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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1922
Page
5
The piece notes thousands of apples wasted in Iowa orchards due to quality concerns and a winter price range. It mentions coal shortages for threshing, with limited requests fulfilled at Lewis and stock on hand from dealers. A farmers union car sale partially sold, then the rest to town customers for next winter.
A seven days Chautauqua is under way in Oakland this week. Various local residents including Claude Blakesley and family of Gowrie were in Anita on Saturday. The Harian Chautauqua ended with a deficit of 9.92 per guarantor.
An Atlantic visitor notes the successful travels of delegations to the Republican and Democratic state conventions in Des Moines. The piece mentions rough weather, power outage on the Cumberland line, and public notices about lost jewelry and a death in Creighton Nebraska.
Harry Woodmansee of Des Moines visited Anita on Monday and Tuesday to renew old friendships. A former Anita resident, he served in the U S Navy for sixteen years until three weeks ago, traveling far and seeing many lands. He was joined by his brother Mark Woodmansee of Des Moines, who has worked twenty years for Standard Oil.
Mrs. Frank W. Beebe expresses gratitude to friends and neighbors for kindly remembrance during illness in Des Moines hospital and after returning home. She thanks Sherm Myers for sending the Record and notes the value of flowers and supportive acts from the community.
City Marshal A D Dean is bedridden at home in East Anita with a badly fractured ankle after a wagon jump and rock misstep. Surgeons H E Campbell of this city and C L Campbell of Atlantic treated him. X rays show a severe fracture. He will be unable to work for at least eight weeks.
The Myers Land Company’s Pine Flat at Hot Springs Tulare county California near the gateway to the high Sierras is being reconstructed into a premier mountain camp. Surrounded by Sequioa National Forest the site offers cabins and sites for sale camp grounds and rental tents with a general store nearby for groceries. It is owned by The Myers Land Company whose president is William Raymond Myers formerly of Anita.
Announcement of the Uncle Tom's Cabin tour by the Terry Company notes a street parade at noon and a band concert at 7:00 PM in Anita on Tuesday August 22. The company began twenty eight years ago with ten performers and now travels in Pullman cars with about fifty actors. It claims top status among travel shows and promotes the Beecher Stowe drama as a world renowned slave narrative.
In Omaha on Saturday August 5 1922 Theodore Tiegs married Laura Cooper Soper in a surprise ceremony. The bride is daughter of J W Cooper longtime Adair residents and sister of Mrs L E Bean. Groom works for the State Highway Construction Company. They will reside in Anita. Gold leaf signs adorn town storefronts.
Mrs Edna Dinkey of Paola Kansas filed for divorce from Robert Dinkey alleging cruelty. They wed April 5 1921 in Richmond Missouri and separated August this year after moving to the city. She seeks alimony of 1500 or half the value of joint property and an attachment to safeguard rights.
A brief note advertises a fifty-cent noon lunch at The New Calumet Cafe located at the corner north of Whitney's Bank in Atlantic. The item is concise and framed as a local dining deal.
Mrs. Jas. C. Carey of West Liberty Iowa has been at her brother Tom Burns home for weeks and was taken to a Des Moines Sanitarium for special treatment. Mrs. C. H. McDermott hosted guests at her home honoring sister-in-law Mrs. Harry Kelly of Longmont Colorado with games and a luncheon.
The business affairs of C. T. Smith & Son finished last week with creditors receiving a fraction over six percent of their claims. The firm had been involuntarily placed in bankruptcy months earlier. The owners appeared rich when the store key was turned over and the elder Smith feigned insanity.
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