Moravia Area Social News and Visits
Miss Mare Waughop week end visitor in Des Moines. Watts and Halden visiting Centerville Albia. Ted Ochler stays with mother. VanDorin family and Freddie dine with Mrs. Kate McKern. VanZante twins visit Moravia. Vench visits Centerville. Broshars visit Ottumwa. J. H. Rice and others in Unionville. Paul Watts winter vacation at home from Iowa State College. Local ladies hosting at J. E. Sharp home. Virgil Burns home visit from Town State College. J. R. Callen family improving after illness. T. N. McDonough back from Oskaloosa hospital. Food sale and Batter Bazaar at Christian Church April 2. Effie Cox of Butte, Mont. visits with locals. dinner with Alice Hall group. Burton Tarr elected vice president of Y M C A at Cornell College. H. H. Pabst and Gene Kathryn Broshar visit Ottumwa hospital. Waughap Motor Co praised for cleaning and redecorating. Iowa Wesleyan News edited by freshmen. Dorothy Reich leads W A A news. Centerville visitors noted. One day last week at J M. Wright home.
No clear singular news item in scattered quotes
A collage of humorous and topical lines mentions figures like Kerensky Ford and Babe Ruth, April Fool’s Day, Moravia stores, and political themes. It reads as a miscellany of short notes and jokes with no cohesive event or person-centered report to summarize as a single news item.
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Peddler Post
A. Kerensky
Iowa crop plan shows corn and hay decreases for 1927
Iowa farmers report a 1 percent cut in corn acreage to about 11,066,000 acres for 1927, with hay also down to 3,126,000 acres. Spring wheat up 26 percent to 45,000 acres, oats up 2 percent to 8,845.10 acres, and white potatoes rising from 77,000 to about 86,000 acres. Agricultural Statistician Leslie M. Carl notes broader Belt shifts toward sweet clover and grain sorghums.
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Iowa
Federal
State Crop Reporting Service
Sealle M. Corl
Federal Agricultural Stationieian
Corn Belt
United States
Dakotas
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Leslie M. Carl
Scatteredburg Social Roundup Among Local Residents
Mrs J W Lockman and Mrs Mart Gilland visited Monday afternoon. Harbara and Jim McCumber stayed with grandparents George and Mrs McCumber. Bill Irelan and wife visited George Irelan. Ella Lockman and daughter visited Fred Coltrain. J W Lockman spent Wednesday with Mrs Bet Adama. Bill Irelan and wife were Centerville callers Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Lockman
Mart Gilland
Harbara
Jim McCumber
Mrs
George McCumber
Bill Irelan
George Irelan's
Ella Lockman
Fred Coltrain
Bet Adama
Centerville Cullera
Get in Tune With Home and Town Life
A local column notes how harmony at home mirrors community spirit. Mrs. Bryant Buckingham and her children visited the Ed Buckingham residence near Brompton for a weekend gathering, underscoring family ties in the neighborhood.
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Ed. Buckingham
Garl Buckingham
Brompton
Moravia
Classified Ads Farm Loans and Baby Chicks Sale
Classified notices list farm loan offers by Chet Broskar and baby chicks for sale including Rhode Island Reds White Leghorns and Barred Rocks with weekly hatching and contact through Wm Gardner. Also offers for sale of a successful brooder a used piano and radio set plus a kitchen cabinet extension table incubator and a rural rental listing. Contact J H Plitt L H Priabe J S Campbell for details.
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R. L
Wm. Gardner
Advertising Pays Backed by Home Newspaper Reach
The piece urges readers to use local newspaper ads to hire tradesmen and services, noting how ads drive business. It adds that P. K. Horner continues to recover from surgery to the satisfaction of friends, and mentions Hizowner’s steady spirits during a Moravia ordeal. It also reports Mrs A G Broshar’s hospitalization in Ottumwa for appendicitis and her improving condition.
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P. K. Horner
Hizowner
Moravia
Dinner honors O A Hiatt on eighty third birthday
Mr and Mrs Vesa Hiatt entertained at dinner Thursday to honor O A Hiatt who marked his eighty third birthday anniversary. Fourteen guests attended including all the children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vesa Hiatt
O. A. Hiatt
Sheep Shearers Urged to Tag Before Grazing Season
A brief note urges sheep shearers to tag their flocks now ahead of turning them to grass. The speaker, Alan, affirms plans to shear this year and reminds readers to prepare tagging as a priority.
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Alan
Also Mentioned on This Page
H. G. Broshar & Son
J. F. Irwin
Sten’s
Sargent’s
Victor
Betsy
Semolino
Omar
Alexander’s Grocery and Produce
Mare Waughop
Des Moines
H. E B. Watts
Centerville
3. W. Halden
Albia
Ted Ochler
B. F. Ochler
Mrs. W. T VanDorin
Freddie
Kate McKern
Alice VanZante
Harvey VanZante
Frank Vench
Hhe
Grant Beverman
Chester Broshar
Ottumwa
A. G. Broshar
J. H. Rice
C. E. Winsler
Norman Ward
Unionville
Paul Watts
Iowa State College
H. E. Watts
Virgil Burns
Town State College
Wr. Burn
J. R. Callen
Oskaloosa
the Christian Church
Effie Cox
Butte, Mont
Alice Hall
M. B. Harris
Ey. Mathews
C. ©. Smith
Burton Tarr
Cornell College
H. H. Pabst
Gene Kathryn Broshar
Gene
Waughap Motor Co
Iowa Wesleyan News
Dorothy Reich
Will Hollingsworth
Clara Packard
Mary Jackson
Cedar Rapids
Mys
Madge Marian
Chicago
J M. Wright
Chet Broshar General Insurance
Greenebaum
Henry Ford
Thomas A. Edison
Daily Dozen
Babe Ruth
Satan
Rascal
Brent
Bvyah Buckingham
Buckingham
Chet Broskar
Forrest Main
J. H. Plitt
Roy Scott
L. H. Priabe
Iconium
J. S. Campbell
A. H. Higley
Uepd
A.H. Bighey
Utpd
Ab Huff
Elmer Goeldner
Ellatan
Hows
Moravia Bakery
Sheep Shearers
Frigidaire
Harry Townsend
Red River
N. R. Ward
A. M. Oehler
THE
American Legion
Betsy’s
Red Bird
W. C. Bivin
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