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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1927
Page
5
Numerous homes in Anita and vicinity are being readied to greet loved ones returning for the holiday season, with families preparing rooms, meals, and decorations to mark the home coming during the festive period.
Reed Hardenbergh wife and twin babies from Lewis vicinity spent Sunday at the home of Grand pa and Grandma H. G. Armentrout in Lincoln township. It was the twins first visit to their grandparents and the stay was a brief pleasure.
Don Taylor and wife of Hugen den Sask plan winter with friends in Anita. Taylor is son of Cortez Taylor, longtime Anita Wiota resident. Mrs. Taylor is daughter of Mrs. B F Sisler. Walter Bee rents farm north of Anita and moves to Missouri after selling corn. Revival meetings at Highland church led by Rev. Shannon of Wiota show growing interest and probable success.
Joe Vais of Audubon township sends $200 for the Rec ord payment for another year. Frank McDermott, living in the Maine vicinity, moves his family to Anita where he will take up trucking work.
Mrs. E D Edwards and daughter Lenore visit from Des Moines with James Scanlon and C A Carey, en route to Omaha to stay with Mrs Frederick. Ed Bell relocates to Naylor residence corner of Iowa and Elm. Hull baby stays with Iowa City relatives as J M Hull visits. Gladys McVay visits Bussey. C E Parker sells at Audubon livestock sale and leases Bartley farm for 1928. Rhoads move to Peoria. Mrs Boatright visits Anita. Turner family visits. crops yield 40 60 bushels per acre but prices baffle farmers. Mrs Julius B Smith from Denver may winter there.
Mrs A L Turner and her son Merle visit as Anita gears up for the Christmas holiday. Cheater Crandall and W L Anderson return from a business trip to Greeley Colorado. Dean Travis of City Meat Market visits family in Anita. J M Hull, Rock Island station agent at Booneville Iowa, spends Sunday in Anita with family. Fred Exline resumes duties at City Meat Market. Mrs Belle Dougherty and family lease Ella Worthing residence. Azel Ames of the Record leases and moves into Selon Karns residence north of The Anita Bank. Albert Karns, D R Donohoe Cafe worker in Walnut, will move to Anita with family after leasing C Turner residence in South Anita.
A small portion of the corn crop remains in the Anita area but with good weather the harvest should be finished within a week or ten days.
Guy White and wife and Mrs Eppie Cline visited Anita from Menlo on Saturday to see the holiday displays. Mrs White is the daughter of the late Mr and Mrs August Pieper and Mrs Cline is sister of W H Wagner, reflecting local ties and friendships.
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