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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1927
Page
5
A collage of local notices and ads mentions Bartley’s Produce with oil meal and various chicken feeds. Births, illnesses, travel, hospitality, and health updates follow, including Mrs. H. D. Parrott’s newborn, John R. Stuler Jr recovery, and Miss Helen Scarlett heading to St. Paul.
Mrs D R Forshay served as a Record caller. Chas H Bartley and son Paul visit Des Moines. Anita Drug Co reports birth of baby girl to Mr and Mrs J W Hackwell. Miss Geraldine Kiehl of Rockwell City staying with relatives in Anita. Gladys Pray returns from South Dakota and Minnesota. Fred Weatherby buys a Chevrolet coupe from Shaffer Christensen. Patricia Williams injured at City Park swing incident. J W Bilderback and family visit from Des Moines en route Idaho. Mason Linderman of Anita shows slight improvement after Mayo Clinic visit.
Miss Mildred Porch daughter of Mrs Anna Porch and former Atlantic schools teacher will enroll at Iowa State College Ames at the start of the 1927 28 school year to pursue a full Home Economics course and possibly study additional branches.
Harold Anderson plans a modern gasoline station along Whiteway highway 32 in west Anita. Two vacant lots were purchased from E S Holton and will be landscaped and designed by a Des Moines artist. The facility will offer tires tubes auto accessories lunches confectioneries cigars tobacco and Standard Oil gasoline. Construction starts this week and aims for rapid completion.
Rollins Silk Hose colors available. W A Linfor wears crutches after sprain at Sunyside Park Atlantic. Mrs Helen Shepherd and baby from Jefferson Iowa visiting Anita with Trumbull family. Berniece and Ruth Ries from Murray Iowa visiting Azel Ames at the Record. Wenonah Forshay recovering at home after appendectomy in Atlantic Hospital.
Mrs. H. E. Campbell and her son Howard Elmer spend the week in Ames Iowa. They will be joined at home by her daughter Dora Jean who has been visiting grandmother Mrs. A. B. Maxwell for several weeks.
At the Congregational Sunday School closing last Sunday Anita East sang a solo with LaVerne Bontrager at the piano and Patricia Williams daughter of Dr and Mrs P T Williams played a piano solo.
Claude E. Blakesley his wife and daughter Miss Maxine of Belleville Kansas spent several days in Anita visiting relatives and old neighbors on their return from Winnebago Minnesota. They stopped in Algona and Coon Rapids where the Blakesleys formerly ran a business. Mr Blakesley is employed in a large Belleville department store and reports optimism for a bumper crop in Kansas next year.
Ruffled curtains priced at 69 cents appear in local ads. Ralph Miller, a student at the University of Commerce in Des Moines, is spending the week in the city with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. D. Miller. Mrs. J. H. Trimmer also spends the week at Lake Okoboji as guest of her son-in-law and daughter, the Leon G. Voorhees family, at Hazel Dell cottage.
Mrs. Wm H. Wagner returning from the Black Hills trip suffered a severe eye injury when a pebble struck her spectacles breaking the lens and embedding glass particles in the eye. After proper treatment at home, the eye shows rapid progress toward recovery.
Leo Bangers and his wife hosted a large gathering of relatives from Ottumwa Minneapolis and Des Moines. The reunion was described as among the best and most pleasant in memory with guests arriving hungry and departing welcomed to return.
Mrs Amelia King and her daughters Iona and Edith have returned from an auto trip to the west coast. They made numerous stops and visited Mrs Kings brother Fred W Griep and family at Fruitland Idaho where he has lived since leaving Cass county many years ago.
Manager Clarence Lacey announces a five day Rialto Theatre program Friday through Tuesday with entertainment for Anita residents. Dr H E Campbell reports the birth of a baby boy William Henry Lawless July 21 at Everest Kansas. Mrs Lawless is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Peter Scott of this city. Harold Hoyt of Des Moines, a well known Anita young man, visited Friday to promote a wholesale house commission sales job.
In his absence, relatives and friends in Quuaike and other points in Nebraska will die. Constable Chan. L Wilson will act as Marshal and nightwatch and perform other duties related to these offices.
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