Shirley Jean Pickering Weds J T Weir in Bedford Home
Miss Shirley Jean Pickering and Mr J T Weir wed at 1 30 pm Tuesday December 24 at the home of Mr and Mrs William Bailie in Bedford Rev Eugene B Nyman officiated. Attendants were Miss Alice Weir and Hubert Hensley. The bride, a Bedford High School graduate 1946, teaches in a rural school and will complete the year. The groom is son of Mr and Mrs S A Weir of Bedford, a Bedford Ash School graduate, served three and a half years in the Army Air Corps with part overseas. The couple will live on a farm six miles south of Bedford where he will continue radio repair work. A reception and dinner followed at the bride’s parents home with several family members present. The Cudahy Christmas Party at the Country Club included about 120 employees with a gift exchange and dancing. The Past Noble Grand Club of the Rebekah Lodge will meet at the I O O F hall Friday evening with Mayme Reynolds and Mary Round among the hostesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shirley Jean Pickering
Denno Pickering
Bedford High School
Bedford
S. A. Weir
Bedford Ash
Army Air Corps
Bailie
Weir
Bedfiold
Mrr
Delno Pickering
Rose Lavigen
Hubert Henry
Peggy
Myrna Henry
Guy Weir
Lowell
Alice Weir
Hubert Hensley
Mark Pickering
Rural Notes on Harvest, Strike, and Local Business
Seventy years ago farmers finish corn gathering while miners at Union Coal Mining Company remain on strike. Wolves reportedly prowling Pottawattamie county as a lively tornado pushes 20 cents per bushel. Hogs die from a new disease called blue tooth. Fordyce opens a brand new drug store at Con-
Masonic and community events listed with local notices
Readable items list December and January club meetings at the Masonic Temple I O O F Hall and nearby venues plus social notices. Mentions include East Mission Ladies Aid Circle Chapter and multiple hostess names. Local remarks note a new Baptist Parsonage, Creston painting work, a burned Council Bluffs agricultural site, high winter coffee, a November 1876 marriage, frost and river freeze, skate tightening, a deer sighting, and Fremont County seat debate moving from Sidney to Hamburg.
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OES
Miasonic Temple
Noble Grand Club
Rebekah Odd Fellows
East Mission Ladies Aid
Leroy Book
Circle Chapter
O. C
Albert Campbell
Ross ‘Center
Sunshine Club
Elmer Henderson
Nineteenth Century Club
Paul Stephens
CES - Masonic
Masonic Temple
Wild Rose Club
Len Maxwell
Rebekah - I. O. O
Bedford Hi Y Delegation Visits Council Bluffs
A eight member Hi Y delegation from Bedford High School and Rev. Fletcher traveled to Council Bluffs for a conference with speakers from several schools and a housing pep meeting. The Bedford Light, Heat & Power office moved to the Farmer's Mutual Insurance building on south Court street this week while the Mutual Insurance Company remains there. The new arrangement enhances city fire fighting equipment with upgraded hose and chemical apparatus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Thompson
Herold Hicks
Roy Jackson
Merrill Chilcote
Glen Campbell
Roy Longfellow
Rev
Fletcher
Council Bluffs
Bedford High School
Bedford Light, Heat & Power Company
Farmer's Mutual Insurance
South Court Street
Mutual Insurance Company
Fire Company
Dodie's Bavarian Trip and Train Tales From 1946
In a Wiesbaden letter Dodie recounts travel with Bodie Fisher from Munich to Stuttgart and Frankfurt, meeting Danish and French colleagues on a German train. She and Sylvia tour Berchtesgaden by carriage to Konigsee, admiring the Alps, Hitler's Eagle Nest, St Bartholomew’s chapel, and Bavarian scenery while balancing work on GI letters.
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Wiesbaden
Germany
Munich
Bodie Fisher
Stuttgart
Europe
Bodie
Allied Forces
U.S
Frankfurt
Rialto Show Promises Adventure Thrills in Applejack Team
At the Rialto Theatre Christmas weekend December 27 28 the film O S5 follows four operators known as team Applejack tasked with demolishing a French bridge before D Day Ladd and Miss Fitzgerald parachute into Nazi occupied France to contact the resistance as the Gestapo pursuit escalates the suspense and action.
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Rialto
O.S5
Applejack
France
Ladd
Miss Fitzgerald
Gestapo
Team
They Go On Together to Normandy and Greater Dangers
The fragment hints at a journey with companions toward Normandy confronting heightened risks and adventure, suggesting a wartime or exploratory effort with shared resolve.
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Normandy
Blondie Knows Best at the Rialto
Blondie faces a costly escapade when Dagwood wrecks a neighbor’s car and garage. Blondie persuades him to ask boss Mr. Dithers for a bonus, but Dithers weighs layoffs as his construction business struggles.
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Blondie
Rialto
Dagwood
Mr. Dithers
Jonathan Hale
Judy Canova Stars in Singin in the Corn Show
Judy Canova will appear in Singin in the Corn with performances on Sunday Monday and Tuesday December 29 30 and 31 at the local venue. The run promises comic songs and a festive close to the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Judy Canova
Desert town haunted by gamblers blocks heir’s plan
Judy aims to return a desert ghost town to its original inhabitants to claim a $25,000 inheritance from a will deemed unorthodox. The Indians refuse, fearing the town’s haunted status, a ruse by gamblers seeking to keep control and turn it into another Reno.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Judy
Reno
The Hurricane at Rialto Sensational Island Drama
The Hurricane shows Wednesday and Thursday January 1 and 2 at the Rialto. Set on a Tahiti distant island the film portrays a native who kills in self defense and saves his village during a hurricane. It is billed as one of the most sensational thrill pictures ever produced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rialto
Tahiti
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Cudahy
Cudahy Ghant
Country Club
Turkey
Noble
IOOF
Rebekah Lodge
I. Q. O. F. Hall
Mayme Reynolds
Va Templeton
Mary Round
Fannie Irwin
Amy Shum
Un'sn Coal ‘Mining Company
Pottawattamie County
Fordyce
Bran New Drug Store
Con
Mr. Roby Mow
New Baptist
Charlie Hummel
Creston
Rinaldo Brown
Isadora, Mo
Lizzie Roberts
A. J. Gill
Frost King
Fremont County
Sidney
Hamburg
Iowa
Iowa Power& Light
Bedford, Iowa
Dodies
Sylvia
Berchtesgaden
Konigsee Lake
Hitler
Bavaria
Red Cross
Norway
St. Bartholomew’s Chapel
Dodie
The
Greakiga
Pete Drug Store
Heer
America
Tenor
James Melton
Harvest OF
Howard Barlow
Lyn Murray Chorus
International Warvester
Frank Parker
Clearfield
Tion
Township
Range
Grant
Ringgold County
Cols. Walton & Brown
Britnell Bros
Sinclair Service
Court
GUB
Ishimer
Gerald C. Norris
Centerville
VET Cab Company
Sohail
R. G. Mackey
New Market
Gravity
Bushville
Eign
Tie Golaing
Yan
McCormick
McCormick-Deering
Coronado
Helping Hand Club
Wm. Hewitt
Beemer
Harold Dowell
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