Local families gather for dinners and visits in Bedford area
Mrs. Helen Clark hosted June 14 dinner with Frank Clark and others. Relatives and friends from Wall Hill Nebraska Hopkins and Des Moines shared visits through June as grandchildren, cousins, and in laws stayed overnight or spent weekends with the Baxters, Clarks, and other local households.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Clark
Hopkins
Frank Clark
Frank Sleep
Frank Abell
Glenn Hinkle
Linda
Robb Calkins
Wall Hill
Nebr
Elza Fine
Glen Hinkle
Rubb Calkins
Calkins
Gordon Powell
Guy Hinton
Vicki
Danny Bloomfield
Glenwood
John Baxter
Virginia Farlow
Emmetsburg
Iowa
Leonard Moore
Robert Baxter
Debbie
Titonka
Verne Brumfield
Blockton
Ken Kemner
Bob
Offutt Afb
Omaha
Harold Mitchell
Gene
80 Acres Here Sold by Gov t For 100
Bedford Iowa’s centennial notes Edwin Houck founder of Bedford purchased from the Government an 80 acre tract for 100 dollars. Houck's first home stood near the P M Place Co. store with his wife arriving from the East and receiving a beaded purse as a token of friendship from local Indians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gov’t
Lake of Three Fires State Park
Bedford
Iowa
Taylor County
Edwin Houck
Pennsylvania
Houck
P.M. Place Co
Sharpsburg Visitors Help In Ill Relative's Home
Mrs Noy Kerns reports Mrs Nina Rice of Twinsburg Ohio and daughter Elaine Staler of Cleveland Ohio visited two weeks with Mrs Rice’s parents Mr and Mrs Tom Walston to assist during Mrs Walston’s illness. Others traveled to ile Mo for dinner at Wayne Morris home and extended family from Bedford Cedar Rapids Des Moines and Omaha attended events. Judy Beck returned to Des Moines hospital for nurse training after vacation with her parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ned Shafar
Deanne
Loni
Renae
Aliana
Newton
Kans
Bedford
Fay Shafar
Fred Dean
Mondamin
Iowa
Darwin Lacy
Kathy Pullen
Omaha
Bill Pullen
Kathy
Melvin Gayle
Jimmie Dealing
Winterset
Frank Stingley
Pearl Thompson
Paul Morris
C. W. Steward
Bessie Reams
Mound City
Herbert Lawrence
Hanlan
W. L. Brown
Gravity
Brown
Howard Perdew
Sharpsburg
George Depew
Gladys Spurgeon
Kansas City
Clifton Hanshaw
Fred E. Fuller
Charles Spurgeon
Toledo
Ohio
T. V. Lacy
Harold Lacy
Des Moines
Elena
Marcia Kinney
Spirit Lake
Frank Clark
Frank Sleep
Guy Hinton
Helen Clark
Hop, Mo
Noy Kerns
Nina Rice
Twinsburg
Elaine Staler
Cleveland
del Page
Mike
Pat Walston
Cedar Rapids
Tom Walston
Judy Beck
Town Methodist Hospital
Nurge
Roy Beck
C. E. Schoommerce
Nebi
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U.S.D.A
Gus Glaser Franks
D Perring
Morrell Pride
Portney
Texas Watermelons
Wash
Bing
Chole Ham
Delsey
Shank
Ryt
Instant Maxwell House
Gooch
Nabisco
Cae
Borden
Nian
Wheaties
Vatoes
Glen Tull
Shenandoah
Tull
Andrew Kristoff
Della Ely
Topeka
Carroll
Burnell Toombs
Rollie Wolverton
Lewis Warner
Vernon Warner
Jerry and
Judy
Phoenix, Ariz
Cecil Swigart
Eldon Jackson
Vonna Rae
Ronnie Wolverton
Jeanne
Carla
Mary Wolverton
William Salter
Troy John
Beatrice Ulmer Payne
Sara
Patty
Miami
Flo
Jim Ulmer
Denver
Lloyd Stickelman
Don Perkins
Jeffrey
Janet
Columbus
Cico Perkins
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