Afternoon visit brings cake and ice cream to children
Mrs. C. G. Clayton and her daughter Frances arrived in the afternoon with ice cream and angel food cake, delighting the youngsters with a festive treat.
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Newspaper
Bedford Times Press
Location
Bedford, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1935
Page
8
Mrs. C. G. Clayton and her daughter Frances arrived in the afternoon with ice cream and angel food cake, delighting the youngsters with a festive treat.
The column lists numerous visits and gatherings from Concrete Market to Hopkins and New Market. Residents like Brank Wiles, Jessie Weaver, Mrs. Kay Stewart, Lena Jackson, Pauline Smith, and many others attend birthdays, dinners, or weekends with relatives. Several moves, hospital or porch accidents, and travel to nearby towns are noted along with restaurant work and church activities.
The Ladies Aid Society of the Methodist church met at the church on Thursday with ten members present and approved a vacation for August. The next meeting is Thursday afternoon September 12 at the church, when officers will be elected. Clip this notice for reference.
Charivari notes Donald Trumbo and wife receiving an acrosome and dishware from a large Siam gathering on Wednesday night. Guests enjoyed candy bars and cigars as the popular couple plan to reside on a farm east of Siam.
Marcia Townsend, aided by her sprightly grandmother Fanny Townsend, falls for Bennett Warren, New York's most handsome heart breaker. Bennett proposes, they wed for a quirky pact to avoid expectations, and for a stretch they live blasfully happy until Edgar disrupts with a country guest appearance and a tense night.
Marcia confronts Edgar and Sherry over a planned weekend alone as marital strains surface. Sherry admits an affair with a nightclub woman but vows honesty, while Marcia wrestles with divorce decisions and lingering love. Fanny counsels action as suspense builds for tomorrow’s installment.
Frank Nelson suffered severe scalds to face chest and right arm after removing a tractor radiator cap on Wednesday. Creston visitors included Mr and Mrs Orville Reed and Mr and Mrs Floyd Coffman. Lenox guests were Al Heywood family and Grandma Hegwood visiting Dwight Wilcox.
Mr and Mrs Art Scott attended a family reunion at the Tilliman Hensley home Sunday. Howard Beauchamp and Noble Meathershead spent Saturday night and Sunday at the Harold Mothershead home near Maryville. Mrs Ella Bishop and son James of Mediapolis Iowa visit relatives and friends locally. Mrs Irving Cunning and son Ivan with Mr and Mrs Earl Houston of Clarinda visited Mrs Cunning's brother near King City.
In a candid note, a traveler expresses wish to ride with northern Iowa sheller truckers to Arkansas and return laden with lumber fence posts watermelons peaches tomatoes and similar goods for local distribution. He mentions using an old bus during a friend’s vacation and notes ongoing probate notice in Taylor County Iowa for Margaret I Cooper deceased dated February 26 1937 with a hearing set August 20 1935 in Bedford Court House.
State of Iowa Taylor County notices the sale on August 6, 1935 at 10 AM in Bedford Court House for cash of a Caterpillar 60 tractor and three Western T yard direct hitch crawler wagons, levied under a Webster County district court special execution in favor of Austin Western Road Machinery Company against George W. Little.
The document covers a 20 ton Western wheel setup under writ of execution near Clearfield Iowa, plus an Iowa district court notice in Taylor County naming plaintiffs Katie McBurney and others versus defendants including William Wieser. It notes partition of Finn's Add to Bedford, seeks court order for sale proceeds, and warns defendants to appear by August 1935 or default.
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