14 Oct 1943
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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1943
Page
1
Mrs J T VanDorm notes pleasant fall weather and a flurry of visits. Hawk Brothers buy a new hay baler. Neighbors sized up dinners, hospital runs, and market chatter as families, including VanDorin, Walter, Faber, Hawk, and Gardner clans, gather in Centerville, Des Moines, and Rochemond areas with updates on furloughs and inductions.
Bernice Johnson reports neighbors and families from Maple Grove making calls and visiting in nearby towns. Centerville, Albia, Chariton, Hedrick and Afton are mentioned with gatherings at Dowd, Johnson, Tadlock, Glick and Scott households.
The column muses on weather and autumn, noting dry leaves and inventory worries about cisterns. It recalls a garment shortage era with silk hose hacks and a teen working in a factory, plus haying and farm jitters for winter. A mischief by a spotted dog ends with yard chaos and falling leaves.
Mrs John Fisher and son Carl spent the weekend in Knoxville Fay Paxton and family had Sunday dinner with his mother and brother Mrs Bertha Paxton and ten others. The north side of the church has been shingled and this week men in the neighborhood are shingling the south half. Ralph Tubaugh children have been absent from Sunday School several weeks due to scarlet fever. Pvt Robert McAlister spent the weekend at the W V McAlister home. Sunday afternoon callers at the R A Faber home included Ernest Weat and family Fay Paxton and family Dr Roy Pearson Mr Wood Charles Helmick Don and Dick Sandifer Carl Coop called at the Ben Coop home Sunday morning.
Neighbors and relatives visit in Udell and Centerville over the weekend. Des Moines traveler Calvin Rumley visits the Harry Rumley home while others call at Jess Walker and Ed Rumley homes. A mix of visits, trading, and helps with Kaffir corn noted among local families.
Hazel Hellyer notes a weekend of visits and hospitality around Salem. Families from Des Moines Albia Great Lakes Ill and local residents shared meals and conversations while others helped bale hay and hosted guests across several households Friday through Monday.
A wife from Oklahoma City indicates her husband expects to be sent to Kansas soon, signaling a pending relocation or transfer related to a family matter or service.
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