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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1937
Page
4
A long list of arrivals and departures fills the Centerville scene with visitors from Ottumwa Des Moines Burlington and various Iowa towns. Host families include the Mains Gollahers Shoemakers and Clancys as relatives travel for reunions funerals and visits across weeks and days.
A series of Sunday and weekday visits across Moravia and nearby towns includes the Curtis and Hiatt families at the Burtons, funeral attendance for Mrs. Clancy, visits by the Neffs and Rocksford contingent, Hustlers 4-H activity with leader Mrs. Dooley, and multiple calls among neighbors. Kenneth Hiatt buys a new car. Families mentioned include the Burtons Neffs Hiatts Magees Rose Carter McDanel and Weatherly with several children and relatives.
Fuller Jess Smith and family spent last Thursday evening at Rollie Carter home. Duane Parcel has been on the sick list the past week. Mr. and Mrs E E Heriford of Green Castle Missouri spent Friday and Saturday with their son and family D W Heriford. Mr. and Mrs James Long and Ruth with Mr. and Mrs Carlysle Long and Dale visited D W Hayes home near Hayesville Sunday. Cecil Parcel family visited relatives at Centerville and Extine. Mrs James Long spent Friday at Ames for Monroe county Farm Bureau chorus 4 H convention. Junior Smith spent Sunday with Willard Cloyed. Gail Jones helped Mrs Cecil Parcel can cherries Monday. Mr. and Mrs Roy Elawick and son Richard and Donna Williams of Albia were Sunday evening visitors at Jessa Smith’s. Junior Smith was a Saturday evening supper guest with grandfather Oliver Elswick. Oliver Elswick spent Friday at Jess Smith’s.
Seattersburg Mr and Mrs George Scott and family led a Sunday river picnic. Johnie Hoover drove Mrs M Gilli land to Lineville to visit daughter Mrs QC Benson. W T Irelan Elbert Lockman J W Lockman were in Centerville. Lucille Coltrain stayed with relatives as did Marie and Carl Tomlin. Marie Tomlin spent Saturday night with Marjory Boyer.
Unionville reports a Friday Silver Tea at Mrs Ethel Wilson s home with 28 present and dainty refreshments served by the hostess and guests from Ottumwa Centerville and nearby towns. Clergy Rev C W Kocher travels to Indianola for two weeks of ministerial school and no church service is planned Sunday June 27. Somber note as the funeral of Mrs George Clancy is held at the Baptist church with local families visiting and attending.
Saturday travels included a pleasure trip to the Ozark mountains and Bagnel Dam. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Whisler came home midweek from Gary Indiana where daughters Ben Davison and Miss Josephine Whisler were patients at Methodist hospital after an automobile accident. Josephine Whisler arrived Saturday with a leg in two casts. News includes visitors from Des Moines and Centerville and notes on funeral attendance for Clancy and a Plano double funeral.
Governor Nelson G. Kraschel proclaims June 20 to 26 as Iowa Air Mail Week urging residents to use air mail and learn its implications. The proclamation emphasizes air transportation's growth from early routes to a continental system linking major cities and highlights its future importance at the western hemisphere crossroads. Des Moines witnesses the proclamation on the fifteenth day of June in 1937.
Officials report robust advance reservations for the industrial show and open-air exhibit space with space already exhausted in county wide agricultural sections. Livestock prices push stock show toward a record, with last year’s 5 565 animals and 2 796 poultry to be surpassed as prize offerings exceed 107 000. Plans include a double night show and many new thrill features, aiming for over 46 000 attendance in August.
The Jain order of celibacy for men and women is highly austere. Adherents eat only nonviolent foods and even avoid boiled water to prevent harming microbes. The text notes rich patrons paid to allow themselves to be bitten by insects to spare ancestors from starvation.
Arlene Dodd writes parents from Times Square hotel about a rapid New York tour. She describes Radio City, RKO Tower, Rockefeller plans, Empire State and Chrysler buildings, canal streets, traffic, and a NB C tour. She notes meals, costs, and a planned Lake George trip.
Gamble Stores advertises a car radio installation special at 29.95 and a car radio aerial for 1.69. Mrs Rollie Lockman and her baby were brought home from St Joseph hospital in Centerville to their home east of town on Saturday.
An ad from A Veach Druggist promotes Adlerika as a remedy to relieve gas and constipation. It claims the product rids gas and cleans four poisons from both bowels, urging readers to avoid harsh gas tablets.
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