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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1915
Page
3
Anna McPike reports a flurry of visits and illness updates in Bedford. Names include Gladys Crockett, Kitty E Sipes, Oma Reed, Lydia McPike, Clotha Hawkins, Elizabeth and James Fowler, and Rev Fowler among others. Several relatives travel to Bloomington Bartlettsville Norman Station and Bedford for sick lists birthdays and farm tasks.
Charley Ragsdale spent Sunday with his mother, Loyd Speer visited near Heltonville, and Thomas Bair moved his family from Erie to a new farm. Herbert Chase, long at Purdue, is due home Tuesday. Mrs. Hattie Starr of Bedford visited relatives near Clear Spring. Hallowe'en night yielded little beyond a wheat drill, lumber, and rails found on the road. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dodds hosted John Dodds, who works in Indianapolis, for a visit.
Mr and Mrs Campbell Fields motored to Harrodsburg on Sunday and spent the day with Mr and Mrs Ben Green.
Delight Stannard reports a quarterly meeting will be held here on Monday, November 7. Several locals attended the Ladies Bazaar at Owensburg Saturday. Miss Francis Deputy left for Franklin to spend a few days. Mrs. M. E. Short and daughter Mary visited relatives in Bedford Tuesday. William Brunnett of Washington is visiting cousin Walter Sipes this week. Mr. and Mrs. Herschell Moore and family of Bedford visited here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Alva McConnel of Chapel Hill spent Sunday with Rev. Calvin Bair. Mrs. David Cobb and family returned home after a few days with relatives in Bedford. Ellen Holmes, who spent a few months with her son Lisle Holmes in Louisville, returned Sunday.
Fine weather continues as Southeast Mitchel and Huntingburg visitors stop by. Notables include B F Myers from Huntingburg buying the Goodall farm northwest of town and Rex Stout from Bedford spending a day with relatives. William Sellars, a saw mill worker, suffered a head injury while loading logs and required six stitches.
Lucian Payne of Bedford on business and several locals visiting relatives and friends in Bedford and nearby towns. Reports of funerals, illnesses, farm work, and travel appearances include Miss Goldie Mitchell, Bernice Wever, and visits to Tunnelton and Trinity. Families such as Brooking, Wever, and Crawford frequent the area with updates on health and home, plus Corn husking progress and local scenes.
Letha Craig reports on sick lists and church activities at Shiloh. Local families including the Craigs, Ballie Craig, Kern, Babb, Press, and Pless attend socials, with typhoid illness easing for Cecil Webb and Jeverett Jones improving yet in danger. Hallowe en mischief includes a stone block on the pike and a gate removed for a pasture, prompting concerns about youth pranks.
The quail season opens November 10th with hunters eager to enter fields, but farmers oppose trespass and warn landowners’ consent. The state summary lists license rules, protected species dates, bag limits, and permitted methods, including Sunday hunting bans and prohibited devices.
Shoals residents Flora Elliott and Fannie Mayfield visited home folk and conducted errands in the area. Bedford and Seymour connections were seen as George W. Murphy and Charlie Trueblood's families visited and relatives gathered in Indianapolis and Mitchell. Families including the Tolivers and Bills joined gatherings, with Kate White returning to Orleans after weeks with relatives. Drs Sherwood and Gibbons accompanied by wives were guests of Harry and wife.
The Blackburn family expresses gratitude to friends and neighbors for help during the sickness and death of their wife, mother, and sister. They also thank for the floral offerings from Frank Blackburn and Children, Father and Mother, Brothers and Sisters.
We thank all who showed sympathy and kindness after the sudden loss of our husband and father W L Martin. Gratitude to the B of R T boys, L A to the B of R T, the F O E, Rev Owens and chair, Mr Burk and Mr Day, and to Mrs W L Martin and children, Mr and Mrs M Q Bastin.
Mrs Flora Mathis reports visitors and family drops through Tunnelton with several residents hosting kin from Pinhook Mitchell Bedford Seymour Lawrenceport Campbellsburg and French Lick. Dennis Mahonery shows slight improvement while Mrs Robert N Dixon remains ill with no betterment noted.
Mrs. David Hamilton and daughter Maggie returned to Linton after visiting relatives in the city. George Barnard of Mitchell came home after visiting his daughter Mrs. Marion Tincher and Mrs. Daniel Chastain. Mr. and Mrs. Sentney Short of Fayetteville left after visiting Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Trueblood. Mrs. Frank Rout and Mrs. Frank Witch with granddaughter Marjorie Caroline Marley spent two days with Mrs. Lyster Adamson and family at Williams and returned Monday.
The report notes ideal weather for gathering corn. Mr. Bridgeway moved his family from near Bryantsville to the Indian Mill farm. Harry Vorhees traveled to Terre Haute to begin work in the car shops. Mrs. Thompson visited Zelma for a few days. A young crowd of about forty five attended a Hallowe'en party at Walter Adams' home Saturday evening.
The E C Newland Post No 247 G A R orders all members to attend a regular meeting on Saturday November 6 1915 at 10 am because business of importance will be discussed. Also notes Mrs Blassy Storms returning home and visits by Mrs Herschel Moore to Springville and local resident William Hert of Springville in town Friday.
Mrs. Chris Schmidt of Inglewood traveled to Orleans to be a guest at her sister's home.
Mrs Roy MecPike and her children traveled to Bloomfield on Friday morning and plan to remain through Sunday for a family visit.
Miss Anne Norman, studying at Bloomington, traveled home to Heltonville. Miss Colette Johnson, returning from Indianapolis, planned Sunday time with her mother. John Johnson left for Norman Station to teach there. Ethel, Bftie Faubion, and Cora Blackwell visited after Indianapolis for the State teachers convention and a stop in Terre Haute. Mrs. William Rhoda and children visited at Crosslanes with August Lambrecht. Mrs. Florence Bowman headed to Norman Station to see her daughter Luke Bowman. Henry Crawford of Mitchell dined with C. M. Lemon. Henry Wier returned from Gosport after touring local orchard farms.
Offie Myers and his wife traveled from Campbellsburg to this city on Sunday to spend the day with Myers sister Mrs. William Starr and her family.
Miss Leafy Roberts of Heltonville returned home Friday after a visit with her uncle and aunt Mr and Mrs Eugene Southerland. Benjamin Donivan town clerk of Huron was in the city Friday on business. Mrs Malott and daughters visited relatives in Heltonville Friday morning. George Jackson and Henry Woolery prominent Leesville farmers were in the city Friday. Mr and Mrs Frank Bailey went to Sullivan Friday to visit relatives and friends.
The piece outlines Hicks’s almanac forecasts for November with boreal storms and gales on the Great Lakes around Thanksgiving. It details three storm periods from late October through November and into December, predicting falling barometers, rain, wind, and a possible November blizzard as the season progresses.
In police court Faris Pitman was kept under advisement for visiting a canine room as Special Judge McHenry Owen presided. William Camptenu had a gaming room charge started before a jury, the second of eleven defendants in the proceeding. Loy Dell Martin pleaded guilty to intoxication in Justis Malott’s court and was fined. State of Indiana vs Intoxicating Liquors and Sam Romine was continued to Justice Malott’s court to decide if liquor taken in on the Romine raid will be destroyed.
John Lane of Heltonville was in the city Friday on business, recording a routine local business visit.
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