This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 13 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1915
Page
3
A garbled OCR snippet references Sunday school activities and local notes, mentioning Sunday events and community items. The text is largely unreadable but centers on church or school life and small local references. No clear names, dates, or places are extractable.
A garbled OCR fragment lists scattered names and vague events across locations including Indianapolis and California. It references a few people, a Sunday visit, and an unsettled incident with minor injuries, but lacks coherent narrative or clear outcomes.
Mr and Mrs Herschell Moore host relatives at Sunday gathering. Frank Short delivered initiatory sermon at the M E Church Sunday evening. Several residents recoveries and improvements noted including Aunt Martha Oliver rising from bed. A fire destroys A J Clark smokehouse with loss of meat and wheat. neighbors prevent home damage. Community visits include Ritter families, Sipes family, and trips to West Baden and Seymour. An ice cream social benefit for AME Church plans at Anna Dean’s home May 22.
Murret Boyd reports a steady progress in corn planting following a good Tuesday night rain. Local wheat suffers from fig damage while community activity includes visits, a union meeting at Old Union next Sunday with baskets, a singing class led by West McClung, and various residents visiting relatives in Bedford Zelina Needmore Sugar Creek Mitchell and Cincinnati.
Farmers in the area are busy with corn planting. Local residents频 visit Heltonville and nearby towns on various weekends. Notables include Viela Stafford Emma Clampitt and George McPike from Seymour visiting relatives and conducting business. The County Commissioners checked Little Salt Creek roads Thursday. Uncle David Todd and Aunt Susie Mitchell are mentioned among frequent social notes.
Last week in Bartlettville reports note a wedding for Willis Sowder and former Darlington resident Cora Conrad at Crawfordsville. The couple returned home by car after a dinner and reception hosted by the groom's family, planning to reside with his parents this summer.
Rain refreshes area as residents visit and travel Numerous local names appear with travel to Indianap olis for medical treatment and plans for Port William Decoration on May 29 with families visiting near Mt Olive Fairview Chapel and Bryantsville Others relocate homes and attend events in surrounding hamlets as community keeps in touch through visits and news reports
A report notes Mey aus Sethee and Bart underwent successful operations on Tuesday. The patient in Tlosniteb is listed as ready. Doctors Nor rua and ult Vier led the procedures as Koomea Jackson visited Williams and Mrs. Mary Baker’s relatives on Wednesday.
Ft Wayne based co operative department store announces capital investment of $50,000. Directors listed include Joseph D Shaw BE D Spahr Harry W Roesner W T McCormick William Roeger F J Schwanz Persa R Bell W L Doctor A C Berger Miss Frederick Shotmeyer and others.
Flora Mathis reports Harve Reed and wife were in Indianapolis last week. Noble Malott visited Bedford on Thursday. Mable Skerd visits Bedford while Charlie Brookshire and wife visit Bloomington relatives. Emma Worthington hosts, John Williams preaches at Christian Church, Dennis Mahonery visits Seymour family. Oran Tumney ends several weeks visit and returns home.
The Monon railroad proves the danger zone for sparks from locomotive exhaust is a 65 foot strip on each side of the track. Experiments show a spark must be over three-eighths of an inch in diameter and hotter than 1000 degrees to start a fire. The tests suggest many regional fires blamed on locomotives have other causes.
T E Day timber dealer of Greensburg Indiana has contracted with the Pennsylvania and New York Central railroads to furnish 200 car loads of piling for 15000 dollars within sixty days. The piles will come mainly from Washington and Jennings counties and are to be used for a Chicago Pennsylvania station site and for a bridge over the White River.
Commencement week events listed for Bedford High School Indiana. Class Day Exercises Friday May 21 at 1 15 pm in High School Assembly Room. Junior reception Friday May 21 at 8 pm at Methodist Church Annex. Baccalaureate Sunday May 23 at 7 30 pm at Christian Church with Rev Frank Lenig as speaker. Commencement Thursday May 27 at 8 pm at Stone City Opera House with Herbert S Bigelow of Cincinnati as speaker. Alumni Banquet Friday May 28 at High School building.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.