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BEDFORD NEWS.V * .7 ' -W. H. Soles was over from Blockton several days last week.rF. L. Arthaud is now a full fledged attorney, having been ad-mited'to the bar recently.-Ross township voted the tax for the Gulf road, and it is now a*sure go.As seen from this point of view, the vote between Finn and Hepburn will be about a stand-off. The former will lose some democratic votes and the latter some republican votes.Holt township tax payers are a pretty sensible lot of fellows. They knocked out the Gulf ‘ road tax, and won’t have a thing to do but to stand around and laugh » %while the suckers paj the tax they have voted.1 * • ■ * Ithasn’t been long since the county board adjourned, but a new batch of claims against the county are already accumulating. It takes a lot of gold-silver-stand-ard .oil to keep the couty machinery running.David Riddles, who was sentenced by Judge Tedford to three years in the pen for‘the murder of Adolph Adams, in a drunken spree at New Market, was taken to Fort Madison Thursday by Sheriff Long.
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Blockton News
Blockton, Iowa, US
Thu, Oct 13, 1898
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