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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1960
Page
3
Classified items list truck tires and doors for sale with locations near Moravia and Unionville. A memorial notice honors Forrest Easter with a devotional poem. Local residents share weekend visits, gatherings, and family updates across Blakesburg Ottumwa Des Moines and Lost Nation exchanges.
Local notes report multiple households marking Mother's Day with visits across Des Moines and nearby towns. The Albia District group held a farewell at Moravia E U B church for pastors Dale Church and Everett Bennett moving to new assignments. Several family visits and social gatherings span Albia, Des Moines, Sioux City, Fairfield, Ft. Dodge, Cedar Falls, Centerville, Ottumwa, and Omaha with relatives and friends, including Kenneth Blackman of Fargo visiting his parents and others visiting at Murdy, Condra, and Main homes.
The Moravia chapter hosted a Tuesday evening meeting featuring a friendship program presided by Mrs. A. D. Kincade. Representatives from Albia Centerville Moulton Mystic Eddyville Unionville Bloomfield and Moravia participated with a social hour and refreshments afterward.
Mr and Mrs Ralph Shelquist and family hosted Mothers Day guests from Ottumwa Conrad and Marshalltown at Lloyds near Marshalltown. The afternoon was spent with daughter Lucile in Conrad. The event observed the Shelquist couple’s 40th wedding anniversary due May 14. Francis Shelquist from Tucson could not attend.
The monthly church night at the Evangelical United Brethren church parlor is scheduled for a Wednesday evening Rev. F A Richardson will give a brief account of the annual conference at Ft Dodge last week All are invited to attend.
Cecil Comstock was in Albia for a doctor’s check up. He and Debra and Darlene Comstock ate dinner at the church. Eleanor Miller visited, and Wilbur Miller drove her to the Good Samaritan Nursing Home in Ottumwa. The Woodward Over turf wedding was in Moravia. Des Moines visitors stayed with the Andrews family.
Evangelical United Brethren Church and Grace Methodist Church list Sunday schedules including morning worship at 11:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. services, Sunday school at 9:00, and midweek Bible study, prayer meetings, and administrative meetings. Other churches note youth fellowships, choir rehearsals, and evening services. Churches include Fairview, Wesley Chapel, Moravia, Centerville with various pastors and superintendents.
Rev. H LaVern Smith pastor with Frank Woodward as Sunday School Superintendent. Sunday school at 10 00 morning worship at 11 00 N Y P S service and Junior service at 7 00 p m 7 45 evening evangelistic 8 00 p m Wednesday Hour of Prayer service listed.
First Christian Church led by Pastor Donald Plum holds Sunday School at 10 00 a.m. and Communion at 11 00 a.m. The CWF meets with Mrs Perry on Thursday May 19 at 2 p.m. Mr and Mrs Herschel Johnson and their children visited Mrs Iverson and family at Stanhope over the weekend.
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