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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1925
Page
5
Edward G. Allanson has returned from a trip to Minneapolis and Chicago with his sons and daughters. He reports shopping in five pound lard pairs at Miller's Market.
The Board of Supervisors granted permission to associate member H. G. Armentrout to buy an elephant to replace dynamite for removing willows along highways under improvement projects. Local items note subscriptions, visits, and moves among Anita residents and nearby towns.
O Cap Oaks from the Adair vicinity visited Anita Saturday evening to view new imported cretons for coats and dresses, promoted by Vera B Hook.
George Parkinson and his wife travel with their son Robert and daughter Miss Rachel to Galesburg Illinois to visit sons brothers George Bert and James Parkinson and other relatives and friends for several days.
Master Raymond Burke heads to West Liberty Iowa for a week with friend Douglass McDermott. A farm journal notes time remains to plant fall radishes lettuce spinach turnips and beets or for winter storage. George F Thorpe and family of Des Moines visited Anita with Mrs Holmes and Mr Zeigler. R D Vernon and wife joined their son Ted Vernon in Lewis visiting Bert Beebe family. Beaconsfield sees birth of baby boy to Mr and Mrs Guy Hosfield. Mrs Ida Muntendam and mother Mrs B F Sisler back from Hugenden Canada after weeks with Grace Taylor family. Congregational picnic set for August 21 at 3 with supper at 5. bring baskets. Wm Crozier of Whitewood SD visiting relatives on way home from Chicago livestock shipment. Mrs May Hockersmith of Fontanelle spent Friday in Anita recovering from Mayo Clinic operation.
Burt Forrester his wife and son of Greeley Colorado are founding a tour of the west half of the country visiting relatives friends and former neighbors in the old home community. After three months in the west including Washington they return to Greeley and decide to circle back to Iowa in an auto trip with the family.
Heavy weekend rain made Whiteway 7 highway nearly impassable with detours widely used. Tourists on the new road were stranded on steep grades and had to be pulled out, but the segment was no worse than other new roads after the downpour. Clarence Campbell replaces George Dorale at Cash and Carry grocery after Dorale resigned to pursue college studies.
George Dorale Ralph Miller Wm Blakesley and Wayne Jewett will enroll at Highland Park College Des Moines for the year starting September 1 taking a business course They are graduates of Anita High School class of 1925 Mrs Della Winder of Hugo Colorado Mrs Ella Wood of Chattanooga Tennessee and Mrs Sarah Norton of Nebraska have returned home after visiting their sister Mrs Anna Porch and her brother Roscoe Griffith of Omaha
Mrs Gladys Hall and her three children, residents of Oklahoma, have spent the past week as guests of her sister, Mrs J M Deeming, and family.
H. G. Armentrout and his wife depart this week for Waterloo and Independence Iowa to visit relatives and friends. Mrs. Armentrout will also visit Mattoon Illinois before returning home.
Clyde M. Bosley and his wife and daughter from Dubuque stayed several days in Anita as guests of relatives and friends. Mr Bosley is the son of Ben S Bosley former Anita resident now in Newhall Iowa where he runs a newspaper and serves as postmaster.
Clarence E. Robinson and his Wiota family returned from a northern Iowa and Minnesota pleasure trip visiting relatives and friends. He boasted of standing at the headwaters of the Mississippi river and crossing a Minnesota bridge in ten steps.
Frank Ebley and crew completed cutting a new channel and filling and grading the township highway along the Town send road northwest of Anta. Work on building the new bridge is now in progress.
At a recent Anita School Board meeting the action set tuition in grades to be paid three months in advance on entering and three months in advance thereafter. Tuition paid at the Secretary's office. By order of the Board. Mrs Orville Morgan, patient at Mayo Bros hospital Rochester Minnesota awaiting an operation, is reported to be gaining slowly in strength.
Ed Hopkins and his wife of Salina Kansas spent several days with the Graham Walker families this week. Hopkins is a cousin of the late C W Graham. He reports crops in Kansas this year are unusually short.
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