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Newspaper
Bedford Free Press
Location
Bedford, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1925
Page
4
Live correspondents report visits and family gatherings across towns. Simeon Barlow and son Floya Farlow traveled to Kansas City to visit their aged father and grandfather. Irvin Oxley and wife visited Shenandoah with Mrs. Oxley’s sister Mrs. W. Duncan and family.
Nover 7 Ying on ford spent Sunday at F. M. Manley home. Mrs. Riley Smith went to Chariton to visit her mother. Hugh Reed and wife guests near Hopkins. Richard Potter and Frank Potter guests in Conn. Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Cade of Lincoln Neb visiting F. M. Manley. Ralph Fine and family visited his brother Claude in Conway. Miss Estella Alvord weekend in New Market. Mrs. Flossie Oxley and Opal Holmes in College Springs. Ella Bix weekend with Verna Sleep. Eva Miller of Bedford weekend with Anna and Almira Stewart. Charlie Ciubentson weekend at home. Clarence and Jesse Henderson Bedford callers. Hazel Stickleman weekend at home. Emory Hardlap family Sunday with Emmett Vardaman. Curtis Melvin and family of Bedford with Troy Sleep and family Sunday at Fred Melvin. Leslie Smith nursing badly injured eye. Young people's classes planned surprise for Archie Laub Friday evening. Laub has been Sunday School Supt. 18 months. Very pleasant evening noted. Mrs. Edna Paschal Bedford district instructor C. E. S. held school of instructions Highland Chapter 523 Siam March 26. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Harris and Miss Alvord visiting. Refreshments served.
Sunday at 11 in Sharpsburg M E church Miss Alice Evans a missionary from India will address the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. She plans to speak again at the evening service and meet the ladies Saturday at 2 30 pm. Pastor L K McNiel invites all to attend and enjoy the services. Lulu Sweigard of Cedar Falls is visiting.
Aunt and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Middlebrook attended. C. E. Boyer and wife visited J. E. Forsythe in Yorktown. Neil Akers and wife of near Gravity spent Sunday at J. W. Newman. Mrs. M. G. Faurett, fresh from Shenandoah hospital, stayed with her parents in Ellison. Mr. and Mrs. E. Pennebaker of Lenox and Ira Pfander and family visited Mrs. Brand.
Mrs. Jane Scott of Lenox visited at Wm Short’s southeast of town last week. Creston visitors included Mrs H E Davey and daughter and Mrs Lizzie Shearer from Bedford. Frank Cooper drove to Conawy to visit Roy Cooper. Ed Sapp works on a cement cistern for Elsie Luton. Several adults and families visited relatives, shopped in Creston and Bedford, or traveled to Gravity and Gravity area. An injury occurred Friday when J F Warren helped with farm work. he was thrown and bruised after mules became unruly. W M Myers and Arval Norton haul cement filé from Bedford awaiting better weather.
Tom Scott and wife of Willise visited his brother Will Scott. Frank Greeley of Burlington Junction called on old friends. Prof. Olson traveled to Decorah to visit parents, returned Monday. Will Scott family hosted a visit in Sharps. Current Events Club hosted husbands at C E Ledgerwood home. Mrs. John Masters of Clarinda visited daughter Dom Ray. J W Mefarlands and Billy Brookmans moved to Blanchard. Christian church held March dinner, netted about 388 dollars. Darrell Reed, college student in Indianola, came home.
Mrs. George Scott of Villisca visited at her sister Mrs Shields last Thursday. Lewis Howard’s parents of Shambaugh visited at their home Sunday. Mrs. Phillips left for Kansas City to seek treatments in a sanitarium. The Ladies Aid of the Methodist church met at Ray Walker’s last Thursday afternoon. Mr and Mrs Guy McPherrin are parents of a ten pound baby girl born March 28. Oscar Roush returned from Chicago last Thursday after visiting his son Loyd and wife. Carl Young, son of Glen Young, broke his leg Monday when his horse fell on him.
Mr and Mrs Floyd Journey and Mrs Kate Cooke were Clarinda visitors Monday. Mr and Mrs Bert Orme were in Bedford Monday on business. Mesdames Nan Lover and Emma Taylor were Clarinda callers. Ruth Love and Daisy Penwell, working in Shenandoah, were over Sunday visitors. Mr and Mrs Paul Clark spent Saturday night at Harvey Eno. Ray Journey and wife welcomed a baby daughter born Sunday morning. Mrs Roy Miller was a Bedford visitor Tuesday afternoon. Mrs Cliff Novinger has been sick the past few days. Mr and Mrs Lake near Guss visited Monday at Effie Taylor’s home. Mr and Mrs Fred Miller spent Sunday at Roy Miller’s home. Misses Helen Taylor and Bernice Godfrey shopped in Clarinda Wednesday. Beulah Wamsley visited Sunday with Dorothy Combs. Effie Taylor returned Friday from a visit with daughter Will Lake near Guss. Mrs Ralph Hicks was a Clarinda visitor Wednesday. Mesdames Ashbaugh and Eno
In Clarinda on business Thursday were Mrs. A Hicks and Mrs. Carrie Parker. Mrs. Hicks has been ill the past week while Parker was a Clarinda visitor Tuesday.
A string of Sunday visits and short trips across Bedford area homes. Names include Ramsay, Lovell, Large, Collins, Spooneymore, White, Lenox, Elliston, Kauble, Freemyer, Barber, Rusco, Hennigan, Elliott, Van Skyock, Woolstock, and Delphos. Also reports B F Kauble’s illness and passing, plus hospital plans for Edith Dillinger and Cathern Kemper.
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