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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1930
Page
6
Henry Ford’s prosperity remark sparks mixed views as many doubt personal fortunes. A New York Stock Exchange seat fetches $400000 while markets remain unsettled. An Ohio newspaper named the Democrat headlines partisan views. The radio commission appears unsettled amid ongoing shifts. Sherman equates changing a tire on a hot day with war, underscoring urgent tension.
A collage of jokes about drinking, ghost writers, church doors, diners, and critics. Quips include a doctor warning beer intake, a ghost writer joke, and a waiter’s Plymouth Rock quip. Light humor with everyday marital and social missteps.
Local residents visit the Fred Gordon home near Udell while discussions of hospital care unfold for August Koehler in Centerville. Families and friends from Unionville Towa Drakesville and Centerville share daily errands and help as Floyd Coltrain recovers from a fall.
Long list of local visits and calls in Centerville and nearby towns. Mentions of the Selby family, Pence and Smith households, Neff and Jones households, Roberts and Giltner visits, club meetings, farm events, and a community church program. Includes a joke exchange and a brief theater-style joke item.
Mr and Mrs Howard Besco and family spent Sunday at the E C Delong home. Ladies Aid meets with Mrs Geo Rodgers Monday for all day. Forrest Sutcliff has been sick the past week. Clay Faber of Minburn Iowa visits. Several from this neighborhood went to Albin Tuesday to draw the new Ford.
Opal Johnson spent a few days last week with Katrina Sytsma. Mr. and Mrs. Pat Pisher were callers recently at the Ed Johnson home. Ilenny Sytsma and family spent Monday evening in Albia at the Andrew Sytsma home. Andy Madison of Racine Wisconsin was a Friday evening caller at the J G Sincox home. Zell Wilson and family spent Sunday at the Grant Sincox home. Afternoon callers included Henry Sytsma and Katrina Sytsma who spent Sunday at the Eph Wilson home.
Cody Luse and family visited the Doyle Luse home on Sunday. Madge, Maxine, and Otha Lee Du Vall spent the latter part of the week at the Bill Wilson home. Burke Wilson conducted a business call in Alicia Saturday afternoon. Sunday visitors at FE Wilson’s included O G Davis and family G E Luse and family Katrina Sytsma and Opal Johnson. Z J Luge, Burke and Vivien Wilson were in Centerville Monday. Cheree Dyphon spent Monday afternoon with Ruth Johnson.
In Appanogose County Iowa final report of Mary M. Chority executrix is on file and will be heard at 10 oclock a.m. on Monday June 30 1959 at Centerville Court House. Attorney Thos Hickenlooper. Also notes social visits and a light joke about an optimist.
Electric railways increasingly replace unprofitable car lines with motor buses and add feeders to existing routes. By April 1, 1930, 880 electric railways ran 12,819 buses over about 23,900 miles. Sixty six firms use buses exclusively, totaling 617 buses over 2,262 miles. Among all companies, 105 operate in large cities only, 61 are interurban, 101 both, and 3 unclassified. In six months to March 1930, 18 firms began bus service, with 954 new buses covering 1,748 miles. Buses per company range 1 to 36. Local society notes report Dr Harris of Mystic visiting Moravia, Mrs Horner hosting a birthday gathering, Miss Dana Norton visiting Davenport and en route to Truro, Miss Berniece Peterson assisting with Lewis Young, and Duane and another patient returning home after tonsil and adenoid operations.
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