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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1939
Page
4
The hubbub at Moravian High shifts from post vacation glow to reminders of intramural basketball standings and a postponed all high school musicale set for March 22. Observations cover student life from grade reports to club meetings, with flu lingering, town news, and a sprawling Iowa land dispute filing threaded through the campus chatter.
The grade reports a reopen after illness with a few students preferring both closures and openings. Pearl Hiner is the only pupil absent today, and hopes are high for his swift return to class.
Sunday March 5 brought gloom rain sleet and ice making roads nearly impassable. Monroe Raison traveled from Ottumwa to visit his mother Mrs Mattie Raison. Mrs Mary Jones is recovering from flu and John Andrews is ill with flu and pneumonia. M E Woman's Foreign Missionary society will meet March 10 at 2 00 pm with Mrs Gladys Underwood. Vernon Stotler guests at the Wilson home. Mrs Rhoda Stam staying in Rupeh due to her daughter in law’s illness.
An old newspaper ad urges readers to avoid opiates and seek relief from nervousness with a time proven medicine called Worlds Tonic. It claims to boost general health with herbs and roots, is suitable for men women and children, and is sold at Veach's and other drug stores.
In the District Court of Iowa Appanoose County during the April Term of 1939 plaintiffs include Frank R. Dignan Earl Fry F L Sawyers Essie Loofbourrow and Mrs Bessie Peterson and Hale C Greenleaf Referee naming numerous defendants led by Tra C Connitt W H Brokaw Mery Brokaw Herschel Brokaw Grace Terre Myrdice Horne C E Brokaw Everett Butler Helen Best and Robert E Bear and others with spouses and various Valle Rozier and Lowery families among listed parties.
The King Theatre in Albia Iowa schedules a run of films from March 8 to March 16 including Paris Honeymoon with Bing Crosby Franciska Gaal and Shirley Ross and a double feature on March 10 11 with Home on the Prairie and 1 AM the Law. Clark Gable Norma Shearer in Idiots Delight and Secret Service of the Air also play dates. March 14 The Girl Upstairs stars Franchot Tone and Franciska Gaal and March 16 16 Carole Lombard James Stewart in Made for Each Other. Also listed are extensive land descriptions in Appanoose County Iowa and a notice that title to the described land is contested and a court action seeks to confirm ownership in the plaintiffs. The notice asks defendants to appear by April 8 1939 or default will be entered.
In Appanoose County District Court Iowa Don P Pettibone and Virginia Pettibone sue James Clark and Mary Ann Clark. The filing names the plaintiffs and defendants and notes the court district.
Pettibone files a petition in district court claiming fee simple ownership of multiple tracts in Township 70 North Range 17 West describing portions of Section 14 and 23 near Soap Creek Center. The filing names numerous heirs and defendants alleging twenty years of adverse possession and bars on claims, with a court date set for April 2 1939 and a default warning if not appeared.
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