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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1945
Page
2
Numerous local residents and families attend reunions and visitings across Centerville Des Moines and Albia. Names include Donovan Chambers Bellman Pettibone Hiatt Coffin Jacobs Burton and Carter among others with events at Centerville park Blakesburg Fort Leonard Wood and Des Moines. School starts with Mrs Tillmont as teacher.
Coulson by Mrs Ernest Hiatt reports visitors from Ava Missouri and surrounding towns. Ernest Hiatt hosted relatives including Cline Roper and McDanel families with school events, dinners, ice cream and a Zoar homecoming. Robert Foster teaches Coulson School Enrollments noted as 12 with Virginia Hiatt and others attending Moravia High School.
A 1945 Fall Festival is described as a big three day event with constant activities each afternoon and evening. Glen Garrett serves as president for the third year and will be missed next year as the Garratt family plans to leave. Mrs Blumenstock led the entertainment committee but illness shifted duties to others. Numerous officers and committees are credited with making the festival bigger and better.
Plans outline a noon Golden Wedding dinner, 65 seats, at Moravia Fair Festival. Afternoon events start at 3:00 with contests and entertainment by the Golden Wedding Group on the community house platform, horse pulling at 2:00, and a large Midway with rides and concessions.
Maple Grove news items list visits and social events. Names include Harley Burton, Grant Tadlock, Basil, Walter Scott and family, J L Dodd, Francis Kennedy, Betty Wilson, Donald Dowd, Richard Tubaugh, Marjorie Wilson, Harry Felton Jr, and others. It notes Sgt Kennedy’s army status, receptions, a shower for Mrs Strunk, and weekend visits among local families.
Local column notes social visits from Mrs Bertha Easter and Rita to James Williams home. Urbana Commando 4-H Club had strong presence at Albia Achievement Day with hog sheep and cattle ribbons. Charles Davis Ottis Davis James Sinclair DeWayne Sinclair shipped two cattle carloads to Chicago. Pvt Francis Stocker discharged after furlough. Families visited Blakesburg Eugene Oregon attendees. Seaman Don Sandifer connected to V-12 unit spent weekends with kin during the surrender holiday. Ernest West Aberdeen Angus ribbons at Albia Show not tallied.
A humorous reflective piece recounts domestic misadventures including a hen nesting on a model plane workbench, an owner buying a kitchen cabinet to revive a home workshop, and playful trials with shoe heels to explain odd tracks. The narrator notes plans to delay projects for a Fall Festival and mentions soap shortages and daily chores.
Overseas patients at Harmon General Hospital Long View Texas receive duty bags handmade by Appanooge Red Cross Chapter. Opal Leonard field director reports bags vanish quickly when overseas convoys arrive and praised by hospital officials and Mrs A F Beckner for production efforts.
Attendance at Sunday School was 44. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gladfelder visited Monday evening at the Elbert Perry home. Several gatherings and visits include the Harrison, Callen, Tomlin, and Gladfelder families at various homes, plus a Jan ice cream party at the Carl VanZante and W. M. Tomlin homes and a sale prep with Boshak.
The J C Lockman sale drew a good crowd on Wednesday August 29. LeRoy Wilson and relatives visited Albia to meet Coretta of Washington DC Saturday night. Our school opened Monday with Helen Long as teacher. John Robinson stopped by Thursday evening, and Ralph Spencer chatted Friday while en route to the Carl Cloyed home. LeRoy Wilson aided with baling at the Cloyed farm Thursday. Visitors from Flint Michigan Mrs E Peterson and Mrs Curt Goudy with daughter stayed at Zell Wilson’s Friday. John Robinson and the writer were present. The M M Darby and Russell Darby families went to Blakesburg Friday.
Jake Hubers joined a group for a day at Lake Wapello spending time on the water and enjoying outdoor activities. The text notes a social gathering and the participants relaxing by the lake.
Mrs George Hammond and Mr Lloyd Clark along with families visited relatives in Minnesota last week. Helen Lavern Gordon Maasman visited Sunday with Lawrence and Loraine Hammond. Helen and Connie McAninch spent Friday at John McAninch’s. John Clayworth and family visited with Carl Fenton’s family. Funeral services for Larry Nash held at Iconium Thursday. condolences to bereaved. Harold Kenton and daughters Glennys and Margaret plus Kenneth Fenton and baby Patricia dined at Othe Fenton’s August 26. George Hammond and L Beaty helped Merle Dicks with plastering Monday. Dean Snook and family visited Chariton Sunday.
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