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Newspaper
Bedford Times Press
Location
Bedford, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1940
Page
1
Local brief items report travel and visits by residents and relatives across Missouri Nebraska and Iowa. Names include Elmer Ferneau T F Armstrong Lillie Cordell and many families with trips to Macomb Olathe Shenandoah Sidney and Boulder with family visits camp activities and schooling referrals.
Mr and Mrs Carl Cordel and family spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs I H Cordell.
Frank Longfellow and Lem Longfellow with Mrs Longfellow and niece Miss Helen Longfellow visited Omaha with Miss Gretchen Homan hosting. The Payton family reunion occurred at Harvey Payton home near Menlo with Sarah Butts Linnie Butts Glenn Butts and Duane Thummel plus Olin Thummel. Wyatt Blake more and family planned a two week fishing trip to Kabetogama Lake Minnesota stopping in Cedar Rapids to visit Bourke Hickenlooper.
Mrs Beulah Perryman and Horace Firth of Sheridan Wyo visited Bedford and Straight community Friday and Saturday. Jack Heaton of Sioux Falls S D toured Conway and Sharpsburg visiting relatives. Wayne Harbour and party left for St Louis to attend a ball game with Charmion McGuirk Louise Schlum Wanda Findley. The Livingstons returned from a eastern northern Iowa trip visiting Keokuk Davenport West Bend Iowa City North Liberty Mason City Waterloo Clear Lake Cedar Rapids and IOOF Home.
Als Bo arrives from Aurora for a fest week and plans to stay at a community. Former presidents and others discuss moving to Bedford. Creston District Epworth League Rally attendees from Bedford include Rev. Steifenson and several local women and men. The Caskey twins and their brother returned Friday from a vacation to New York City Chicago and other stops, returning via St. Louis.
Sharpsburg Presbyterian Church School begins September 2 and fall church work starts that month. Rev William Erwin of Schuyler Neb will not be here for the first two September meetings. The meetings are canceled and plans for replacements are being made. Attendance was light Sunday with eleven at Sunday school sixteen in morning service and nine at Union service. Rally Day is September 29. Rev Meek minister.
Mrs. Faye Day returns from visiting relatives in Des Moines. Counts of visits, fairs, and family gatherings stretch across Conway, Sharpsburg, Cromwell, and Mount Ayr with relatives attending the State Fair in Des Moines and local events at Lake of Three Fires. Multiple households host visitors, dinners, and recitals as community life unfolds in July.
Mr and Mrs Jim Gillespie and son Billy and Miss Wilma Donaldson returned Sunday from a week long vacation. Clarinda visitors included Mr and Mrs J M Philpott and sons Tommy and Jimm. Bedford guests were Mr and Mrs Guy Clear and their child. The Blane and Shenandoah connection hosted Nellie Davis. Ralph Norman Deal and family from Iowa City stayed with Rev B R Weetman until they could move into the Donaldson home. Numerous relatives gathered at H G Wintermute's for dinner. Dixie Burge left Estherville for home. Roy Buchanan Howard Cooper families headed to the State Fair. Catherine Daniels of Kansas City visited Reuben and Catherine Daniels.
A Tay lor County Iowa board discusses ceasing Bedford Township as a voting precinct as a potential saving measure, noting its status as one of the county’s smallest precincts and questioning the necessity of continued public funding.
Taylor County Iowa Board of Supervisors and Bedford City Council unite Bedford Township with Ward No 1 of Bedford Iowa in a 5 August 1940 joint resolution. The restructuring consolidates Township boundaries into the city precinct for voting and directs clerks to record the change.
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