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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1919
Page
4
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Mrs Ida Lewis reports on visits and guests including Grandma Meyo Sallie Golitic and Mrs Tom Tumey and Mrs James Watson. Box supper planned at the Emons school Friday night Oct 25. Church services at Guilets Creek Baptist church this weekend with Rev Warren Sanders from Mitchell preaching.
A. B. Tresslar remains largely unwell after an eight foot fall at Moore Tresslar lumber yard three weeks ago. He has been bedbound due to a badly injured back since the accident.
Anna Murphy reports a parade of visitors and relatives stopping by Bedford and Shoals. Names include Joseph King, James and Mrs Elliott, L. J. Sanders, Ira McPheeters with wife, Henry Tandreth family, Leatha Sutton and Irene, Warry Gerking, Mrs Tacker and grandmother Mrs Connerley, and others visiting from Seymour Indianapolis Niedora and Shoals.
Claude Moneta Gipson and Hassell C. Gordon wed October 4 at the First Methodist Church parsonage in Lafayette. Gordon, a World War II veteran and building contractor, will reside in Lafayette with his bride, a Daily Mail office bookkeeper.
Springville updates note teachers institute held on Saturday. Residents visit Bedford and Oolitic for business and calls. Grace Hammond of Columbus visits her parents. Fox Hunters Association event prompts Friday school closure. Several families travel to Louisville for a daughter in a sanitarium and return visits. Tonsillitis keeps Letha and Francis Rose home from school.
Mrs Lillian Kern and Mrs Grace Kern visited relatives in Williams. Fox Hunters meet at Speed Hollow drew locals. John Wagoner returns from overseas and other families shared meals. Springville and Fayetteville played a 27 to 3 basketball game with Fayetteville winning.
Mrs. Mary Guthrie shows improvement after illness. Carl Croucher and family visited relatives in St Louis last week. Charlie Cooper and wife returned from Chicago. Mrs Francis Dodd of Bedford and Mrs Ella Reed of near Mitchell were in town. Carrie Allen remains ill. Church services scheduled at the Christian church Saturday and Sunday.
MA farmer urged to call Purity Creamery at 1620 1st Street for important information on money making opportunities for cream producers.
Reward offered for return of a medium size black and white hound with brown eye markings found around Fax Hunters meet area. Collar bears finder’s name and address. Contact Aldo Stone Newberry Ind or Daniel Campbell Newberry for reward.
Due to a car shortage stockmen cannot pay hogs and cattle and are canceling orders. Two car loads of cattle remain in pens here with no cars available to ship them to Indianapolis. Bloomington Telephone.
Alumni officers were elected at St Mary of the Woods College with Mrs Craigie Gunn Mitchell as president and Sister Mary Viola Burke as treasurer. Rev James H Ryan spoke on the college's state and plans include two new buildings. A $10,000 Craigie Gunn Mitchell Scholarship was announced from Scotland. The program included cinema previews of campus pageants and student events.
Pinhook correspondent notes J T Stipp and son visiting with a hulling outfit while Belle Guthrie and Blaine visit from near Bedford for business. Families from Williams Michell Crawford and Brooking clans travel to Bedford and Tunnelton for funerals and visits. Burial services for Mrs. William Guthrie at the Church of Christ and other Sunday gatherings are reported along with travel to Caxton and Washington county for leisure and kin events.
The regular preaching service will be held at Trinity, M a cebureh, Sunday morning October 26 at 10 30. Services at Wesley Chapel Sunday evening October 26 at 050. Remember these services will be held at the specified times.
Plant listings include many hardy varieties such as Alyssum, Phlox and Peonies. Local notices report Miss Hallie Voorhees of Spokane dies, funeral in Terre Haute with brother Reese Voorhees. James Paxton Voorhees in Plainfield. Florence Dunbar to attend funeral. Scrap iron offered for sale by Rainey Bros. in Indianapolis area. Harold Duncan, West Fifteenth Street, ill with diphtheria.
Federal officers from Indianapolis arrive for I W W investigations. Local society notes include Tri Kappa candy sale proceeds for Dunn hospital, pillow cases donated, and several residents visiting relatives. Additional items cover hospital operations, travel, and local business openings in Greencastle.
Good farm offering nearly 130 acres with 7 room house, barns, 40 acres timber and peach acreage. Includes water access and multiple outbuildings. Located at Pleasant Gamnes 31518 20th St. Phone 1522.
Mr and Mrs Robert Mathes will leave Thursday forenoon to spend the winter in California. They will visit Mrs C B E Faris in Dulce New Mexico for several weeks and see George F Owens in San Francisco. They will go to San Diego to spend the winter and return to Todiana about May 1.
An advertisement states Petrisol ends colds and relieves grip head and chest symptoms sore throat tonsillitis catarrh and asthma. It notes availability at ail drug stores.
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