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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1958
Page
4
Real estate notice listing a attractive home with new oak floors and a Youngstown kitchen, an attached garage, and garden space. Signed by D. E. Tscherter in Moravia Town.
In memoriam for Mrs. Chris Bogart mentions three years since death October 3 with prayers for peace. Also an assorted classified snippet listing lumber and poles, treated, and feed banks. Evergreen Nursing Home Centerville offers elder care with phone contact.
Numerous visits and gatherings headline a week of social activity. Families from Albia Udell Des Moines Davenport and Centerville attended funerals weddings and reunions. Deer hunting trips and hospital recoveries also mark a busy period with several hausholds hosting guests and travel to Ka hokah Lovilia and Casper Wyoming.
About 900 southern Iowa church officials are invited to a Des Moines meeting Tuesday Oct 28 sponsored by the South Iowa Conference Board of Methodist Hospitals and Homes. Rev Paul Hans says the purpose is to explain how hospitals are set up and their aims. Walter C. Buster will speak on personnel followed by a Q and A discussion.
Land Institutional Church Relations and the Board of Hospitals and Homes of the Methodist Church in Chicago have arranged a Des Moines program. The Rev George Dimmitt, superintendent of Wesley Acres Home for the Retired, and Donald W Cordes, administrator of Town Methodist Hospital, will participate. Tours of the two institutions and a luncheon are included. Grace Methodist church in Des Moines will host the headquarters.
Community notices from Wesley Chapel and Centerville recount a board meeting led by Rev. Whitenack, Y M Y F gatherings, wedding of Carol Lee Day and James Kearney, weekend visitors from Chicago and Missouri, a Sunday park picnic for descendants of H W Chambers, deer hunts, and family visitations including the Harsh and Wilson households. Multiple names and places appear across events.
A Sunday reunion at Fairview Methodist Church of Main Station gathered many locals for morning services with 88 attendees, followed by 62 in the afternoon. A noon meal was served at the Showers schoolhouse, with numerous families listed among the attendees and a clergy family present.
The Moravia Garden club met at Mrs. Dan Mihalovich's home with Mrs. Frank Rogers assisting. Eleanor Miller presided as roll call urged seed pod gifts. A litterbug poster contest was approved and a nominating committee named for October officer elections. The Jack oak was chosen as state tree. Federated Garden club meeting in Ames set for Nov. 12–14. Flower show planned for Sept. 30 at Grace Methodist Church. Nellie Williams led a program on caterpillars as a blessing in disguise from National Gardener.
Received by Mrs. C. A. Turner Mrs. Art Fox and Mrs. John Veach. Eleven members and one guest Mrs. F. A. Richardson attended. Arrangements made from seed pods were brought by Mrs. Zell Callen and Mrs. Earl Boyer.
A total of 128 Appanoose county farmers began participation in the 1959 soil bank program. Farmers must file a rental rate determination request by October 10 and an application for a conservation reserve contract by October 24. The program rewards voluntary acreage reduction with annual rental payments over a three to ten year contract.
Farmers can enroll land not used for cropping or grazing in the conservation program with annual rental payments and government cost-sharing for established practices on the reserve land. Appanoose county averages 15 560 dollars per acre annually, higher than prior years. Rates vary by productivity. Visit the county ASC office soon.
The Union announces a children’s picture day with a professional photographer on Monday October 6 at the Community building from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. No charge, no obligation, and no subscriber requirement. Parents may arrange additional prints via the studio representative. appointments via Mrs. Art Fox at phone 201.
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