Stolen Ford Recovered as Boys Capture Suspect near Siam
A Ford belonging to Joe Andrews of Shenandoah was stolen Sunday night and found near Siam. Clark Miller and Joe Andrews chased the thief, leaped onto the moving car, captured Loren Davenport of Missouri, and recovered jewelry and tools before turning the suspect over to Sheriff Whitmore in Clarinda. The tale notes additional county tax assess changes and Y M C A drive funds nearing 2500.
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Joe Andrews
Shenandoah
W. C.miller
Shambaugh
Clarinda
Clark Miller
Clark
G. H. Whitmore
Four Corners
New Market
Siam
Liam
Joe
Coustabe
Whitmore
Northboro
Loren Davenport
Marysville
Missouri Line
Cram Becomes City Editor at Iowa City Daily Citizen
D W Crum left Bedford last week for Iowa City to take a post as city editor on the Iowa City Daily Citizen. He will manage all news and AP reports and is praised as an experienced newspaper man with prior work at Perry and Ralston Oklahoma. He plans to return home soon with his wife and daughter Ruth to Town City.
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D. W. Cram
Bedford
Iowa City
Iowa City Daily Citizen
Cram
Annual basket meeting at Eagle church held
The Eagle church held its annual basket meeting last Sunday the 17th with three services led by Elder D. J. Pointer of Albion Nebraska. A large attendance filled the day and a large basket dinner was served at noon. Elder Pointer returned home to Albion on Monday noon.
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the Eagle Church
D. J. Pointer
Albion
Neb
Pointer
Valma Keith Survives Montana Hold Up
Valma Keith son of Mr and Mrs E A Keith north of Bedford faced a gang of stick up men in Billings Montana weeks ago. He was beaten and robbed of $20 and a watch while en route to the station. He later used a five dollar bill for car fare home and is now working in Wyoming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valma Keith
E. A. Keith
Bedford
Billings
Mont
Keith
Horace Dougherty
Wyoming
Union Meetings Begin July First
Beginning on the first Sunday in July churches will hold Sunday evening union services in the court house park. Bedford churches observe union services through July and August with an offering on the first Sunday to cover two months expenses. All are invited to cooperate with the ministers.
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Court House Park
Bedford
Ministerial Alliance
Robb Named Chaplain for Third Town Infantry
W. E. Robb, former pastor of the Christian church, has been appointed chaplain for the 3rd Town Infantry regiment. After enlistment, he secured the position and will serve ably in this role, a choice well suited to him.
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W. E. Robb
The
Christian Church
3Rd Town Vol
Secrets of Germanys Family Revealed by Count Heltzendorff
Count Ernst von Heltzendorff, adjutant to the crown prince of Germany, launches a ten part series exposing intrigues of the Kaiser’s court since 1914. He portrays imperial aims to conquer the world and asserts the Kaiser and aristocracy planned the war.
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Ernst von Heltzendorff
Germany
Hohenzollerns
Heltzendorff
Odd Fellows Memorial Services Observed At Christian Church
The Odd Fellows lodge observed its annual memorial service last Sunday at the Christian church. Members gathered in the edge room then walked to the church with a quartet of ladies providing music. Rev. L. P. Goodwin led the invocation and Fred Besco explained the day’s meaning before Rev. Lee H. Barnum delivered the address on Odd Fellowship by Three Links. Attendees sang America and the lodge, with the Rebekahs, proceeded to the cemetery where services honored Clay Thomas and Mrs Skinner. Epworth League thanks district delegates and Bedford Community Club for home hospitality and street decorations. Cabinet member Ernest Parks, chairman.
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Odd Fellows’ Lodge
Christian Church
L. P. Goodwin
Fred Besco
Lee H. Barnum
Odd Fellowship
F. L. and
America
Clay Thomas
Skinner
Epworth League
Bedford Community Club
The
Ernest Parks
Epworth League Convention Highlights Bedford District
Bedord hosts Creston district Epworth League convention with 198 visitors and elected officers. Marriage notices for C W Proctor to Gravity and Mary McBrien to Albert Beebe appear amid Red Cross fundraising calls urging large wartime donations.
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Bessie Stebbins
College Springs
Belle Brown
Nora Griffith
Anna Louden
Jessie Kellogg
Braddyville
Lesta Damewood
Joseph T. Penn
Yorktown
Abram S
Woodard
Clarinda
Lester Milligan
Faye Rutledge
Sharpsburg
Vera Pruitt
Rose Ferris
Helen Wright—Guss
Merle Johnson
Orient
Lucile England
Lulu Witham
Dorothy Davis
Gravity
Bernice Raymond
Creston
Lela Peck
Nellie Spear
Nelle Medhurst
Red Oak
Sadie McClure
Elva Heibman
Mary Foy
Prescott Sadies Snively—Prescott
H. Caven
Prescott
Jasper Weber
Alma G.ore
Calvary
Bessie Baker
Ernest Baker
Henry Beck
Virginia Zollers
Creaton Mas Hanson
Orian Cheetan
Joy Moore
Pearl N. Stephens
Lenox
Jones—Fontanelle
Ethel Carmichael—Conway
Eula Bates—Conway
Ethel Swisher
Conway Elvin Swisher—Conway
D. I. Bennett—Conway
Pearl Reynolds
W. E. Shugg—Kent
W. E. Shupe—Kent
James Okey—Prescott
E. S. Menoher
Willisca Cleo Combs
Lois Proctor
Mamie Parcher
Nodaway
Jessie Cowles
Geraldine Shane—Nodaway
Lois Verseck— Prescott
Bertha Hayes—Massena
Leila Walter—Massena
Clara Shatava
Fontanelle
W. H. Doyle
Mable Lewis
Eva Clark
Lucile Balbreich
Charles E. Doyle
Claude L. Wise
June C Moats
Villisca
E. C. Tintil
Pauline Abbey
Fayetta Peterson
Gladys Winter
Zella Cozad
Gail McLean
Ruth Handorf
Neva Lay
Irma Lay
Loy Hale
Ruth McClure
Clayton Noyis
Grace MacLaury
Clearfield
Irene Formire
Amy Townsend
Glenn Williams
Lois Atwood
Nevinville
Gladys Campbell
Hah Rice
Lilah Schwab
Ivan R. Millis
Elsie Wilmeth
Spaulding
Earl Wimmer
Etta Gray
Shannon City
Gladys Gordron
Florence Ellis
Frank Tuttle
Keith Hall
Esther Hall
Jay Kirkendall
Corning
O. R. Jones
Mabel Coate
Mary Ferguson
Edith Snider
Ethel Snider
Frank Brown
Ward Lawrence
Ernest Lawrence
Dorothe Anderson
Earl J. Heitman
John Teefer
Roy Cooper
Conway
Marie Rock—Guns
Cleteen Cullison
C. W. Peer—Arispe
Peer—Arispe
F. M. Redigner
F. M. Redinger
F. H Clark
F. H. Clark
C. A. Carlaon
Calves Top Market at St. Joseph Selling Session
F. P. Oxley led a St. Joseph market sale last Thursday with sixteen head of fifteen month calves selling at 12.25 dollars each. The lot totaled 1597 dollars and 17 cents, averaging about 100 dollars per head. Corn fed during the period cost 80 cents per bushel. A patriotic meeting followed at the opera house with music on the streets beforehand and speeches by Attorney L. T. McCaun and J. P. Flick.
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F. P. Oxley
St. Joseph
Opera House
L. T. McCaun
J. P. Flick
Motion Picture Magazine to Be Published in Bedford
J. J. Clark received the appointment as state printer for the Motion Picture Exhibitions organization at the Des Moines convention. The Motion Picture Industrial Magazine will publish monthly from Clark Printery with the first issue dated July 15. The publication aims to cover state and industry news, after moving from Muscatine to Bedford.
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J. J. Clark
Des Moines
Motion Picture Industrial Magazine
Clark Printery
Muscatine
Clark
Bedford
Auto Accident Near Gravity Road Tops Car
Elmer Larsson and six companions narrowly escaped death when their new Studebaker Six rolled over on Gravity road near Freeman place south of Gravity. The crash tossed all eight occupants except one with a bad leg cut. the car was badly wrecked and aid came from Bedford.
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Elmer Larsson
Freeman Place
Larsson
Studebaker
Dougherty
Bedford
St Johns Day Observance By Bedford Masons
Next Sunday afternoon at 2 30 the Masons of Bedford and vicinity will observe St John s Day at the Christian church with address es and program. Public invited and many from outside lodges expected. All Masons urged to assemble at the Masonic hall at 2 PM sharp.
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Christian Church
Bedford
Masonic Hall
Former Bedford Boy Visits Bedford Friends
Father Gregory known as Robert Gerver, a Bedford native and Shawnee teacher, stays with local friends this week at the R. W. Thompson residence. He is en route to New York City and shows paintings at Bedford National Bank.
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Gregory
Robert Gerver
Bedford
R. W. Thompson
Mr. Gerver
Shawnee, Okla
New York City
Bedford National Bank
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Shenandoah Mani
Marshall
Board of Supervisors
Mason and Jefferson
Army Y. M. C. A
Taylor County
Vicinity
Blockton
Rip van Winkle
D. W. Crum
V. Keith
Montana
Robb
RED Cross
Mable Coats
James Okey Prescott
Clara Currie
Mahlon D. Lewis
J. A. Currie
Presbyterian Church
Bedford High School
F. N. Lewis
Farmer & Merchants Bank of
Paschal
McBrien-Beebe
James McBrien
Mary McBrien
Albert Beebe
Mr. Beebe
G. W. Beebe
Willard Battery
Reynolds Garage
England
France
No Tinal Red Cross
Liberty Loan
American Red Cross
Congress
United States
War Department
Japan
Russia
Red Cros
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National Red Cross Fund
Alex John
Ralph Thompson
Sec’y-Trener the. F
Joseph Market
Motion Picture Magazine
ST. John’s Day
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