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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1930
Page
4
An itemized payroll and expense list records payments to numerous workers classified as team, drag, or laborer across departments. It includes foremen, graders, tractors, and shales with amounts ranging from a few dollars to hundreds, plus related supply and equipment bills from firms such as Centerville Water Co and Electric Weld Co.
The item documents a long ledger of county expenses and payrolls, naming numerous individuals and firms such as Rosenbaum, J. & Son, Miller-Bryant Co., and W. K. Brown, with entries for shale, gravel, repairs, and various services. It also includes a public notice about receivership of a bank, tax exemptions, and a community update from Unionville Route 3 reporting local deaths and social visits.
Sunday and Saturday social visits fill the local scene with many households hosting relatives and friends. Notes mention Hazel Wilson's birthday, birthdays celebrated at Zell Wilson's, and multiple trips to nearby towns including Albia and Centerville. Community members such as A M Wilson seek office, and several families visit, call, or travel for gatherings and services.
Local residents report visits and departures as Delong and Castors head to Nebraska after a stay here. O Caster and Robbs guests. Ivelans and Tomlins visit Centerville and Wm Tomlin. Rosa Blumer returns to Ottumwa. Gladfelder and Robert Charles visit Carl Tomlin. Ray Tomlin helps Earl Wert. moving near Moulton. Look out for the goblins.
Community members attended the sale held Tuesday of last week. Mr and Mrs Karl Main and daughter Winds, Mrs Ella Foster and Mr Leane Main left for Rockford MIL Friday morning. Glen Sufficool and family waited at the Willie McDanes home Tuesday evening. Bert McKern's Wilkie McDane and Daphne Mrs Guss Tigue were in Centerville Friday. The women folks at
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