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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1936
Page
5
Moravia residents echo a busy social week with guests from Des Moines Centerville and Ottumwa. Families like Duvalls Sneed Camrons and Hiatts report visits and travel while neighbors attend the state fair in Des Moines and Mayo Clinic in Rochester.
Frank Hawk writes from Delta Colorado describing a trip via the Denver and Rio Grande through the Moffat Tunnel. He notes cool weather, visits Leonard Wilson and family, and reports bumper crops including potatoes, alfalfa, corn, wheat, beets, beans, onions, apples, and pears. Delta plans for 950 more carloads. Palisade shipped 194 cars, total 1500, with potato sales around 16000 dollars. he signs best wishes to all.
The Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church hosts a homecoming on Sunday September 20. The committee invites everyone to attend and bring baskets for the gathering.
Turner and Son run the Turner Funeral Home with C A Turner and Bert Turner in ownership. Mrs Turner is an embalming graduate with license 817. Mr Turner holds license 1832. Bert Turner, a University of Minnesota Embalming Course graduate, holds Minnesota license 2082 and Iowa 1688. The firm emphasizes modern funeral services.
A 21 year old joins the high school staff as English Speech instructor. She studied at Coe College Cedar Rapids 1936 major in Speech minor in English. She belonged to Alpha Xi Delta and other societies including Meridian Liter Society and Hellenic Council.
Walter Gideon says he sold and delivered 50 bushels of yellow corn from one acre for 100 dollars after already harvesting 10 bushels for personal use. The crop, 108 days old, is suitable for seed. Other farmers D. E. Bishop and F. W. Dotson report fine yellow corn east of town near the creek.
The Moravia high school Vocational Agriculture department offers a practical Farm Shops course to train boys in ordinary construction and repair tasks on the farm. Units include rope work glazing soldering farm carpentry belts and pulleys pipe and pumpwork gas engines and concrete work. It seeks to reduce equipment costs and improve home farm convenience through hands on skills.
Mrs Callen and her husband celebrated 50 years on the same farm the Callens have occupied. Their four daughters Mintia Lillian Sylvia and Elsie are named. Mr Callen is 75 in July with Mrs Callen turning 84 in September. Both fathers were Irish descended pioneers from Tennessee. The couple maintained farm work and community roles at Wesley Chapel where Mrs Cullen led the Ladies Aid.
The United Brethren Missionary Society will meet Tuesday afternoon September 8 at 2:30 with Mrs. Oehler as hostess and Mrs. Scott as leader. All members are urged to attend. The date was changed due to the Fall Festival.
The fall festival program features Albia and Moravia school bands with an 8 pm address by Halden. Albia plans to send 100 cars and a school band, with delegations from Chariton and several towns. Mrs. Wood of Moville will speak Friday at 4 pm as Republican Day. Saturday hosts Democrat Day with Kenneth Baldridge and possibly Guy Gillette. many visitors are expected. Free attractions include a large midway lineup and Joe Teaka's Working World exhibit valued at $50,000 with 7,000 parts, offering farm, windmill, and threshing scenes.
The Moravia Fall Festival saw attendees including Walter Russell of Prederie and Mrs. Allen Boller of Atlantic. Mr and Mrs Dowd received multiple gifts from the county poultry club and other relatives and friends as plans to attend the annual celebration were confirmed.
Antiquity Lodge No. 262 A F & A M holds regular meeting Monday evening September 7. All brothers invited. Grand Master visits Jackson Lodge in Centerville on the evening of September 10. C. C. Couaon W M.
A long list of names from various towns including Ottumwa Glendale Albia Blakenburg and neighborhoods appears. The grouping includes Mr and Mrs, Rev and Mrs, and several families such as Dowd Wilson Pennington Hicks Chambers Horner Halden Watts Main and others. The fragmentary entry suggests a community memorial or social notice listing residents and relatives.
Thode Dotson son of Mr and Mrs Fred Dotson Moravia is now in charge of the Guiseville Tourist Camp near Moulton on highway No 8. He has bought the filling station equipment and is leasing the grounds and buildings.
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