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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1937
Page
1
Mercury readings swung wildly from 84 to 17 over the week. Falllike morning, Halloween habits praised, ice cream cabinet in the park unchanged since Fall Festival. Local note on moving away residents, publicity from Barney Harn, and a list of 22 locals leaving for California. Also reports rising print paper costs affecting small weeklies.
Armistice Day program planned for Moravia school building at 11 next Thursday November 11. Basil Cowell Post American Legion commander Fred Hammond says preparations progress with Moravia school music department to provide musical numbers. Rev Chas M Ellis Methodist pastor will speak.
Mrs. D. K. Orelup is appointed Moravia Red Cross chairman to lead the roll call drive starting November 11. Appointed by county chairwoman Mrs. WW Longnecker, she will announce assistants next week and set the campaign in motion. The county aims to install loan closets in towns, starting in Moravia, and Moravia hosts the county highway station at Oehler Bros. on highway 60.
CaureneS Moravia holds Sunday School at 10 a m and Morning Worship at 11 a m Epworth League at 6 36 p m No evening preaching next Sunday due to revival at Wesley Chapel Wesley Chapel offers Morning Worship 9 30 a m Sunday School 10 30 a m with preaching morning and evening during the meetings Attendance is hoped to rise Public is cordially invited Pastor Chas L Ellis signs the notice.
The schedule lists church activities with MK Blackman as superintendent. Worship at 10 a.m. Junior C. E. at 2 30 p.m. Y.P.L.U. at Up. im. Evening service at 7 20 p.m. Women’s Aid meets Wednesday with Mrs Mary Hozkinson. Prayer service Thursday at 7 30 p.m. Orchestra practice Saturday at 7 p.m. A cordial welcome to all. Pastor T J Zike makes the invitation.
Bible Class at Church Of Christ held every Thursday evening invites participation. The message notes ongoing study materials and frequent publications after January.
F B Harn notes Moravia Union papers are widely sent to California and praises The News for listing Euclid avenue subscribers. He believes Moravia Union has more readers in town than any other Iowa paper from home.
A letter from E. G. Firkins describes life in Pearl Harbor with his family. The children Shorty and Thelma are celebrated as shipboard sweethearts aboard the Marilo, with the captain and officers saluting them. Aurora meets congressmen and senators during a Hawaii statehood visit.
Betty Bishop of Moravia has been selected as a member of the Philharmonic Choir at Parsons College in Fairfield Iowa. She will sing in the second soprano section as part of a choir numbering over eighty voices directed by Professor Melander. The group, one of the largest musical organizations in the state, makes frequent trips to town and to out-of-state venues for a capella programs.
Mrs. Anna Sharp announces the engagement and approaching marriage of her daughter Irene to Earl Henderson son of Mr and Mrs J H Henderson of Centerville. The wedding is planned for November and the couple will reside near Centerville.
Neighbors of M. S. Foster gathered and cribbed his corn with eleven people and five wagons last Friday. Foster recently injured in a wagon fall and, with both hands in splints, is being cared for by his daughter Mrs. Amy Wilson of Centerville this week.
Mary Gertrude Allen of Moravia and Fred Miller of Des Moines wed with Wilma McKenney of Oskaloosa and Harry Porter of Ottumwa at Unionville Presbyterian church. Rev A C Gross officiated. Attendants were the brides parents Irwin Allen and Ernest McKenney. The couples will reside in Des Moines.
Announcement lists Union, Chariton, Douglass, and Taylor townships gathering at Mrs. T. R. Gardner home in Moravia next Wednesday November 10. Miss Irma Garner of Ames will present second lesson on Chair Caning.
Veach Drug Store in Moravia promotes a large Rexall sale running through Wednesday through Saturday this week with an advertisement in this issue of the Union.
A free cooking school by Esther Sears drew a large audience at the Moravia Community Building last Friday afternoon. Sponsored by the Iowa Southern Utilities Company, the event featured gifts to several attendees and demonstrations of dishes such as birthday cake and steamed puddings.
Menu lists main dish baked meat with mashed potatoes string beans and pineapple salad. Includes bread jelly pie coffee and pickles. Announces upcoming Thanksgiving dinner and a menu for next week with adjusted items.
Mrs Main enjoyed a surprise birthday gathering Sunday with her parents and numerous Brown and Beaty families. The day featured basket dinners, noon service, and visits, with Eli Lawrence noted in Centerville Friday.
The Coulson school invites the public to a program on November 5 at 7 30 p m. Attendance includes candy pie and spice sales. Faith Hopes is identified as a teacher involved.
Roy Adams reports the Iconium M E Sunday School boys class hosted a masquerade party with prizes for best costumes Floyd Purvis as a feeble old man and Dick Newby as Old Missus Winterbottom. Costumed entrants faced a prank penalty, prizes awarded, unmasking followed by games and refreshments.
Mr and Mrs W P Davis leave today for Marshall Missouri to visit Forrest Potts and attend the national corn husking contest on Thursday. An estimated 75 000 people are expected. The couple also attended the state husking contest at Oska lovsa Tuesday.
The Monroe township Farm Bureau ladies meeting on Cleaning and Oiling Sewing Machines will be held November 6 at the home of Mrs. Cecil Parcel, beginning at 10 30 a m. Everyone werevie.
The readable lines show a discussion about joining in a study of God and Bible verses. It mentions learning, Sunday gatherings, and a group activity led by the Lagle sisters in a church setting.
At Scattersburg, a program will be held at the school on Friday evening, November 5, at 8 o'clock. Ludice Peasy is asked to bring boxes. Tretie Sfaiti, teacher.
Fragmentary note suggests Miller Vierg will be progressing well by supper at the Mil Lui Friday evetting aids Callen teaches Sotivul.
Mr and Mrs HR Lb Yurr and daughter Roberta Mrs J P Coffin and PB Harber spent Sunday in Fort Madison with Susie Purr. They enjoyed a picnic in the park and held a birthday anniversary for Mrs Pubs. It was an ideal day for such a gathering.
Mrs. Claude Paris resident seven miles southeast of Moravia was burned by scalding water during efforts to heat tea at home. A Friday fire consumed the Harn building in Moravia, destroying the Harn and Whitton structures and damaging surrounding properties. Firefighters from Moravia and Albia saved the west side from total ruin, with losses including restaurant and pool hall equipment and stock. cause traced to chimney sparks.
Mrs J M McCrory died at her home northwest of Moravia after a stroke last week. She had lived in the area many years and leaves children, grandchildren, and relatives. Funeral services were held October 31 1937 at the Methodist Episcopal church in Moravia with interment in Moravia cemetery.
Card of thanks expresses gratitude from Nannie Bell McCrory Mary Catherine McCrory and Thomas McCrory and Mrs Eldora Funkhouser for sympathy shown during their mother’s illness and death.
The Moravia Masonic lodge plans a November evening event with a banquet followed by the regular Appanoose-Davis Masonic Proficiency Club meeting. Members and wives from Centerville Mystic Cincinnati Moulton An Humulle and Bloyfield invited. dinner price listed. reservations through secretary J D Mines. Mary Slab announces birth of a baby girl Lbel at home.
Moravia residents and the Union thank Albia firefighters for halting a blaze that threatened the Masonic hall and Brushar building after engulfing the Whitton property. Incidents touched Harn and Whitton structures. some insured, others not, with losses including Easter and Garner equipment. The fire, discovered during containment, sparked a residence fire as well. The event marks a century-old west Moravia landmark fire history with the Harn family’s long-standing business ties.
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