New Hope Social Notes Sketch Local Visitors and News
Neighborhood diary items record visits by Frank Hiatt family members to Des Moines and Moravia, plus gatherings at the Donovan and Coffin households. Several deaths and family movements are noted along with a pink and blue shower for Mrs Arthur Ballenger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. E. Donovan Lute Hiatt
Frank Hiatt
Clyde Hiatt
Des Moines
Eleanor Miller
Carl Coffin
W. E. Donovan
Jand
J. J. Allem
Fred Hiatt
Centerville
Karline Fischer
Betty Harsh
Avers
Arthur Ballenger
Virgil Dooley
Unimportant Cogitations by Inez Faber piece
A personal column reflecting on family life and daily chores. The author notes a son in India after air corps training, shared Farm and Red Cross duties, and comic irritation over denim overalls for teen boys versus girls. The piece mixes home life with weather and travel reflections in a verbose diary tone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moravia
Red Cross
Unionville Notes From Miss Essie Whisler
Unionville social items list leave dates and visits from Captain Herbert H. Price from Savannah to his parents and other local families. Mentions Virgine and Vera Price home from Parsons College, funeral in Monroe IA, missing in action husband updates, and several club meetings and social events. A white elephant sale for Red Cross raised eight dollars. Glenn A. Ogden returns from Corpus Christi for a five day leave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Essie Whisler
Herbert H. Price
Savannah
Joseph Price
Virgene
Vera Price
Parisons College
Harry Sanders
Monroe
Iowa
Charles Young
Wilbur Lewis
Ottumwa
Donald Rose
Texas
R. H. Coop
E. V. Stewart
Centerville
Federated Women’s Clubs
Earl
Garland
C. E B. Brown
Utopian Club
Walt Whitman
P. E. More
Red Cross
Glenn A. Ogden
Corpus
Freda Moore
Vern Ahrens
Dumont
Social visit notes in Iowa households and Phoenix relatives
Iowa resident Iowa visited Bruce Jones home and spent Thursday afternoon with Mrs Amanda Miller. Mrs George Brooke and Miss Essie Whisler attended Sunday supper with Miss Ruth Allender, Mrs Dean Monroe, and Madonna Foster and her son Gary from Phoenix Arizona visiting Charlea Foster and relatives for a month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Bruce Jones
Amanda Miler
George Brooke
Essie Whisler
Ruth Allener
Dean Monroe
Madonna Foster
Gary
Phoenix, Ariz
Charlea Foster
Join the Women's Army Corps for vital wartime service
The ad promotes WAC service as important to country and fighting men, offering expert Army training, skill development, and postwar career paths. It invites readers to U S Recruiting Stations or to request a booklet from The Adjutant General at 4415 Munitions Building Washington 25 DC, noting release from employer or U S Employment Service required for women in essential industries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WAC
Army U
Notice of Final Report in Slavin Estate
Hale B Slavin, administrator of the C T Slavin estate in Appanoose County Iowa, has filed a final report and requests discharge. The district court will hear the application on March 26, 1944 at Centerville, where interested parties may appear and show cause why the report should not be approved and the administrator discharged. Valentine and Valentine attorneys represent the administrator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Court of
Iowa
Appanoose County
C. T. Slavin
Slavin
Charles N
Hale B
District
Center
Ville
Hale B. Slavin
Valentine & Valentine, Attys
Notice of Moravia School Election in 1944
The Independ ent School District of Moravia Iowa will hold a regular election at the Community Building on March 18 1944 from noon to 7 pm. Directors to fill three terms three years one year and a treasurer for two years will be elected. Secretary Chester Broshar dated February 21 1944.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moravia
Appanoose
Monroe
Iowa
W. M. Gardner
Guy Kanter
C. T. Slavin
J D. Schreiner
Chester Broshar
Vernon Kaster Visits and Local Social Notes in Vernon
Vernon Kaster of Rockford Illinois visited Thursday morning at the parents home of Mr and Mrs James Kaster. Numerous local social calls and visits are listed including dinners with the Trenton Gladfelder home and Frank O Conner family, measles news, supper guests, and many small gatherings at neighbor homes. Betty Jean Foster, Donna and Marie Beaty, and Rex are noted among the attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W.S.C
Carl Coffin
Miller Church
Jack Merritt
Lloyd Rose
Marilyn
Merton
Don Pettibone
Ivan Harsh
Matt Watta
Loyd Carter
Frank Hiatt
Keith Rose
Otttumwa
W. BE. Donovan
Dick Wilson
Mardeena
Jay and Loyd
Karl Fischer
Bama
Betty Jean Foster
Vernon Kaster
Rockford
Ill
James Kaster
Ira Boyer Spen
F. A Boyer
Frank O'Conner
Hhe
Carl Boyer
Versi
Kaster
Patty
Leo Houser
William Whicker
Janet
Wynona Kay
J. W. Whicker
Trenton Gladfelder Home
Robert Kaster
Olin Foster Home
Paul
Doris Mericle
Donna
Mario Beaty
James Easter
Lee Walker
Sack
Joyce
Milo Walker
Frank O’conner
Tone Scott
Frank Gladfelder
Kenneth O’conner
Loyd Davison
John
Ella Iatt
Marie Beaty
Russell Espy
Noted Signatures At Simpson College Education Study
Dr Harold F Watson head of English at Simpson College bought 100 letters from a New York firm to illustrate changes in style spelling and punctuation. He now has letters and signatures of notable Englishmen including Byron Duke of Kent Walpole Hood and a Byron handwritten poem to Mrs George Lamb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Simpson College
Harold F. Watson
New York City
Watson
Lord Byron
Edward, Duke of Kent
Queen Victoria
Henry Howard
Corby
Robert Walpole
Lord Hood
Remembrance of Moravia and its Moravian heritage
This reminiscence recalls Moravia's early Moravian roots, burial disputes over a Protestant pastor, a girl paying for priests to pray a father out of purgatory, and vibrant town memories. It covers Sunday school unity led by Pastor James Haman, Molly Reich's millinery days, and notable local events including a lightning storm, a Dutch windmill as a community grinding yard, and the Sharp brothers driving horses to Nebraska.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wolford
Woravia
Stacyville
James Haman
Molly Reich
Harn
Molly
E. R. Ellis
Nebraska
Moravia
Moravian Church
Methodista
Presbyterians
Haman
David C. Cook
John Cree
Peter Hanson
Sharp Brothers
Ike
Lawrence
Poets Corner Tribute Read On Air For Mrs Minnes
The poem from the Rountree Rattle was read on air in tribute to Mrs J D Minnes who died February 14. Sharon Sua Rountree daughter of Dr and Mrs Wiley B Rountree of San Angelo Texas contributed the piece under the poem column The Poet's Corner. It reflects on rest among moss and forest shadows and the weariness of earthly scars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rountree
Sharon Sua Rountree
Wiley B. Rountree
San Angelo
Texas
J. D. Minnes
Early frontier hopes fade as plans for a farm fall short
The speaker recalls a younger state finding markets for a product and a family venture. My father and Will Stauber once outfitted a covered wagon to go to Nebraska to buy school land and start a farm, leaving the blacksmith trade. He returned after weeks away, fell ill, and died, ending his ambitions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Stauber
Nebraska
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M. G
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Lawrence Heartley
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Oklahoma
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Christian Science Monitor
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Ideal
Howe
Maka Joston
Siverdoy Lana
Nem
J. H. Robinson
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Notary Public
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Zelda Nickell-Hunter
West Jackson
Sears
America
Southern Utilities Company
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