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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1944
Page
1
Moravia Union announces its status as a second class mail publication in Appanoose County Iowa under federal law. Editors and publishers are Mr. and Mrs Wayne Pitman Davis. Subscription rates are one year four dollars. six months two dollars. three months one dollar.
George R. Darb reports on Friday and Sunday visits among the Kinser Valley residents. Hogs moved to Ottumwa, cattle moved for Henry Sytsma, and several neighbors, including Zell Wilson and Ervin Long, host and visit in Albia and nearby homes. A youth basketball game and a large family gathering honor Coast Guard relatives. Three freezes since Oct. 10 affect beans and corn. Union classifieds get results.
Franklin Byra and Frances Sheldon spent Saturday night at the Addie Sheldon home. John Moffatt and relatives visited, with many callers at the Moffatt and Cox homes. Mrs Lottie Swan sale drew attendees from Iconium, while Tadlock family visits and road work on the east Tadlock corner occurred. Residents from Albia, Centerville, Moravia and nearby towns were noted visiting friends and relatives.
Rosa Beaty notes visiting kin and friends across Iconium with Mrs. Belle Sheldon and son and wife Clarence Stauber. Ida Argo hosts and sees Wynema Allardyce. Pearl Runnells and Mabel Jackson visit Sarah Hiner. Berle Beaty Harold Huff Howard Teater Carl Bivin and families call on Rosa Beaty. Mo ravian aid convention attendees from Iconium. Clyde Dicks, Jay Argo visit. Tor rington visitors join.
Imogene Tadlock, Grant Tadlock, and Mr and Mrs Imogene called at the D L Strunk home Monday. Grant Tadlock and Walter Scott worked on the War Fund drive Wednesday. Walter Scott and Billy Joe spent Wednesday with Mrs Grant Tadlock. They visited Mrs Berl Arnold and children, and J L Dodd called at the Clarence residence.
Attendance at Sunday school and church was 68. Families and friends visited various Gladfelder and Foster homes around Trenton and Albia. Several couples and individuals attended gatherings, celebrated a 61st wedding anniversary in Fairfield, and neighbors traveled between dozens of residences over the weekend.
Blue Front by Mrs John VanZante Jr and Mrs Allie Pence of near Russell visited Homer Hamilton home Saturday. Circle met Thursday with Myrtle Hamilton. Ben Jones treated for appendicitis at Centerville hospital and improving. Various local families, including VanZantes, Moffitts, Brees, Murdy, Shepard, Shelquist, Robb, and Hamiltons, visited, hosted, or attended church events around Albia and Pleasant Corners as several relatives visited Centerville and Eddyville areas.
A light hearted column recounts farm mishaps from Jack Frost roughing up gardens to a barbed wire scare and a injured forehead. The writer reflects on pickling recipes sugar rationing and the chaos of daily farm tasks while noting a cousin’s daughter run over by a tractor and ongoing farm bumps and bruises.
Brompton residents visit Brompton school for a lone day last week. Vereel Barnes hosted silo fillers last Friday. Mrs Francis Robinson aided Mrs Barnes with dinner. Earl Boardman and the KE Boardman pair visited the A J Billings home in Albia Thursday evening. Ida Fisher and Mrs EB 0 Carmeny with Thelma were guests Friday afternoon of Mrs M E Boardman. The Vercel Barnes family hosted dinner Saturday night at Homer Shipler’s in Ottumwa. Otumwa visits by QC L Cary and M E Boardman occurred Tuesday. Hubert Cormeny and family and EB 0 Cormeny with Thelma visited Ottumwa Sunday. O L Cary and M E Boardman shared Sunday dinner at the Boardman home. Pfc Otis Stafford and wife welcomed a son born Oct 9 weighing 6 pounds. Mrs Stafford and son James Otis are in St Joseph’s hospital El Paso Texas. Dr F C Cary and son Richard of Hutchison Kansas and Miss Iowa Davies of Bloomfield dined with QO L Cary Friday. Max McCoy assisted with silo fillers Monday.
Mrs. Burdette Utterback suffered a light stroke while Mrs. Utterback’s prior severe stroke from a year ago is slowly improving. The Hiatt and McDanel families attended Farm Bureau events in Milo and Moravia. Numerous locals hosted visitors, attended 4-H gatherings, threshing and bean harvesting tasks, and a W S C S meeting set with Mrs. Lloyd Rose.
Lester and Pearl Hiatt visited Sunday evening at Bert Meadow's home in Kelly Iowa. They returned home Sunday evening after the visit.
Miller relatives gather at Will Miller home for Sunday visit. Several families, including Coffins, Tubaughs, Millers, and Woods, share meals and call on neighbors in Centerville and Moravia. Events include doctor visits, silo hand cooking help, and a beef breeders meeting attendance.
The Coulson box supper drew a good crowd and the school cleared 27 dollars. Raye Miller spent Saturday with grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Theo Miller. Sunday guests at Van Lemaster's home included Mr. and Mrs. Theo Miller. Weekend visitors stopped by Des3 White's, Mrs. Freda Morrison, Mrs. Dorothy Rueschau, and Lela Luse at Bert Luse's home. The Ashby and Billie Luse party from Ft Leonard Wood were also at Bert Luse's Sunday.
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