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Newspaper
Bedford Free Press
Location
Bedford, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1925
Page
3
Local notes recount grand jury service in Bedford, farm moves near Gravity and Will Shephard northeast of Gravity, and multiple visits between Gravity, Bedford, Clarinda and New Market. Residents attend events, marriages in New Market, school activities, hospital trips, and quarantine updates while farms change hands and families relocate.
Mrs Berniece Long and her sons were Sunday visitors at the Claude Pace home. Mr Archie Ewaldson and wife, wintering here, left Monday for Sheridan Wyoming. Tom Acree has been visiting.
Clive Ross returned from St Joseph Wednesday night after tending stock shipped to markets. Guy Kirby came back from Colorado and is visiting at the Frank Bicknell home with his brother Lawrence Kirby. Mrs F G Cooper and son Rich-
Mrs. Arthur Hamblin of Gravity attended the Presbyterian Aid here Thursday. Frank Campain and Ray Brown helped haul coal to the County Farm last week. Mrs. Abbie Richey and Lorance Richey attended C. M. Brown sale. Geo. Canyain visited Humeston relatives. Virgil Vincent acted as deputy sheriff and escorted Geo. Bicknell to Bedford. Jake Walters sold the blacksmith shop to Mr. Gillett. Walters visited Lenox between trains. Campain attended Bedford Conway game. Mrs. Nelson of Gravity visited her son Ora in town. Mrs. G. W. Grimm was a Clearfield visitor. Campann in Conway on business. J. E. Richey went to Kansas on business. W C T U Lincoln birthday dinner Feb 12 1925 at M E church. Tom Scott was in Clarinda on business. Funeral of Martha Belle Willson at Conway. Mrs. Chas Hopson returned from Clarinda. Mrs. Chas Boyer called to Duckett home.
Mrs Claud Stout and children from Savannah Missouri spend the week with C E Stout family. Olliver Ray Fern Ray attended a Bedford show. Anice Gibson visited George and Barbara Barber. Clyde Hays of Savannah Missouri visited Lon Cavin and friends. Gladys Rusco visited C W Childers. C R Sickles and H W Sickels spent Wednesday with their parents. Guy Lantz and baby from Blockton visited grandparents James Morris. Joe Morris of Blockton visited friends. Community Club held a program and supper at the LO F hall. Cecil Sickels of Kellerton Iowa travels to visit Sherman Nye and relatives near Grant City. Reede family visited Thursday morning.
Fragmentary OCR lists names such as Mr and Mrs Geer Barber Estel Cavin Emmett Rusco Harold Hunt Ardell King among scattered phrases. No coherent event or context is extractable. details insufficient to determine a concrete news item or outcome.
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