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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1919
Page
3
Homer Hunsucker of Seymour visited on business. The Mitchell family and Mrs. John L. Mitchell of Bedford are ill with influenza and pneumonia, with Mrs. Mitchell nursing them. School closed for a few days due to flu. Local residents and visitors from Buddha and surrounding towns were noted in weekly social updates.
Trustee John Wilson visited Huron as schools reopened after a two week influenza closure. Residents and visitors including Mr. and Mrs. Weddle, the Starks, Bowden, Gore, Feltner, Reeder, Hornecker, Morrison, and others were briefly mentioned with local movements, visits, and property transactions. Funeral services were held in Bedford for Fred Jackson.
J Harry Montgomery of Bedford visited his farm Monday. Hubert Howard made a business trip to Salem Friday. Louis Simpson and son Kenneth of Indianapolis were guests of Mrs. Gainey Simpson last week. Mrs Lafayette Williams remains about the same after a paralytic stroke. J K Link pays one year for the Weekly Mail. Frank Lockhart attended to business at Fort Ritner Tuesday. Elza Hanger went to St Louis Monday to work. Oliver Brown bought a farm in Fort Ritner neighborhood and will move this spring. H S Hoggatt went to Washington county to work Monday. Samel Henry Hunsacker and J H Sheeks went to Seymour Monday for Clarence Hunsacker’s funeral. Merchants T S Neideffer and Ben Hanger attended to business in Mitchell and Orleans Monday. W O H Flinn of Indianapolis moved onto his father Thos Flinn’s farm on Sugar Creek. Mace Jeans and wife moved into BE A Dixon’s property here last week. J D Moorehead and Homer Barker opened their large sugar camp Monday.
John Knight recovers from influenza and ailing residents improve. Sillar Cooper and Mitchell relative visits, Opal Williams visits Stonington, Whitman Reed from Marfa visits family, and James Malott of Indianapolis visits Tunnelton area relatives.
P S Richey of the Purdue University animal husbandry department traveled Tuesday with County Agent Kline and Joseph Armstrong to Dennis Armstrong's farm near Popcorn. They conduct a cattle breeding demonstration to judge profitability of feeder steer production with cow upkeep billed against calf revenue. The project started October 1 1918 and will not be verifiable until a year later. Mr and Mrs James Gipson and their daughter Lucille and son Paul visited relatives at Campbellsburg Sunday.
Dora B Terrell wife of Rolla Terrell died Tuesday at 1 45 PM at home from pneumonia superinduced by influenza Funeral services set for Thursday at 2 PM Burial follows at Green Hill cemetery
At the January county board of education meeting a plan to hold a Corn School and Farm Product Show in November was approved with county and chamber backing. Officials aim to display corn and farm products, livestock, machinery, and women’s premiums, plus parades and a countywide exhibition to boost agriculture and community spirit. James Kline led the proposal as County Agricultural Agent.
Bloomington Telephone reports the death of James Rouillet at Hog Island shipyard near Treviac. His body arrived in a pine box with a $190 C O D fee after costs for embalming and expressage, prompting criticism of government shipbuilding practices and relief priorities.
The note expresses gratitude to friends neighbors and two lodges for kindness during illness and the death of a husband and son in law. It also mentions visits from Mrs Johnson and Mrs Beyers in Indianapolis and Indian Springs, and reports birth of a son to Lieut Irving Horton and Mrs Horton of Mitchell.
Lawrence County farmer E W Foster and Rivervale resident R W Gasaway reported strong poultry results after four years of Purdue University and U S Department of Agriculture cooperative demonstrations. Foster led in state egg production with 27 282 total eggs and 146 eggs per hen while Gasaway produced 60 460 eggs and 143 eggs per hen. Both cases show profitable large scale poultry farming with net incomes around 923 dollars to 975 dollars after expenses and labor.
Mrs. Jerry Agnes of Bloomington, visiting her mother Mrs. We Hunter in Heltonville, returned to her home on Thursday.
Sergt. Carl Montgomery of Motor Supply Train 415 Truck Co 451 A RB F writes from Monreal Germany about entering why the Allied advance impressed locals. He describes dugouts on No Man's Land, ruined towns, and nightly duties hauling ammunition while noting the courteous treatment of civilians and pride in American soldiers.
Martin Redyard, a well known 74 year old farmer of Silverville, died at his home Monday morning after an illness of dropsical trouble. Funeral services were held at the Missionary Baptist church Wednesday at 11 o clock, with burial in Silverville cemetery.
Mrs. Eliza Turley 80 widow of William Turley died at her Rivervale home early this morning of pneumonia following a hip fracture. Survived by daughters Nellie Fitzgibbons and Ross Smith and sons Charles and Henry. Funeral Thursday at 10 by Rev. EB E Norman. Burial at Mitchell cemetery.
A dated card from December 14 recalls a veteran longing to revisit former ground with his peers. He notes sailing from the United States four months earlier and crossing the Rhine at 4:30 PM, reflecting on unexpected speed and the war's lasting impact on faith and memory.
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