cited to explain the intended verse, per a London TIC Bite report.
The elm is reputed to be about 500 years old with a trunk girth of twenty seven feet two inches and a height of thirty two feet at eighteen inches from the ground. It once spread 165 feet but recent trimming reduced by fifteen feet. At eight feet above ground the tree divides into five large branches.
Chicago is described as the most congested city in America with about 11.08 people per acre, contrasting with a notion of 0 leading figures to the United States and an average density around 602 per acre as per recent data.
A large crowd enjoyed a youth program on Sunday evening. Mr and Mrs Dorm Wales and daughter visited J L Jones home Saturday night and Sunday. Arch Thompson and children joined the R S Faber family Saturday evening. Dick Faber and family called Sunday at A C Faber home. Lois Bates visited Clelia Jones Sunday. Ruth and Elaine Hoffman of Conrad Iowa visit the Faber families this week. Fairy Faber and gangs called at J T Van Dorin homes Monday. Donald Overton visits his grandparents A Ey Pence this week. A KE Pence family attended church in Moravia Sunday. Me and Mrs Lester Powell and son Kenneth visited Wm Powell Saturday. Loren and Fern Thompson in Albia Thursday evening.
MT PLEASANT and Centerville residents visit friends in Moravia and Newton. Delongs and Fisher households host or visit relatives. various Sunday calls noted. A light cinema quip ends the column with a chestnut about birthday gifts and hay fever.
The Sukkur barrage project in India stands as one of the world’s largest irrigation systems and aims to bring over 500 million acres of desert land under cultivation, transforming arid regions into productive farmland.
Classified notices show various farm related ads and sales including Hereford bulls for sale by Forrest Main, Shorthorn bull by Wm Wales, peaches and cherries for sale, raspberries by Mrs. A E Dilte, and a lost ring of keys by John Simmers. Also listed are real estate and product ads with contact details.
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