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Newspaper
Bedford Times Press
Location
Bedford, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1943
Page
6
Local residents and relatives traverse states for visits across Iowa Nebraska and Kansas. Orleans of Bedford host relatives while others travel to Omaha Kansas City Perry and Washington for family gatherings and medical or memorial visits.
June 11 report shows the East 102 River carry off topsoil from about 276 acres drained by 90 sections near Bedford. At 6 feet per second and 1400 square feet cross section, soil content exceeded 1 percent, totaling about 302 400 tons in twenty hours with implications for grass crops and soil conservation.
William Salter of Camp Claiborne La honored at a Sunday dinner hosted by his brother George Salter Jr and family. Numerous relatives and friends attended including Marguerite Wolverton and Ivan Highmy.
In Franks Priebe weekly letter to Poultry Raisers he argues for larger poultry by fall harvest to meet demand. He suggests feeding and raising more chicks and weighing birds to at least 2 1/2 pounds before sale, warning against waste from losses and undersized birds.
Numerous residents from Gravity and surrounding towns are listed with hospital stays and transfers. Mrs. Fern Joslyn and Dean Koneene underwent operations at Municipal Hospital in Clarinda, while Mrs. E M Schneider remains as a patient there. Other entries note hospital visits, observations, and transfers to St Joseph and Mayo institutions, with several patients returning home after treatment or observation.
Mrs. Bessie Hicks Eighmy of New Market learns three lyrics Good Night Sweet Dreams Why Do Worry I Have Fallen In Love With You were accepted for publication as commercial songs by Golden West Music Publishers in Oregon Arrangements with Nora Lou and Her Pals to record the songs after publication They have been featured on Camel Caravan touring army camps and heard on radio broadcasts Eighmy has prior writings attracting publishers and radio play
J F Dory former Fontanelle resident dies at 91 after a stroke and long illness. Funeral services held Friday at the Congregational Church in Fontanelle with burial in the local cemetery. He was the father of Emma Dory a Bedford schools teacher, and survived by a daughter, two sons and a sister.
Last week Des Moines hosted a Masonic Grand Lodge session with attendees including Harry Putnam secretary of the Local lodge and O J Kirketeg a Nuance committee member of the Grand Lodge.
A Children's Day program will be held at 10:30 during the last half of Sunday school at the Methodist Church on Sunday June 20. The event includes a welcome song, Children’s Day song, a solo by Martha Stickelman, The Church’s Children, a recitation by Paul Owen, and songs by Juniors and Dorothea Lincoln Fund recital by Dorothea Lincoln.
A son was born Saturday June 12 to Mr and Mrs Viron Nelson of Sheridan Missouri.
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