White Pole road urged to be Iowa’s first paved highway
Des Moines Chamber of Commerce urges the State Highway Commission to pave Federal Highway No. 32 first, arguing the Davenport to Council Bluffs corridor via Des Moines is the shortest Chicago to Omaha route. Joel Tuttle cites mileage and population along the White Pole route to press for priority over Lincoln and Harding highways.
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Davenport
Des Moines
Anita
Atlantic
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Chicago
Omaha
Mr. Tuttle
Tuttle
White Pole
Berea Standard School entertains with Easter play and auction
Miss Ermine Brown led a Berea Standard School program Friday featuring The Easter Surprise playlet and It Ain't My Fault. Alumni performances, lunch auction , popcorn sales, and a corn kernel guessing prize filled the evening, raising 58 dollars.
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Ermine Brown
Berea Standard School
Irene
Beverly Pratt
Chester
Paul Steele
Elsie
Marjorie Karns
Dave
Eldon Harris
Hortense
Jane Purkiser
Frank
Robert Plummer
Mary
Margaret A. Joy
Mrs. Cherrington
Mogean Joy
The
Darrow Girls
Berea School
Toy Symphony Orchestra
Caste
Brown
Adair County Spelling Champ Heads to Interstate Contest
Miss Lois Duthie, eighth grade daughter of Mr and Mrs Vernon Duthie, won both written and oral sections in the Adair county spelling contest at Greenfield among eighty two contestants. She will represent Adair county in the inter state spelling contest at South Sioux City Nebraska on April 26. Her coach is Miss Tessie McMahon, a noted local educator.
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Lois Duthie
Vernon Duthie
Adair County
Greenfield
South Sioux City
Nebraska
Los
Tessie McMahon
Subscription arrears prompt overhaul of records
The Record warns subscribers in arrears that as of May 1929 the subscription list will be overhauled and many delinquent readers, especially outside Cass county, will be dropped. The note cites rising costs and lack of profit in the subscription business.
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Cass County
Former Anita resident Mrs Laura Row Buerkin notes Peoria life
Laura Row Buerkin, formerly of Anita and rural teacher, now lives in Peoria Illinois and sends a payment for the old name paper to January 1 1930. She runs a greenhouse at 1725 Wisconsin Avenue and her father John Row lives with her.
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Laura Row Buerkin
Anita Lady
Peoria
Illinois
Lela Willison and Morris Boyle Wed on Birthday in Des Moines
At 3 00 Saturday April 6 1929 Rev F C Edwards home Des Moines the marriage of Lela Willison and Morris Boyle occurred. The bride daughter of Bert and Mrs Willison and the groom son of Irvin Boyle Dexter. They will reside on a farm near Penn Center with many friends offering congratulations.
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F.C. Edwards
Des Moines
Lela Willison
Morris Boyle
Bert Willison
Anita
Earlham
Irvin Boyle
Ollie Thornburg
G. W. Yeater
Anita High School
Iowa State Teachers’ College
Simpson College
Cass
Madison
Dexter
Chicago
Penn Center
Spelling Champion Margaret Biggs to Represent Cass County
The Cass county spelling contests in Atlantic crowned Margaret Biggs of Anita as winner of both written and oral rounds. She will represent Cass county at the Interstate spelling contest in South Sioux City on April 26 and the Register and Tribune state contest in Des Moines on April 19. Biggs, an eighth grade student at Anita Public School, is praised by locals for achieving a historic double title.
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Atlantic
Cass County
South Sioux City
Nebraska
Register and Tribune
Des Moines
Margaret Biggs
Zate Biggs
Anita
Margaret
Sioux City
Anita Public School
Rebekah Lodge Hosts Viota Delegation Program
At the Juanita Rebekah lodge No. 206 regular meeting a large Viota delegation attended and enjoyed social time after Sister Mae Welch Iowa State Rebekah Assembly president led a school of instruction. The program featured Anita Barrett vocal solo Lorinda Wise harmonica solo Jessie Parker whistling solo Marie Kelleher reading Mrs Mary Reed spelling contest and an address by Mae Welch.
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Juanita Rebekah Lodge No. 206
Viota
Mae Welch
Iowa State Rebekah Assembly
Anita Barrett
Lorinda Wise
Jessie Parker
Marie Kelleher
Mary Reed
The
State Assembly
Card of Thanks from Osen Family
The Osen family extends thanks to friends for sympathy and flowers during illness. Gratitude is especially given to the men who transported the writer to the hospital. Frank H. Osen and Family. See Bartley for Chick Brooders.
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Frank H. Osen
Bartley
Taken Home This Week After Hospital Stay
Frank H. Osen, a well known farmer from this vicinity, has recovered from a major operation at Dr. H. E. Campbell hospital. He will leave the hospital within a day and return to his home northwest of town, a recovery described as almost miraculous given his prior condition.
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Dr. H
Passing of a Pioneer Mrs Elizabeth Hensley
Elizabeth Hensley a longtime Audubon county resident died March 28 at her home south of Exira after a brief pneumonia illness. Born November 30 1847 in England she immigrated to America in 1850 with her parents settling in Ohio later moving to Des Moines. She married Leroy M Hensley February 14 1872 and had seven children. five died in infancy. Survived by five sisters and four brothers she lived on a Greeley township farm for 49 years before moving to Exira area eight years ago. Funeral at Federated church Exira with interment at Extra cemetery.
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Elizabeth Hensley
Audubon County
Extra
Elizabeth Pilmer
Phillip Pilmer
England
America
Ohio
Des Moines
Leroy M. Hensley
Charles
Walter Hensley
Hensley
A R. Carter
California
Magegie Wells
Wynoka
Oklahoma
Alice Hood
Massena
Iowa
Agnes McCosh
Anita
Misa Mary Jane Pilmer
Exira
James and
John Pilmer
Atlantic
Wm. L. Pilmer
Mt. Vernon
South Dakota
Phillip B. Pilmer
Federated Church
Virgil B. Hill
Presbyterian Church At
Iaeter
Greeley M. E
Audubon County Journal
Mother Hensley
Eighty Four Years Young At Easter Birthday in Adair
At his Adair home Easter Sunday 5 W Woods celebrated his eighty four th birthday with a one o clock dinner hosted by Mrs Woods for relatives and friends including Rev J M DeBerg Kathryn Huff Clifford Huff Nadine Arnold Mary Louise Lois and Richard Duthie Ruth Martin. Several guests unable to attend due to impassable roads. This marked his first Easter Sunday birthday. A Easter Lily from Mrs Copper Lincoln Nebraska was among the remembrances.
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Adair
W. Woods
Anita
Woods
J. M. DeBerg
Kathryn
O. W. Huff
Clifford
T. W. Arnold
Nadine
Vernon Duthie
Mary Louise
Lois
Richard
Ruth Martin
J. S. Woods
Marie
H. H. Huff
Fred Arnburg
Copper
Bert Willison Returns To Hospital For Further Care
Bert Willison of Earlham and former Anita resident has been readmitted to a Des Moines hospital after a several week stay following a major operation. He may undergo another operation to treat ongoing bodily complications and secure permanent recovery.
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Bert Willison
Earlham
Anita
Des Moines
For Sale or Trade Rooming House in Atlantic
Modern rooming house in Atlantic offered for sale or trade. Income three dollars per month, seventy dollars net. Address 701 Poplar or phone 132-1. 16-31 Wm. Marquette, Atlantic.
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Atlantic
Poplar
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Beuan Baier
Elsie Morton
Louise Darrow
Nettie Smith
Viola Darrow
Tom Chester
Claire Underwood
Noah Lott
Raymond Darrow
Margaret Alice Joy
Harry Kauffman
Mabel Gissible
Willison—Boyle
Eugene
Howard’s Beauty Parlor
Fullerton Lumber Co
Anita, Iowa
the Rebekahs
Bongers Bros
Wm. Marquette
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