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Newspaper
Bedford Times Press
Location
Bedford, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1940
Page
1
Athelstan endured heavy Friday and Saturday night storms with property damage, downed trees and severed telephone and electric lines. The town lost power from Friday night to Sunday evening. A barn on Glen Sickels’ farm burned after a lightning strike. Mrs. Minerva Foreman and Mrs. Glen…
The Older and Bownes families gathered at Clarinda Park on Sunday July 28 for a reunion. Attendees included Mrs. Ellis King of Barnard Missouri and numerous relatives from Missouri Kansas and Iowa such as J W Older and family Conception Fort Leavenworth Wichita Blockton Tabor Thurman Gravity Gravity paik.
A list of residents and couples including Vin and Loren of Oakland Iowa Elvin Bownes and wife of Council Bluffs Edwin Maxjvell and wife of Bedford Louis Hammer and family Wilma and Robert of College Springs Guy Older Will Parker M F Older of Athelstan H C Stout Glen Craighead Glenda and Le Roy of Clarinda Raymond Schmadlewisky Bobby and Wayne of Omaha A J Pierson of Braham Minn Roy Raper Jolene and Janice of Chicago.
Athelstan residents and guests made weekend trips and visits across several towns. Wayland Raper and Dale Fidler left Friday for the Dakotas, while Richard Burrows took Lon Cavin and his mother to St Joseph before returning to Joplin Missouri.
Residents and relatives from Lamont Conway Sheridan Blockton Maloy Grant City and Isadora joined the Freemyers Martins and others for Sunday gatherings. Visitors included Mr and Mrs Hugh McCullock and their children Marcelene Lee Roy and Linda Lee. Roy Dawson and his parents. I K Wilson and family. and many extended kin from surrounding towns.
Marianne de Beaumanoir, heir to a Louisiana plantation, discovers her bondsman is the famed Duke de Villiers. After pursuit, a storm strands them on an island where they establish a new life and wed in a rapid, scandalous ceremony amid gossip and daring escapes.
Marianne plans a cozy island home to win Charles but he resents her changes and distant attitude. A quarrel over a ruined pipe escalates their tension as he asserts distance and she clings to hope amid a strained marriage.
In New Orleans during a night of fire and fear Marianne learns Charles faces death to save her freedom. Marines land under a flag of truce and Ribaud declares the Duke de Villiers a citizen of a now kingless France. The town rejoices as Marianne and Charles affirm love and a new republic dawns.
Royal Rusco and Miss Berna Dine Berry of Corning visited Mrs. Joe Rusco at the Hilda Rusco home for a social call.
Clarice Allison and others attended the Young Peoples Religious Council at Gaynor Tuesday evening. The program featured a short program, games, and refreshments. Next meeting set for Harmony church on August 6.
Mr and Mrs J B Ruh marked their fiftieth wedding anniversary at home in Sheridan on Wednesday July 24. The couple wed in Grant City on July 24 1890 and have lived in Sheridan most of their lives. He is a former telegraph and station agent and first cashier of the Sheridan Farmers Bank, later with Gillam Jackson Loan, then returned to the bank in 1926. Mrs Ruh came to the area as a child from Pennsylvania and the couple are parents to Helen Garrett of Peoria Illinois and Marjorie Straight near Bedford.
A Friday evening tornado tore through Sheridan at about 8 oclock. Large trees were broken or uprooted and the city park lay in ruins with numerous fallen trees. Small buildings were blown over shingles torn off and communications disrupted with no phones in or out for 48 hours. Part of the electric service was off until Sunday night as crews repaired damaged lines.
A severe storm flattened the large barn on the George Wells farm north of town and blew down the Milton Eagle barn along with several other country buildings. It was Sheridan’s worst storm in history. A second electric storm hit Saturday night around 9 o’clock with a two inch rainfall.
Miss Margaret Allée and Carl White, both of Sheridan, were married on Wednesday July 19 in Denver, Colorado. They plan to reside in Guernsey, Wyoming, where both are employed.
Six year old William Albert Long, son of Mr and Mrs Geiger Long of Benton Iowa, died in a St Joseph hospital Monday night from lockjaw contracted after stepping on a nail a week earlier. He was a grandson of Mrs A C Long of Sheridan.
Listing of residents and guests visiting from Bedford Sheridan and nearby towns including Alva Wyckoff Elsina Wyckoff Harold Salover Clyde Cortner Emory Murray Oday Sheldahl Joe Sanders Claude McKim James Downing H M Black H J Clarey E J Pile Omer Pile Virgil Dickey and families visiting relatives in Sheridan July 21 events noted in regional notes.
The Hi Y u Wau Wau club met with Mrs G E Smith on Friday. Several couples including Mr and Mrs Francis Smith Lucas King and Quentin enjoyed a Lake of Three Fires picnic Sunday evening. Claud Moore Huss Dowell Beemer families shared a Lester Posten home picnic. Social Hour Club women and families held a city park picnic Thursday.
Local families and friends from Gravity and nearby towns connected through visits to Osceola Conway and Bedford. People and relatives travel to Michigan California and Colorado for holidays or to see kin while several pursue work or education opportunities in the west and midwest.
Mr and Mrs Glen Baker traveled to Chillicothe Missouri on Thursday and returned Friday. Avis Warner and Loretta Baker accompanied them as they finished their college work there. Darrell Baker spent the weekend in Omaha at the George Roberts residence.
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