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Newspaper
Bedford Times Press
Location
Bedford, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1935
Page
3
The piece argues a nationwide policy to provide up to 200 to all Americans aged 60 and above appeals to seniors and families, creates jobs by retirement, and supports a broad exchange medium through a consumption tax, noting doubts but predicting realization within years.
Local Sharpsburg and nearby residents are listed in a community diary of shopping trips church events and visits. Names include Blood Hamblin Zimblin Brown Reed and many others with mentions of moves purchases and a Christmas program at the Presbyterian church. The Sharpsburg basketball team loses to Blockton 98 27 as Captain Baker recovers from infection. A $14.16 Christmas seal tally is reported with thanks to contributors and a declamatory contest winners list announced.
The church family gave a large miscellaneous Christmas box to the pastor and family after Sunday worship. Sunday Dec 29 included public worship at 10 and church school at 10 50. The mid winter communion is planned for Jan 5 at the Presbyterian church. The church board met Thursday evening at the church to discuss continuing evening services through winter. Rev A B Hutcheson is the preacher.
Mixed train handling summary notes Sunday operations for Bedford section. Cargo and passenger movements, with signals and train duties referenced.
Members of the W T club gathered at Mrs Mabel Worthingtons home for their annual all day Christmas meeting. Dinner was served at noon and gifts were exchanged with songs in the afternoon. The regular meeting is set for Thursday with Mrs Pauline Herland and Mrs Giora Harland assisting.
Bedford residents share a patchwork of birthdays, marriages, and community news. The piece lists honorees and their origins from Drake University to Kansas, notes a December bedford wedding and upcoming residence on a Jackson township farm, and covers local club meetings, barn fires, and new business leases.
In Our Town notes Henry and Richard, eight and nine, selling magazines and drawing a crowd with trading cards and a list of “Public Enemies of Business.” The item lampoons local mischief from the mischievous type to the watchful barber, with playful reflections on Christmas and community spirit. Also recalls a dog Bob, Harry Adams’ partner in fur trade, buried after eleven years of work.
At the Rialto Theatre on Friday and Saturday December 27 and 28 Powdersmoke Range offers a red blooded early cattle country romance. Cowboy stars Harry Carey Hoot Gibson and Big Boy Williams lead a range war plot with Sam Hardy Tom Tyler and Eb Steele Boots Mallory. The film delivers action thrills and suspense from galloping stage holdups to a blazing finale with six shooters. Supporting cast includes Frank Rice Avian Morris Franklyn Farnum Bill Desmond and others.
A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs James Sleep a few days ago. Miss Ruby Moon and Archie Carapbili were married on.
E H Chilcote won fourth and eighth places with Plymouth Rock cockerels sent to Chicago. John Norton of Denver Gil Co truck found a broken 1.5 storage tanks lot with an estimated 159 to 200 gallons of gas taken. Roy Westherly shipped White Orpingtons to Chicago for the national poultry show and sent two birds to Des Moines.
The Stitch and Chater club met with Hilda Ruce on Thursday December 19 for quilting and gift exchanges. Members present included Zelda Sickels Juanita Cordell Katie Fidler Eva Burns Etta Cavin Effa Weaver Bess Rusco Grece Murray Freda Cornett Jennie Rusco Ida Bownes Verna Jenkins and Katie Kemery. The next meeting is January 2 at Katie Fidler’s home. Several local residents and visitors are spending holidays with relatives in area towns.
A historical notice quotes AFL Leonard of the Purinn Dog Department urging dog owners to provide protection against disease and parasites. It advises disinfecting living quarters, using Cre-go-fee and flea powder, and treating roundworms and hookworms with Tetsuleg and dusting with high grade flea powder, sold at Checkerboard stores and feeders.
William Deardorff and family from Ovhelata Okla arrived in Sheridan last week to run their home. Alvin Price and his wife plus child visited their relatives Mr and Mrs D. S and son, while Mrs Walter Mitchell and Pauline celebrated Mr Ball’s seventy ninth birthday with his family. Egbert Downey attended. The girls basketball team played Hatfield Thursday evening.
Mrs. Joe Allen entertained at two tables of bridge on Tuesday afternoon in Sheridan Society circles. A refined gathering featured orderly play and light refreshments as guests enjoyed a social hour following the games.
In a clipped exchange a drunk man insists on getting his "neaunts" via the central switchboard. The humorous line plays on misheard words and the stubborn request disrupts routine operations.
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