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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1917
Page
5
The notice lists items and social calls including Carl Hansen and W C Thomas visiting the RECORD, Jamaica Iowa travel by T J Woods and family, and neighbors in Massena. It notes H and Redburn laboring to handle rush business plus a new concrete and iron bridge under Mika Motz supervision near White Polo Round east of Wiota.
The item notes Ziegler and Ziegelmert lawyers advertise collections and probate expertise with practice in all courts. It mentions local figures such as Supervisor Mike Metz and Geo Smither with family visiting Des Moines. A past error about hog sales is corrected, and congratulations are offered to Alf Steinmetz and spouse on twins.
Mrs Geo Talty was in the city Monday. Miles Hogan, south of Adair, visited town Monday and left 41.50 for the RECORD year. L D Pearson sold L C Robison farm at 1385 per acre this spring and sold it this week to A M Worthing for 150 with possession March 1. Otis Worthing and family will move there. The farm is occupied by L R Whitmore, Pearson’s son in law. City council discussed locating a drinking fountain at Burkhart corner funded by private subscription. initial donations came from councilmen and the mayor and the fountain will be installed soon.
Miss Lillian Dittman, Goodfrey Miller, and several others were in the city Monday and Thursday visiting friends or conducting business. Market notes show Ada Cass county farms changing hands with high prices, led by W. M. Petit and C. G. Waters. properties east of Anita and near Massena and Lincoln township sold at about 130 to 3250 per acre.
Godfrey Miller announces he has taken agency for a leading To wa nursery and offers a wide range of nursery stock with spring delivery. Fall planting uncertainty prompts focus on spring orders and cost savings for customers.
Anita, a chiropractor in the Anita Bank Building, lists office hours from 9:00 to 12:00 daily. A 2011 note by I M King orders a change of address from Bridgewater to Emory South Dakota. A postal from Jake Foote states a transfer from Great Lakes Illinois to Philadelphia Navy Yards Pennsylvania.
For the next three weeks, buyers pay seven dollars per ton for country mixed iron delivered to Millhollin's office. Contact phone 299-26-Stp. FF. A Knowlton and Mrs. Chas Robinson visit the RECORD office as a welcome caller. Fred Dennis becomes the new manager for Standard Oil's business with a real truck for hauling oil tanks.
John Henderson Knowlton, who sold his eighty acre farm near Anita to Curtis Moore at 200 per acre, closed a deal for the C G Nordman eighty acre farm at Wiota’s northwest limits for 250 per acre, while a local ad prompts selling hides to Todhunter's Dream Station at top market price.
Sam offers plastering and brick and cement work with a guarantee of quality. Prices described as fair. Contact by phone 224 for Lecfring Well area service.
J C Hightfoot of Wiota has moved his family to Anita and taken residence at the Hendricks property north of the M E church after engaging as bookkeeper to Senator J C Voorhees at the Anita Bank.
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