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Newspaper
Bedford Times Press
Location
Bedford, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1940
Page
5
Opening day crowds around two thousand attended the Taylor County Fair with Thrill Day by Motor Maniacs. Visitors enjoyed a state fair midway, stock barns, floral hall exhibits, and farm displays under the grandstand. Harness and running races began with larger crowds and event highlights include the WHO Barn Dance Frolic and Saturday Saddle Horse Show.
Local residents joined a Des Moines trip Monday to see Wendell Willkie, Republican presidential nominee, during his Iowa visit. Participants included Ed Ahrens, O J Kirketey, James A Lucas, Ren Fuller, and Fred Fuller along with others from the area.
On August 2 the Benton Busy Belles 4-H Club gathered at the Fay Shafar home for achievement day. Members displayed over 125 quarts of canned goods with 69 quarts chosen to advance to the fair by Miss Vera Akers and Mrs. Veat on John. A noon menu was served. ten members and two adults attended along with several visiting club members.
The Host Happy Home Hustlers met August 2 led by Phyllis Oxley. Roll call required an iron rich food. After reports, speakers covered topics including vaccination departance, clothes for occasions, make a tame flower collection, street etiquette, daily hair care, bird bath construction, telephone etiquette, teeth care, and dental tips. Adjournment followed with cake and drinks. next meeting set for August 14 with Edna Akers.
C T Cheney announces plans by four farmers in Ross and Polk townships to adopt soil and water conservation programs. They will use crop rotation, terraces, buffer strips, dikes, earth dams, grassed waterways, and tree planting under 5 year government agreements. Mack Jackson promoted contouring and strip cropping after CCC school.
Ray Kennedy, local contractor, to build two new Cape Cod style homes on north Bedford lots just south of the Steward residence. One will house County Agent Robert Davie and family, the other Glenn Straight and wife. Both will feature full basements and oil furnaces and start after the Presbyterian church interior refinishing.
Mrs John McCullough and daughter Mary Joan of Hopkins are hospitalized in Maryville with second and third degree burns after a broken gasoline jug ignited by a lantern in a farm cave during a storm. Attending physician says they are resting comfortably and recovering as well as could be expected. Charles and the husband were released earlier with minor injuries.
Bedford firemen added a fog-spray nozzle to equipment to smother gasoline and oil fires and clear rooms. In a Monday demo the fog blanket reached 14 feet, allowing crews to approach and extinguish the flame, unlike the spray from a regular nozzle. The Bedford Public Library is closed for Marian Paschal’s vacation, with reopening set for Monday August 26.
Albert E Lake a Bedford resident and longtime Taylor county business figure died Sunday at Terrill Hospital Home aged 74. He served as Taylor county treasurer and Bedford Creamery secretary. Surviving are his son Harry and family a brother and a sister-in-law plus four grandchildren. Burial was in Conway cemetery with Odd Fellows rites.
James Pullan, county engineer, bought the late Harvey Parrish’s North Dodge street home at executor’s sale for 3350 dollars. He will move in soon, using the property as his residence.
Mrs Jay Brown of Gravity was taken to St Francis hospital in Maryville Saturday for treatment. Mrs Perry Burns of Bedford fell at her home Sunday injuring her back. Mrs Lottie McColm of Gravity was stricken with paralysis on her left side last week and is cared for at her nephew Hudson Beemers home.
Names of those drawn for petit jury service at the Aug ust term of court opening here Monday, August 26 with Judge Homer A. Fuller presiding, are as follows. Elva Hoffman, New Market Alfred Sparks, Mason J. P. Arnold, Platte Goldie Smith, Bedford Mattie Lee, Ross Bertha Lewis, Bedford Fred Monroe, Platte T. J. Reimer, Platte E. O. Hurley, Platte Alice Walters, Bedford Fern Griffith, Clayton Ray Kernen, Conway G. E. Bellus, Jefferson L. R. Livingston, Grant Lyle B. Stoaks, Platte W. E. Whitton, Platte Irvin McKay, Mason Clyde Miller, New Market Harry Rucker, Nodaway L. W. Grimm, Sharpsburg Xthel. Bricker, Platte Maxine Terrill, Bedford H. W. Kerns, Platte Eulah Cobb, Ross C. W. Brokaw, Platte Joseph L. Posten, Washington Jesse C. Brown, Mason Edna Brown, Clearfield D.N. Richey, Sharpsburg Dean Brown, Jackson Glen Walkup, Gay Avis Alexander, Washington Ruth Rosebrough, Grant Ollie Keith, Bedford Effie Roberts, Bedford Clarence Horning, Grove. Persons named above will report for duty Tuesday, Sept. 2. Members of the grand jury selected the first of the year, will report for service a week earlier, Tuesday, August 27.
Walter Johnson a Bedford High School graduate and former Bedford resident has become corporation secretary for the Pan American Telephone and Telegraph Company. He now resides in Bogota Colombia after a recent move from Chicago where he worked. Johnson is the son of Mrs. W G Carter of Fort Dodge and will be joined by his wife and two sons in South America in a couple of months.
J E Freemyer of Athelstan improved after a year of ill health and was moved downtown Thursday evening. Gerald Churchill of Sheridan Mo suffered severe finger cuts from an electric fan Thursday while asleep. Rodger Allen Gant, son of Mr and Mrs Orville Gant, Siam community, is reported quite ill. Billy Lee Fletcher, infant son of Mr and Mrs Wilbur Fletcher, Siam, was seriously ill, hospitalized in Cla rinda, and dismissed after a few days.
Mrs Guy Brown of the Conway community was taken to Kirksville Missouri last week for a head and nose operation. She is reported to be in a serious condition.
Charles Wysong arrived home Friday from Savannah Missouri where he had been a week as a patient in the sanatorium. A growth was removed from his lower lip during the stay.
E B Davies of Guss recounts a long fish story from 1917 to 1933 about a silver fish and a gold fish kept in a stock tank at his farm. An old sow killed the silver fish last Sunday. two surviving baby fish emerged in 1933 and Davies vows to protect the tank from future hogs. Davies aims to print the tale in the Des Moines Register and seeks confirmation of the remarkable saga.
The Vogue Style Shop will open August 17 in Bedford as a ready-to-wear store managed by Mrs J H Chilcote. Located in the balcony room of the Ben Franklin Store, the new shop comes with Chilcote's extensive experience in ready-to-wear. She recently returned from Kansas City Market Week with goods for the store, accompanied by Mrs Carl Reed Jr of Bedford.
Bedford Sales Barn owner Ivan Wells announces there will be no community sale this week because of the Taylor County Fair. Regular Saturday sales resume next week.
The Bedford unit of Republican Women hosts an Aug 16 tea at 2 PM in the Library Club Room inviting all county Republican women. Guest speaker Mrs. William Dey Ermand of Lenox discusses her Washington visit as guest of Congressman Ben F. Jensen and Mrs. Jensen. District president Mrs. P A Lainson of Council Bluffs attends with other precinct committeewomen urged to join.
Charles Neumyer age 78 died Tuesday August 6 at 10:30 am at his brother Henry Neumyer’s home southwest of Bedford. Rev A Douglass Steffenson conducted the service. Burial was in Graceland cemetery. He had lived in the west for years and was formerly with Bedford lodge I.O.O.P.
A son was born to Mr and Mrs Louis Kreamier of New Market on Monday July 29 at University Hospital Iowa City named Ronald Russell. A daughter born to Mr and Mrs June Cowen of Sheridan Missouri on Saturday July 27 and Mrs Harold Hedrix of Bedford Sunday July 28 at University Hospital Iowa City named Carrol Marie.
Elizabeth Jane Derrickson born October 31 1862 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania died July 31 1940 at her Bedford home aged 77 years 9 months She moved to Iowa at age five and lived in Bedford She married William A Derrickson March 24 1878 and had nine children four survive Marian Mohler Jesse Derrickson Floyd Derrickson and Reba Lock Also eleven grandchildren ten great grandchildren two sisters Gussie Breece and Vennie Libby and one brother Milo Fulton Burial was in Bedford Cemetery Funeral services at Wetmore Funeral Home Friday afternoon conducted by Rev O N Hallgrimson.
Taylor county will shrink its voting precincts from 24 to 23 by consolidating Bedford township with Ward One in Bedford. The Taylor county board of supervisors approved the move after a meeting with Bedford city council. Voting will move from the courthouse to Salter's office in Ward One, with an estimated annual saving of about 100 dollars.
Taylor County members of the Clarinda Production Credit Association received its semiannual report showing 160 877 dollars in short term loans outstanding at June 30 1940. Loans are for agricultural purposes chiefly to finance livestock and farming. Members own 18 850 dollars in voting stock with reserves of 18 605 dollars. The cooperative protocol makes borrowers also members and stockholders. The association serves Taylor Page Fremont Mills Montgomery and Adams Counties.
Claude Timberlake begins rebuilding after a recent blaze destroyed his barn tool shed and granary. The new barn will measure 34 by 70 feet with improvements to the site and facilities planned.
Frog Valley to hold its 18th annual home coming and picnic in Witte Grove on Wednesday August 14. A noon picnic dinner will be served and a program begins at 1 30 pm with prizes for the farthest traveling teacher and pupil. Frog Valley school lies three and a half miles east of New Market. Ruth Ballentine secretary. Bedford Aug 8. National speedsters visit Taylor County Fair auto races Aug 10 as Gus Schrader defends his title. IMSA sanction brings top drivers to Bedford with Schrader piloting a $15 000 Worlds Wonder Car in qualifying time trials at 1 pm and racing at 2 pm.
Glen Irwin saved a three year old girl from drowning Sunday afternoon at the Lake of Three Fires inlet. He waded out in waist deep water with his clothes on, lifted her to shore, and helped her cough up water while bystanders, including her unidentified parents, took charge.
Douglas and Green report recent storefront painting for the Times Press Candy Kitchen Trumbo Barber Shop Rankin Shoe Store Bedford Bakery J C Tracy Jewelry Store and plan a repaint for Pete's soon.
A marriage license was issued in Maryville on Monday afternoon to David Morris of Lenox and Velda Weaver of Creston.
Hog raisers confront erysipelas and diseases resembling hog cholera causing diagnosis and treatment confusion. Erysipelas is common in some areas with outward signs similar to cholera. Research advances include a serum based diagnostic and a new culture to induce permanent immunity, with Nebraska field trials showing promise despite ongoing evaluation.
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