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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1928
Page
8
Announcement from the Anita General Service Company invites potential buyers to visit and compare the latest in automotive engineering. Emphasizes new low prices and the chance to see the most automobile offered to the public.
The residence of Mrs Isa belle Dougherty on north Chestnut street has been upgraded with an addition a large porch and extensive interior changes. New electric lights connect to the city water and sewer systems making the property thoroughly modern.
Former resident Mrs Nettie Cate of Chicago spends the week with her sister and brother in Anita, visits Des Moines to see Fred Aldrich and family, then goes to Grandview Iowa to stay a week with her brother Wm R Buff, once a resident of Avita.
Members of the Sunshine Club of the Congregational Church entertained their mothers last Saturday with a well attended program. Honors were awarded with June Booth taking first, Norman Hofmeister second, and Lois McIntyre third.
A Mothers and Daughters banquet will be held at the Congregational church in Anita on Thursday May 3 at 6 30 pm. All mothers and daughters are invited and will be entertained after the banquet. Pastor Rev Leora Miars will deliver a lecture A Tribute to Womanhood with tickets priced at 35 cents.
A dwelling on the farm of Wm. F. Kirkham in Audubon county stands nearly complete replacing a earlier fire destroy. The modern house, now enclosed, will be greatly enjoyed by the Kirkham family who have resided in the garage during the winter.
Ralph W. Cockshoot of Atlantic, Republican, campaigned in the city on official business and visited Republican voters, his bid for re nomination meeting with favor among the electorate regardless of party.
Former Cass County resident Chas. Woodson and his wife from the Afton area spent a few hours in Anita on Saturday evening while en route to Atlantic. They were guests over Sunday of Mrs. Abbie Rowe, Woodson's sister, whose parents helped pioneer the Anita and Wiota communities.
Miss Isabelle Garside of Atlantic was a guest of friends in Anita last week, visiting local acquaintances during her trip.
A regional publisher offered a prize for solving a riddle about newspapers and women. The joke: why is a newspaper like a woman because every man should have one of his own, not chase after his neighbor's.
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