Local Notables and Activities In Bedford Community
Orleans resident W A Lang is in the city. Mrs Emma Brown De Moss is ill with measles. Bundy moves family to Salem. McLean Co reroofs ware room south of mill. Mrs Gordon Gould of Indianapolis visiting Bedford relatives. Mrs Ale Hatfield visits Martinsville. Charley McFarlan repaints North H street home. Will Harvey renews J and Wth streets house. Charley Duncan and Ed Hors paint W Ferguson’s South H street house. Sandifer family visit Mitchell. Laura Kinser returns from Bloomington visiting Peterson family. Residents along North I street clean mud from walks. Frank Sharr’s cow dies while grazing. Ethel Hennon returns from Williams visiting cousin. Sons of Veterans Acton Camp No 2 to send delegation to Elwood for State Encampment. Allen Quinsbury of Illinois visiting Harris family. trip to Ft Ritner. Bedford party attends Salem for trial of Oscar F Moore et al. Landin Fish praises rural mail delivery. Lawrence County Medical Society to meet West Baden July 12–13 with Mitchell District. Meeting aims for best attendance in society history.
Local Residents Move, Travel And Life Events Noted Across Town
A flurry of short notices records movements and visits: Jack Brennan journeys to Dayton Ohio while Arch Anderson relocates to Limestone. John J. Norman travels from Heltonville. Mrs. Emily Johnson visits relatives in Hiie. Eugene Thomas heads to Tun nelton on business. Local weddings and licenses include Charles McCormick and Josephine Ferguson. Several residents relocate or visit, from Mrs. Nellie Brown’s homecoming to Miss Arda Knox’s Martinsville trip, plus property sales and cemetery updates at Green Hill.
Local notes and social items from the city
Arthur Drake is at home for a few days. John Allen has returned to his home at Salem. Tom Mec Affee of Erie is seriously sick. Miss Mary Ragsdale visiting friends. Miss Tillie Larter guest of Seymour. Charley Reid laying 200 feet of walk at 19th and E. J. W. Stone and Quince Dobbins went to Metcalf. Miss Josie Williams from Kurtz visiting. John R. Walsh bought Bodenschatz Bedford quarry and switches. Friday ball game Mitchell versus Bedford. No Wednesday prayer meeting at A M H church during summer. Miss Hattie Dodds returned to Zelma. A child of Geo Spray died of pneumonia and buried at Surprise. Thomas Wires and wife visiting from Campbellsburg. George Owens and Oscar Edwards left for Montana. Mrs Will Flummerfelt returned to Elnora. Lindsay Baugh awarded contract to tear down First Christian church. work starts Monday. Brooks Oil building new warehouse near S I freight depot. Rev Aura Smith, evangelist, returns from Texas. Wondering about steamship label prices for West Baden visitors. Mitchell Commercial: North Bedford game Oklahoma Nine 29, North End Nine 15. K P Decoration exercises attended. mayor D Y Johnson gave principal address. BE Robinson and S H Shearer of Indianapolis visiting about Knight farm stone outlook. Moore vs Chamberlain case overturned. judgment for defendants. dispute over 20,000 note and lumber business closure. Married James Stephenson and Christie Holmes wed at bride’s home. left for Bloomfield to visit relatives. Both well regarded. best wishes for future.
Pentecost Campmeeting in Bedford foote's grove
The Southern Indiana Pentecost Bands hold a divisional campmeeting at Foote's Grove in Bedford Indiana from June 23 to July 1. Rev William S Craig returns from India to speak along with home workers. Attendees must bring provisions and bedding with tent rentals available. Order by June 17. Admission free. By order of Committee.
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Southern
Indiana
Pentecost Bands
Foote’s Grove
Bedford
Ind
Wm. S. Craig
India
D. V
G. E. Bula
Indianapolis
June Sales Offer Wash Dresses for Girls 4 to 14
Display in the north window showcases about one hundred wash dresses in latest style for girls ages 4 to 14. Made from good serviceable materials, trimmed with lace and embroidery, sizes all, priced from 35 cents to 2 dollars each. New attractions daily, visit often.
Bedford Notes and Local Visitors Dish
Mrs Will Wease of Missouri visits son Noble Wease in Bedford. Charlie Gowen from P. M. B. mill injures his thumb with a sledgehammer. Oscar Faucett and wife from Benna Vista visit relatives in Bedford. Mrs Jane Stoeffel of near Odon travels via Bedford to Tennessee. Riley Foddrill repaints his shooting gallery front. Capt Isaac Carothers of Martin county, a top citizen, visits. Mrs W C Hall returns to Franklin after visiting the Brown family. Clarence Bivins of Lafayette visits his ailing father Alex Bivins with stomach cancer. Miss Lillie Baker of Bloomington heads to Petersburg for her brother’s illness. Miss Lula Redman and Miss Maybell Guthrie tour Mitchell and attend a moonlight picnic. A ten year old daughter of Jack Bridges near Marshall Huff's on Spider Creek has mild varioloid from Huff children. F I Sefrit of Washington, Lincoln League chair, calls meeting to elect county Presidents in Bedford June 15. F O Cross loads Monon cars with rough cut stone for his West Baden farm and plans a park, caves, and own electric light plant. A Washington merchant invites Bedford merchants to buy several car loads of seed potatoes for next year. We’re slow up here but not that far behind.
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F. O. Cross
West Baden
United States
Washington
Bedford
Town notes and notices across Bedford area
Prof B P Alexander visits on route to Terre Haute. Owens bicycle shop moves into B B Bakers former grocer room. Rutherford's saloon closes as license expires. Marriage licenses issued for Rout and Shepler Myron and McCullough. Stone curbing along 14th street being laid. brick soon. Gertrude Dunlavy resumes sales job at Chicago Bargain store. Mitchells people plan beer garden at Hamer's cave. Oolitic Base Ball Club to host grand ice cream supper June 16. Dr E A Sallust opens dental parlors in city above Boss Shoe Store. Mrs Henry Rothwisch visits from Columbus and heads to Bloomington. Joe Fillion buys Fillion homestead south of Bedford. to move. Elvira Tindall rents Fillion cottage on South H street. Post office traffic wears stone step. steel plate to protect. H H Walls offers low interest loans with no expense unless money obtained. Salt Creek bridge ride between here and Limestone deemed dangerous. Peter Fillion of Bedford awarded contract for dressed stone at Seymour National Bank front. George W McDaniel announces wedding Effie Dell Caosner June 19 at Presbyterian church Bedford. Greensburg forms new telephone company Kokomo cuts rates amid a telephone war. Central Union monopoly challenged. new company offers 41.50 and 1 monthly. old rates drop to 2 and 1 with contracts to hundreds of patrons.
Curtain Sale Offering Wide Selection and Discount
After house cleaning, shoppers are invited to replace worn curtains with a large stock of new designs. Prices range from 50c to $10 per pair, with an extra 10 percent discount for the week. Shop early to avoid stock depletion.
W. M. Dobbrns & Co Agents for New Idea Patterns
W M Dobbrns and Co advertise as agents for New Idea 10 cent patterns offering all styles and sizes in stock.
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IDEA
Community notes on local arrests gardens and health update
Adam Johnson hires repainting at corner 8th and 1 streets. J R Baker visits from Elnora once lived in North Bedford. Remains of Jennings Bryan Spray shipped to Surprise for burial. G A R and Sons of Veterans form a drum corps and order five uniforms, due around the 20th. State Health Board May bulletin reports decreases in rheumatism pneumonia and other house diseases with more measles diarrhoea whooping cough and typhoid rising. proper ventilation and clean food could save many from bowel disorders.
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J. R. Baker
Elnora
Bedford
Jennings Bryan Spray
G. A. R. and Sons of Veterans
State Board of Health
Court notes include fines and local updates in city police court
In city police court Judge Stephenson assessed fines for intoxication to Garrison McFall and Charles Winkler of Chicago, both paid. Joseph Pierce paid a fine for provoking Richard Goodman. Hart Short won a suit against Jap Malott. Other local notices mention people ill or visiting, and Peter R. Wadsworth stopped by en route to Bloomington.
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James Prow
Stephenson
Hart Short
Jap Malott
Joseph Pierce
Richard W. Goodman
Indian Creek Township
Charles Winkler
Chicago
Excursion Train To French Lick West Baden Sunday
A Monon special excursion to French Lick and West Baden will run Sunday June 24 with Springs and return. Rates match last year and details appear on large bills. In another item a surprise party honored Miss Jessie Smith on her 12th birthday at the Marks home with ice cream cake and strawberries.
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Monon
French Lick
West Baden
H. P. Rapiey
G. A
Jessie Smith
O. P. Marks
Jessie
Farm For Sale Near Bedford Indiana Dr Johnson Farm
200 acres one mile east of Bedford known as the Dr Johnson farm described as one of the best general purpose farms in the vicinity. About 40 acres creek bottom with rest in grass on rolling limestone land suitable for cultivation. Pine sugar orchard living water. Sold as whole or in parcels to suit purchaser. For information contact J G Bain Exr Martinsville Indiana.
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Bedford
Ind
Dr. Johnson
J. G. Bain
Exr
Martinsville
Indiana Crop Report Reflects Wet Conditions and Mixed Yields
The Indiana weather bulletin notes moderately warm temperatures and good rains, but excessive wetness in lowlands floods cornfields and delays cultivation. Wheat heads ripen, barley is cut, rye and oats mature, and clover and timothy blooms. Fruit looks promising with abundant cherries and falling apples. hay yields likely lighter than last year. livestock in good condition on fair pasture.
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Indiana
Mitchell News Notes Local Town Life And Anecdotes
Mitchell updates cover college ball plans with Bedford, local visitors, moves, and a dry town mood. Highlights include Dyer smallpox report, bogus check by Scott Clampitt, street improvements on 13th M streets, and a Christian tent meet to summer services. Also ads for Hall's Catarrh Cure and Family Pills.
Detective Agency Claim Ends With Eviction in Columbus
Charles Brigham, claiming ties to a local detective agency, was ordered to leave Columbus Indiana yesterday after pursuing Miss Neilie Berg who is visiting the city. She left to avoid him, but he followed and urged marriage. Police were alerted.
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Charles Brigham
Columbus
Ind
Neilie Berg
Bedford Visitors and Local Notes Chronicle
Elisha Lee and H S Dixon attended Bedford on Monday. Arthur Dixon and Dr F S Hunter of Bedford were there. Hon and Mrs Guthrie visited. Dr W H Smith of Bedford came on business. Joseph Crawford of Pinhook shipping here Tuesday. Elisha Lee and KE Wicker at Tunnelton on Wednesday. Tuesday brought the heaviest rain in years. Several locals, including H H Chess of Leesville, Mrs Jacob Matthes and children, Moses B Lee, James Gilling, Virgil Dixon and Solon Wilcox, were in Bedford Saturday. Buddy Brown and family of Leesville visited Sunday. Mrs John Flinn is very low. Dr H C Dixon of Tunnelton visited Sunday. Mrs L Beavers is better.
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Elisha Lee
H.S. Dixon
Bedford
Arthur Dixon
F.S. Hunter
Guthrie
W. H. Smith
Joseph Crawford
Pinhook
KE. C. Wicker
Tunnelton
H. H. Chess
Leesville
Jacob Matthes
Moses B. Lee
James Gilling
Virgil Dixon
Solon Wilcox
Buddy Brown
Friends
John Flinn
H. C. Dixon
L. Beavers
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East Side Square
Bedford, Indiana
Louis Mayer
N. B
Hamer & Day
Northeast Corner Square
W. A. Lang
Orleans
Emma Brown de Moss
Fulton Bundy
Salem
McLean & Co
Gordon R. Gould
Ale Hatfield
Charley McFarlan
North H Street
Will Harvey
J and
Wth Streets
Charley Duncan
Ed Hors
W. W. Ferguson
South H Street
Charley Sandifer
Mitchell
Laura Kinser
Bloomington
F. F. Peterson
North I Street
Frank Sharr
North
Ethel Hennon
Williams
Sons of Veterans of
Acton Camp No. 2
Elwood
Allen Quinsbury
Illinois
Tom Harris
James Newkirk
Ft. Ritner
Col
C. C. Matson
Jos. Giles
E. K. Dye
T. J. Brooks
J. B.chamberlain
Oscar F. Moore
J. B. Chamberlain
Landin Fish
Pleasant Run
Lawrence County Medical Society
Mitchell District Medical Society
Jack Brennan
Dayton
Arch Anderson
Limestone
John J. Norman
Heltonville
Emily Johnson
Hiie
Eugene Thomas
C. A. Knight
Charley Pickett
Odon
Mrs. Obe Gainey
Milkville
Charles Pearson
Lexington, Ky
Bedford Friends
Arda Knox
Charles McCormick
Josephine Ferguson
Nellie Brown
Theresa Sears
North M Street
Otis McDowell
Owensburg
Great Falls
Mont
Billy Reath
Oolitic
Will Sherrill
Trinity
City
J. T. Stipp
J. T. Freeland
Atlantic City
New York
Tobe Carter
P Street
Will Woolery
Miss Effie Flinn
al Flinn
Greensburg
Dr. Braden
H. H. Edwards
Springville
Newt Stipp
Pleasant
Will Brooking
Green Hill Cemetery
Charles Reynolds
Mankato
Minn
Vet Drake
Stoessel
Smithville
Fred Garrison
Cincinnati
Frank Spaulding
Wilson
Arthur Drake
John Allen
Tom Mec-Affee
Erie
Mary Ragsdale
Tillie Larter
Seymour
Charley Reid
19Th
E Streets
J. W. Stone
Quince Dobbins
Metcalf, Ill
Josie Williams
Kurtz
John R. Walsh
Bodenschatz-Bedford
A. M. Hechhurch
Geo. Spray
Surprise
Thomas Wires
Campbellsburg
Mrs
Sherman Montgomery
George Owens
Oscar Edwards
Montana
Will Flummerfelt
Lindsay Baugh
First Christian Church
The
Brooks Oil Company
S. I
Aura Smith
Texas
Mitchell Commercial
North Bedford
North End
Oklahoma
K. of P
BE. J. Robinson
S. H. Shearer
Stone
Knight Farm
Town
Moore
Chamberlain
O. F. Moore
John B. Chamberlain
James Stephenson
Christie Holmes
Geo. W. Holmes
J.W. Newland
Bloomfield
Will Wease
Missouri
Noble Wease
Charlie Gowen
P. M. B. Mill
Oscar Faucett
Benna Vista
Jane Stoeffel
Tennessee
Riley Foddrill
Isaac Carothers
Martin County
Clarence Bivins
Lafayette
Alex Bivins
Lillie Baker
Petersburg
Lula Redman
Maybell Guthrie
Jack Bridges
Marshall Huff
Spider Creek
Huff
F. I. Sefrit
Lincoln League
B. P. Alexander
Terre Haute
Owens’ Bicycle Shop
B. B. Baker
Rutherford
Charles Rout
Pearl Shepler
Lawrence Myron
Nellie McCullough
14Th Street
Gertrude Dunlavy
Hamer
Lawrence County
E. A. Sallust
Boss Shoe Store
Henry Rothwisch
Allie Rouse
Grace Pearson
Joe Fillion
Fillion
Elvira Tindall
H. H. Walls
Salt Creek
Peter Fillion
Seymour National Bank
Seymour Republican
George W. McDaniel
Effie Dell
Francis Marlon Caosner
Presbyterian Church
East 16Th Street
Kokomo
Central Union
SALE
Price Cutters
W. M. Dobbrns & Co
Adam Johnson
Geo. Lt. Clayton
Nettie M. Lake
West Bedford
F. X. Johnson
Will Louden
Chip
the Grand
Capt
Louden
City Police Court
Garrison McFall
Dora Blackly
John Fish
Frank Bickenhauser
Fred Johnson
J. W. Smith
Oscar Denniston
Nellie Beatty
East 15Th Street
Cora Stipp
Cedar Ridge
R. B. Short
Gertie Hall
St. Louis
Josephine Clark
Peter R. Wadsworth
Indiana Crop Report
Old Opera House
HUB Shoe Store
West Side Square
G. M. Foster
Mitchell News
Jas. Malott
E. S.hendricks
Franklin, Ind
Will Murphy
Kansas City
Will D. Ewing
College
Bedford Club
W. H. Wade
Lady
Vernon, Ill
Joe Simpson
Frank Allen
Dr. Ketcham
Joe
John Reid
Lela Todd
William Noe
13Th Street
Standard Oil Company
Z. T. Sweeney
New Christian Church
Edora
Ed. Orrell
Conrad Auerback
West 15Th Street
West 17Th Street
Mrs. Emery
L.C. Baugh
Joseph R. Morgan
M Street
13Th and
New Baptist Church
Christian Church
Winstandley Lot
16Th and
M Streets
Scott Clampitt
J. E. Voorhees & Co
Stone City Bank
Billmyer
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Allen S. Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
Fort Ritner
Dimension Lumber
Hugh Meleap
Hugh McLean Co
Mill Yard
J. E. Grigsby
Lincoln Avenue
Richard B. Short
Indiare. Ee
Gadeis
George Wilkes
Abdallah
Wilhelm
Fair Ground
Stephenson Bros. & Co
Frank
Cosner
Postoffice
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