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Newspaper
Bedford Times Press
Location
Bedford, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1934
Page
7
Miss Jean Beebe of Red Oak visits relatives in Bedford. Numerous Bedford residents and visitors from Des Moines to Maryville gather for family talks, concerts, and hometown events. The piece catalogs many short social arrivals, visits, and departures across Bedford, Conway, Sharpsburg, and surrounding towns, noting musical performances and local engagements.
Anita Osborn heads 44H event in Benton township with Mrs Roy Weatherly. Playlets on 4 H life titled The Waves of Tory Footprints on the Sands of Time The Courtesy Question Box and The Song of Health. Miss Marjorie Keith recited An If For Girls. Rally featured a noon picnic and talks by Esther Pane from Ames extension. Benton township had most members. Clayton township most visitors. One hundred ten attended.
An ambulance from Iowa City transferred Joe Hogue son of Mr and Mrs H G Hogue to a hospital Tuesday morning. He had a broken hip several weeks ago and the cast he has worn will be removed. His mother accompanied him to the hospital.
Miss Mary Margaret Moore Miss Edith Slack Miss Mildred Barker and Miss Marjorie Goud ie of Gravity Miss Genevieve Webb of New Market and Miss Ola Abbitt of Lenox are teachers from Taylor county enrolled at the Iowa State Teachers College in Corning during the summer months. Mrs Wareham and Annette of Denison Iowa are guests of Mr and Mrs Ed Ahrens. Robert Bates home on leave from the United States Navy for a few days after enlisting three months ago for about four years. He is in training at Norfolk Va and will be sent aboard ship on the Ranger or to the Asiatic fleet. He says he is well satisfied with life.
Mr and Mrs J F Tackett visited near Blockton to celebrate Eldon Leo Barnes first birthday with Mr and Mrs I C Barnes and family including Glade and Gerald Barnes Carmen Campbell and two sons Nellie Barnes and others attended Also Mr and Mrs Dave Todd spent Friday in Shenandoah A Children's Day program was held at Hazel Dell Wayne and Maxine Irvin visited grandparents T M Alkire Mrs F L Conway and daughters Jacqueline Darlene Patricia of Cantril Iowa are visiting Jennie Allison Leila Allison home from Maryville summer school at her home with John Cooper family also Charles Myers Siam guest of John Cooper Sunday
Taylor county relief office reports over 100 men on pay rolls for weekly relief projects. Des Moines notes a no work week from June 29 to July 5 under a four week work month plan. Relief families may earn to cover budget deficiencies. vendors must obtain an order signed by Mrs J M Williams. May relief activity shows 19 cases closed saving about 225 dollars, 24 new cases opened, 16 reopened.
Five Valley School eighth graders Margaret Bordner Helen Mendenhall Dorothea Melvin Winfred King and Kenneth McMaster attended rural graduation exercises in Bedford Friday morning accompanied by parents. Other items note Grand Lodge delegates from Plumodge No 285, a Valley Children’s Day program on June 24, and several local visits among families in Valley Hopkins Siam and Maryville areas.
Marion Stewart and family visits near Corning and Gravity are noted with many relatives dining or calling at local homes. Jane McMaster is ill with red measles. Dora James of Lincoln Nebraska visits Grandma Osborn’s caregiver. Raymond Bridgewater plowed for Wallis Jackson. four wagons with about a dozen campers stayed on school grounds Friday night.
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