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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1944
Page
4
Local notes show numerous visits and gatherings in Albia and nearby towns. Families including VanZantes Williams Jones and Murdy hosted or attended dinners, reunions, and birthdays. Students and service members move between Moravia Eddyville and Jefferson Barracks as community life centers on family events.
Local families including Boyers Moffitts Fosters and Katsers share visits and reunions. The list covers dinners, Sunday gatherings, and weekend calls across Albia and nearby homes, naming Ir a Boyer Lloyd Davison Olin Foster Tone Scott Pearl Eaton and several others.
New Hope settlers record gatherings and visits including Mrs W E Donovan and J F Chambers families. Robert Foster begins teaching at New Hope school alongside weekend visits, picnics, and reunions in Albia Centerville Moravia and surrounding towns with many relatives and neighbors attending events.
A Sunday school party occurred at the Phillips home Friday evening. Wilbur Miller is hospitalized after an accident Friday at Centerville hospital. Various local families shared evenings and dinners at neighbors homes including Hiatt, Cate, Broshar, Watts, Robby, Harsh, Pettibone, Scott, Fisch er, Turner, Wilson, and Dyphon.
A long list of community members from Miller and nearby families visited the hospital to see Wilbur Miller and shared time with relatives. People named include Charles Andrews, Jim Wood, Floyd Wood, Ted Campbell, Peggy Paris, Art Caton, Duane Wood, Wayne MecDanel, and many others as they spent weekends and Sundays with kin in Ottumwa Centerville Knoxville Moravia Wivalton and Rockford.
Mrs T J Luse hosted a Tuesday caller Hedge College event at the Guss Luse home. Mrs Emil Halden Kathleen and Mr Harold Davis with family visited Sunday at the O G Davis home and enjoyed Sunday dinner with the Guss Luse family. Maude Williams and C C Jones joined from Albia. Jeff Patrick and U S Mangle visited the Luse home, with the Schaffner and Rolls families also stopping by.
Attendance at Sunday school was noted as several families including the Gladfelders and McDanels spending time at various homes in Fairfield Centerville and nearby towns. Darlene Gladfelder traveled to Centerville with Grover Kaster. numerous relatives gathered at Willie McDanel and Jess Gladfelder homes. Cedar Rapids visitors stayed a week with C B Suffi feool. several households shared weekend hospitality and kinship across the area.
Mr and Mrs Earl Boyer and family hosted visitors at the Bogart home and Miss Aileen and Paul Turner joined Richard at the Boyer residence. Trenton Wilson attended Ray Fox funeral at Moulton. Carol Brees and son dined with Hiatt family then joined the reunion at Centerville park. Clare Potts family visited Ralph Turner, and Frank Wilson with James were also noted guests.
Miller home activities and local visits fill the Moravia Union page. The Friday afternoon call list notes callers at Ted’s printing shop while Mr. and Mrs. Trenton Wilson spent Sunday with Lloyd Davis. Christ Bogart and Jess Hiner joined a Sunday call on Kenneth Gladfelter's. Henry Timm of Thornton donated blood at Clear Lake on August 8, while his son Pfe Roy Timm, stationed in England, also donated a pint on game day.
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