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Newspaper
Moulton Weekly Tribune
Location
Moulton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1940
Page
3
Monterey vicinity residents and relatives visit Bloomfield Ottumwa Moulton Centerville and Centerdale towns with numerous callers and host families. Several exchanges of visits occur including Hendersons Fouts Horns Lawson and Brunk families along with hospital return of John Brunk and other local social calls across Surrounded communities.
Mrs Kate Slavin of Moravia visited relatives in the area last week. Families including the Molers, Dooleys and Burghers hosted and called on kin in Centerville and Queen City. Names like Archibald Judd and Mullennix appear among visitors and a camp meeting in Oskaloosa was attended. The C F O club plans to meet Effie Moler on June 13.
A local column recalls a year’s strawberry bounty from the Morrows, notes seasonal meals, and derides small town politics. It mentions Margaret Carter’s angling skill, George Lane’s milking joke, and speculation on the fall governor race with references to Gross Breen Valentine and John Valentine.
A benefit dance for the Moulton baseball club will be held at the Legion Hall Saturday night. Attendees are invited to enjoy a square dance and a social evening to support the team.
Ottumwa visitors including Mr. and Mrs. Henry Taylor and children stayed with M. J. Taylor. Davenport pairs Phillip Chalupa and Robert Offerman with Warren Dean of Kahoka joined L. V. Dean’s family. Elmer Lee Cox hosted Centerville guests while Floris and Moulton families visited N. C. Probasco and grandson. Probasco household welcomed Florence Childs. Lula Frakes and Dorothy Probasco spent Tuesday with Mrs. L. A. Snowbarger.
The missionary society of the Christian church met with Mrs. W. L Downing on a Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. E. J Jennings assisting the hostess.
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