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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1919
Page
3
NEEDMORE Ida Lewis reports a revival set to start Tuesday night April 22 1919 at the Gullets Creek Baptist church led by Rev Warren Sanders. Several local residents are listed as visiting guests and hosts from Bedford Williams Guthrie and Dugger with multiple families mentioned among attendees.
Mr and Mrs Jank Wagner of New York visited relatives here last week. Miss Hettie Elliott of Indianapolis visits homefolks. Mrs Florence Connerley traveled to Sbvaals for a few days to see sister Mrs Martin Elliott. Mrs McKay visited Seymour to see her son John. Goldie Sutton from Mitchell visits grandparents Mr and Mrs Peter Jollick. Mrs Kate Burton and family visited Mr and Mrs Wiliam Trueblood at Oolitic Sunday. Mrs Chapman went to Bedford to visit relatives. Mr and Mrs Doyle Bowden went to Bedford. Mrs Howard King of Medora visited her daughter Mrs McClure over Sunday. Everett Atchison returned home from France last week. Laura Dorsett is home from France. Rev Alien of Indianapolis held regular apostemesiis here.
Garden items offered include sage plants and dried gage leaves. Seed packets for hardy perennials priced at 6 for 25 cents. Delphinium plants listed. F. Z. Otis at 2130 Sc. H. Ph. 976. George Gilstrap of Heltonville is reported very low with heart trouble.
Chas H Allen and wife of Bedford, and many neighbors, visited relatives in nearby towns over Sunday. A funeral for Mathew Mathews, aged 85, was held at Leesville with burial there. New birth announced for Morris son of Raymond and wife.
Mrs. Sarah R. Vaught of Mitchell traveled to Bloomington Wednesday along with her daughter Mrs. Elgon Bruce to visit their sister-in-law Mrs. Samuel Walls and stay with family during the trip.
Rank T Hitch arrived from South Dakota to spend time with his wife and to oversee oil interests in Kentucky. Lieut Hobart Huff, son of Mr and Mrs Webb Huff of Indian Springs, arrived from Camp Grant Ill after discharge and headed home. Claim Agent H B Alexander of Monon is in the city for line of service matters. Mrs Sipes of 1020 N street and Mrs Myrtle Grinstead of Terre Haute visit Mrs J Nicholson in Coxton. Homer Dowden of the Southeastern, formerly Bedford, visited friends and returned to Terre Haute.
Craigie Gunn Mitchell was summoned to Indianapolis due to the illness of her son in law John D Williams and has returned home now that he is much improved.
Mrs Edward Hartman travels to a farm near Springville for the summer. Mr and Mrs Walter Adams are summoned to Oolitic Sunday night by the widow of Noble Dye, the Adams brothers’ sister.
Mr and Mrs Geo C Campbell depart on Monon No 6 for Albuquerque New Mexico to visit their son Leland and wife. Health has been failing since influenza. climate change hoped to aid recovery.
Paris reports a stalemate at the peace talks as the Italian delegation vows not to return unless Fiume and Dalmatian issues are settled. Wilson's plan to make Fiume a free city is rejected, and Britain and France seek London treaty adherence while considering revisions. US signals possible separate peace if needed, amid dire European shortages.
Two explosions a hour apart rocked tenement blocks in Lawrence Massachusetts blowing out windows and doors. Mill workers and families fled in panic but no injuries were reported as police sought clues to the blasts.
Admiral Kolchak's anti Bolshevik army defeats Bolshevik forces capturing 25 000 prisoners at Izhevsk and driving Reds from the region as they fall back toward Orenburg. Siberian troops push 50 miles east while Krasnoyarsk area sees daily fighting near Taished and Yard with railway lines held by Serbians and Czechs.
Capt Charles J Glidden calls for men to join the nations air service in various trades including aviator dirigible pilot chauffeur and mechanic. He urges sending name and address to the department air service officer 104 Broad street New York for an official communication after training at Southfield Americus Ga and Fort Omaha Neb. Separately David B M Perine of New York dies in Baltimore after heading the Jersey division votive power of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Chicago buyers saw May corn at 1.66 to 1.68 dollars with small advances, while oats and rye showed firming futures. Wheat prices hovered with May 1.78, July 1.785, and August around 1.70. Flour and flour products listed, plus hay, butter, eggs, live poultry, iced poultry, potatoes, cattle, hogs, and sheep price ranges across grades and classes.
John Holiman, formerly of Bedford, now stationed at St Nazaire in the 309th Engineer unit, reports fine weather, describes travels to Canterets in the Pyrenees, and notes plans to attend an agricultural school at Beaune beginning April first while awaiting regimental sailing. He mentions a gold service stripe and Lincoln division insignia.
Centenary Rally at the Erie church is planned for Sunday afternoon at 2 30. Speakers from Bedford and other places will be present with inspiring messages. The church is intensely interested in the great Centenary Movement. You will want to be present Sunday afternoon for what is described as a great day.
Freckola is ready for use without mixing and is carried in drug stores and toilet counters nationwide for 60 cents per unit.
A letter from Sergt Roy Murphy who won the Distinguished Service Medal recounts travels through Belgium and France on the way home. He describes cities from Cologne to Paris, war ruins at Liege Lille and Antwerp, tours of Paris landmarks, and plans to be mustered out at Camp Sherman Ohio. He mentions meeting sailors near Lille and notes his brother Walter Fisher has returned from overseas with the 30th Division.
Mrs Elizabeth Hutchinson aged 75 died at her home five miles south of Norman Station on Tuesday afternoon from complications of old age. Her son Alex Hutchinson a professor will attend the funeral from a Western school while another son Orville serves in France. The funeral was held Thursday at Liberty Methodist Church with interment in the local cemetery.
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