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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1943
Page
4
War bonds and Red Cross donations are urged as Daphan Coltrain reminds readers to support troops. Grades report on spelling, art, and poems. marching contest plans are scrapped for timing. Class basketball tournaments and student rosters update with captains listed for each grade level.
Lela Luse attended Hedge College for two years of elementary school and Moravia public school thereafter. She pursues a general course with home making as a favorite subject and plays on Moravia High School's basketball team. Her hobby is collecting pictures and she plans to work after graduation. Donald Brain Don takes a general course, favors Algebra, and is a band member. He enjoys going to pictures and aims to attend Iowa State College after graduation. Kathryn Bullard is a Moravia High normal training student, with grammar as her favorite subject. She belongs to FTA and is in the band and sax quartet. Her hobby is reading and she plans to work after graduation.
H H McVey showcases a sacred Lily of India in Tama in his store window. The four year old dark wine lily stands 4 feet 10 inches tall and 12 inches in diameter and is blooming for the first time drawing many residents to see the rare flower.
Notice to all persons interested that on the fifteenth day of March 1943 the District Court of Appanoose County Iowa appointed Charles L Johnston administrator of the estate of Lenna Pabst deceased late of the county All debtors to the estate must pay promptly and claimants must present legal proofs to the court for allowance Dated March 18 1948 Charles L Johnston Administrator
A week of war summaries notes British Eighth Army defeats Rommel at Mareth Line and air raids widening. In Tunisia northern sector, British First Army halts Axis attacks near Sed Jenane. Leclerc and Giraud unite to seize Tozeur and Metlaoui. Stimson cites 58 Axis planes down, 31 Allied losses. American casualties in Tunisia Feb 14 20 total 2 242.
Local residents shared updates from Coulson and nearby towns with visits to homes of the Stufflebeams Callens Hiatts and Millers. Farm moves included Otis Ballanger and Ernest Hiatt families. Forest Marble won a Coulson school director seat at last Mondays election. W S C S met with fourteen members at the Callen home and plan a March gathering.
Attendance at Sunday School and church reached 70 neighbors visited relatives and friends across several homes including the Gladfelder and Townsend families. A gas pipeline leak near Springdale sparked a brief blaze but caused no damage as crews repaired the line. Two Guthrie Center cousins learned they were related after months apart when a Florida training camp letter finally linked them.
Gail Hemmingsen of Newell entered the armed services twenty five years to the hour after his father was inducted into the army in World War I. The timing nearly matched the exact hour of his father’s induction, marking a commemorative parallel in the family’s military service.
Three and a half year old Billy Joe Granstra of Sheldon used his entire life savings to buy a war bond with pennies and nickels, a notable act highlighted in local wartime support.
The U S Forest Service plans to plant 15000 trees in Cedar Rapids city zone mainly white pines aged five years with 3000 small hardwoods included. The project reflects rural forestry efforts in Iowa despite local development.
Appanoose County officials approve official bonds for local constables and clerks, tax suspensions for residents with infirmities, and multiple annual and semi annual reports. A resolution authorizes releasing 1.1 acres from a School Fund Mortgage in Section 22, Township 70, Range 16. Construction program for 1943 is introduced.
The Board of Supervisors approves a temporary transfer of 7500 from School Fund Prinsigal Fund to Bord Fund. Homestead Exemption Applications Nos. 824 and 1269 for 1942 are approved. A deed of conveyance from J E Walker to Farrel Ferrin for seven acres in NW quarter of Section 17, Township 69, Range 18, Appanoose County, is approved for 547.27. Local notices and social items follow, including residents attending events and a report of a 26-pound wolf captured by Ira Eaton of Decatur this season.
Cedar Rapids parks commissioner Chas J. Kasek reports extreme winter conditions harming fish in Robins Lake with thousands killed likely from smothering due to overpopulation. In commerce, Richard Brownell of Wyoming sold 80 hogs on the Chicago market at 15 75 per hundredweight, the highest price in 22 years for 245 pound hogs.
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