Notice of Election and Amended Petition in Taylor County Iowa
Legal notices announce election of a commissioner for the Taylor County Soil Conservation District on December 16, 1948 between 1 and 8 pm with polling at Bedford Library basement. Also filed is Amended and Substituted Petition in Equity in District Court at Bedford seeking title determination and partition of real estate in Taylor County with a January 19, 1949 appearance deadline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taylor Soil Conservation District
Taylor
Iowa
Taylor County Soil Conservation District
Taylor County
Bedford
State Soil Conservation Committee
Chris H. Jensen
District Court of
John M. Sleep
Mary
Equity
District Court
Towa
Stipe, Davidson & Hemphill
Clzerinda
Bride of Fortune Author Harnett Kane on New Orleans Native
Native of New Orleans Harnett T. Kane, author of Bride of Fortune, is recognized as a leading Southern writer. He writes as critic and speaker and has produced several works, including Fortune, a novel about the life of Mrs. Jefferson.
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Bride of Fortune
Harnett T. Kane
No Orieens
South
Mr. Kane
Varina Howell Davis Life Story Captured in Kane Biography
Historian Harnett Kane spent a decade collecting material for a dramatic life of Varina Howell Davis. He used the Memoir of her husband from 1890 and Varina’s letters spanning seventy years, visiting every place she lived and interviewing descendants of participants. The book notes many acknowledgments and highlights her complex relationship with Jefferson Davis. The library also holds Kane’s New Orleans Woman.
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Jefferson Davis
Harnett Kane
New Orleans
Joint Stock Exchange opens on South Water Street
Seventy years ago G W Burgett opened a joint stock exchange on South Water Street Monday evening. Bedford to care for county defenders with Dr J P Flick binding wounds and Quartermaster King supplying a horse while Post Commander W F Evans marshals them.
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G. W. Burgett
Joint Stock Exchange
South Water Street
Bedford
J. P. Flick
Quartermaster King
W. F.evans
Local items note births marriages sales and school fever effects
The report covers a November theoretic day in town with J S Kennedy of Blockton visiting for hog breeding, a possible sale by Guy Farrell near Keota, and Trumilo joining him. Lenox schools close for scarlet fever with quarantines, a marriage license granted to Arthur Hill and Lillian Fawcett of Gravity, Bedford Laundry sale to A Wiley and C Guillmott, birth of a baby boy to Mr and Mrs Arthur Long. Holt 4 H Buddies meet with Holt Lassies for a pot-luck and Christmas party names. boys play touch football afterward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guy Farrell
Colorado
Keota
Mr. Trumilo
Holt
Mt. Pleasant School House
Fourteen Homemakers Host Christmas Crafts Workshop
In Marshall township a Christmas Crafts workshop Tuesday November 23 involved fourteen Homemakers. They prepared belts necklaces costume jewelry and lunch cloths for Santa's pack while Ruth H. John guides a January Kitchen Planning study and Mrs Ralph Rutledge hosted a pot lunch dinner at noon.
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Marshall Township
Ralph Rutledge
Ruth H. John
4 H Leaders to Meet with Hartel on Friday
Mrs. Arlene Hartel a 4 H Home Furnishing Specialist will meet with the 4 H leaders and committee women Friday December 3 at the Farm Bureau Office.
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Arlene Hartel
Farm Bureau
Taylor County agricultural events and youth programs announced
The county plans a December 6 dinner and annual meeting with officers elected and a public afternoon session featuring specialists from Iona State College and Dairy Genetics Des Moines. George Boelmke will lead a December 1 Boys 4-H Leaders Training School. The November Taylor County RYP met to discuss table manners and youth activity. A Union County AYP banquet at Creston featured leaders from Madison Clark Adair and Taylor counties with a Thanksgiving theme. Farmers are cautioned not to buy untried crop seed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taylor County Artificial Breeders Association
Ecch
Iona State College
Des Moines
George Boelmke
Taylor County
Taylor Holds
RYP
Joan R. Hunter
Farm Bureau
Union County
Creston
Iowa
AYP
Madison,Clark, Adair
Silt threatens Lake of Three Fires and Bedford water
The Lake of Three Fires is rapidly silting, shrinking from 125 to about 100 acres and depth from 12 to six feet. Local officials and landowners fear loss of water supply and recreation. experts urge terracing, contouring, strip cropping, and desilting basins to slow sediment, with cooperation from the State Conservation Commission and soil districts.
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State Conservation Commission
Bedford
Lake of Three Fires
The
Soil Conservation Commission
State Conservation Mission
Lake of Thre
CICC
Shite National Park Services
Ty Ter
Glake
Phite State Conservation Mission
Sts
Taylor County
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Bedford Times-Press
Bedford Three Press
Main St. Hedford
Down
Edford
A. W. Hamblin
Counties
OWA Press Association
State Soil Conservation Committee OF
Orpha Peterman
Floyd Peterman
Dale Sleep
Vera Sleep
Ralph Sleep
Marie Sleep
Mary Sleep
Mary Sleen
Admx
Ruth Shcer
Etta Weatherly
Roy Weathevix
Florence Maxwell
Alvin Maxwell
Thelma Neumeyer
Jason Neumeyer
Flossie Potter
Frank Potter
Carl Sleep
Opal Sleep
Norawest
Fleven
ABC
Thip
By Ellen Beebe
Santa
Elgin
Jewel
Caskey
Grove Township
Blackstone
Alice Taylor
R. A. Taylor
Clayton Township
Ross Township
Noah Golding
Recorder Medford
Bedford Circuit
Bishop
Menter
J. S. Kennedy
Blockton
Kennedy
Free Press
Lenox
Arthur C. Hill
Lillian Fawcett
Gravity
Burt
A. Wiley
Chas. Guillmott
Wiley
S. D. Maxwell Grocery
Guillmott
Mrs. Arthur Long
Farm Bureau Briefs
Mr. and
Mrs
Ollie Par
Lollers
Thom
John R. Hunter
Hunter
Clinton
Benton
Minde
Bonde
Ames
Kanawha
Exeter
Winnipeg
Canada
H.C. Murphy
Town State College
College
Bishop Hall
Vic Flickinger
Conservation Commission
Vic Robinson
Tech
Nicians
Taylor A Soils
Wil Gowltead
Boyce
Vogue
Boyce Lazarus
Thompsons
Daisy
Good Housekeeping
Woman's Home Companion
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