Drivers Renew Licenses Now at Sheriff Office
Drivers renewals available at Sheriff J. T. Caskey office in the courthouse with old license card and 75 cent fee. Renewals issued daily. three methods include in person, by mail, or via a friend. Miss Dunbar of Lenox will issue renewals Wednesdays and Saturdays 9 to 10 am at Hugh Tyler building.
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Sheriff’s Office
Des Moines
Sheriff's Office
J. T. Caskey
Arthur Dinwiddie
Bedford
Maxine Dunbar
Lenox
Hugh Tyler
Caskey
Court House
Valley Homecoming Set For June 13
The annual Valley Homecoming will be held Sunday June 13 with the time changed due to weather and high waters.
McNutt Wins Honor In A Story Contest
Robert McNutt, editor-in-chief of South High’s The Tooter, earned a national story contest honor from Scholastic Magazine and Quill and Scroll and previously won a sports writing medal last fall. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Ray McNutt of Omaha, formerly of New Market, and nephew of Mrs Paul Clark and Mrs Walter Noble of New Market.
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Scholastic
Quill and Scroll
South High
the Tooter
Robert
Ray McNutt
Omaha
New Market
Paul Clark
Walter Noble
Can Strawberries This Easy Way
Home canning guidance from Taylor County demonstrations by Mary Louise Simon and Miriam Williams outlines a quick method for preserving strawberries. Add water and sugar, prevent sticking, avoid mashing, then heat and let berries sit in juice overnight before a quick boil and five minute water bath.
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Taylor County
Mary Louise Simon
Farm Security Home
Miriam Williams
Marriage Licenses Issued to Four Couples in Maryville Area
A marriage license was issued to Robert P. Dougherty of New Market and Lorene Hood of Utica Iowa. Also licensed were Will H. King of Hopkins and Muriel Parkfield of South Sioux City Nebraska. A license was granted to Charles Hookham of Clarinda and LaVaunne Ingram of New Market.
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Maryville
Robert P. Dougherty
New Market
Lorene Hood
Utica
Towa
Will H. King
Hopkins
Muriel Parkfield
South Sioux City
Nebraska
Charles Hookham
Clarinda
LaVaunne Ingram
Three From Taylor On Prisoner List
Three Taylor county men are named among Iowans held as prisoners of war in transit camps in Italy. The list was received in Des Moines from Bishop Gerald Bergan via the papal secretary of state. The three from this county are Pvt. Lige Britt of New Market Cpl. George Jones of New Market and Pfc. Robert Hudson of Lenox.
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Taylor County
Pvt
Lige Britt
New Market
Cpl
George Jones
Pfc
Robert H. Hudson
Lenox
Campbell Twin Is Reported As Dead
Navy officials announced Mack Edward Campbell son of Harlan and Vera Amick Campbell Blockton was killed January 29 1943 when the U S S Chicago was attacked near the Solomon Islands He had been missing in action prior to the notification He survived by his twin brother Jack his sisters Betty Austin and Helen and his grandparents Memorial services were held May 20 with other tribute for Robert Harvey also noted as a naval casualty in the Canal Zone
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H. S. Campbell
Blockton
Navy Department
Mack
U.S.S. Chicago
Solomon Islands
Mack Edward Campbell
Harlan and
Vera Amick Campbell
Jack
Fort Leonard Wood
Missouri
Betty Austin
Ukiah
California
Helen Campbell
Ida Campbell
E. F. Amick
Mack Campbell
T Robert Harvey
M. J. Votruba
BO D. Stewart
R. C. Yader
Robert Harvey
M. A. Harvey
Canal Zone
Navy
Fourty First H 41H Members Take Part In War Work
Taylor county 4-H club girls enlist in the 4-H Victory Army pledging to spend hours in Victory Gardening and Food Preservation this summer. They also commit to poultry egg production clothing conservation sav-age campaigns war bond drives and farm home labor. Lightning struck the Ed Raper barn near Blackton Saturday morning causing heavy damage and shocking Mr and Mrs Raper.
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Lightning Hits
Ed Roper Farm
Taylor County
4-H Club
4-H
Victory Army
Ed Raper
Blackton
Mrs. Raper
Big Moth Found In Bedford Area Garden
Mrs. Dewey Morehouse of Bedford’s east side found a large brown moth with mottled shading in her garden on Monday. The seven inch wingspan creature was given to Glen Sharp of Bedford to add to his collection.
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Dewey Morehouse
Bedford
Glen Sharp
Fire Threatens The Ben Franklin Store
Fire discovered burning on the second floor of the Ben Franklin Store Friday about 1 30 p m by employee Bob Harbour. Harbour went to the floor above to find the source and called for help. Damage was limited to water damage below the fire.
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Ben Franklin
Bob
Harbour
Young Harbour
Children's Day at Presby Church Sunday
A Presbyterian Church program titled Children's Day will be held Sunday June 13 starting at 11 o'clock. The event features opening songs, recitations by children including Welcome to you and If I were you, several exercises and messages, group songs, and a playlet about missionaries performed by Phylis Beebe Martha Beebe Peggy Cross Rachel Ross and others.
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Presbyterian Church
wTayor
Jon Clark Crum
Donavan Lucas
Jesus
Bonnie Davie
Ellen Jo Reed
Judy Cross
Phil Bartlett
Sally Jo Jewell
Norma Bristow
David Thompson
Barbara Jean Foot
Eumice Beebe
Shirley "Bristow
Virginia Stewart
Peggy Young
Billy Robinson
Robert Bristow
Bob Meikle
Paul Bartlett
Bill Meikle
Kenneth Ross
Ronald Seckman
Frances
GOP Women Send Delegates To D M
Mrs. Paul Stephens of the Taylor County Republican Women’s Clubs will attend the State Convention in Des Moines on Thursday June 17. The Kirkwood Hotel hosts sessions and a noon luncheon. Delegates from Taylor County are Mrs G W Hook and Mrs Charles Worley with alternates Mrs Addie Besco Mrs Ella Thompson and Miss Jennie Ackerman.
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Paul Stephens
Taylor County
Republican Women's Clubs
Des Moines
Kirkwood Hotel
O. J. Kirketey
G. W. Hook
Charles Worley
Addie Besco
Ella Thompson
Jennie Ackerman
Rainfall Piles Up Amid Farm Worries In Local Area
From May 15 to June 9 total rainfall reached 9.51 inches per Chambers Bros observ ers raising concerns about corn prospects. June totals show 5.14 inches with ongoing showers. Burlington line Creston St Joseph service limited by high waters. Weather readings note low temperatures dipping to 43 and highs near 88 with frequent rain.
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Chambers Bros
Creston - St. Joseph
Burlington
Chambers Farm
Service family news from Gravity area during wartime
Local notes list soldiers and sailors home on furloughs or stationed away, with visits to Gravity and surrounding towns. Individuals include Eset Bill Churchill Indiantown Gap Pennsylvania visiting Gravity. Chester Hall visiting Blockton from the army. Bob Leighton in the U S Navy at Farragut Idaho. Pinky Trumbo aviation cadet at Ames. Paul Mohler and family at Fort Benjamin Harrison. and many others across Fort Bliss, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Drew Field, and more. Details cover furloughs, visits, transfers, promotions, and submarine duty letters to families.
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Bob Leighton
U. S. Navy
Farragut
Idaho
Pollock Peony Gardens Gift Delights The Times-Press
The Times-Press thanks Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Pollock, operators of Pollock Peony Gardens in north Bedford, for a large bouquet of three colored peonies. One bloom measured eight inches across in full bloom. The office force appreciates the thoughtful gesture.
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Times-Press
R. R. Pollock
Pollock Peony Gardens
North
Bedford
Pigs On Pasture Need Some Feed
Farmers with pigs on pasture should supplement with feed though grass and exercise aid growth. Start with oats or a wheat oats mix, add ground corn and protein as pigs reach 25 pounds, and adjust protein as pigs reach 50 to 60 pounds for market. If pasture is good protein can be reduced or eliminated.
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Robert Davie
Terraces Prove They Do The Job In Taylor County
Heavy rains caused widespread soil loss across Taylor County with Gullied fields and muddy streams. Terraced fields showed near zero erosion, prompting Soil District technicians to praise farmers and urge more terrace construction this summer and fall. Contact Soil District office for planning and assistance.
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Taylor County
Soil District
Suil
Army Corporal Loren Helm Advances in North Africa Service
Loren Helm, now a Technician 4th Class in the Transportation Division of the Quartermaster Corps, recently advanced after serving in North Africa. Kenneth I. Mullen, Yeoman Second Class, Navy, transferred from El Monte California to Detroit Michigan and stopped in Omaha for a brief visit with relatives during a thirty minute layover.
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Loren Helm
North Africa
Transportation Division
The
Quartermaster Corps
Kenneth I. Mullen
U. S. Navy
el Monte
California
Detroit
Michigan
Omaha
Bedford
al Mullen
Doris
Jean
Dean Mullen
Bob Mullen
Gerald
Ill and Hospital News From Gravity and Surrounding Towns
Local notices report Mrs Elmer Hatfield at Municipal Hospital Clarinda receiving treatments while Mrs Louisa Perry of Gravity is ill at Francis Martin Home Gravity Elmer Burwell improving after serious illness in Gravity Sadler notes Mrs Joe Reid ill at her Gravity home George Hough seriously ill at his Conway home Joe Welch receives treatment at Nichols Sanatorium Savannah Mo Belle Burrows ill at Conway Zeluf seriously ill at Conway Terry Bedford enters Veterans Hospital Des Moines for treatment Joe Cochran Sharpsburg to Clarinda Municipal Hospital for checkup Charley Haun Sheridan seriously ill Don Huntsman Gravity to University Hospital Iowa City under observation Mrs P C Miller Conway improved from pneumonia Mrs Walter Fuelberth Gravity returns from Excelsior Springs Mo Daisy Pinkerton New Market taken to Municipal Hospital Clarinda Glanestogdill Des Moines former Sharpsburg resident suffers light stroke Donald Marsh recuperating at home near Gravity Eddie Scott Kansas City recovering from appendectomy Annie Humphrey seriously ill with fractured hip in Marysville hospital
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Annie Humphrey
Vella Gill
Hopkins
Marysville
Gill
Rapers Son Es Itt David Raper Undergoes Major Operation
David Raper of Kimball Nebraska underwent a major operation at the local hospital Monday as reported to his parents Mr and Mrs Ed Raper of Blockton. His daughter Estle Nelson remains seriously ill in a Potter Nebraska hospital. Donnie Carpenter three-year-old of Sheridan Missouri was taken to Maryville for removal of an abscess near his elbow after his arm was caught in a power wringer.
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Leighton McCormick
Jefferson Barracks
Missouri
Raper
Kimball
Nebraska
Ed Raper
Blockton
Estle Nelson
Potter
Donnie
Paul Carpenter
Sheridan
Maryville
Women Taught Home Nursing in Taylor County
Taylor County Red Cross expands home nursing instruction as a graduate nurse arrives to lead eight weeks of classes in Bedford. Twenty women enrolled with space for ten more. lessons run Wednesday evenings in the high school lunch room focusing on caring for invalids.
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Taylor County
Red Cross
Armed Services
G. W. Hook
Bedford
Bedford boys at Sheepshead Bay U S Maritime Service base
Robert Snyder writes from the U S Maritime Service Training Station at Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn noting the large camp across from a Coast Guard base, about 12,000 men there. He describes swimming drills depth divers life boats and gun training including .50 cal and 3 and 5 inch guns as part of wartime training and asks Bedford readers to write home.
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U. S. Maritime Service
Sheepshead Bay
Bedford
Merchant Marines
Brooklyn
Manhattan Beach
Coast Guard
Chas
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Great Lakes Naval Station
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Lueilen Ross
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Mat Evans
St. Joseph
Jim Allen
Clyde Russell
Conway
Florence Russell
GOP
D.M
Bill Churchill
Indiantown Gap
Pennsylvania
Chester Hall
Mrs. Chas, Hall of
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Tlebanon
Penn
Francis
Pinky" Trumbo
Ames
Paul Trumbo
Francis Potter
San Diego
Calif
Frank Potter
Siam
Albert Radke
Drew Field
Tampa
Florida
Raymond Weineger
Clearfield
Seattle
Washington
Set
Paul Mohler
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Indiana
T Here
Frank Mohler
Richard D. Shafar
Fort Riley
Kansas
and Mirmsy, Shafar
Clyde Shaffer
Camp Claiborne
R. E. Spurrier
Kansas City
Kenneth Scott
A. D. Scott
Gravity
Fort Bliss
Texas
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Laurence Simmons
Eildon Ratekin
Ralph Ratekin
Henry Swinehart
Fort Bragg
North Carolina
Mrs. Swinehart
George Stanley
Junction City
Ralph Fine
Maloy
Virgil Brooks
Robbins Field
Macon
Georgia
Les Round
Cyl
Max Keith
el Paso
Ollie Keith
San Forest Hanshaw
Army Air Corps
Michigan College of Mining and Technology
Houghton, Michigan
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Williamsport
Geo. E. Gray
Ben Hayworth
U.S. Army
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Tennessee
Alph Hayworth
Essex
John Houston
Aberdeen
Aberdeen Proving Grounds
Army
Mutti Motor Company
Dean Million
Franklin, Million
Seaman Ic
Pacific
Willard Helm
U. S. Army
Alaska
Willard
Roy Helm
Ike McNutt
Loy D. McNutt
Ralph Edwards
Arcadia
Fort Leavenworth
Mrs. Edwards
Seaman Jim Richey
Hopkin
Byron Richey
Alk
William Growney Cummins
Burlington Junction
Cummins
Donald F. Maskey
Armed “Forces
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Mary Wood
Bill Bailie
Motorized Infantry
Henry S. Hamblin
Stillwater
Oklahoma
Oklahoma A & M
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Army Field Artillery
Stanford University
L. Guy Young
Auty
Washington, D. C
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Ireland
Scotland
French Morocco
Tunisia
Tran
New
Bernard White
Kentucky
Ben White
Creston
A. L. Weingarthen
Harry Lucas
Mew Market
Sgt
Bishop Bergan
Ulith the
Elmer Hatfield
Lir
Mrs
Louisa Perry
Francis Martin
Mr. Burwell
Elmer Burwell
Joe Reid
South Gravity
George Hough
IU Geo
Hough
Joe Welch
Nichols’ Sanatorium
Savannah
Belle Burrows
Zeluf
Terry
Phil Terry
Veterans Hospital
Hosptal
Joe Cochran
Sharpsburg
Charley Haun
Iowa City
Don Huntsman
University Hospital
Walter Fuelberth
Excelsior Springs
Daisy Pinkerton
Blane Stogdill
Donald Marsh
Roy Herbert
Delphos
Eddie Scott
Art Scott
St. Joseph Hospital
Robert Snyder
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