Multi‑shop New Market burglary linked to other area crimes
Times-Prean New Market Reporter reports a Sunday morning raid in New Market totaling about $1,500 in cash and merchandise across six businesses. Robbers accessed C. Hicks through a back window and left about $400 cash plus $1,500 in bonds on a deck. Other stores including Pendergraft Drug, B. L. Clark, Hawkins Market, Farmers’ Exchange, and Pratt’s Cafe saw smaller losses. Police suspect professional burglars. few clues exist and most firms lacked burglary insurance. Night officer Ora Drenner reported patrolling the residential district but found little to identify suspects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Times-Prean
New Market
Sipe
Waul
Adel
Iowa
Tocics
C. Hicks
Ora Drenneri
Christmas Seal Fund Hits 165.46 in Bedford Drive
The Ladies Auxiliary of the American Legion bonds and the return of nearly all Christmas Seals push Bedford’s committee total to 165.46. The group urges return of unsent seals to keep records straight and lists local supporters including Miss M. E. Allen and Dr. John F. Hardin among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies Auxiliary of the American Legion
M. E. Allen
John F. Hardin
C. W. Gillies
Harry Hartzler
J. M. Haddock
Mrs. Lucile Livingston
Duane Roberts
M. R. Brant
O. J. Kirketey
E. T. Brice
K. E. Stephens
A. J. Enloe
Parsons Ice &Coal Co
Paul Bartlett
J. W. Smith
William T. Meikle
Donavan Muse
New Ford on Display In Bedford Saturday
A new Ford V‑8 will be on display at the Bray Motor Company in Bedford Saturday. Ed Bray, manager, traveled to Des Moines today to bring back the car. He had previously delivered a new 1935 Ford truck from Kansas City and noted many improvements in the New V‑8. The event includes a visit by local residents and relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bray Motor Company
Bedford
Ed Bray
Ford Company
Des Moines
Bray
Kansas City
Old Pictures Display in Bedford Times Window
Copy of the Bedford Free Press from August 1917 shows the first 250 Taylor county selective draft numbers. Walter Hubbard’s 258 is listed and Mrs R F Snyder kept a copy. the Times-Press displays the drawing photo. Also shown is a Blockton News photo from 1898 with names beneath. A prize picture shows two dandied young men from the past, recognizable to locals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bedford Free Press
Taylor County
Walter Hubbard
R. F. Snyder
East of Bedford
Times-Press
Snyder
Kodak
Blockton News
Two Thirds C H Checks Arrive As County Payments Begin
Approximately 53 000 dollars will be distributed today and tomorrow by Clyde Hamilton treasurer of the Taylor county corn hog board from the county farm bureau office. The payments cover the second installment for CH contract signers with about one third of the total paid in this county. Notices are sent to the persons named on the checks and to the county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taylor County Farm Bureau
Clyde Hamilton
Taylor County Corn-Hog Board
Wallace Johnson 15 Dies in Accidental Gun Discharge
Wallace Johnson a 15 year old son of Mr and Mrs George Johnson of nine miles west of Hopkins was instantly killed Monday morning when a twelve gauge shotgun discharged accidentally near a trap line. The coroner ruled the hammer likely snagged on a twig causing the weapon to fire as he climbed a creek bank. He is survived by his parents and four brothers Eldon Maynard Vernon and Lewellen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace Johnson
George Johnson
Hopkins
Johnson
Eldon, Mayinard
Vernon and
Lewellen
Relief Project Starts At Sharpsburg Friday
Workmen from the relief rolls started Dec. 21 on a project to refinish and redecorate the Sharpsburg school interior. Materials will be bought by the school board with labor costs partly funded by the district, major costs from federal appropriation. Eleven men will work. Frank Campain is foreman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sharpsburg
Frank Campain
Ira Smith of Siam Dies at 60
Ira Smith, 60, longtime Siam resident, died Monday after a long illness. Funeral services were held Wednesday at the Church of Christ in Siam with burial in Siam Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ira Smith
Siam
Church of Christ In
Goodriches Move to Lake City Store Opening
Mr and Mrs Virgil Goodrich who operated a grocery in Guthrie Center Iowa have sold out and opened a new grocery in Lake City Iowa a town of 2000 in Calhoun county
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virgil Goodrich
Guthrie Center
Iowa
Lake City
Calhoun County
Mrs Nelle Moneyhan Il In Hospital In Des Moines
Mrs Nelle Moneyhan II is reported seriously ill at Methodist hospital in Des Moines, per word from Bedford friends. She runs a rooming house in Des Moines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelle Moneyhan
Methodist Hospital
Des Moines
Bedford
County News Of The Year Put In Brief
County year in review items from Taylor and Bedford areas. Highlights include CWA road funds for Bedford, 1934 county board chairmanship, a fatal car accident at Hawleyville, welfare spending and salt pork relief, postmaster changes, relief employment, tax and license actions, local school and church events, and a relief hay distribution from Bedford. Multiple dates from Jan to Apr discuss taxes, elections, and county services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bedford
Ibibbins Park
George Warin
Taylor County ‘Board of Supervisors
Cecil McNutt
Hawleyville
New Market
Crowell
OWA
Taylor
Fred J. Yeemans
Jazopkins
Moorhead
J. Murl Hamilton
James A. Farley
Taylor County
Henry Hamblin
Bedford High School
Guy H. Miller
Lenox
Silver Lake School
Fern Jefferies
Floyd Belding
Joe Scane
Bedford Methodist
V. Gooding
C. D. Laird
Gypsy
Joan S. Nevins
COC Camp
Gregerson
John Prugh
Bedford Community Club
Board of Supervisors
Charles Wieser
Roger Waring
East County
25000 Enumerators to canvass farms nationwide in 1935
An army of 25000 enumerators will canvass every farm in the United States during January 1935 as part of the Census of Agriculture. The farm enumeration, directed by the 15th Decennial Census Act of 1929, covers calendar year 1934 and aims to provide timely data on agricultural resources amid widespread drought. Enumerators will collect acres sown, crop yields, livestock counts, farm values, and other vital statistics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Census’ Bureau
Old North Pole Starts Leaning Back
Bedford residents marked the shortest day and first winter day with sunrise at 7 30 am and a nine hour eighteen minute day length. Officials note Old Man Winter has begun his reign as snows fall and temperatures drop, with the sun's arc turning back toward longer days after the solstice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bedford
Winter
Taylor
Weel
Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch at Rialto Jan 11 12
The Bedford Public Schools Parent-Teacher Association sponsors a Rialto Theatre showing of Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch on Friday and Saturday nights January 11 and 12. Pauline Lord stars as Mrs Wiggs with W C Fields ZaSu Pitts Evelyn Venable and Kent Taylor in the cast. Tickets go on sale soon under the finance committee led by Mrs Ray Kennedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. C. Fields
ZaSu Pitts
Evelyn Venable
Kent Taylor
Four Pages Published This Week by Times Press
The Times-Press prints only four pages this week due to Christmas vacation. Help was sent a holiday at week start, making eight pages impossible while mail on Thursday evening proceeded. Merchants work to restore post Christmas trade and invoicing, with rural news omitted this week and slated for next edition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Times- Press
the Mail
Times-Press
Robert Smith Dies of Brain Hemorrhage
Robert Smith aged 13 son of Mr and Mrs James Smith of Xenia Community southeast of Hopkins died Thursday night at his home from a brain hemorrhage He was a freshman at Pickering High School The funeral was held Sunday morning Jack Wolverton USN is visiting his parents south of Bedford on furlough from San Diego Naval Station This is his first visit home since enlisting last July
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Times-Press
Hopkins
Robert Smith
James Smith
Xenia i c
Pickering High School
Pickering
Jack Wolverton
U.S. N
Orch Wolverton
South of Bedford
United States Naval Station
San Diego
Calif
Sey
C H Signing Simplified for Next Year
County agent and USDA official say corn hog sign up for 1935 will be simplified for farmers on the same land and with same bases as 1924. AAA will supply 1932-33 data to speed 1935 contracts, with three applicant groups defined and all must file an application.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
R. K. Bliss
Iowa State College
AAA
Observance of White Christmas at Methodist Church
The Methodist church held a White Christmas service Sunday evening with children delivering gifts for the needy and adults donating fruit and linens for Des Moines Methodist hospital. The Presbyterian church also held family night and a Christmas program with treats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist Church
Methodist
Des Moines
Presbyterian Church
United Presbyterian Church
Ministerial Training Chairs Attend College of Preachers
Rev J Stanley Decker will depart Monday night to attend the Annual College of Preachers in Evanston Illinois. The meeting runs January 1 through January 4 with 24 Board chairs and deans of summer schools from Methodist conferences across the United States in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Stanley Decker
College of Preachers
Evanston, Il
Methodist
United States
Allengiance
Population rise in Taylor County records 1934
Vital statistics from the Taylor County clerk show 208 births and 1011 deaths in 1934, an overall increase of 107 people. The birth spells highlight many with last names starting C, while Q remains unrecorded aside from Eldon Quimby’s birth in 1919. The district court issued 85 marriage licenses in 1934, up from 66 in 1933.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taylor County
Eldon Quimby
Fire destroys Shafer home near Bedford
Fire razed the Shafer farm home of John Shafer about 10 o'clock this morning twelve miles northeast of Bedford, causing an estimated loss of $2,000. Neighbors saved part of the furniture. The farm lies eleven miles east of Bedford on No. 3, one and a half miles north. Shafer said the loss is partly insured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Shafer
Bedford
Shafer
No. 3
Quail Feeding Effort Details 2000-Acre Project
Bill Gaule reports 500 pounds of quail feed used weekly on the 2000 acre game area southeast of Bedford. Teepee style feeding stations built from poles and cornstalks. He estimates about 1000 quails fed this winter as seed screenings on hand cover diet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Gaule
Bedford
Mrs Alta Bailey Injured In Topeka Auto Crash
Mrs Alta Bailey sustained a forehead wound requiring stitches and other injuries after she was struck by an automobile in Topeka Kansas last week. The information came to her brother Geo I Putnam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alta Bailey
Topeka
Kans
Geo. I. Putnam
Record of multiple marriages and licenses across towns
The week reports several marriage plans and licenses. F L Peterson of Des Moines to Grace Shaddy of Bedford. Glen Kratzer of New Market to Lena Thompson of Clarinda. Allen Barnes of Hopkins to Hazel Beck of Bedford. Ralph Thomas of Bedford to Mrs Jake Huss of Hopkins. Carroll R Blankenship of New Market to Orpha Sleep of Hopkins. A new car, a Siman Sigeight Chevroul coach, is licensed in Maryville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. L. Peterson
Tegal
Desi Moines
Grace Shaddy
Bedford
Glen Kratzer
New Market
Lena Thompson
Clarinda
Allen Barnes
Hopkins
Hazel Béck
Credit Expanded For Farm Dwelling Improvements
The Clarinda Production Credit Association expands its lending to repair alter or improve farm dwellings with loans from 100 to 2000 dollars per dwelling. Loans are 6 percent interest for up to 18 months, may be guaranteed by the Federal Housing Administration for up to 20 percent, and are open to farmers with class B stock in the association. Loans are distinct from general farm-improvement loans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarinda Production Credit Association
H. H. Loudon
Production Credit Corporation of Omaha
Federal Housing Administration
Production Credit Association
Hold On To Your Pullets for a Prosperous New Year
Dear readers, the egg and poultry market hints at a bright year ahead if farmers keep their hens. With high feed costs and falling egg prices now, prices next spring could rise sharply as demand returns. Poultry buyers are already stocking for Christmas, and hens sold last spring fetched 4 to 5 cents a pound more, signaling a strong livestock outlook if flocks are maintained.
Bradley Has Operation In Des Moines
R. E. Bradley underwent an operation in Des Moines on Wednesday. Dr. G. W. Rimel traveled to Des Moines to attend the procedure. Mrs. R. A. Taylor Sr. is reported ill at her home in north Bedford after a fall Friday evening and has been confined to bed since.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. A. Taylor
R. A.taylor
North
Bedford
Bedford area to host artificial lake project start
Des Moines offices report a planned artificial lake near Bedford as part of Iowa conservation efforts. Clearing of trees for a 10 acre site will begin with civilian workers then labor by others. The dam stands 916 feet long and 22 feet high, with the lake extending to a reservoir at Bedford. Funding exceeds 15 thousand dollars locally as the project advances under fish and game supervision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wath
Iowa
Des Moines
Bedford
Des Moines Register
Des Moin
Vath
Oii
Bedford and
Vicini Ward
the Fish and Game Commissij
Bedford Works
Former Bedford Woman Joins State Child Welfare Effort
Mrs Anna St Bays now serves on the state board of control’s child placement program. Based in Davenport and Toledo with duties across 28 counties, she oversees 760 boys at one facility and 350 at another. The state seeks suitable homes and agricultural contracts for all boys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna St .Bays
Stewart
Wedford
Lmi Creston
Forth Board of Control
Davenport
Margaret Camper 81 dies at home near Bedford
Miss Margaret Clampbel long resident of the community dies at home west of Bedford on December 24 after prolonged illness. Funeral services were held today at Wetmore Funeral Home conducted by Stanley Decker with burial in Graceland cemetery. Schools held Christmas programs. The Siam Report lists Miss Margaret Jefferson Fine School and others. local schools planned a weeklong vacation with noon program and Santa treats for children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Clampbel
Bedford M
Tim
Wetmore
Stanley Decker
Graceland Cemetery
Thea-Press
Siam
Margaret Jefferson
Helen
High Prairie
Ruth
Hardee
Elza ¥ North Star
Riley Smith Dies After Illness at Local Hospital
Riley Smith died at 7 15 PM at the Odist hospital in St Joseph after a long illness. His wife Blanche Manley of St Joseph and daughter Maude Dale of South Nebraska and son Byran of Burlington Junction Mo were with him. Funeral services were held at the Church of Christ on Wednesday afternoon. Phil Slattery Dies Age 72. Funeral services at Catholic church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Presa Siam
Repo
Riley Smith
Odist Hospital
St. Joseph
Dau
Blanche Manley
Maude Dale
Suth Nebr
Byran
Burlington Junction
Church of Christ
Also Mentioned on This Page
Carl Miller
Opal
Floyd Miller
Lola
Eva Miller
Dea Moines
Orville Hatfield
Eva Arene
Jean Ellen
W. W. Miller
Eva
Fort Lowell
Caskey
J. T. Caskey
Claude McCrae
Goodriches
Mrs
Nelle Moneyhan Iil
Old
P.T. A
Navy
Spgroup Si
Bliss
T. F. Armstrong
Presbyterian Sunday School
McComb
Will Geagley
Bette Brice
Don Menzies
Margaret Meikie
Arthur Bishop
Blake
P. A. Blake
George Gregg
Iman Sigeight
Blockton
Chevrolgg Coach
Priebe
State la
Engi
Margaret Camper
Phil Slattery
Slattery
Marning
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