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CATHOLIC CHURCH.
There are but few Catholics in Bedford, yet they have a neat church, with services once a month. Pastor of the Lenox church usually conducts the services.
AFRICAN M. E. CHURCH.
Has a comfortable building, and while they have no regular pastor at present they have meetings at frequent intervals, and carry on much church work for so small a congregation.
AFRICAN BAPTIST CHURCH.
Also has a building for services, which they improved this summer, putting in electric lights and modern windows, painting, etc. They have no regular pastor, but like their Methodist brethren, they have frequent meetings, and regular prayer meeting services.
Bedford has her share of the civic societies-Masons, Eastern Star, Odd Fel- lows, and Daughters of Rebekah, Knights of Pythias, and Rathbone Sisters, Woodmen and Royal Neighbors, Yeomen, Fraternal Aid and G. A. R.
MASONIC.
The Masonic Lodge was organized in 1860. The style of the lodge is Taylor Lodge, No. 156, A, F. & A. M. The charter members were J. S. Rand, E. Cook, E. T. Smith, D. Underwood, J. M. Faulkner, J. J. Scott, A. M. Simpson, and James Mitchell; the date of the charter was June 8, 1860. The lodge was insti- tuted by E. T. Smith, J. S. Rand and Ephraim Cook. The first officers were J. S. Rand, W. M .; E. Cook, S. W .; E. T. Smith, J. W .; Daniel Underwood, treasurer ; J. W. Faulkner, secretary; J. J. Scott, S. D .; A. M. Simpson, J. D .; and James Mitchell, tyler.
The chapter at Bedford is known as Triangle Chapter, No. 68, R. A. M. In March, 1873, a meeting of the Royal Arch Masons of Bedford and vicinity was
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called to organize a chapter, and a petition was signed by: R. O. Starling, M. C. Connett, R. B. Rockwell, W. F. Walker, Simeon Wright, John P. Wright, L. W. Fairbanks, O. B. Wilson, E. T. Smith, and W. G. Barrows, and was sent to the grand high priest of the state of Iowa, with a recommendation from Clarinda Chapter. No. 49. March 26, 1873. The dispensation was granted and the chap- ter was organized by S. S. Bean, then of Clarinda, who appointed Richard O. Starling to be the first high priest; M. C. Commett, first K .; R. B. Rockwell, to be first S. The charter was granted October 24, 1874. Many of the Masons are Knights Templar belong to Bethany Commandery at Creston. Quite a number are Shriners and belong to the Shriner's Temple, St. Joseph, Missouri.
The Ladies of the Eastern Star, have an active working lodge and it has a large membership.
ODD FELLOWS.
Bedford Lodge, No. 91, I. O. O. F. was organized October 9, 1856. The rec- ord of the first year is not in existence, hence it is not possible to give the names of the first officers, and a history of the organization. A partial list furnished to George H. Powers, by Joel Walker, twenty-eight years ago, is all we can give. Mr. Walker remembered Oliver Jencks, Oliver Hyde, Josiah Litteer and Ezkiel Rose as being among the number. The present membership is about one hundred. The present officers are . O. E. Wertz, N. G .; E. E. Kuhn, V. G .; M. L. Burt, K. S .; A. L. Soles, F. S .; E. E. Cass, treasurer.
The Daughters of Rebekah have the strongest ladies' order in the town.
Bedford Encampment, No. 73, I. O. O. F. was organized October 21, 1874, or rather that was the date of the charter. It was instituted by H. M. Cramer, of Clarinda, assisted by several members of the Clarinda encampment. The first of- ficers were: J. M. Thirkield, chief patriach; Levi Schaffer, high priest; L. S. Morris, senior warden ; John Graff, junior warden ; Cyrus Woolverton, treasurer, and W. W. Clark, scribe.
The charter members were: John Graff, Cyrus Woolverton, David H. Brown, L. S. Morris, Levi Schaffer, W. W. Clark, and J. M. Thirkield.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.
The Knights of Pythias lodge was organized some time in the '80s. Among the early members were : T. H. Hull, L. J. James, A. G. Lucas, H. P. and H. M. Long, M. Miller, William and David Ramsay, Henry Webb, W. P. Bishop, Dr. Dunlavey and others. They have a strong organization, with a good working lodge of Rathbone Sisters in connection.
The membership is about one hundred at present.
Present officers : J. E. Lovell, C. C .; H. S. Webb, V. C .; Rev. D. McMasters, prelate ; G. F. Manker, M. of W .; F. E. Coppel, K. of R. S .; J. S. Hanshaw, M. of F .; Sid. P. Webb, M. of Ex .; T. E. Carroll, M. at A .; L. E. Purcell, I. G .; F. J. Butler, O. G .; G. M. Bradley, trustee.
MODERN WOODMEN.
Modern Woodmen of America were organized in the early '90s, and has had a steady growth, notwithstanding the many removals the order has constantly in- creased its membership.
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The present membership is about two hundred and ten.
The present officers are : consul, M. Miller; worthy advisor, Harry Crum; banker, Roy Clayton; clerk, I. J. Bailey ; escort, F. E. Coppel; inner guard, J. S. Hanshaw ; outer guard, Roy Wisdom. The Royal Neighbors have an enthusiastic lodge with good membership.
YEOMEN.
Yeomen was organized about ten years ago. It has been a rapidly growing organization. The membership is now nearly one hundred. The present officers are : foreman, Elzie Owings ; master of ceremonies, George Ditty ; correspondent, Ira Hibbs ; M. U., H. P. Long ; physician, W. R. Ritter ; overseer, Ira Gray ; watch- man, Will Douglas ; sentinel, John Clymar ; guard, Fred Harrington ; L. R., Mrs. Olu Gray ; L. R., Mrs. Edith Wycoff.
FRATERNAL AID.
This society like the Woodmen and Yeomen besides being a social order, has for its main object the insurance of its members. The lodge was organized in 1897 or 1898 and first held meetings in the G. A. R. Hall they now meet in the Clifton house, where they have fitted up a comfortable lodge room. The member- ship is nearly one thousand and is growing rapidly.
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC.
Sedgwick Post, Grand Army of the Republic has a membership now of eighty-six. In time past the membership has been one hundred and fifty. In 1887 the Post built a two-story brick building that is an ornament to the town. The Post occupies the upper floor, where they have one of the finest halls in Iowa. The lower floor is always rented for mercantile purposes, being occupied at present by Swearingen Brothers, grocers.
The officers of the Post now are : Commander, T. R. Jones; senior vice com- manders, George Reed and Harrison Adams ; officer of the day, W. P. Peterman ; quartermaster, E. G. Moore; surgeon, Dr. H. F. Dunlavey ; chaplain, S. J. Dalli- son; guard, Harvey Cook. There is a strong Relief Corps in connection with the Post.
Bedford was incorporated May 28, 1866 and Joseph H. Turner was elected mayor, W. F. Walker, recorder and William Walker, Curtis Wilkins, Charles Cope, R. H. Patrick and J. M. Houck, councilmen.
November 13, 1866 the council met to report by laws and ordinances and "boundaries and seals" as well. It was ordered that the meetings of the council should be Monday evenings, on or before the full moon in each month, and elective offcers to serve one year. At all meetings the mayor should preside but he had no voice in the proceedings of the council. Bonds were fixed as follows : Recorder's bond, five hundred dollars; marshal's bond, five hundred dollars ; treasurer's bond, five hundred dollars and street commissioner's bond at five hundred dollars. Licenses were fixed as follows : Auctioneer's license (annually) five dollars ; billiard tables, ten dollars ; bowling alleys, ten dollars ; bagatelle tables,
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ten dollars : circus or menagerie (per day) twenty-five dollars; side show, five dollars ; and draymen (annually ) one dollar. An ordinance prohibiting cows from running at large was also passed.
In February, 1867. the first ordinance on side walks was passed. They were ordered to be ten feet wide. Some of the earlier mayors were: L. N. Lewis, G. L. Finn. J. D. Morris, Lyman Evans, W. F. Randolph, W. F. Walker, F. E. Walker and M. C. Fuller.
In 1883. an imposing city hall was built on Court street. It has a large hall on the second floor that for quite awhile was rented by the county for a court room ; below are the city offices, barn and the room for the fire engine, hose carts, and so forth. The town is well equipped for fighting fire. It has a fine chemi- cal engine and hook and ladder outfit with a good equipment of hose since the putting in of the water works system.
The present mayor of the city is F. N. Lewis; clerk, Elmer Brice; treasurer, Sid P. Webb ; marshall, F. E. Snyder ; night watch, Tom Meredith. The members of the council are: Fred Payton, Harlan Montgomery, A. E. Lake, Clark Kin- nison, James Hanshaw and Court Orth ; city attorney, Bruce Flick.
In speaking of the business of the town, we desire to call special attention to the lines that probably come under the head of manufacturing industries.
BEDFORD CREAMERY.
Few realize the magnitude of this industry that has been built up by Mr. Frank Dunning. Taking up the stock of the old creamery built years ago by a stock company, and which had been dead for several years, Mr. Dunning pro- ceeded to put it on a systematic basis. It has steadily grown, and several times has had to increase the capacity of the plant. In 1906, the old building burned and a rebuilding site was purchased south of the old mill on the switch leading to the Nold Taylor Lumber Company's yard. Here a twenty thousand dollar build- ing was erected, equipped with the latest improved machinery, cold storage room, and so forth. Last year the output of the creamery was one million, two hundred and fifty thousand pounds of butter. The territory extends east to the Great Western Railroad, as far north as Diagonal and south to Parnell; on the Burlington branch to Creston on the north and Bolekow on the south; north- west on the main line of the Burlington to Villisca, southwest to Braddyville, Page county. There are about fifty-five men on the pay roll, and ninety mules are used for operating the various cream routes.
IOWA AND MISSOURI GRANITE MONUMENT COMPANY.
This company was organized for business in November, 1904, with C. L. Van Nostrand, manager. Mr. Van Nostrand's ability as a manager is shown in the remarkable growth of the business. It is the largest retail marble and granite business west of the Mississippi .. All kinds of monumental ivork is done here from the plainest, to first-class statuary. Space forbids the personal mention of some of the artists employed here, suffice it to say that some of them are specialists of national reputation. They are the highest paid mechanics in the state.
RESIDENCE OF W. E. CRUM, BEDFORD
RESIDENCE OF FRANK DUNNING. BEDFORD
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Twenty-five people are on the payroll. There are four salesmen constantly on the road. Their territory is practically all of the southwestern Iowa, and north- western Missouri. Owing to the class of work produced they are rapidly widen- ing their territory.
Bedford has three banks, the First National and the Citizens, having been established many years, and the Farmers and Merchants Bank, being organ- ized a little more than a year ago.
The Bedord National Bank officers are: president, W. E. Crum, vice-presi- dent, F. E. Walker; cashier, Charles G. Martin; and assistant cashier, H. R. Reynolds. From the report of November 9, 1909, is taken the following figures : capital stock, fifty thousand dollars ; surplus fund, fifty thousand dollars ; deposits, two hundred and forty thousand, one hundred and eighty-four dollars and ninety-four cents.
The officers of the Citizens Bank are: president, Frank Dunning; vice-presi- dent, A. P. Evans; cashier, H. P. Long; assistant cashier, Clyde Dunning. The capital and surplus is one hundred thousand dollars; deposits, two hundred and
The Farmers and Merchants Bank was organized last year with F. N. Lewis, president and George Hartley, cashier. Mr. Hartley retired early this year, Mr. Lewis taking over Hartley's stock. Mr. Lewis is still president and Lloyd N. Lewis, cashier. The capital stock is twelve thousand dollars. The present bank buildings in Bedford have added much to the appearance of the town.
Last year the Bedford National built at an expense of more than forty-thous- and dollars and this year Mr. Dunning has been building on the old Heller corner an equally expensive building. Mr. Lewis has also put up this summer on the old Golliday lots, a fine two-story double-room building, one room of which he will occupy with his bank.
Some of the leading lines of business in Bedford at present are: Dry goods : Thompson Mercantile Company, Bisco & Company ; general store: E. S. Van Sickle ; racket stores : Sid P. Webb, Peter O. Dougherty ; groceries : A. C. Brice Company, S. D. Maxwell, John Tate, J. H. Roe, Swearingen Brothers, Humphrey & Burnside, Peter A. Dougherty.
Clothing : Thompson Clothing Company; Gildner Clothing Co .; C. E. Paul. Hardware and furniture: Stephen & Taylor; Willis & Hook. Implements and vehicles : A. J. Sowers ; W. R. Ritter. Lumber companies : Hawkey Lumber Co., H. C. Webb, manager ; Nold. Taylor Lumber Co., Milton Hoxworth, manager. Drug stores : Harry Rhoades ; A. L. Bibbins ; Frank Wright, Millinery ; Miss Ella Wintrumute ; Lovell & Lovell; McCloud Sisters. Restaurants : Harry Meek ; Ful- ler ; John Armstrong; Gus Bock. Hotels : Garland, J. J. Clark; Elmwood, Isaac Rhoades. Harness : C. M. Steele; O. D. Laird; D. Sperry. Cigar manufactory : Joseph and Sperry. Plumbers and tinners: W. F. Walker; Cory Corson; G. A. Tucker. Blacksmiths : Hindman & Son; N. S. Sawyer; Tracy ; George Hughes ; Bock. Constructors : Charles Greenlee; Dallison Brothers; Edwin Golding ; Charles Winder. Livery : Dougherty & Churchill; Clark Kinnison. Feed barns : Van Riewan ; A. J. Sleep. Horse dealers : Harry Evans ; Keith Brothers. Poultry and eggs : J. M. Little. Feed stores : W. A. Harvey ; Thomas Greer & Son. Shoe repairer and dealer : Clay Thomas. Barbers : Fitch & Golding ; Hindman & Crow ; Ben Williams; Gray. Dentists: Mauker & Paschal; Dr. Bates. Physicians :
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C. M. Paschal; J. W. Beauchamp; A. A. Archer; H. F. Dunlavey ; J. P. Standley ; and Dr. Milo Dunning. Veterinary surgeons: Dr. Anderson; Peter Lacey. 'At- torneys : McCoun & Burrell; M. R. Brant; A. M. Jackson; Flick & Flick; Crum, Juqua & Crum ; Wisdom & Van Houten; G. B. Haddock. Real estate: A. S. H. Real Estate Co., W. A. Harvey, Kenneth Stephens and Frank Allen; M. A. Saw- yer ; George Mckinley ; Fred Payton; Craig Terrill. Bedford mills ; Whittington Hall. Brick yard: George Mckinley. Marble and graniteworks: Iowa & Mis- souri Granite Company; M. Miller Marble & Granite Works.
The Taylor County Farmers' Mutual Insurance Co. has its offices here. While the business is confined to farm risks of Taylor county alone, it has one million two hundred thousand dollars insurance in force. G. W. Hook is the president ; A. B. Wakeman, vice-president ; Horace Hamplin, secretary.
Bedford has a complete system of water works and sewers, and a first-class electric light plant. This year about eight blocks of paving was put in with five or six blocks partially completed. The Standard Oil Company has a station here, that supplies the local trade and the nearby towns. The coal and grain dealers were overlooked in the list of business. C. O. Drisher and Fielding Webb each con- duct a coal and grain business. William Seane buys stock, and Sidney Thompson owns the scales and stock yards.
In writing up the various towns of the county, much had to be omitted on ac- count of space. The aim has been to show briefly the various lines of business of the present day.
THE PRESS OF BEDFORD.
The first newspaper published in the county was the "South-West." About the first of October, 1857, Edwin Houck, one of the early settlers of the county, wrote to J. M. Dixon, of the Des Moines Register, asking him to send a man to Bedford to start a newspaper. After some delay, Joseph H. Turner, who had been living at the capital for several months, made a trip to Bedford to view the ground. He found it a village of perhaps three hundred inhabitants, and the county sparsely settled, with from three hundred to four hundred voters. Satisfactory arrange- ments were made whereby sufficient financial backing was furnished by E. Houck, A. Ballou and E. W. Fouts ; and after many delays and discouragements the press was purchased at St. Louis. It was shipped by the Missouri River to St. Joseph, but before reaching that point the river was a sheet of ice. However, the type and press finally reached Bedford, and on or about the first of February, 1858, the "Iowa South-West," made its first appearance. It was a six column folio of fair typography, and having all the work of the county, aided by the hard times of 1857, which gave it a large amount of legal work, it was soon on a substantial basis. In 1859 George Moser was taken in as a partner, and the business was conducted for several months by Turner and Moser, when Turner sold out his interest to Moser. It is due Mr. Turner to give a little more of his personal history, inasmuch as he was the first publisher of a newspaper in Taylor county ; was one of its early settlers, and indentified with its history. After selling his interest in the South- West, he farmed six miles southeast of Bedford, on Honey Creek, until the out- break of the war, when he enlisted as a private in Company F, Twenty-ninth Iowa
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Infantry Volunteers, Colonel Thomas H. Benton, Jr., commanding. He was made sergeant-major of the regiment at its organization, and afterward first lieutenant of Company F. He served as captain and acting assistant adjutant-general on the staffs of Generals Rice and Solomon in Arkansas and at Mobile. At the close of the war he returned to Bedford and in January, 1867, recommenced the publication of the South-West, which had been suspended for a time. After a few months Turner sold the paper to Mr. S. Lucas, and went to Missouri, where he started the Wakanda Record, an eight column folio, republican in politics. In 1868 his plant was entirely destroyed by fire with no insurance, but in four weeks he had an- other office in operation, and after years of hard work built up a business worth six thousand dollars, when he had another fire, January 19, 1878, wiping out every thing, except an insurance of one thousand five hundred dollars. In August, 1878 he again started, and this time his publication was called the Carroll Record, and although a republican paper, published in a Missouri county having four hundred democratic majority, was in a flourishing condition, the last heard from by old settlers who knew Turner.
Soon after purchasing the paper Mr. Lucas took in as partner a Mr. Patrick of Fairfield, who was a newspaper man of considerable ability. Later, G. N. Udell became a partner of Mr. Lucas, but in 1872 Mr. Lucas again became sole pro- prietor. Mr. Lucas continued the publication of the paper for several years. Finally selling to Edwin Houck, who took as a partner, J. D. Smith, who after- ward became postmaster under Cleveland's administration. Mr. Houck was an editorial writer of ability and the paper .. was warmly supported by the county democracy. Later the paper was published for a while by a young man named Brown, who later sold to R. S. Bonham. After a year or two Bonham traded with H. E.Movers, who had been publishing the Blockton News. It should have been stated that under Bonham's ownership, the paper lost its old name. Bonham re- christened it, giving it the name "Free Press," which it still bears. The paper is now owned and published by R. V. Lucas, son of A. G. Lucas, for many years editor of the Taylor County Republican.
Mr. Lucas has much of the ability of his gifted father, as an editorial writer, and being a practical printer, he is giving the paper a county paper, unexcelled in the state. The room he occupies was built especially for a printing office. He has a power press, a typesetting machine and all other modern accessories of a first- class printing office. It should be noted that up until Mr. Lucas assumed control of the paper for the second time, which was in 1872, the paper had been republican, of the old stalwart variety. But in 1872 Mr. Lucas espoused the cause of Horace Greeley, the democratic candidate for president, and the paper remained democratic until Mr. Lucas became its owner.
In 1872 G. N. Udell started the Bedford "Argus." Udell was an able writer and he at once made the "Argus" a popular paper. The plant was destroyed by fire in 1873, but Mr. Udell immediately put in a new outfit. In 1874 the Argus was sold to Dr. M. C. Connett, who employed A. J. Cook and C. W. Connett to run it. In three months Dr. Connett sold it to the Hale brothers-John and William, who published it for two years. Dr. J. D. Morris purchased the plant in 1876. He in turn sold in 1877 to George H. Powers, who published the Argus until 1880, when it passed into the hands of a stock company, composed of the following men :
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W. E. Crum. J. R. Van Fleet. O. B. Thompson, P. C. King, C. H. Dow, George H. Powers. M. C. Connett, Sid. Schram, H. McConvill, Mark Atkinson, E. D. Kepner, W. F. Evans, L. W. Fairbanks. George H. Powers was elected editor and W. F. Evans, treasurer and manager. In 1881 Powers sold his interest and W. F. Evans was elected editor. The paper continued under this management until it was finally bought by Pierce and Lucas, who had established a paper in 1878, which they named the Taylor County Republican. Messrs. Pierce and Lucas had formerly published the Grant City ( Missouri) Star, and later the Hopkins Jour- nel. The Republican met with the most flattering success from the start. Mr. Lucas had few equals in the state as an editorial writer, and as a business manager Mr. Pierce was unexcelled. So the paper soon stood at the head of the county papers in influence and patronage. Mr. Pierce finally severed his connection with the paper, having become interested in the "Homestead." Mr. Lucas con- tinued the publication of the paper for some time, finally disposing of it to join the editorial staff of the Homestead. He is now in Buffalo, Wyoming, engaged in the newspaper business. After Mr. Lucas severed his connection with the paper, William Cochran published it for a time. It was later published by J. B. Dum and sons. Then was controlled by a stock company for awhile and the com- pany finally sold to J. J. Clark, who was publishing a paper called the Independent, and the two names were merged into the "Independent-Republican," which name Mr. Clark afterward dropped and adopted the name "Times-Republican," by which title the paper is still known.
In 1880. John V. Faith began the publication of the "Taylor County Democrat," which some time later was taken over by the "South-West," and was there- after known as the "South-West-Democrat," which we neglected to state was the name of the paper. In the time of Mr. Houck's ownership and thereafter until the business fell into the hands of Bonham. Just when, or under whose owner- ship the two papers were united we do not recall.
John J. Clark published a paper at Gravity, but removed the plant to Bedford. The paper was the "Independent," spoken of elsewhere. Mr. Clark built up a good patronage for the "Independent," and started a daily which he published for many years after purchasing the old "Republican" plant and good will. Mr. Clark made the "Times-Republican" the official paper of the county. The office is one of the best equipped in the county. A fine power press, latest improved job presses, paper folder and linotype machine. Mr. Clark was a practical printer, having worked at the trade from his youth and he took great pride in the paper, but on account of having too much business on his hands, and to take a much needed rest after years of close application, he sold the plant last year to Mr. Campbell. Mr. Campbell is the editor and manager, and he came to the paper with a thorough experience in newspaper work. He is a hard worker, a brilliant writer and a courteous gentleman who has made friends rapidly since his connection with the paper.
It is said by some of the early settlers that there was another paper published in Bedford, about the time of the Civil war, but what was its name, no man can tell, at least the writer found no one who really knew. Most of the moulders of public opinion mentioned in this article have long since died, some of them years ago. Many of them were men of ability and integrity and contributed in no small
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degree to the development of the county. One of the oldest newspaper men of the county, however, is still very much alive and lately visited Bedford. We refer to Sereny Lucas, the early editor of the old South-West.
OLD SETTLERS' REMINISCENCES; EXTRACTS FROM OLD NEWS- PAPERS, ETC.
This chapter is thrown in as addenda to the book. It contains some things omitted from articles under which they belong, extracts from old records that had no proper place elsewhere, scraps of legend handed down from the pioneer settlers, and a few items of interest, gleaned from old newspapers still in existence.
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