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Newspaper
Bedford Free Press
Location
Bedford, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1913
Page
4
N J Levine and many others visited St Joseph on business while Conway and Gravity residents traveled for chautauqua and visits. The column notes numerous trips to St Joseph Kansas City and Des Moines, plus local social visits, family travel, and two pages of chautauqua attendance and hospitality.
Social notes record Myers and family from near Clearfield visiting Sharpsburg at the start of the week. A. D. Borden and wife plan a visit to their son Clarence in Blunt South Dakota. Various locals travel to see relatives, including visits to Clarinda Shenandoah and Dallas Richey home, alongside excursions to Yellowstone Park and Wessex.
A patient describes long standing constipation and indigestion, spending hundreds on medicines and treatments in an effort to relieve discomfort. The report notes persistent digestive issues and seeks medical guidance.
CLEARVIELD residents and visitors bustle with trips to Des Moines Mt. Ayr Diagonal and Gravity. Miss Marie Grossman stays in Logan with parents while Lena Swope makes a diagonal visit and others return from extended trips in Tilumeston and Kansas City.
William Lee of Paskenta California endorses Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for his children saying it gives universal satisfaction. EH C Rhodes of Middleton Georgia reports relief from a severe cough after taking the remedy. H B Rhoads. Adv. Aug.
Gravipfy Adventist camp meetings began last Friday with solid turnout. Local residents Stacy Steeves and family and Mrs W M Steeves of Coin stopped by for a brief visit with relatives. J N Marble, longtime area resident, died Wednesday evening in Elliott after spending much of the summer here and a short stay in Miott. His remains were shipped to Gravity Friday for a Friday funeral at 1:30 p.m. at the Christian church, led by Rev. I E Wade, with interment in Gravity cemetery. Marriages and other social notes fill the rest of the column, including birthday celebrations by Helen Martin and Jennie O’Beirn, and various trips and visits by local residents. Funeral for Daniel Morgan, who had been ill all summer, was held Saturday.
Interment conducted afternoon at Gravity Cemetery. Clyde Wilson and Tom Lower returned from Des Moines with a new Mets runabout purchased by Mr Lower. Mr and Mrs C L Oswalt welcome an eight pound girl born Sunday night August 10. Born to Mr and Mrs Clyde Damewood a daughter born Monday morning August 11. Frank Combs bought a new five passenger Ford last Saturday. Miss Blanche Hay of Kent returned home Tuesday after visiting her uncle James Francis.
Hopkins Mrs Bruce Houston visited in St Joseph midweek. Harry Joneses returned from St Joseph and Kansas City with millinery stock. D A Bugbee of Steele City Neb arrived for visit and will return home with wife. Norton with Miss Belle Blackman and Eva Florea left for Liberal Mo. Jack Moorhead to Neodesha for a couple weeks. BE C Wolfers Sr and family start for Pueblo Colo by car. Mrs Henry Demott and son Will leave for Moulean Canada to visit Fred Demott in business there. Mrs Charles Butler visiting relatives in Maryville. C Black and Miss Lottie Louden in St Joseph to buy millinery. Miss Austie Cowan visiting Town. Mr and Mrs Harry Cowan returning from Illinois. Mrs Harry Miller of Kansas City visiting her parents. Don Ingram and wife and others visited. C R Pluke of Flatt Tr arrival for extended visit at G W Fluke home. Postmaster Antoine Deloria Gard ner Mich advocates Foley Kidney Pills. Father cured kidney disease. neighbors aided by Foley pills. H B Rhoads, eee Ady Aug.
Conway residents and visitors are listed in a flurry of short notices. Names include Beatrice Phelan Lenox, Etta and Mary Chilcote Bedford, Dr A T West, P J Phelan and Ruth Cooper, plus families Phelan Rosebaugh Pitman and Coburn. An Inserto Burdock Blood Bitters ad appears at end.
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