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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1951
Page
1
Merchants complain about new OPS regulations requiring detailed commodity invoices and price breakouts, hindering sales and raising costs. The piece notes inflation, a dog chewing a wallet, and local anecdotes, including a 89th birthday, a missing billfold, and residents facing hard March weather and tax comparisons between federal and state levels.
Friday afternoon visitors gathered at the Carl VanZante home including Mr and Mrs Ben Jones Mr and Mrs Ralph Eaton Mr and Mrs Lester White Mr and Mrs T R Gardner Mr and Mrs Ralph Shellquist and Carl VanZante with all noting travel by foot or team from Moravia Centerville or Albia The Blue Front school plans to reopen Monday but east and west roads slow attendance Mark VanZante is steadily improving.
A visitor at the Union office recently paid cash and left two large silver cart wheels on the counter. The gesture signaled a renewal from a subscriber in the west. Mrs. Elmer Shake of Albin, Wyoming, was identified as the giver.
Local update recalls the Postmaster General order discontinuing the Moravia to Unionville mail line from the 19th, routing via Centerville and Home Market. Also noted are price lists for groceries and coal oil, a medicine label printing project, a feed yard sale, a new delivery man, a birth, a car ad, a horse drawn funeral procession, a furniture store opening and rug prices in a Moravia Centerville community page.
Mrs Grace Hammond Tconian and family report Conian is on the sick list and staying with grandmother Addie Sheldon. Nearby relatives and neighbors visited Sunday at various homes including Robert Sweeney and Ned Argo family.
Salem and surrounding towns endure the worst snow storm in years. Residents dig out as roads stay blocked, but mail deliveries continue daily. Local families gather for belated anniversaries and social visits despite drifting conditions.
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