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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1942
Page
6
A reflective October editorial laments turmoil yet cherishes autumn wonders from blue skies to falling leaves. It links nature’s beauty to democracy’s hope, then shifts to school life news with FFA initiation, choir notes, and sports updates noting basketball and girls' team practices, student movements, and grade reports.
The seventh and eighth graders had a hike and picnic after school on Monday evening. Jack Broshar holds the most stars on the seventh grade record chart while James Main tops the eighth grade. Alumna Mrs Lose teaches spelling and writing for seventh and eighth grades.
Home economics notes report the FHA club reorganized with Wynona Perry as president, Rosalie Zimmer as vice president, and Yvonne Harrison as secretary treasurer. Freshmen study water reading while sophomores focus on home furnishings with Timogene Tadlock.
The first grade completed its initial primer last week after reading many pre-primers. One class has read 18 of 28, another needs work. Mr. Young sent two new pre-primers last week as the pre-primary pupils struggle with clean fingernails. The primary students visited Donnie Burton to see his puppies and his goat.
Fragmentary text notes a personal story creation during spelling practice. Names and context are unclear. no definite event or outcome can be established from the readable fragments.
A fragmentary report describes Jordan bringing a strange set of items to class. The notes mention a cold blooded animal and puppets with noses, while students read and react to the unusual lesson in a seventh or third grade setting.
Maple Grove social blurbs list visits and gatherings among residents. Eddie Pollard weekend at Beryl Arnold home. Betty Wilson with Scott sisters. Walter Scott and Gabe Johnson in Centerville. A B Sharp at Walter Scott and Ted Broshar homes. birthday for M S Foster. Purvis and Oral at Broshar home. Boyer and Johnson children at a weiner roast. Arnold weekend in Des Moines. Grant Tadlock Shull and Crestani at Beryl Arnold home. Foray at Harry Felton’s. Helen Felton at Whisler. Carolyn birthday at Garolyn. Imogene Tadlock with Ilene Arnold. Aquilla Ballanger with Eugene Huston. Ralph Robinson with Gabe Johnson family. Bond drive meeting in Centerville Monday evening.
Mr Pleasant and Mrs John Callen of Albia hosted a birthday dinner for Homer Brown on Tuesday. Guests included Mr and Mrs W A Brown Mr and Mrs Van Lemaster and Mrs Adda Robinson. Ethel Brown returned home from Iowa City hospital Thursday. Dean Robinson is recovering from an operation at Albig hospital. Bob and Claude Rogers threaded beans for John W Kenton and Homer Brown Friday. Mrs Claude Rogers and Mrs Tom McCrory helped Ruth and Dortha Kenton with threshers’ dinner. Albin callers Saturday included many locals. Harold Hall and his brother of Los Angeles visited Charles Smith. Edward Points and daughter Nancy Ann and Arthur Points spent Sunday with Tom Mewne Hana.
A reflective diary style piece covers lilac blooms, tomato canning, and weather dislikes. It notes a hopeful bloom contrast, worries about future weather, and family meal quirks. The writer mentions war anxiety, political campaigns, and a long absence of letters from a son, ending with anticipation of weekly mail.
Brown name Ray Brown worked for Charles Smith Saturday. Mr and Mrs Matt Kenton spent Sunday afternoon at the John W Kenton home.
Hiattaville notes a W S C S gathering with Mrs Eva Tucker in two weeks and a Wes ley homecoming on Sunday. Juanita Dooley sang eight numbers at morning services, followed by a noon meal. Ernest Hiatt and family, plus Kenneth and A B Hiatt, visited Jim Cline and Minn esota trip for some relatives. Families gathered at Bloomfield and Cincinnati visitors marked the weekend.
Enon Mrs Ide Stapleton spent a few days at B G Hawk s home. Mrs Barry Hawk visited the Followwill home in Centerville with her sister who is leaving for California. Several families attended a Wednesday weiner roast with the Merle Walter family and teacher Miga Crystal Callen. Dallas Faber celebrated his and his wife s second wedding anniversary with Miss Marjorie Van Dorin in Centerville. Marjorie Roberta returned from Woodward and stays with Mrs Merle Henderson in Centerville. Mrs Kenneth Free and Dale visited Rockford Illinois with her sister Mrs Bayard Neff and family. Gerald Roberts visited his sister Mrs Merl Henderson and family in Centerville. Merle Walter’s daughter Mrs Marvin Gardner underwent a tonsillectomy. Yvonne Gardner stayed at the Walters home. Howard Whisler and family attended church in Ottumwa. Donna Bobby and Billy Wailes, living with Mrs Flora Jones, spent Thursday evening at J T Van Dorin s and weekend at J C Lockman s. Those enjoying a picnic and weiner roast with the W H.
A Sunday gathering at Old Foster pond includes the Hindman, Sintox, Murphy, Fall, Van Dorin, Lockman, Camel, Wailes, Gideon, Faber, Selby, Free, Tomlin, Hawk, and Hamilton families with relatives from Albia Centerville LeRoy and Ottumwa. Other notes mention Mary Lois Hindman visiting, Will Free's funeral, a new baby, and local visits. Weather remarked as warm and better than snow.
More than $1,000 in damage followed when one side of the Choate and Chizek two room ice house collapsed into a side street in Clear Lake. The cause of the explosion is undetermined. the structure had a 2000 ton ice capacity.
Udell residents Tim and Tom Hiatt visited Centerville Saturday. Edd Rumley and John Claxton families visited Harry Rumley home Sunday. Harry Rumley family called on Hugh Crawley’s home to take Calvin to school and later Rufus Easter home in Moravia. Laverne and Bonnie Lee returned to school with them. Frank Cox of near Iconium hosted a birthday dinner for Frank Cox and Marie Cousins with Barbara Cousins of Moravia. guests included Howard Brock Leora and Joan Hitcmen, Fred Cousins and Barbara, Oral Easter and Frances Ann Moravis, Burdette Cox Ramona Jean Dale, Will Moffatt and Lee Emma Ray Miller of Udell. Government cut pork purchases in early September to ease meat supply pinch. Three soybean varieties Richland Muien and Chief are being certified this year. A list of fields meeting certification can be obtained from Joe L. Robinson, Farm Crops, Iowa State College, Ames.
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