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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1954
Page
6
Social notes recount visitors and travelers around Moravia including Sgt. Robert Woodcock on furlough from Great Falls and headed for Germany, multiple calls from Centerville, Des Moines and Chicago, and gatherings at homes of Callens, McDanel, Fox, and others. Also mentions May activities, birthdays, and club events with many short visits and travel mentions.
Udell area weekly notes list visits and gatherings at multiple homes including Glenn Matthews Guste Sidles and Merle Houser. Birth announced Rhoda Sue daughter of Paul and wife born April 30. Local residents attend funerals hospital visits 4 H meetings farm bureau events and birthday celebration for Richard Coltrain amid community updates.
Mrs Norris O Connor and daughter visited Ray Lockman family on Sunday. Hazel Cox and Nyle visited Walter Harper on Wednesday. Sam Proctor family and Doran Mullins Marilyn King visited Cyril Mullins on Friday. Mary Joyce joined for a visit. Shirley Walter stayed with Milton Stocker from Saturday night to Monday. Sunday visitors included Bill Hershberger and Hubert Helmick families at Orbie Brittain home. Roe Rhee spent Saturday at Sam Proctor home. Sunday callers were Warren Proctor Emery Coltrain and Howard Proctor families. Johnny Proctor spent the weekend at home. Dale Cox stayed with Larry Brown Saturday and Sunday. Otha Mercer visited Cyril Mullins Monday. Evelyn Helmick spent Sunday.
A Wesley Chapel cooperative dinner Sunday at noon included music by Mrs Blackstone and children. Rev Gene Lawton showed Africa's Weeping Prophet at church night. Wesley Y M F met at Harry Phillips home with 17 children. Guests and helpers visited various local families during the week.
Mr. and Mrs. Loyd Carter spent Sunday at the Rollie Carter home near Moulton. Mr. and Mrs. Trenton Wilson visited the R. C. Wilson home Sunday evening. Carl Cloved and Lute Hiatt joined Wilsons for Monday and Sunday gatherings respectively. Dinner at Carol Brees home honored Danny Brees birthday. Past Matrons attended at Mrs. Glenna Dicks home Tuesday. More visits noted at R. C. Wilson and Russell Hiatt homes.
Pleasant Hill residents and relatives from Des Moines Sigourney Ottumwa and Centerville spent weekends and Sundays visiting friends and celebrating Mary’s birthday. The gatherings included the Callens Claytons and Dicks family members at multiple homes with neighbors and friends sharing meals and evenings.
Earle Raun of Town State College ext entsomologist urges a sanitation based program to curb disease carrying flies. He notes annual advances in chemicals and techniques but stresses that killing flies alone fails. Flies breed quickly in decaying matter like manure trash and plant refuse, so cleanup targets breeding sites.
Raun urges farmers to remove manure and rotting matter from fields and feedlots to dry and sanitize. Scrape to fresh dirt in unpaved lots and concrete in paved ones. Early sanitation plus ongoing removal cuts fly breeding greatly, with insecticides finishing the job in 1954.
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