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Newspaper
Moulton Weekly Tribune
Location
Moulton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1925
Page
2
The notice lists subscription rates at $1.25 per year within the county and $1.50 outside. It notes The Tribune is the official city and school paper and mentions its registration as second class matter at the Moulton post office in February 1884.
Local notices record Miss Nettie Voss in Bloomfield Sunday and Mrs Pauline Hickman in Ottumwa Friday. Brief items mention holdup threats to cash payments, Worth Fox returning from Mobery after minor surgery, and the Bridge Club meeting with Mrs Mason Clark. Presbyterian bazaar netted nearly 55 dollars. rhetoric on can opener use noted. A traveling salesman from Chicago jewelry house is home for Christmas.
Appanoose county supervisors report a deficit solution after talks in Des Moines. They can issue bonds this year to cover shortfalls up to a $406,000 indebtedness limit, with current bonds and funds allowing retirement of $25,000 more. The board will size the remaining 1925 deficits in general and juvenile funds and may issue additional bonds under state law.
An obituary fragment notes the passing of Thelme Severs at an unspecified time with religious phrasing about heaven. The readable text hints at a traditional farewell, but exact dates, places, and full details are missing.
Thelma Josephine Severs, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Severs, died at age eleven years two months. Born near Moulton Town on September 20, 1924, she had joined the Baptist church and spoken of her bright faith in Jesus as she faced death with loved ones by her bedside.
A closing out sale is advertised two and a half miles south of Udell, two and a half miles northwest of Moulton, and three quarters of a mile northeast of Center Ville indicating a local sale with surrounding town references.
On Monday December 21 1925 the sale catalog lists 116 head of live stock including 12 recorded Shorthorns 5 Jerseys 30 full blood Poland China hogs 5 Duroc Jersey hogs 52 head of sheep and 70 White Wyandotte chicks and cockerels with 48 Rhode Island Red pullets. Also offered are farm machinery hay and grain.
The obituary notes the death of a Loveland resident with survivors Everett and Glenn in California Meiya in Kansas Este in Ex-Hine Iowa Earl and Lucille at home The last rites were performed Monday afternoon by Rev A W Atkin. Many sorrowing friends and relatives gather for the burial in Loveland Burial Park. Mr and Mrs Severs receive sympathy from Moulton friends.
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