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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1924
Page
5
Mrs J M Deeming and daughter Wintha visited on Saturday. Anita residents are urged to buy tickets for the School and Community Entertainment Course next Tuesday and Wednesday to ensure a grand success.
E D Keasey of Wiota visited Anita on Friday. A regular Saturday dance attracted many attendees. C A Carey visited Atlantic on Monday. Dr L R Johnson with wife and baby spent Sunday with relatives and friends at Stuart.
Easter services drew large audiences at Congo Church with morning and evening events. The Easter Cantata earned praise for all performers while youth begin reorganizing a Christian Endeavor Society with enthusiasm. Sunday’s sermon titled The Prayer Life and evening talk The Joy of the Lord followed a well attended Go-to-Church campaign.
Sun shine Club members hosted a large Easter dinner at A L Turner residence with Esther Peterson among the local families. Weekend visitors included Miss Peterson at Frank Petersons and Clyde Moore group near Wiota. Hog delivery by Earl Anderson to Anita dealers. Roy Duff’s family visited Wm Duff near Adair. Fred J Kuehn installed a new electric plant east of Anita on the Great White Way.
The note lists Sunday School at 10:00 and worship at 11:00 with a morning sermon titled The Hero of Time and an evening sermon The Lord's Prayer. It notes a 100 attendance at Sunday School, thanks for paying assessments, a well attended Easter program, and Wednesday choir practice at the church.
A spoof page mixes jokes about language names and the mother tongue with puns about clothing and footwear. It includes verses about a burn deck boy, ear wiggles, a cat swallowing yarn, and a moonlit garden scene ending with a drunken kiss.
A cold wintry night scene contrasts with local notices from Anita. Alice M. Kennedy tends to George Duff at his home east of Anita. Community members travel to Des Moines for an uncle’s funeral. Local relocations and visits are noted among residents of Atlantic Ex tra Neola and nearby towns.
For sale four pure bred Straight Scotch Short Horn bulls in 1841. C. D. Robinson and Son G. D. Mueller and family, of Walnut, visited Anita and old neighbors in Guthrie county. A Guthrie county man captured a wolf and nine cubs, promising good returns for one day’s work. Chas. D. Robinson called at the Record office Monday. Charlie’s general health is greatly improved.
Wanted customers for milk at eight cents a quart and cream at twenty cents a pint delivered. Mrs Jennie Overmeyer has been seriously ill with pneumonia but is rapidly recovering. Newly elected mayors nationwide announce strict enforcement of laws against chickens running at large. A country editor notes spring onions lettuce and radishes sprouting, a gratifying sight.
Corrall Bros of Adair Iowa offer a large quantity of lumber Keystone from the I O O F building recently torn down. The stock is sound good workers and standard measure. Sold to farmers and others for spring building with usual activity.
Mrs. Robert Scott hosted the L. O. C. Club with a one o'clock luncheon. Afterward Bridge was played with Mrs. Haze Forshay as substitute and Mrs. Minnie Millhollin winning high score. Place cards featured guest names.
A reader in Monb Utah writes to Mr Myers about a radio night April 2 featuring three generations from the family and requests the Atlantic station’s call letters and broadcast time. She mentions KGO Oakland coming in strong and notes Anita connections with Mrs Baldwin, daughter of Samuel W Dufford and Grace Aldrich, former Anita residents.
Mrs. Bessie M. Ward, Mrs. Sherm F. Myers, and Mrs. T. T. Logan visited Atlantic on Monday, joining other local guests for a social gathering.
W. E. Kelloway and family from Des Moines drove out Saturday evening and spent Sunday with their old home folks, returning after a weekend visit.
Peter Scott of Adair recently linked his Anita residence to the local sewer and water systems, completing a utility connection project. The move improves sanitation and water access for the property.
E. E. Grace and wife from Harlan were over Sunday guests in Anita. J. T. Monnig with wife and baby, W. B. Case with wife and son Richard visited relatives in Neola. Mrs. Walter Hook and daughter Vera B. Hook traveled by auto to Stuart and Des Moines for visits last week.
A three year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Nels Jensen was brought to Dr H E Campbell's office Sunday evening with a badly fractured elbow resulting from a fall from the haymow.
Prof. R. C. Rasmussen leads his orchestra in a Monday rehearsal for the Home Talent group, preparing for the final number in the Community Entertainment Course program.
J B Richardson longtime Guthrie County newspaper publisher is seriously ill at his Stuart residence. Father Richardson is between eighty and ninety years old.
H V Mahan and his wife, who spent the winter in Anita while Mr. Mahan worked in Kunz Grain Company's office, have returned to Guthrie Center where he will engage in business.
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