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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1948
Page
2
Neighboring residents including Len Ogden visit for two weeks while Miller school hosts an enjoyable program to aid school needs. W N Miller to St Joseph hospital. slight improvement and home return. Local injuries noted as Logan Strunk hurt by a horse. resting well. Additional visits from Paris and Reghan families, and various social calls among neighbors.
Mrs John Moffatt hosts and visits appear across Centerville as neighbors call on the Lemasters Cox family and others. Alicia and Moulton visitors are noted with Johnson Moffatt households, birthday dinner attendees include Cox family and friends, wood cutting with men at John Moffatt home, and Otis Fuller with Jimmy Foster visiting Rev Cole’s home after Sunday church event.
Mrs George Hammond reports Pleasant Hill activity with Mr and Mrs George Hiner celebrating a Golden Wedding anniversary. Numerous locals visited families, attended services, and offered condolences for Roy Purvis. Names include Ad die Sheldon, McAninch, Tarbell, Huey, Tarbell, Irwin, Beaty, Dicks, and Penfield among others.
Monday morning the thermometer read 28 degrees at seven with a south or southwest wind. Mrs. Maxwell and her son from Kansas arrived Tuesday for a two week visit with her father and sister and brother in law the Russell Darby family. Mrs Maxwell of Kansas Earl Boardman and the Russell Darby family enjoyed a picnic dinner.
At the Boardman homestead near Brompton residents report tiling completed with help from Mr. Sears of Moravia. Zell Wilson and LeRoy Wilson aided by Sears harvested honey from a bee tree. The school picnic is set for Tuesday night and Lambs and hogs were hauled to the Albia sale. Tracy Long will finish soybean cutting. Ervin Long reportedly bought Wilson's corn share. Barbara Gene stayed with grandparents during the Boardman picnic.
A brief advertising nudge urges patrons to mention they saw the ad in The Union. The note emphasizes using the newspaper as the source for verification when contacting advertisers.
The first six weeks ended with six pupils: Alta Mae Cochran Donna Cochran Carolyn Cochran Wendell McDanel Robert Easter and Norma Cochran. Betty Jean Foster teaches. The primary pupil finished the book Before We Read. The schoolhouse was redecorated during summer and desks now run on runners. The town welcomed electricity last week. Oct. 1 marked the teacher’s birthday with a party. A candy supper on Oct. 14 drew a large crowd and raised 54.02.
Bruce Thompson spent Wednesday with his grandparents. Roy Purvis and Mrs Belle Bressler funeral services were attended by several from the vicinity. Various local residents visited, dined, shopped, or spent time with friends and relatives including Emmett Derby family and Calhoun households across the week.
A brief schedule item notes events planned for Saturday night and Sunday at A E Derbys, listing no further details on activities, times, or participants beyond the venue name and days.
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