Thursday Gatherings and Farm Activities Highlight Local News
Community members enjoyed a cooperative dinner on Thursday with 21 present. Miss Marjorie helped care for her father while many visited relatives, attended a school program, or hosted friends and family. The week ended with neighbors finishing corn picking and news of improved health.
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Quearrett
Hilbert Roberts
Rita
Guy Robert
Wee
Mra
Tet Henderson
Richard
Marjorie
Dean Faber
Clarence Caster
Petra
Maurice Walter
Bud Walter
Shirley Ann
Merle Walter
Floyd McFall
Jerry
R. S. Faber
Community notices from Maple Grove area
Local item brief mentions include Maple Grove students missing Friday school for a speech clinic in Centerville, various family visits and gatherings, and attendance at a Methediat church banquet. Numerous names appear with social calls, farm sales, and bond drive work noted across the period.
Republican Candidates Qualified by Experience
Political advertisement urging voters to support Republican candidates based on experience ahead of the November 3 election date. The ad emphasizes party alignment and calls for a vote, with typical partisan messaging.
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Republi
Lcan
Pol
Fawa
Iowa
Neverserabee
Frugal wartime reflections mix with home duties
A reflective wartime column muses on patriotism and military effort, contrasts home front chores with front line needs, and threads through farm life small trials. The narrator notes heating challenges, parenting duties, detective talent jokes, and a baking mishap sparked by doubling recipes with sorghum molasses and sugar.
In Memoriam for My Mother Mrs. Oatie Whicker
In loving memory of my Mother who passed October 27 1938. The precious one is gone and we loved her still. Her place is vacant in our home but never can be filled. From daughter Mrs. Oatie Whicker.
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America
Clyde Li
Herring
Iowa
Pearl Harbor
Acleading Towa Republican
Clyde ‘Herring
Washington
Senate Finance Committee
George Wilson
Senate
Her
Community Notes From Local Sunday Visits
Main Station Mr and Mrs Clirde Gladfelder visited Tom and Mrs Gari Tomlin. Mrs Leslie Elledge and daughter stayed Friday night at Tomlin home. Mr and Mrs L L Gladfelder spent Sunday at William Bicker home. George Hiatt and grandson visited Turner home Sunday afternoon. Mr and Mrs Paul Boyer and Bobby attended I F A banquet in Moravia. Ada Boyer spent Sunday at Paul Boyer home. Donald Boyer spent Sunday with Mrs T L Gladfelder at Kenneth Gladfelder’s home.
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Clirde Gladfelder
Gari Tomlin
W. Tomlin
Leslie Elledge
Qororat 'A
L. L. Gladfelder
William Bicker
George Hiatt
Tirner
Paul ‘Boyer
Bobby
Moravia
Ada Boyer Bean
Paul Boab
Donald’ Boven
T. L. Gladfelder
Kenneth Gladfelder
Unionville Tuesday club meeting reports early illness
The Unionville Tuesday club met with Mrs. Harry Herman. All members were present except Mrs. Ellis Wagner. A box was prepared for Pvt Herbert Price. Mrs. Maggie McDonald hosted and fell ill Saturday night, rushed to Centerville and St Josephs Hospital with a heart attack. Her grandson and wife were in Ottumwa. Attendees and visitors from Centerville and Ottumwa are listed. the union service at the Methodist church was held Sunday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Herman
Ellis Wagner
Herbert Price
Maggie McDonald
Centerville
St. Josephs Hospital
George Brooke
Ottumwa
McDonald
Myrtle Harrington
Richard
Billy Allen
A. E B. Batterson
Ernest Stufflebeam
Floyd Dorris
Dorris
Belle Andrews
John Andrews
Lulu Koehler
Nell Gates
Soldiers Rose Service and local social notes in brief
Monthly To our Soldier Rose Service featured speakers Nita BE A Place and Mra F D Caylor with P H Wood giving a chalk talk on Flags assisted by Mrs Dorris and Mrs Agnes More. Supt George Brooke visited Des Moines. Jerowie couple called on friends. Local residents hosted visitors from St Louis Wisconsin and Rice Cal. Various Albian callers and social visits noted across Ottumwa Centerville and Mystic.
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Soldier Rose Service
Nita
BE. A. Place
Mra
F. D. Caylor
P. H. Wood
Dorris
Agnes More
George Brooke
Des Moines
Lloyd E. Ransom
Jerowie
Led Wyldas
Sunda
George Ahay
Antonia
Lou Janay
St. Louis
George Janay, Jr
Wisconsin
Pet
Johnny Danay
Rice
Calif
Callers at Mrs Minnie Rinehart Home Albia Visit
Rosedd Atgd and Nellie Haines called at the Minnie Rinehart home in Albia Monday afternoon. Haines planned a Chicago visit to see her aunt Susan Callén who is ill. Mr. and Mrs Lowell Turner of may have been mentioned in the same note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nellie Haines
Minnie Rinehart
Albia
Haines
Chicago
Susan Callén
Lowell Turner
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Moravia Union
Appancone County
Ica
Act of Congress of Mare
Avery
Pitman
Davia
Enon
Mrs. Dallas Faber
C. T. Slavin
M.D
Fred VanDorin
Vera
Jean Bettis
Max Lockman
Frances Jane’ McGilvery
Howard Whisler
iMr
John Dodd
Claude Hawk
Harry Tisse
Russell Hindman
W. T. van Dorin
Flora Jones
J.T. van Dorin
Kenneth Free
Guy Roberts
Cmll Cos
Clyde L. Herring
Birrtho'e Jrtene
Senator Herring
Maple Grove
Helena Felton
Scott
John
Floyd Broshar
Haine Scott
Ome
Junior Donovan
Ted Broshar
J. L. Dodd
Grant Tadlock
Bond Drive
Billy
Floyd
Dwight Blumer
FFA
Methediat Church
Francie Berg
Clarence Dowd
Virgil Johnson
Rhymond
Walter Scott
Gabe Johnson
Anna Walter
Carol Ann Main
Johnson
Beryl Arnold
Roscoe Pennington
Gons
Robert Luge
Mina Dowd
Ted Miller
Loren Walters
Virgil Broshar
Eugene Main
Carolynn
Clell Blumer
Fred Blumer
Howard Whisler l
Carolyn
J.L. Dodd
Fred Blumen- Istock
Billy Wilson
Duane Robinson
Brompton School
Cleo Barnes
Delia McCrory
Helen’ Felton
Gabe- Johnson
Ralph Robinson
Ithe Gaba Johnson
Milwaukee Road
Army
Navy
Air Force
Marines
Ake
Memoriam
Waukee Roads
Uncle Bam
U.S. War
Krapfel
Perth
Midway
Monte’s Market
Sconzo Barber
Br. Brooks
M. P. Gleason
Optometrist
Unionville
U. 8
Hanan
Republican
You
Towa
Republican State Central Committee of
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Erante Siirend
Rapco
Opa
Leighton. Ware
John Mofstt
Hugh McFattidge
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Ohn Moffatt
Hiveratt
Hugh MacFatridge
Rex ‘Haver
John Moffatt
Roy
Hugh McFatridge
Att Ekwall
Dwight
Coy Swift
Daisy
Henry ‘Elliott
Mystic
Franklin
Wendell Willkie
Wendell L. Willkie
Mount
Randolph. S., Beall
Casey
Knoxville
Expresa Gr
Cunningham
LeCompte
Ambulance Service
Congress
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