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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1948
Page
1
Ot tumwa ministerial student couples plan revival at Selection church in Moravia. Numerous local residents and families are listed visiting, hosting, or traveling to relatives in Ottumwa Des Moines and nearby towns, with birthdays and hospital news noted.
Frequent visitors from Appanoose and Monroe counties fill The Union with political ads. Reelects Dick Wilson and Dewey Bear of Appanoose County Board of Supervisors. Harry Stickler term to 1951. W R Immen state senator candidate. Morlan and Sampson present. Hermes and Guernsey Democratic candidates for supervisor and county attorney. Moravia, Centerville, and Ottumwa figures appear among local politics and band festival notes. Cement shortages and local business changes noted alongside service updates and new addresses for readers.
Thirteen ladies attended the second session of the adult women’s class last Wednesday night. Miss Sampson demonstrated pattern placement, staying lines, and stitching techniques from the New Method taught by Edna Bryte Bishop under Mary Omen of J C Penney. Future topics include machine know how, pressing pointers, sleeves, buttonholes, plackets, hems, and fitting help with sessions through December at 7 30.
The Happy Helpers club hosted a layette shower Tuesday for Mrs. Emmett Derby and Mrs. Bill Cater at Mrs. James Calhoun’s home. Prizes were won by several guests, and many attendees enjoyed fruit salad, angel cake, and coffee. gifts were opened for the honorees. Several others sent gifts in absentia.
James H. Rogers 3/c U S N, son of Mr and Mrs Frank M Rogers of Moravia and a State University of Missouri student, has been chosen as NROTC Company Chief Petty Officer. The post is the highest for a midshipman 3/c and honors scholastic achievement and leadership in the unit. Upon Naval Science completion and degree, officers may receive a commission in the Navy Naval Reserve or Marine Corps.
Obituary notes the death of Marshall Coffin 82 at his Bendavis Missouri home October 13 after a long illness. Born in Appanoose County he lived in Moravia Bloomfield and Missouri. Survived by widow Rosa Hilderbrand two stepchildren grandson Donald Boling one brother J S Coffin and several sisters. Funeral and burial in Bendavis.
The Tayloraids gathered on Wednesday October 15 with 15 members present. Members enjoyed a cooperative noon dinner and afternoon work including tying and binding a comforter, tearing and sewing carpet rags, and picking hazel nuts for the hostess, with a short business meeting and roll call with the prompt Our Pet Peeve. Those wishing to join should notify Daphne Hilton or Janet Fox ahead of the November capsule friend drawing at Merle Millers.
A miscellaneous shower for Miss Ruby Johnson was hosted at the John Veach home on Friday evening by Mrs. Al Knudsen of Des Moines Mrs. Richard Veach and Mary Kathryn Veach. Prizes were won by Mrs. Bert Turner Codyne Luse and Mrs. Lewis Rouse. gifts were displayed under a pink and white umbrella. Attendees included Mrs. Ronald Woodward Virgil Dooley C C Coulson Kenneth Daniela Lewis Rouse Howard Carson John Robison Lester Smith Fred Harmon d Howard Smith and Misses Imogene Hiatt Mabel Coulson Bertha Coulson Codyne Luse and the honoree Ruby Johnson.
Fairfield couple Miss Johnson and Robert McClellan have chosen Sunday October 24 for their wedding. Also noted is a list of shower attendees and a local for sale ad offering rubber stamps in varying line formats from the Moravia Union printing offer.
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