Local and Personal Notes From Centerville and Nearby
Local and personal notices list guests and visits across Centerville and surrounding towns. Names include Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Hiatt Mrs. Powell Bill Jr. and others. students from Iowa State Teachers College and Des Moines events. hospital and campus visitors. quilting gatherings. and relatives visiting in Wellsville Grinnell Ottumwa Knoxville Bussey Orion and Melrose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. C. Hiatt
F. Powell
W. C. Main
Bill, Jr
Centerville
Moravia
Anna Allem
Boona
Fred Blumenstock
Duane Veach
Iowa State Teachers College
Harriett Lee Main
Knoxville
Ella Creech
Wellsville
J. D. Minnes
Kate McCrory
St. Joseph Hospital
Homer Wilson
Minneapolis
E. F. Oehler
Kenneth Barghahn
Grinnell
Jolly Dozen
Lew Hiner
Fanchen Winslet
Des Moines
Fred Hammond
Viola
Max
Dwight Fenton
Melrose
Josephine McDonald
Clyde McDonald
Lloyd Garner
Opal
Ottumwa
Chas. Garner
Tom Cameron
Cal Talbott
Bussey
Harold Burton
Moravia area social notes and movements reported
Ottumwa visitors join relatives at the J T Day home and many Moravia people travel to attend Will Cree’s funeral in Center ville. Families move near Rathbun Mystic route 2 and Davenport relatives visit. Local clubs host gatherings with neighbors, birthdays noted, and a Knoxville visitor welcomed. A birth in Signal Mountain Tenn and family updates from Dayton Ohio conclude the brief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Dodd
Albia
Howard Whisler
Hilda
W. Whisler
Unionville
Mr. Whisler
Wilbur Harris
Des Moines
R. R. Pennington
Lee Hiatt
Marilyn
Lester Smith
Smiths
Lyle Hopkins
Delia McCrory
Moravia
Rathbun
Mystic
Truman Meyers
Barbara
Walter Hansen
Fern Wright
Dana
E. F. Wilson
Homer Utterback
Josia Charity
Moulton
Burdette Utterback
Utterback
Cyril McDanel
Meee
Oonday
Davenport
Iowa
Nora Irwin
Myr
Carl Pfannebecker
H. E. Glick
A. E. Shull
Cody Luse
T. R. Gardner
T. B. Gameron
E. L. Pullman
C. A. Turner
Roy Ellison
Dorothy Marie Forgy
Ellison
Turner
Forgy
Irvin LeRoy
Knoxville
Hilton
Allen Boller
Atlantic
Towa
Berlin Shoemaker
James Blvd
Signal Mt
Tenn
Shoemaker
Alma Keemer
Fifty-first Iowa in the Philippines 1898
The Fifty-first Iowa Infantry sailed from San Francisco on November 38 1898 to Hawaii and the Philippines. They played a 22 to 0 football win over Oahu College in Honolulu before marching toward Manila Bay via Subic and Cavite. The regiment received praise from Admiral Dewey for its endurance and few hospital recoveries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco Bay
Pennsylvania
Honolulu
Pearl Harbor
Oahu
Luzon
Subic Bay
Bataan Peninsula
Corregidor Island
Manila Bay
Cavite
Manila
Thuilo
Pansy Ie
San Francisco
George Dewey
Marine Corps
Philippines
Bruce EK. Mahan
the Palimpseat
Church Services and meetings schedule at Chuaches
Church School at 10:00 am with Carl VanZante as superintendent. Worship at 10:60 am, Evening Service at 9:30 pm, Christian Endeavor at 6:40 pm. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 7:80 pm. M.S. meets with Mrs Chas Coffin Friday afternoon. Visitors welcome and bring someone. Choir practice Friday at the parsonage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl VanZante
Christian Endeavor
Chas
Church notices emphasize morning worship andworld wide Methodist tasks
A church schedule lists events from 9:30 a m to 11:00 a m including Church School led by Virgil Dooley and Bishop D E D E, and Evening Worship plus Methodist Youth Fellowship. The note urges a large turnout at morning worship next Sunday to study the global Methodist task and postwar church status with new material to aid study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. E
Bishop
Methodist Youth Fellowship
Wesley Chapel
Standliis
Virgil Dooley
Methodiam
LeCompte Seeks Re election in Iowa Fourth District
Karl M. LeCompte republican of Corydon announces his candidacy to seek another term as congressman in Iowa's new fourth district. He has served since 1933 and was reelected in 1940, supports agriculture and national defense, opposes nonwar spending, and backs tax equalization for officials. He led opposition to pension and salary hikes and may stay in district until election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Karl. M. LeCompte
Corydon
Pearl Harbor
House
LeCompte
Iowa
Wendell Willkie
George Wilson
LeCompie
Origen
Biennial Election Notice Moravia Town Officers
Notice to qualified voters of Moravia Iowa that the biennial town election will be held at the town hall. Officers to be elected: Mayor Treasurer Assessor each for two years and five Councilmen for two years. Polls open 8 a m to 8 p m. Moravia Iowa March 9 1942. Mayor DK Orelup Clerk G B Winsler 10-2
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moravia
Pppanoose
Towa
Iowa
Orelup
G. B, Winsler
Family Gathering at the Wilson Home
A Sunday cooperative dinner gathered the Wilsons and Meyerses plus Barbara Meyers, Walter Hansen of Des Moines, Ted Wilson and daughters Mildred and Daphene from Chariton, Fern Wright and daughter Dana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. B. Wilson
Truman Meyers
Barbara
And
Walter Hansen
Des Moines
Ted Wilson
Mildred
Daphene J. Chariton
Fern
Wright
Dana
Cambridge visitors surprise at Alice McDanel birthday
Royer Ridge Harvey Hiatt and Hazel of Cambridge visited Ira Boyer on Friday March 6. The gathering included F A Boyer Clara Morrison F E Moffatt Florice Ira Boyer Delmont Moffatt Kenneth McDanel Larry and Helen Garrett son. Clarabel McDanel returned from Des Moines after eight weeks. Tone Scott guests at William Whicker for Sunday dinner. Averill Easter suffers rheumatism. Ray Powell and Fred Schlachter of Rockwell City plan to work on a British American airport in eastern Africa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvey Hiatt
Hazel
Cambridge
Ira Boyer
Alice McDanel
F. A. Boyer
Clara Morrison
F. E., Moffatt
Florice
Mra
Delmont Moffatt
Kenneth McDanel
Larry
Helen Garretson
Clarabel McDanel
Des Moines
Tone Scott
William Whicker
Averill Easter
Africa
Ray Powell
Fred Schlachter
Rockwell City
Birthday Party Honors Wilson Family Members
Mrs Alice Wilson and families gather in Trenton to honor BE FP Wilson on or around March 8 with Mildred Wilson birthdays on March 4 and Doretta Cloyed on March 8, plus memorial for N G Wilson whose birthday is March 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice Wilson
R. C. Wilson
Trenton
Mardeena
Jaf
Zell Wilson
LeRoy
Coretta
Willard Cloyed
Darrell
Floyd Caster
FP. Wilson
Mildred Wilson
Doretta Cloyed
N. G. Wilson
Also Mentioned on This Page
Nadine & George
Ehane General Supplies
SWAN
Prunes
Red River
Wheaties
Phillipines
RED Cross
Malvern
Bill Blaski
Guthrie Coulee
United Brethren
G. M. Talbott
Methodist Church
Leroy Pullman
Royer Ridge
Dale Pery
Blanche Graham
Chet Broshar
W. S. Norton
Mortiney Tee
Zell Callen
Frank Swaim
Vinton
Gardner Hatchery
Easter Bros. Coal Co
Frank
Gardner & Son Hatchery
Comptesa Bock
Ovew
Turner & Son Furniture
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