Local Social Notes From Gravity and Surrounding Areas
Mr and Mrs Milo Allison and party visited Mary ville on a business trip Friday. Mr and Mrs Max King and Dale visited in the home of his parents in Gravity on Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Albert Downing and children spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Horace Richardson at Shambaugh. The Dun can family of Bedford with Claude Thompson Richard and Robert plus Miss Aileen and Miss Wilma Thompson were guests Saturday at Doyle Thompsons. Mr and Mrs John Woodyard of Amarillo Texas stayed Thursday night and Friday with Leland Jones and family. Mrs Hattie Dickerson reported a hip injury recovery in Lincoln Ill and is now at pene Prairie Tl with sister Catherine Harris. Mr and Mrs Jim Jefferies attended a birthday dinner at Guy Hicks home honoring Mrs Clara Larsson on her seventyninth birthday Tuesday with Orville Jefferies and Jimmie present. Elmer Thompson hosted Mr and Mrs John O Doherty Hercel Hubert and Duane plus Claude Thompson Richard and Robert at supper Friday. Naomi Thompson, employed in Bedford, visited Wednesday to Sunday with her parents Mr and Mrs Elmer Thompson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milo Allison
Maryville
Max King and
Dale
As C. King
Albert Downing
Horace Richardson
Shambaugh
Leland Duncan
Bedford
Claude Thompson
Richard
Robert
Aileen Thompson
Wilma Thompson
Doyle Thompson
John Woodyard
Amarillo
Texas
Leland Jones
Hattie Dickerson
Lincoln
Ill
Catherine Harris
Pene Prairie, Tl
Clurs
Jim Jefferies
Guy Hicks
Clara Larsson
Orville Jefferies
Jimmie
Elmer Thompson
John O’dougherty
Hercel
Hubert
Duane
Naomi Thompson
Hawkins
Jasper Hubbell
Virgil O’ Riley
Hopkins
Cleo Ulmer
Lloyd Burch
Galen Ulmer
F. A. Barnes
Allan Barnes
George Peach
Dale Kings
Jim Sleep
Arthur McMaster
Grover Jackson
David Barnes
Joyce
Nelle Rosecrans
al Kysar
Willis Browning
Arch Huddles
Conway
Claude Fine
Galen Smith
Des Moines
Willard Smith
Howard
Elizabeth Beauchamp
Ervin Herting
Emmitt Beal
Glen Greever
E. H. Beauchamp
O. J. Wilson
Max Greever
Bille King
Joe Rusco
Leonard Rusco
Marilyn
C. C. Jenkins
Kathleen
Ralph Jenkins
Forest Ray
Lenox
C. R. Sickel
Roy Reed
Blockton
Roy Dawson
Ora Clark
Bethany
J. P. Clark
Paul Sickels
John Sickels
John Large
Oliver Ray
Melvin Joffee
John
St. Joseph
J. W. Large
Harold Ray
Forest Murray
Wilford Lynch
Milo Murray
Grant City
Tom Fluke
Mary E. White
Alma White
Raymond White
Roy Naill
Delbert Surplus
Ed Parker
Marion Jenkins
Turner Rusco
Charley Brown
Platteville
Henry Young
John Cordell
Betty Jane Ray
George Campbell
Fern Klocksein
Margaret Hanson
Kathleen Jenkins
Ralph
Norma Jean Kenery
Tom Benadom
D. J. Hays
Randolph
G. W
Ladies Aid
Community Church
Minerva Foreman
Herman Smith
Robert Brumfield
New Market
Verne Chandler
Bettie Balch
Sam McCalla
Athelstan
Fred Woods
Billie
Roy Kenery
Norma Jean
Shirley
Karl Hillers
George Hillers
Jess Younken
Near Platteville
Stanley Damewood
Loren Waldruff
Conlin Jobe
George Oxley
Eldon Clayton
Harry Stewart
Grace Johnson
Mary Cayner
Rol Jeffers
Sam Jeffers
Harry Clayton
Harry David
del Miller
Glenn Stewart
Glenn Eldon
Alva Clayton
Harold Baldwin
Delia Baldwin
Fine
Dean Damewood
Daugthers
Caleb Jobe
Bruce MecClarnon
Eleanor Joyce
Loren Woldruff
Ernest Gray
Janice
Frank Shields
Orie Woldruff
Joan Bast
Bast
Jesse
Oscar Stewart
Rochester
Minn
Etta Stewart
Ed Stewart
Elvis Johnson
Thurstomother
Delia
Death of Benjamin M. Lantz in Sheridan Iowa
Benjamin M. Lantz 75 a Democrat and Mason died at home in Sheridan Worth county after a stroke suffered a week earlier He lived in or near Sheridan for 65 years and worked for Stingley stores Survived by widow five children four sisters a brother and a half brother Funeral services were held at the Sheridan Methodist church with Masonic rites at Blockton cemetery The notice also lists community social visits and local residents moving here and there this week including bridge club hosting and several local trips and illnesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin M. Lantz
West Union Township
Worth County
Mason
Sheridan
Lantz
Stingley
Mary Lantz
Guy Lantz
Blockton
Fred Bownes
Athelstan
Local Visitors and Family News from Hazel Dell and Nearby
Hazel Dell and Maryville areas report Sunday visits by Mrs. Hawkins Mr. and Mrs Jasper Hubbell and their son and by Lloyd Burch and family at Galen Ulmer’s. Numerous local relatives entertain and travel with Barnes Ulmer Kysar and Beauchamp families amid health notes and moving plans.
Local residents and visitors frequent Athelstan area
Athelstan and surrounding towns host a flurry of visits and moves. Families from Lenox Blockton Bedford and Conway socialize attend sales attend church gatherings and relocate between farms. Notable items include the Sickels moving to the Large farm and Betty Jane Ray visiting Conway with Oliver Ray.
Turley Raines and Lois MacFay Murder Plot Unfolds
Lois MacFay is saved by Onurles from a gunfire in a tangled plot involving Dud Horn the main suspect and MacFay’s housekeeper Mrs Bellam who reveals a hidden maternal link. Nick finds Nora at the West Indies Club and encounters Dum-Dum and Cookie as a melee erupts with disclosures about Linda Mills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Onurles
Lois Mac‘Fay
Dud- Horn
Lois
Horn
Grurch
MacFay
The Dream Ends As Phil Church Falls From Window
In a tense scene Nick and Nora witness Phil Church step onto a fire escape ledge and fall to the sidewalk after a confrontation. Police struggle to control the crowd as chaos erupts around the building onlookers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles
Nick
Church
MacFay
Nora
Phil Church
Murder alibi thriller climaxes with a courtroom twist
In a tense circle Nick reveals Church staged a trick to fake an alibi for MacFay. Freddie confesses to the murder, while Lois fights exposure as Nick exposes Horn and Vogel’s involvement. Nora signals a new drink, ending the confrontation with a chilling reveal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MacFay
van Slack
Nick
Lois
Church
Smitty
Freddie
Reddie
Horn
Siam Mutual Telephone annual meeting held at community hall
The Siam Mutual Telephone meeting convened at the community hall Wednesday afternoon with Minnie Rayborn re-hired as operator for the coming year. Ernest Gray elected president of the telephone union. Several members traveled to Maryville to donate blood for Grace Johnson in hospital, and many local residents visited family or friends over the weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siam Mutual
Minnie Rayborn
Ernest Gray
Telephone Union
Expect Gain in Soybean Acreage in Corn Belt
Farmers in northwest Missouri northeast Kansas southwest Iowa and southeast Nebraska look to soybeans as a cash crop due to poor wheat prospects low oats prices and high soybean prices. Dannen Grain and Milling Co. of St Joseph helped spur expansion as yields rise in the region from 15 to 30 bushels per acre and varieties like Dunfield Dini Manchu and Mukden are recommended for local conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Kansas
Iowa
Nebraska
St. Joseph
United States
Irge
Canada
Gulf States
Dannen Grain and Milling Company of
Dannens
Goveeang
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Times-Press
B. M. Lantz
Virgil Goin
XVI
Bridge Club
Jesse Straight
Ralph Brogan
George Tippie
Louis Cooper
Claud Cooper
L. W. Curry
Danl Churchill
Dale Andrews
Hamburg
Cecil Churchill
A. G. Robinson
Anaga
Olathe
Topeka
Kans
H. Gray Harris
Bill Holland
Fayette College
Ivan Geer
Little Son Carroll
Knoodle
Burlington Junction
Hazel Dell
Eer Turlsey Raines
Copsright
Ty Loew
Part
Tio Orienta
Él Art
Sarre
Trident
Phigun
Mr. Church
Cris
Nick Mence
Gedlady
Ty van Ata
Asta
Caurch
SIAM
The
Bedford Times- Press
Missor
Owens
Tom
Broan
Kenesa
Jay E. Hughes
Main Street
Colorado
Oak Barber Shop
Dean Hand
Aetna Farms
Avery
Day
Pickering
C. C. Carlton Farm
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