Anita Record (Newspaper) - October 25, 1917, Anita, Iowa v firfh VOLUME ANITA CASS OCTOBER NUMBER 44 There arc many in many lands There are Flags of every hue But there is no in any Like our own White and Then for the flag our flag With its Stripes and While too For there is no in any Like our own White and Get the real and ag and disturbances will cease to No political party can afford to champion the return of the out lawed saloon to War creates all sorts of varie ties of numerous features of which are capable and do equal a touch and taste of the real There were thousands of votes cast against the prohibitory amendment by men who would on a straight vote for the return of the saloon to SERVING MUTUAL a gentleman made the statement within the hear ing of the writer that an organization known as The Re tail Merchants Association of Iowa is doing more to keep prices of necessary commodities at high water than any other known cause or that tlie business of the retail merchants throughout the especially in towns the size of a and controlled by this state or to the great financial detriment of both producer and consumer in small town com that the producers in these communities were not giv en a fair and square in the matter of disposing of their pro ducts to the home town mer This gentleman cited a number of instances wherein the farmer was unable to get a fair price for his from the local rather than pay a reasonable and keep the money in circula tion at placed their order for potatoes that were in an adjoining having their orders promptly filled at an un usually low because of overproduction in that and these potatoes that were bought and delivered for less than one dollar per dur ing last fall and early were the same potatoes that commanded the exhorbitant and almost prohibitive price of and per prior to the maturing of the 1917 Just how much truth there may be in the gentlemans the writer is not in a position to verify but if such a condition it is neither strange or startling that the home town community farmer and produ who feels that he has been unjustly boycotted by the home town should consider himself fully justified in placing his order for goods which the home merchant has for with the city department and at the same time exerting his efforts in acquainting his neighbors and friends with a boycott system affecting the home town the pro ducer and the What Iowa needs most at the present is the assurance that we are to have at least a brief breathing spell before the next special election is sprung on It should be made possible to compel organized labor to behave and other strikes will cease when the government takes the entire matter in Possibly the next thing we hear of will be that they have taken the pocket out of our It will be a long time before a legislature will be elected in Iowa that will repeal the pres ent laws relative to the liquor tr Those reducers should pep and nerve them selves for the and take a whack at numerous items on the list of finished There is the evident dispo sition prevalent to encourage a spirit of discontent at what we and a desire for something not necessarily needful which should be mcl With some the ballot s not looked upon as being either i privilege or a but as a that pays one cents on the and in many strictly in It fron reliable and on good that there is no such animal as an ideal it is a cinch that very lit tle will be expected from the average along the line of perfection and there are a whole lot of henpecked pheasants who have never en joyed the privilege of doing as they in which they might be feed will naturally cattle and make Delay in getting the heating stove made it necessary for one fellow we know to go to bed at an early hour in the in order to get and avoid an attack of In placing a limit on to be charged for corn and someone evidently for got or neglected to Regulate the present prevailing cost of corn and Women who are afflicted with cold should be by if to wear heavy wool socks or felt which might have a tendency to keep the bed clothes from freez The season of the year is ap proaching when it will bo neces sary to form the acquaintance of a lot of strange bedfellows and it might be good policy to keep your eye on em throughout the The grafters who are reaping rewards in the shape of derived from suspicious and questionable methods practiced and made possible as a result of ought to be run into their holes and It would seem that under present existing it would be unnecessary to be for ever and eternally posting and coaching the along the line of The American people are naturally smart and and catch onto situations and con di and should not be so ab sent minded that they will for from one week to what really ought to be Even a lot of supposedly intelligent and ed prohibitionists must admit that they have a to learn about how to vote a special so that their ballot will count for what they intended to vote Even though the prohibitory amendment was we still have in form that is really prohibitory to the fellows who expected to be able to have booze shipped to immediately after the polls and the result was an 1 f the capacity of the jails and penitentiaries throughout Incle Sams domain is insufficient for the of symp and the general run of let us lose no time in building more jails and Lets take the best of rare of the whole If the war profits on a long list of necessary articles were specially as they in to the retirement from business of a lot of dam grafters would be the natural re LETS BE AND Just as might be expected from that a trio of news papers in Iowa are endeavoring to hold Harding responsi ble for the result of the vote on suit and to the meager mind of the prohibitory amendment the the power j and s but one fche to levy that special tax is vested in The senior senator from admitting that he was a is explaining his Hop by staling that conditions have Now that tlie conditions to which lie doubt less referred seem to have switched back is the Sen ator foing to be duly respon City it is a sure sign of worthy of special that the government has finally woke up to the fact that the widows of the war veterans and soldiers are to receive a merited increase of without having to wade through an endless spindle of red tape before getting what they are honestly entitled to and which should have been pro vided for many years An official note from the setting forth in just what he really thinks of Uncle Sams great along all would be more interesting to the American than a fresh ropy of Three could be to a bald headed who bad been kept intact for an ordinary The M t lie that the attorney generals extreme course with reference to the so railed blue laws was an in factor in the result on the prohibitory You can lead the but you can seldom or ever drive them in matters 01 this Reform measures call for the utmost diplomacy and A lot of supposedly intelligent people are displaying a coarse quality of ignorance in declaring that the result of the recent el on the adoption of the prohibitory amendment to the state means the re turn of the saloon to It means no such We have in Iowa today the most effective prohibitory laws the state has ever had and there will be no saloons established in Iowa un til the legislature repeals pres ent statutes and enacts other measures favorable to the sa ous dirty political schemes to which these newspapers have planned to in order to create sentiment against the with the hope of ad ding and opposition to the renomination and reelection of the It was a vic ious picture these newspapers painted and published of Harding all through the last campaign and was even de that open sa loons would surely and certainly follow his election but the rec ord plainly shows that some either or lied with a preponder ance jf evidence in support the Xo public man was ever more roundly mis malign ed than by a class of people from whom such treat nent would be and they undoubtedly the Governor to relish nd enjoy such but people who believe in honesty ind fair will not hesitate o resent such dirty PREPARE FOR We have been having quite a of Winter but the is yet to is the time to prepare for We have the pretties line of Now Base Soft Coal and Wood Stoves We have ever They are going fas but the is sUll We are always pleased to show you our Come GALIHER MUST HAVE A As I have disposed of my stock of goods and business to the Gali hor and intend to engage in another lino of I request that all persons knowing themselves in to call and make settle ment of thoir either by cash or at the earliest possible Grateful for your generous patron and hoping that those accounts may bo settled up without I Yours Very AMOS Have you tried garine Some say it is as and even bettor you than much of the butter ROE Van wife and have returned from Center they wore call ed by the sevious illness of Van Slykes Jacob whose condition has not materially changed for the but remains about the TAKEN October two white male weighing about 100 pounds Owner can have by proving property and paying for this JAY A very and wife havo re from At tho Unique Theatre Monday one of tho reels produced was a demonstration of tho motor truck on tho farm showing in almost every department of farm tho possibilities and capabilities of tho motor in taking the place of horse and saving a vast amount of time and labor to tho far In this very interesting picture was shown the old way of harvesting tho tho IN BUSINESS I wish to announce that I have re established my milk and am prepared to furnish to the people of Anita a firstclass quality of and solicit your Phono 20 on Hugh Parrel 1 shipped a car load of choice cattle to Omaha last by moans of tho the the and finally drawn by a Motor and doing tho work swiftly and It is not a wild in a very few prediction that with at tho greater portion of the work on tho farm will bo accomplished by motor of tho Tinsley Film Dos during his two days stay in tho city this visited tho Anita public schools Tuesday and gave tho stu dents a brief demonstration of tho pro cess of making from which mov ing pictures are The well remembers when Charlie was a boy himself always anxious and ambitious to learn all there was to know about in and to be permitted to give a ex of this most wonderful in was to him a real and no doubt as well us instructive to his large this special on A new adding machine has been in stalled in tho Citizens Savings Amos who disposed of his implement business last week to tho has engaged his services to the Mormon Stock Food of Illi as resident salesman of this popular product in this We lire pleased to know that Amos is to continue a resident of the best little business town in all The Fordyce stock of goods has boon by K of who has been busy since disposing of the various hues at auction and when entirely disposed it is tho intention of to place in the shov and on the shelves a new and complete uptodate stock of Jewelry and a full lino o goods usually carried in a Jewelry Tho give cordial welcome to to th business circle of with the hop that will lind Anita one ol th best little business towns in all Iowa Ressie Lowell returned Sun ay evening from a two months stay n and other Colorado points change of climate different from owa being in order to quelch the effect of rag weeds and ither obnoxious vegetation on the luman system at certain periods of the Her condition is much improv and relief from hayfever will be at another crop of ragweed is A genuine with sleet and to a depth of two to what we might and along in is a little out of the ordinary for this Garden of in but this is just what we got Monday and didnt ask or it Along with the short and the covering with snow and sleet of what little there the change in the weather will make t necessary to poke a lot of high priced food into Perhaps no township of any county n the in which no town or vll age is has contributed more generously to the Liberty Loan jy the purchase of than has just over the line n Audubon At a Liberty Bond held at the Center chool house on Friday at which Hugh was the Chair the large number of farmers in attendance listened to patriotic ad dresses by Ras mussen and of af ter soliciting committees were as follows Levi for Crooked Valley Oak and Jesse Parker for the district north of Oak On Satur day the bond subscriptions had reached beyond the ten thousand dollar and tho committees were still anxious to push the and wore doing so with a great deal of zeal and of accompanied by her Eva and two spent last week in Anita and vicinity with their and and Pratt and and the children came to Anita from Chi whore tho grand daughter had boon receiving special treatment for several and her general health is considerably Im proved so much that after their visit in and a few days spent with Walker Wheeler and family at and with the family of the ladies expected to start for thoir home in Pratt will be remember ed by many of tho early and longtime residents of Anita and vicinity as Miss Fannie daughter of the late Tho Pratt family moved to Canada a number of years and havo come to like the tho climate and every thing olso in that including the Im mense snow drifts which have a habit of piling up most every month throughout tho
