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Newspaper
Bedford Free Press
Location
Bedford, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1906
Page
6
Train schedules list northbound and southbound services with numbers and times. Daily trains marked. most others run daily except Sunday. K P Bey, agent at Gravity, oversees Keokuk & Western. Eastbound and westbound notes show passenger and freight services with respective departures.
A fragmented record lists county officials including a senator, representative, auditor, treasurer, clerk, superintendent, recorder, sheriff, county attorney, surveyor, and supervisors. Missing clear roles and locations. names presented with errors and partial spellings.
City officials named include Mayor Geo S McKinley Clerk Jas W Beauchamp Treasurer Frank Coppel Marshal and Street Commissioner Isaac Kerney Night Watch R Vickery City Attorney Meredith and councilmen across three wards: C A Orth Evans in the first ward George Daniels J S Hanshaw in the second ward John Hindman Will Dallison in the third ward.
Local fraternal groups including Taylor Lodge 156 F&AM and Bedford Lodge 101 K of P hold regular meetings on specified week nights at Masonic or Odd Fellows halls. Chapters and encampments of RA, OA, and RN A convene monthly or biweekly with officers listed as sec ry and scribe, reflecting a busy civic fraternal calendar.
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce s Golden Medical Discovery as a tonic that strengthens the stomach and purifies blood to cure liver and kidney troubles. It touts endorsements, notes a lack of habit forming drugs, and promotes accompanying Pleasant Pellets and The Common Sense Medical Adviser with mail offers.
Sunday school at 9 30 preaching at 10 45 and 7 30 Young Peoples Union 6 30 prayer meeting Wednesday 7 30 covenant meeting Saturday before 3d Sunday 2 30 communion 3d Sunday 10 45 choir practice Friday 7 30 BYPU business meeting 1st Tuesday 7 30 BYPU call 24 Sunday of each quarter 30
Sunday School at 9:45 and preaching at 11:00 and 7:30. Class meeting at 12 m. Junior league at 2:30. Epworth league at 6:20. Wednesday prayer at 7:30. WFM and Sat Tuesday at 2:30. B MU 4th Friday at 2:30. Official board Monday 7:30. Standard bearers 1st Saturday at 2:30. Pastor W B Thompson.
The Presbyterian church lists services at 11:00 and 7:30 with a Young Peoples meeting at 6:20 and a Wednesday prayer meeting at 7:30. Pastor R. L. Barackman conducts a study class on Thursdays at 7:45 and Morning Star Sunday school at 2:00 with preaching every two weeks at 3:00.
The notice lists meeting times for several organizations. Young Peoples gathering at 11:00 and 19:30, a 6:30 session, CWBM holds on the first Tuesday each month at 2:30, a prayer meeting on Wednesdays at 19:30, and Encuer Priest with Pastor officiating.
A historical digest discusses corn drilling in furrows versus no furrow, noting roots settle and crown forms beneath the furrow, and suggesting furrows aid foul land, with spacing and depth guidance. It also mentions a practical lamb creep, inoculation cautions, and boiling feed mixtures from state stations.
Lon Kowa methodically outlines a half acre garden on the University of Illinois horticultural grounds using horse cultivation and hand hoeing to reduce labor. Tomatoes are trained to a single stem with tall stakes, producing large, abundant fruit. The piece notes a new celery culture method that relies on dense planting, irrigation, and surface bleaching without mounding, but reports limited adoption and mouse damage concerns.
Garden guidance covers toad use, succession sowing, and soil upkeep. Plant bush beans after frost danger and corn varieties Nations discuss cucumber beetle control with sulfur lime mix. Cabbage cauliflower needs rich soil and nitrate of soda, with carrots sown for main crop and weed control throughout.
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