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Newspaper
Gravity Independent
Location
Gravity, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1931
Page
13
Four car loads of gravel will arrive Tuesday next week for the street from the post office to highway 148. Two loads funded by subscriptions and Home Coming. two by the county. Volunteers are asked to report to Dr Hines W F Johnston or Dave Foster to unload and spread gravel. A free dinner will honor helpers.
The S. S. County Institute for the Children's Division is set for Tuesday October 13 at the Clearfield Methodist church. Registration starts 9 am with sessions from 9 30. Des Moines guest Mrs O G Herbrecht will attend. All Sunday School workers and teachers are urged to attend along with others interested in religious education. Clearfield ladies will host and provide a free noon lunch.
Dr L T Reed and C C Hill traveled to Omaha on Friday and returned with a new car for practice use. The old vehicle was sold to a used car dealer in Omaha.
M. A. Budd of Clinton Iowa is named the new manager of the Rialto Theatre in Bedford.
School bulletin covers progress in grades one through nine with highlights on spelling contest winners Bobby Morley and Billy Leighton, fire prevention posters, health habit charts, and future musician picture days. It notes library building, bird booklets, English posters, population graphs, early North American settlements, and various science and domestic arts projects across grades.
Congressman Lloyd Thurston announced all district schools will receive a 22 by 28 inch color poster of George Washington. The poster, a Gilbert Stuart Athenaeum reproduction, is distributed with the U S George Washington Bicentennial Commission to spur student interest ahead of the two hundredth birth anniversary celebration.
Mr and Mrs Chas Martin and Mrs Grace Patch hosted Miss Audrey Taylor during a Sunday visit in Maryville Missouri.
Des Moines was chosen as the site for a new veterans hospital after a state-wide review within a fifty mile radius of the city. The plant will be west of Des Moines, start this fall, and include 250 beds with room to expand. initial project cost is about two million dollars, creating many jobs.
Sunday School and Christian Endeavor met at usual hours with good attendance. The evening sermon focused on A House Not Built With Hands. Members were urged to return and invite friends.
Miss Mildred Davis and Drexel Gold advance to county audition in Bedford entering the soprano and tenor solo classes. They perform at ten o clock Saturday morning with Mrs. Pullman as piano accompanist.
Officials meeting at Bedford on September 25 set the schedule for county high school events. Basketball tournament runs February 26 27 alongside sectional action. Baseball at Clearfield on April 28. Track meet at Bedford April 30 with girls events discontinued. Declamatory contest at Gravity the Wednesday before the four school contest week.
The church led by Pastor C. M. Eppard invites all in the community to a special Sunday morning service next week on Invisible Values or Dollars That Are Not Doles. A full day of worship includes Sunday School at 10:00 a.m., preaching at 11:00 a.m., Endeavor at 6:30 p.m., and Evening Service at 7:30 p.m.
N T White offers good sprayed and graded Jonathan apples for sale at a farm fourteen miles east of Conway.
Graduates of the Kansas City Veterinary College. Tuberculin and Mallein test given. Hogs immunized against hog cholera. Call answered promptly day or night. Phone Gravity Iowa.
A late Sears Roebuck catalog is discovered on a rural counter, suggesting household shopping options of the era. The item hints at midcentury retail reach and local access to broad catalogs.
Frank Michaels has purchased the Walt Evans modern residence in Bedford and will take possession when he and Mrs. Michaels move from their farm northeast of here to Bedford next March.
Mr and Mrs John Nevins of Bedford had dinner Sunday and visited during the afternoon at the Jesse Lovitt home.
The honor roll includes Orie Kimpton Frank Kimpton N B Morrison and Mrs T C Mann J H Pickering recognized by the society for their contributions.
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