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Newspaper
Bedford Free Press
Location
Bedford, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1925
Page
7
The senior class notes recount a pep meeting and speeches urging focus on essentials over frills, praising honesty and daily duties. Declamatory contest results are listed, with upcoming inter-class competition at the opera house. YW and school activities include a banquet for the board and faculty, orchestra performances, and a lively program of stunts and games.
Ruby Jones Beulah Phillips Nelle Hensley and Maxine Moody attended the Y W G A convention in Red Oak last weekend. Beulah Miller spent the weekend with Minnie Talkington. Beulah Phillips visited relatives at Clavinda Sunday afternoon. Esther Coon enjoyed a surprise party last Saturday night. Mac and Eva Miller visited Anna Stewart. Opal Layman spent Sunday evening with Bertha Campbell. Ruth Dugan returned from Simpson for a funeral and came to school Tuesday morning to renew acquaintances.
Tyler V. Williams 84 died at 9 30 am Thursday at 309 South Russell Champaign due to infirmities of old age. Born November 14 1840 in Granton Vermont he served in the Civil War. He lived as a merchant and farmer in Sharpsburg Taylor county Iowa and had been a Champaign resident for 10 years. Survived by widow Augusta C Williams son Fred Williams of Chicago and seven grandchildren. Burial in Marengo Illinois followed funeral services held January 31 at the home. Bedford Post 164 American Legion plans a meeting next Monday evening to discuss ways and means.
Mrs Floris Leighton daughter of and Mrs Richard Campbell of was taken to the hospital at Maryville last Thursday afternoon and operated on for appendicitis. She is reported as getting along fine. The Womens Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist church will hold a sale of good things to eat Saturday February 14th at the Kysar Worley Co hardware store. The sale will begin at ten oclock in the forenoon. Sam Dubin went to Greenfield Ia Tuesday to referee a basketball game returning home the following morning. He is busy as chief official in games in this section. Miss Hazel Thompson recently discharged from Maryville hospital after appendicitis operation returned home last Monday noon. She did well. Mr and Mrs A T Ginn went to Conway Monday for the funeral of their granddaughter Martha Wilson adopted daughter of Mr and Mrs Bert Wilson of San Bernardino California. She died in a hospital there and the remains were shipped back here for burial. Mrs Joe Minor has been ill at home and a trained nurse has cared for her since last Monday. It was feared she had pneumonia but the illness was bronchial. Her heart has bothered her considerably too. Roy Johnson at James Salter dairy farm near here sustained a painful injury to his right arm last Thursday when a horse in the stall crushed tendons as he lifted the animal. He now has his arm in a sling and will be unable to work for several days.
R E Bradley sold the Mrs Will Churchill property to G M Bradley the first of the week. Possession will be given March first and the Bradleys will move from Main street into the house. The property lies south of the M E Parsonage and the Bradleys once lived there. A water main on north State street leaked last Tuesday night wasting thousands of gallons. The line was shut off Wednesday and the leak repaired. Sewer ditch settling from last summer near the mains is blamed. Mahlon Lewis and Miss Larson county nurse took Donald to Iowa City for hospital examination due to recurring head pains and poor health. The boy will receive a thorough check and treatment if needed.
BE A Jefferies, in poor health, travels to Excel sior Springs Missouri for a two week course of baths and treatments. Glen Sissel and H E Nelson accompany him and will also bathe. Mr Witter of Greenfield, friend of Sissell, oversees the pantorium business during the absence of the local manager. Witter is an experienced pantorium man and will attend to the work diligently.
Frank Parker, visiting with his father Steven A Parker and family, left Friday for Omaha to see his sister Mrs F A Buell and then to Denver to visit his brother Charles who runs an interior decorating business. Frank may join him in Denver or sell his Los Angeles decor business if he stays. sister Mary Parker also traveled to Omaha to visit the Buell home.
The Taylor County Fair Association approved 1928 season committees and superintendents led by president Jas Salter. Executives finance Harry Evans chairman with Ahren and Hook. Grounds improvement C N Nelson G B Wysong Clyde Smith. Supt of Grounds John Thompson. Concessions Sid Webb. Speed Al Bristow. Floral Hall manager H Montgomery. Gates superintendent Dr T Anderson with ticket control. Board of Supervisors appeal for county aid James Salter Mohler Evans. Division superintendents listed A through M, plus committee on Premium List: Evans Mahler Mrs Thompson and J Robt.
Committee to solicit ads for the premium list includes C N Nelson and James Wyant with Nelson and Joe Keith on advertising. Printing committee names Zl Wyant and James. Marshall during fair Joe Keith. Superintendent of Police Joe Keith. Superintendent of Stags WDisplay 4C B Wrysong. Autos superintendent G W Hook. Ticket purchases by J A Wyant and C N Nelson. Guarantee committee Nelson and Harry Evans.
The Iowa Anti-Saloon League reports that current bills would yield the nation’s strongest prohibition statutes if adopted. The Senate already passed the Romkey bill making liquor possession illegal, with mixed support. Additional measures target transient bootleggers, liquor injunctions, and evidence for liquor convictions, all aimed at penalizing bootlegging.
A jumble of farm sale notices and found items. Includes Wajen oat seed stock and single comb white birds offered at four dollars per hundred, registered Short Horn bulls and Byro in Leghorn cockerels for sale, red tire prices, and a Ford Truck find. Also a lost wool glove and other miscellaneous notices from BeptoGtown and Hopkins area.
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