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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1929
Page
5
Bartley Feed and Produce promotes Minerals Protex and Ames Reliable as top products for customers seeking durable, trusted mineral and feed supplements.
Ed L. Newton visited Atlantic Monday. M. Dorn renewed a home subscription. G W Yeater in Des Moines with nephew Bert Willison, still in hospital after major surgery. Mayor Mennig recovering at home after illness and hospital care. Mrs. Vernon Duthie hospital stay and return to Adair for recovery. City Council returns to curb parking after trial of street center. Lake Wilson letter from 1929 thanks the Record for fourteen years of weekly delivery.
E. C. Thaken, long in Anita’s shoe trade, closed his affairs and moved to Atlantic last week to run a shoe repairing establishment. Nearby, G. W. Yeater added a porch and new paint to his east Main street residence.
Many friends and former neighbors recall Mr. and Mrs. Brown who ran the Hotel Whitney after selling the Bartlett Hotel located on the site of Anita City Concert Park. Their eldest daughter Mrs. Jane Buckner lives on a farm near Massena.
Mr and Mrs J D Peterson return to Anita after months in California enjoying sunshine flowers fruit and vegetables and meeting former neighbors. They describe a harsh tail end of winter and look forward to sharing tales of California wildlife and scenery with local friends.
Nampa Idaho April 2 1929 letter requests moving the Anita Record from Lone Beach California to 203 Severth Avenue South Nampa Jane. Enclosed is a $2.00 check for the old paper year 1929. Signed M. N. Baker.
Charles Van Buren Wilson died at Methodist Hospital in Omaha Nebraska on April 8 1929 after influenza complications. He was 44, born August 19 1884 at Lincoln Center Cass County Iowa. Survived by wife Clara Putt four children and his mother Mary Wilson and sister Mrs W Z Biggs. Funeral held Anita Christian church with Evergreen Cemetery interment by Logan lodge Knights of Pythias. He was a former union stock yards employee and a longtime member of Masonic Eastern Star Knights of Pythias and Modern Woodmen.
Mrs. G. B. Graham of Oak Ridge shows a Christmas cactus that began blooming in the early holiday season and shed its last petal in April. The plant has bloomed through summer and again at Christmas, making an unusually long blooming period.
Wm. G. Butler, longtime employee of the U S Postal service at the Chicago terminal, has been transferred to the railway mail service and assigned a run between Sioux City Iowa and Willmar Minnesota. He began his new duties last week and will have Mrs. Butler and the babies remain in Anita until a new home is ready in Sioux City or Willmar.
For sale Barred Rock chicks due to hatch on April 10. Mrs. F. A. Smith lists Bx 463 Anita as contact. A representative of Geo M Bechtel & Company bond house visited Anita on Tuesday. The text notes local obituaries, estate actions, and a Turner & Son broad sow sale with average price $31.80 per head.
Seed potatoes northern grown seed corn gathered early and fire dried guaranteed to you. C E Malone Seed Co Atlant Iowa. Mrs Ollie Thornburg called to Menlo to nurse a patient. For sale brass beadstead and mattress. Bert Willison sends payment for old paper to Jan 1 1930. Illness reports in Anita. Mrs Ethel Anders visiting from Omaha. Goose eggs for setting and seed potatoes. Cream separator demonstration offered. Bartley's Produce advertises.
Nat Thomas of Fort Collins Colorado, a longtime Audubon county resident, spent several days in Anita with neighbors Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Parrott. A baby boy was born Sunday to Mr. and Mrs Cecil McAfee. John Rogge returned home to Payette Idaho after visiting his mother Rosa Rogge and sister Lena Rogge in Lincoln township.
Unseasonably wet winds and showers slow farm work in the vicinity while March storms and hail in Oak Ridge cause concern. Hogs sold to Anita buyers from Kelleher Bros and partners, Grandma Bain injured in a fall but recovering. Twins born to Kenneth Wilkenson and Ila Williams in Mitchellville named Donald Dean and Eleanor Jean.
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