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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1919
Page
4
State Board of Health orders owners and occupants in Anita to thoroughly clean premises and remove all trash and decaying matter from residence and business areas by May 10. Enforcement to follow. Mayor Homer Kirkham signed the notice.
Notice to auto owners that the town ordinances set the speed limit and related rules within Anita corporate limits and will be strictly enforced to prevent trouble and expense.
Allie Lee Perry son of Mr and Mrs E B Perry born near Extra Audubon County Iowa April 27 1886 died in Bourdeaux France March 14 1919 at age 32 11 18 from complications after Spanish influenza and bronchial pneumonia He served starting October 3 1917 spending five months at Camp Funston Camp Merritt then went to France with Company E 16th Engineers He died at the Regimental Infirmary of Company E 16th Engineers Regimental Infirmary Burial in United States Cemetery Carbon Blane Memorial services held April 13 1919 at Extra Christian Church Knights of Pythias assisted with full honors He left a large family and many friends in Unita and vicinity including four brothers two sisters and a brother in arms Clarence Ry Perry with the American Army in France and a sister Mrs J E Lewis in Brayton
Families in Casey and Anita celebrate Frank Naylor return from overseas and final discharge after service. Frank endured rheumatism from trench life and rests recovering at home while brother Fred serves in Germany. Sergeant Rose W. Story, discharged in Anita, shares plans to recount experiences. Birth noted in Custer Montana for Bruce Engle and wife with James Morgan as grandfather. Kathryn DeCamp laments lack of namesake.
Mrs. B D Forshay hosted 125 guests for an April 18 musicale at Roydea headlined by soprano Pearl Hutton Schrader. J B Parser accompanied, Leona Linderman performed, Vera Holton read, and Schrader closed with Ave Maria as John McCormack on the Victrola. Out of town attendees included Mrs Geo W Boatright Stuart and others from Atlantic Manning and Manning areas.
The poem recalls a mother’s memory of a hungry child in youth who asked What ye got to eat as he ran from play. Now the son serves in battle across the sea and the speaker longs for his safe return and the joy of hearing him say Hello Ma, I’m back again What ye got to eat.
Harold Goodwin son of Tom and Mrs T E Goodwin of Mitchell spent a short furlough at his parents home before heading to Ft Des Moines Iowa for treatment of injuries from World War I. He served in the signal corps First Field Battalion Second Division and was gassed at Chateau Thierry and Verdun after enlisting in 1917 and going to France December 24 remaining on the firing line three months.
Anita area soldiers story notes Wa. E. Petty returning home after more than a year in overseas service. He faced shrapnel and a severe rib wound, endured gas exposure, and experienced hardships of the front. Local families and townsfolk celebrate his safe arrival and recovery.
Cass County lists Victory Bonds purchase quotas by precincts and townships. Totals include Atlantic City Bear Grove Maine Edna Grant Lincoln Massena Noble Pleasant Griswold Pymosa Union Cumberland Victoria Washington and other townships with specific dollar targets for each area.
Eugene Allanson writes from Camp Dewey Great Lakes Ills describing arrival of new recruits and the daily influx of sailors, noting about 20 000 men present this year versus 60 000 last year and predicting a raid on the cook amid plans for apples and slum-guilion provisions.
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