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Newspaper
Bedford Times Press
Location
Bedford, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1945
Page
8
A serviceman writes home from the Philippines describing visits with fellow Bedford friends Jim Duncan and Charlie Blake, requests for care packages, and a new homelike scene with radios and lights. He notes the rainy season, local flowers Sampaguita and bougainvillea, and plans to send a Manila souvenir bolo knife while recounting social visits and village life.
Attendees listed include Mrs. John Godfrey Mrs. Rome Brooks Mrs. E Ridenour Mrs. John Fuller Mrs. Walter Noble and John David Herren. District Superintendent Rev E D Young of Lincoln Nebraska will be with us Saturday for the last quarterly meeting of the conference year. Rev Young preaches at 8 PM followed by a business meeting. Arrangements for Sunday services announced at Wednesday Union Meetings at the Methodist Church.
A John Godfrey home dinner hosted seven people on Thursday for Father s Day. Guests included Ira Arthur family Jean and Ralph Bayless and Edith Green. Sunday Guy Noble hosted a Father s Day dinner with Frank Noble Jim Lewis C Doyle Skip Stiverson Dale Peterman and Ethel Link. New Market Masonic Lodge held a picnic at New Market Park with about seventy attendees and Ted Pressley of Clarinda as guest speaker.
Lolita Abbott stayed with grandparents in Bedford and many relatives from Atlantic, St. Joseph, Emerson, Humansville, Kansas City and Bearaboo gathered for visits and meals. The group included Rex Moorman, Claude Mooreman, Betty Jo Journey, Vicent Farr, Gladys Burrough, Ira Arthur, Bearaboo hires, Stine Journey, Ian Vernon, Cecil Martin, Raymond Martin, Louise Pullian, Helen Martin, Effie Hawkins, Dora Lindsay, Fern Ray, Robert Malcolm and others sharing social time and travel.
Crossword puzzle across clues include sources of cocaine, silkscarf, enclosure and other terms. The column also lists community notices with names such as Harry Rood, Phyllis Lyddon, Leona Mutti and families visiting Lenox and Des Moines, plus a silver wedding anniversary and Father’s Day gathering.
Shenandoah social notes list visits and gatherings across the region. Mrs. Elizabeth Shearer and Mrs. Cora Hughs of Bedford stayed with the Hughs family, while Mr. and Mrs. Terbell visited Eura Bradley near Bedford. Cpl. Harold Adams, recently returned from a German prison camp, was seen with family in Clotinda.
Mrs. Ethel Houchins and daughter hosted a Friday dinner for Tom Reed soon to enter service. Attending were the Houchin family, Frank Blake family of Kansas City, Clan Blake, Ida Wiles, Alpha Howell of Des Moines, J. D. Hough of Omaha, T. E. Hall with daughter, Mrs. Walters and children of New Market, and Goo wal of Clarinda. The group gathered following the funeral of Mrs. Chas Hall in Gravity.
Pvt and Mrs Ivan Eighmy of Texas and other relatives visit Nevinville Iowa friends and kin. Several residents travel to Kansas St Joseph and Omaha while waves serviceman Clara Lou Morris in California visits Lenox Cedar Rapids and Des Moines connections appear in a busy social recap.
Clearfield residents Rev C. L. Ellis and his daughter visited Tuesday. Ellis will lead the Methodist church in Afton next year while Rev Rowe and family relocate to the town for their new duties.
Mrs Darrel Lyddon left Tuesday for Chicago to join her husband and return to Goldbeach Oregon where Sgt Darrell Lyddon is stationed. Mrs Iva Parslow and Mrs Belle Anderson left Sunday for Storm Lake for the summer. Harry Bladon of California is visitinghis father Will Bladon for an indefinite time. Miss Lydia Blosser of Mount Pleasant Iowa visited last week.
Mr and Mrs Tom Longfellow and relatives from Hopkins join an Underwood family reunion in Atchison Kansas on Sunday. Guests include Arch Wolverton and Cecil Swigart families with visits from Phoenix and Maryville residents. Readables note birthdays and weekend stays across Bedford Pickering Clearfield and Maryville areas.
Mr and Mrs Charles Weland entertained their son Anneth Weland and family and Mrs DeLoss W Nicholas and Mr Nicholas at dinner Sunday Circle 3 of the W S C S of the
Mrs Avis Shipley of Den Cole visited Mr and Henry Roush with other relatives last week. Miss Ethel Hepburn arrives Thursday to spend a vacation with her parents, the Hepburns. Miss Opal Orme spends a few days in Kansas City with friends. Mr and Mrs Chas Hanna and daughter Sue of Shenandoah spent the weekend with relatives here. Mr and Mrs R A Tu were guests of relatives in Riway Mo on Sunday. Miss Dorothy Loch returns Thursday from Willisea where she had stayed with the C Thompson family. Mary Florence Fike stays with relatives at Maryville and visits her mother E E Fike in hospital. Fike is recovering from an operation.
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