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Newspaper
Bedford Free Press
Location
Bedford, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1901
Page
7
The Bedford Free Press itemizes Thanksgiving visits and travel across town and to nearby towns. Readers learn of Cram returning from Iwo Jima for the holiday, Mrs. Fisher visiting parents, and many locals buying goods at Best's while sharing family gatherings. Also noted are upcoming performances and local business updates, with several obituaries and notices of deaths in the community.
Attorney Jennings attended court while his wife visited her parents Judge and Mrs R C Henry last week. The note also advertises cascarets candy cathartic and Mountain Tea as cures with promises of restore vim and vigor and refunds if ineffective.
Dr Fenner notes Mrs Werner of Denver wife of Rev Warner visited over Sunday with relatives and friends. She is a cousin of I F., 1 R. M. and T. A. Williams. The Iowa and Louisiana Grain Co seeks to buy corn oats and bailed hay. Agent H G Edmundson at Bedford office. J W Hopson offers White Leghorn Barred and Buff Rock cockerels and White Holland turkeys with quality and price.
Notice to stockholders that the annual meeting for 1902 officers will be held at Bedford City Hall on Saturday December 14 1901 at 2 oclock PM. All stockholders urged to attend. W F Evans, A B Wakeman Secretaries.
Rev Lee Furgeson who traveled through Germany Switzerland and France saw the Passion play at Oberammergau and under the auspicies of the E E society will give a descriptive lecture on the great est play ever performed by man Tuesday evening December 17th.
About forty guests gathered at the home of Mr and Mrs J Hall last Wednesday evening to help celebrate their seventeenth wedding anniversary. Refreshments were served and a most enjoyable time was had by all.
Interest grows as the rural play Uncle Joah Spruceby comes to Bedford on December 7. The production is praised for its realism and a standout sawmill stage effect, popular in its tenth road season and likened to Way Down East.
Ladies Aid Society of the M E church hosted a graphaphone entertainment last Friday evening at Mr and Mrs Frank Dunning home. The event was socially and financially successful with all attendees praising the program.
A social and reception hosted by the ladies of the Baptist Sabbath School for the young men of the school and congregation last Saturday evening was thoroughly enjoyed. Light refreshments were served and the event left a lasting impression on all attendees.
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