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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1913
Page
10
Local notes report residents illness and recoveries, farm activity, and social visits. Bert Willison loses a horse. Isaac Swanson and family visit J M Cramlett. Sam Deen sells fat hogs to Anita buyers. Dorsey children recover from measles. George Pratt ill. Gochanour Bros build a new house for Clarence Gochanour. hail and rain storm causes no damage. T W Grim ships furniture from Illinois. Clay Lewis clan attends an old fashioned dance.
E Miller visited Atlantic on Monday. Rollie Romick lost a fine horse last Tuesday. F Juhl marketed hogs in Adair Saturday. L D Pearson visited Adair. Harry Cooper sold hogs in Anita Thursday. Mrs W M Moreland is quite ill with pneumonia. F D Kohls baby is sick with pneumonia. J Brandi delivered cattle to L D Pearson Monday. Ben Zanders spent Sunday with his brother FE Zanders. Geo Murphy of Adair called on L D Pearson Tuesday. Vernon Cooper works for Clarence Hedges this week. F A Foster and mother visited L D Pearson Sunday. Mrs Lillie Story moves to Ullbrick farm this week. Clarence Hedges sold fine mules in Adair Saturday. P Christiansen and wife of Maine visited daughter Mrs E Miller Sunday. E Burks and wife and L D Pearson family visited FE Miller Sunday. Clarence Hedges public sale well attended and sold well. Mrs G E McDermott visiting parents Horace Van Slyke and wife in Westphalia Kansas. Mrs Wilbur Wheatley slowly improving after stroke.
Local column lists visiting friends and relatives in Atlantic Wiota and surrounding areas with numerous short calls on relatives and neighbors. It reports a dance at Buddyline home and Woodmen Hall, a near accident to Raymond Cannon, Easter cyclone damage near three miles south, and a marriage near the Eilts home as Marie Eilts wed Lauritz of Nebraska.
Sunday visits and gatherings fill the Berea area with neighbors sharing meals and company. Notable mentions include J Sullivan and wife with R A Caddock and wife, Frank Patterson and wife at Dennis Pearce home, and the Ladies Aid Society meeting with Mrs G M Peterson.
Elmer Soper remains in the news as a recent update notes his past week. Mrs. O W Brown shows measles illness. Sige Hendricks visits Kansas to see his mother. S K Wilson dined with James McVey and wife. Chas Jewett visited cousin Arline Sisler. Archie Cochran sawed wood for John Dill and Lawrence Reynolds. Carl Barhan visited Fabius Forrester and wife before heading to Canada. Hog losses from a recent storm hit eight head. A M Shakeley reports three milking cows killed. Barns blown down and structures moved but no fatalities. J Pierpont Morgan dies in Rome at the Grand Hotel.
Sheriff Bosley searched A J Schwab drug store in Wiota last week and found liquor. The sheriff took the liquor into custody for trial in Justice Pressnall's court tomorrow. Schwab waived examination and gave bonds.
The second and third grades plan a Bird Day program for April 2. The Hig School joint program last Friday was the best of the year. The High School will finish the year with three parts per pupil: a debate, a written production, and an oral presentation. Rock Island ran a special train from Atlantic Sunday to accommodate spectators for the wreck from the prior Sunday night storm. A false report claimed President Wilson had been assassinated. it was unfounded.
Wade was in attendance at the Rock Island section foremen meeting held in Atlantic last Monday.
The Cass county district court will open April Std with Judge Thomas Arthur presiding. The jury will be called April Sth. Sixty eight cases have been filed for the term.
The annual financial report of Cass county presents detailed costs of county operations and reveals how taxpayer money is allocated. It aims to inform residents about expenditures and budgeting priorities across county departments.
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