23 Dec 1937
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Newspaper
Bedford Times Press
Location
Bedford, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1937
Page
1
Sharpsburg W C T U members met December 15 at Mrs Olive Blood to study What Does the Spirit of Christmas Mean in this Country Christ s Great Gift to Man and What Do We Give to Christ Mrs Marjorie Kraus Haar gave a piano solo devotionals next meeting set for the second Wednesday in January at Mrs Lela Rutledge home.
Mrs E A Kraushaar and Mrs T R Selders were callers in Bedford Monday afternoon Mr and Mrs Orval Brown were business callers in Corning Thursday Mrs C H Young and daughter Kathyrn spent last week in Lincoln Nebraska Mr and Mrs Marion McArthur moved to Gravity Saturday where Mr McArthur will work on the railroad Mrs Marie Patterson of Rockford Ill came Friday to visit her parents Mr and Mrs Marion McArthur Mr and Mrs Cloyd Pfander and family moved Friday to the farm recently vacated by Ralph Harmon and family Orie Shum Loran Holmes A E Rutledge Mr and Mrs Chas Reed Mr and Mrs George Rutledge Mrs Maggie West and Mrs Mabel Tiper were shoppers in Bedford Saturday Junior Selders and Dorothy Mae Selders spent Saturday with their aunt and uncle Mr and Mrs Elmer Brown at Gravity
Primary notes cover reading in the Elson Gray reader and cereal grain poster projects. Upper grades study railroads and locomotives with train pictures. A gym mishap left a student with a black eye after colliding with a classmate. The Young Citizens Club met December 17. Art classes feature flower posters and a bat was examined in science. Spelling perfection achieved by Phylis Grimm Mary Cundy Ruby Fickess Elvin Miller and Betty Wolf.
The article reports on safety playlets by students Dean Evans and Horace Plander, a sophmore farewell for Maynard Stogdill, and a Christmas program at High School A with songs, plays, and a gift exchange. It also covers basketball results, postgame postponements, vacation dates, and multiple club meetings with meals and exchanges.
Kenneth Curphy of Lenox and Hazel Haering of Clearfield married in Maryville on Saturday December 11. They visited Kansas City before returning to Lenox. Lenox High girls lost 55 to 46 to the A I B Typists with Ruth Hogue leading a late comeback. Christian church Thursday Girls met at Mrs Bessie Eckler's with twenty five members. Priscilla Circle met at the Methodist church with thirty two members and a gift exchange followed by lunch.
Lenox locals Lee Crowel and Harry Leach were business visitors in Lincoln Friday. Miss Flossie Schultz and Miss Edna Schultz shopped in Creston Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Terry and Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Shum shopped in Creston Monday. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Poindexter spent Sunday in Hastings Iowa at Lemon Cox home. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Miller were business visitors in Creston Monday. Miss Nadine Davis, formerly in Minneapolis, visiting her Lenox parents. Dr. and Mrs. E. R. Pennabaker spent Sunday at the D S Pennabaker home in Sharpsburg. Phil Ridgeway of Salt Lake City arrived to spend Christmas vacation with grandmother Mrs. L F Ridgeway. Mrs. Guy Thurman returned to Blanchard after visiting aunt Mrs. L. F. Ridgeway.
Gravity residents report moving families Earl Coy and kin to Mina Morris residence and Glen Ostrander near Kansas City to Ray Walker home. Church Missionary Society, clubs, fire circle and Campfire Girls hold Christmas activities. locals recount illness, visits, and holiday travel in Gravity.
Residents and relatives from Des Moines Sham bau gh and Bedford areas appear in visiting and care duties as Christmas holidays approach. A sheriff sale in Taylor County lists real estate near Bedford to satisfy a court writ, with January 7 1938 auction at the county courthouse.
Notice is given that on January 7, 1938 at 10 a.m. at the Bedford Courthouse the West Half of the Northeast Quarter and the Northeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter of Section 36 Township 68 North Range 34 West of the 5th P.M. containing 120 acres more or less will be sold at public auction for cash to satisfy a special execution issued by the Clerk of the District Court in Taylor County Iowa in favor of Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation against Albert Turner and Carrie Turner.
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