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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1941
Page
5
County records document payrolls for bridge and yard crews, purchases from Hart Bros Oil Co and various suppliers, plus several resolutions. Notable items include tax adjustments, road project authorizations, bond and official appointments, and consent petitions for highway alterations. Local officials Hoover and Walker oversee approvals.
March 17 1941 the Board of Supervisors and representatives of townships acted as Board of Approval to modify the February 11 1941 road program. Caldwell Township projects were revised with adjustments to Section lines and surface grading. Chariton Township projects require grading and surfacing. Johns Township revised surface and grading for multiple sections.
The excerpt mentions concrete floor construction on bridges O-1 and L-8, grading and surfacing of County Trunk Road EB from Jerome to Primary Road No. 3, and a section from Trunk Road C to the center of a township, with northward progress of about one and a quarter miles. It notes board adjournment, and lists several local visits, social events, and household chores among residents of Centerville and nearby areas, including Measles illness among children and multiple social calls.
High way 60 notes show visitors including Wm Hilton Doyle Hamp ton Shirley Townsends Lyndon McDanel Lloyd McDanel and families plus Mr and Mrs Ryman McDanel and others from Rockford Ottumwa Creston Moravia and nearby. Social calls top the list with neighbors and relatives dropping by the Clyde McDonald and Mrs Obe Burns houses on Sunday afternoon and Linda Lane Conlson due as a small daughter to Cecil Coulson.
The District Court of Appanoose County Iowa appoints John B Taylor as executor of the Gilmore Doggett estate. Creditors must pay or present claims legally authenticated to the court for allowance by March 12 1941. Attorneys Valentine and Valentine note March 20 27 as dates related to the notice.
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