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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1918
Page
4
Proceedings show the Anita city council on July 10 1918 authorized a $1800 award for damages to Homer Kirkham’s Lot 12 in Jenkins Addition. A warrant for the amount and $27.50 for costs were approved against the General Fund.
Wm Duff and wife Lew Anderson and wife and Ralph Anderson and family came back Sunday from the lakes. Fred Scarlett of Bosworth Missouri is in the city with his parents Mr and Mrs B L Scarlett. Scarlett says extreme dry weather and hot winds have harmed crops in that region.
Fragmentary OCR notes indicate a person named Reaver was called on Monday to attend someone named Frad Angell, described as an Abtaos of neuralgia in unclear context.
Fred Bell and wife from Extra vicinity spent Saturday evening in the city. Mrs Claude Blakesley and daughter from Gowrie visit Anita with Mother Smithers, Eva Kiehl, and families. Henry Berger and wife from Lahrville, Iowa, stayed in the city with G W Fordyce and family. Mrs W M Lahman of Wiota spent weekend with Mrs Sarah Norton. Mother Lahman, age 83, remains in good health.
Phil McEvoy ordered the RECORD sent to his address for one year during a brief city call. Chas. Donaldson left Audibon county to visit Anita Saturday and spend the evening with former neighbors. Mrs. Peter A. Smith made a pleasant call at the REC ORD office Friday. Mrs. C. R. Lutes of Thermopolis Wyoming, known locally as Miss Ora Peerman, spent the past week in Anita with Mrs. Chas. H. Robison and relatives.
Rev. E R Mitchell and his Oakland family visited the Evangelical parsonage Thursday afternoon on their auto trip home from OsKaloosa Iowa.
Rev. W. M. Boaz of West Chicago Illinois arrives Anita Thursday August 20 to fill the pulpit for the ensuing year and conduct morning and evening services on Sunday September 1. All members urged to attend. Junior Endeavor starts Sunday at 2:30 pm with Mrs Walter S Fish as instructor. Sunday school at 10 am. Intermediate theme Our Gifts for the Kingdom. Ladies Aid Society holds all day meeting Thursday August 20 seeking volunteers for upcoming work.
W G Wilson and wife with Lafe Koob and kin departed in the Koob car last week to Randolph Nebraska to visit Ed Wilson and family and other former Anita residents for a few days.
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