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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1928
Page
1
Mrs. J. A. Wagner of this city underwent an appendicitis operation a week ago. She is making an unusually satisfactory recovery and expects to return home in about two weeks. Initially her condition was quite critical.
Mrs. R. J. Yates of Dubuque arrived in Anita Tuesday morning and will stay indefinitely with her sister Mrs. Sherm F. Myers and family. Aunt Jean has many friends in Anita and vicinity who will give her cordial welcome. She spent the summer with a daughter in Dubuque and two sons in Chicago.
The notice states ovens open Monday in Anita for school supplies. It lists ink, pens, pencils, tablets and every kind of school supply available from the store to serve customers.
Mr and Mrs Houston of Moline Illinois spent several days in Anita visiting brother uncle and aunt E T Houston and R D Vernon and their spouses. They extended their auto trip to enjoy varied scenery crops and good roads.
The Modern Woodmen of America will hold a meeting on Saturday evening September 1st. Members are urged to attend. E. N. McLaughlin Venerable Consul.
A promotional item offers a free one dollar Cara Nome Perfume bottle with every box of Cara Nome Face Powder during a Factory-to-You Sale. The offer appears in a short advertisement fragment likely from a period paper.
The Anita Public Schools will open for the 1928 29 year on Monday September 10. Further announcement will be made next week.
Harley Wise renews his home paper subscription while Geo. M. Aldrich and others renew two copies. Emma Kerr spends Saturday with friends in Atlantic. Raymond and Mrs King welcome a baby girl. Mrs. Leo Bongers visits Des Moines with children as George Overmier and family visit Anita relatives. Merle Robison plans Ames ISU start. W. H. Stager offers items. two students seek room and board.
Evergreen Cemetery Association warns that all lot purchases and digging fees must be paid at the time of service. Delinquent accounts will be pursued after September 15, with lots remaining under control of the association. Trustees SHERM F. MYERS CHARLES SCHOLL VAL WIEGAND B. D. FORSHAY ED. L. NEWTON oversee the measure.
Mrs Bessie Myers Lowell and son Sherman F Lowell and two others left yesterday for South Dakota where officials say the climate is deadly to hay fever microbes infesting the region. They plan to visit multiple points seeking relief despite various remedies.
Anita residents Felix H. Scott and Anna M. Christensen were married in Atlantic on August 28 and will settle in Anita. The couple earns warm congratulations from numerous local friends and neighbors.
Fred C. Chinn and his wife from Bradgate Iowa spent Sunday in Anita visiting Joe Vetter and family along with other old friends and former neighbors in the community.
C. R. McCauley and W. A. Keys from Pennsylvania spent several days in the city last week staying with Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Butler on their westward trip to inspect real estate interests. They are cousins and noted favorable crop prospects from Pennsylvania to Iowa, particularly in this region of the state.
D C Reed and his wife of Anita along with D E Hadley and family from the Corn ing vicinity departed Wednesday morning for South Dakota to spend several weeks with relatives and friends.
While visiting relatives in Missouri last week Mrs E M Kohl accompanied by Mr and Mrs W T Slater sustained a hip joint fracture and leg bruises. She was rushed to Anita and taken to Dr H E Campbell hospital where an X ray showed the fracture and bruised ligaments. She faces several weeks confined to bed at home.
Bartley’s Feed Store advertises pig meal oil meal tankage bran minerals salt laying mashes oyster shell and related farm supplies. Located in the local shop district the notice promotes animal feed products and farm staples.
Dr M M Gammon sold his chiropractic practice and equipment to Dr A M Mikkelsen and has relocated to Des Moines. Meanwhile Mrs Phil T Williams and her children Patricia and John spent Thursday in Atlantic with Grandpa and Grandma R R Bell.
Lester J. Corlett of Merna Nebraska, a former Anita boy, spent Friday in the city renewing old friendships. He ran a jewelry business for years, is now retired, and divides time between two farms and town property. His family includes wife and two daughters, with brothers and sisters located in Idaho California Arizona and Colorado.
Miss Sylvia Booth of Anita has left Des Moines where she worked for several years to take a stenographer position with an Chicago insurance company, beginning her duties two weeks ago.
Melvin Simonton of Tulsa calls the Record editor praising Oklahoma crop prospects and general business conditions. He recalls boyhood on his father Charles M Simonton’s Wiota farm and travels with brother-in-law Ed Cambridge of Fletcher Chapel for a weeks visit.
Otto Barth bought a new Olds sedan while a severe rain and wind storm swept through Sunday evening. Glen Soper won a Whippet car at the Old Soldiers Reunion in Griswold last week. Clyde Pollock and wife traveled to Omaha in a new Ford but were delayed by rain. Rollie Wilbourn's Hudson burned on the highway near Cecil Scholl farm. Mrs. A M Acker attended a Wiota Ladies Aid meeting at her sister-in-law's home near Wiota. Dan E Moore plans to move to a northeast Iowa farm March 1. Chas R Liston and family drove to Corning but weather delayed return. Chas Borth and family left for California. Henry Aggen and family also head west. Lincoln township Helping Hand Club met at List's home for quilting and lunch. Pollock and Acker marketed sixteen head of lambs to Omaha averaging 100 pounds at 13.25 per hundred, top natives that day. Lincoln Center Sunday School ice cream social netted about 40 for a new piano.
Frank B. Suplee, after a brief stay in Anita with his parents Mr and Mrs Wm A Suplee and siblings R R Suplee and Mrs Chas Campbell, and their families, returned yesterday to his home in Payette Idaho.
Three patients arrived at Dr H E Campbell hospital after injuries from falls and riding incidents. Helen Moore eleven from Wiota broke left arm between elbow and shoulder from a tree fall. Albert Idles thirteen from Wiota fractured elbow after a horse fall. Edwin Ruggles fractured shoulder from a horse fall. All are progressing well.
H. J. Nethkin his wife and five children of Austin Louisiana spend the week in the city as guests of relatives Mrs T J Galiher Miss Lucy Galiher Mr and Mrs W S Reed and Guy Baker and family Mrs Nethkin is a daughter of the late E A Taylor and sister of Mrs Guy Baker formerly a school teacher in the county Mr Nethkin is a professor of technical engineering in the college at Austin They plan to visit lakes in northern Iowa and southern Minnesota for camping and fishing
Former Tulsa resident Melvin Simonton, son of the late Charles M. Simonton, stays with his brother in law and sister Mr and Mrs Ed Cambridge in Fletcher Chapel southeast of Atlantic. The pair visited Friday afternoon, admiring local corn and renewing old friendships with area residents.
Christian Godfrey Baier longtime Anita resident dies at home after a long illness on August 27 1928 at age 71 years 10 months and 28 days He is survived by his wife and daughter Lena Funeral services were held at Emanuel Lutheran church Adair with burial in the Emanuel Lutheran cemetery Adair Obituary will appear in the Record next week.
Sister Mary Modesta of Chicago spent a week with her brother Mayor J. T. Monnig and family. She helped train children in the chorus for the Eucharistic Congress in Chicago last year with 63,000 voices. She returned with the Monnigs from St. Louis where they visited Mr. Monnig’s parents and relatives.
Logan R. Kelley and his son Frank travel from Sioux City to Anita to visit their ailing father and grandfather John C. Kelley who has been bedridden for three weeks. They return from Ames after accompanying their daughter Addie Kelley a third year student at a Seventh Day Adventist school in Ames.
Curtis Nichols and wife long-time Anita residents stay at the P. R. Nichols home near Anita to help care for the critically ill Mr. Nichols who shows slight improvement They have lived in Omaha for years and plan to move to Kansas
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