BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL DECEMBER 26, 1902 Roscoe Withers, who is a student at Purdue Lafayette, is home for the Christmas vacation with his parents, Dr. and Mrs. A.T. Withers. Dr. Lee Withers is home from Louisville, where he is studying dentistry, to spend Christmas with his parents, Dr. and Mrs. Withers, north N street. Mrs. Frank Heitger has returned to her home in Bedford, after an extended visit with her cousins, Misses Anna Heitger and Mabel Dilley. Railroad men say that 70,000 home seekers with their families, have settled this year in Idaho, Washington and Oregon. The Canadian Pacific has carried over 100,000 people to Manitoba. Mel Mitchell has returned from Owensburg, where he was called on account of the serious illness of his grandmother. Miss Stella Brewer arrived home from Terre Haute Saturday, to spend the holidays with her parents and sister here. Albertson, Burton & Huffstetter have discontinued operations on the gravel roads in Daviess county until more favorable weather. Indication are that it will be "a green Christmas", which is said to portend a "fat graveyard". But, we hope in this instance the sign is wrong. William McKnight arrived home Tuesday a.m. from Louisville, accompanied by his young son, whom he took to that city for a surgical operation on one of his knees.