11 Mar 1948
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Newspaper
Bedford Times Press
Location
Bedford, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1948
Page
1
Elizabeth Herson at her farm near Clearfield died Sunday. Born January 28 1849 in Times she was near 100. Survived by two sons Cleve and Burdette. Funeral at Presbyterian church Diagonal with burial at Diagonal cemetery. Nearby residents moved into Clearfield area and properties changed hands.
The Women’s Council of the Christian Church met at Mrs. Roy Nickles home on Wednesday. The W S C S of the Methodist church gathered at the parsonage with Mrs. D C Callison as hostess. The Grant Center ladies met with Mrs. Wm Osmond for an all day meeting Thursday and tied a comforter for the hostess. Mrs Dean Lyddon hosted the Hiway Culture Club Thursday evening.
Local social calendar lists multiple group events including the Community Club supper at Tepley Cafe and Legion meetings at Legion Hall. Notable notes include officers elected for the Missionary Society and Friendly Neighbor Club, a 33rd wedding anniversary surprise, and visits by residents to Kansas City and Des Moines.
SHARPSBURG reports four new pupils Linda Beemer Gary Beemer Betsy Mae Firkins and Lewis Riley joining a twenty pupil primary room with ten in primer five in first and five in second grades. Joan Fitzgerald has been absent two weeks due to illness. The girls and boys basketball ...
SHARPSBURG LOCALS report Tuesday evening games after snow closures. No school Tuesday or Wednesday due to blocked roads. Mrs. Fred Blood hosted Presbyterian ladies. Haldean Severn visited from the east coast. Frank Bridgewater and Horace Pfander work night shifts at Bennett Garage Lenox and will not move. Mrs. Guy Brown cared for her ill father Bert Taylor in Lenox. Funeral services for Orville Bottinghouse at the Christian church followed his sudden death southwest of Lenox. Mrs. Lyle Shreck and daughter returned from Davenport. Joanne Blaess visiting grandparents Alf and Grace Severn. Calvin Faurot spent weekend from Maryville. Mrs. Belle Anderson to attend weekend services. Gravity Quarterly Conference set for March 21 at 7:30 with Dr. Swick and Pastor W. J. Weber.
The Gravity Methodist Church holds worship at 10 with the sermon on Self Examination and Victory. Church School follows the service. A request has been made to establish an evening song service.
Mr and Mrs Did Dowling and family moved to Sumner Iowa last week. Mr and Mrs Gerald Valentine moved to the vacated property. Francis Lucas and family moved to Coin. Merrill Leighton moved to a farm north of Gravity. Arthur Anderson and family from Nodaway moved to the vacated Leighton farm. Dean Allen moved from Gravity to a farm near New Market where he will be employed this summer. Mrs Allen plans to teach her school east of Gravity.
Dr and Mrs E J Janson hosted the basketball girls at dinner at the Chicken Inn west of Creston on Thursday evening. A crowd of young people greeted Mr and Mrs Lewis Walker Thursday night and were treated to candy bars after a lively gathering.
Mr and Mrs Glen Lock and sons hosted a birthday dinner Sunday with guests Mr and Mrs Wilbur Fudge and family Mr and Mrs Kenneth Fudge and son Mr and Mrs Kenneth Lock and son Danny and Mr and Mrs Ed Lock. The meal honored three members of the Lock family.
Shirley Crow, a Maryville student, spent several days with her parents Mr and Mrs Clarence Crow before returning to school Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Harry Livingston of Cherokee visited relatives here last week before heading home Friday. Lee Mitchell learned of a cousin’s death in Westboro Missouri last week. Mr and Mrs Harry Cole spent the weekend in Des Moines for the basketball tournament. Will Heatherington returned from a California trip and is visiting relatives at Gravity. Bill and Vera Brown came back last week from northern Missouri where they had been on business.
Rev Ellea Martin presented his resignation as pastor of the Christian church on Sunday morning.
The membership accepted the resignation of Mr. Martin who planned to assume the pastorate of the Christian church at Clarence Missouri. The church regrets his departure but his ministerial plans can be carried out more fully in Clarence. He began his pastorate here on September 1 1946.
Mrs A F Mutti Jr hosted the Afternoon Club Thursday with bridge at two tables. The Jolly Mixers Club held a Legion Hall pot luck supper Thursday hosted by Mr and Mrs Orville Browning Clarinda and Mr and Mrs Harry Chambers. The American Legion and Auxiliary celebrated their anniversary with a Legion Hall supper hosted by Mrs William Weir Mrs Raymond Morrison and Mrs Walter Zackart directed by Mrs Wesley Brown and Mrs Robert Wieser.
Mr and Mrs Ora Friend attended the funeral of Mrs Friend's uncle Charles Garner Sunday afternoon near Bedford.
Mrs Anna Andrews and relatives were guests at a Sunday dinner hosted by Dr and Mrs W H Buchleiter at their Coin Iowa home. The Buchleiters and Anna Andrews’s father Al plan to move to Clear Lake Iowa. Hopkins Bulldogs lost to Chillicothe in the Maryville regional tournament Thursday night.
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