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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1921
Page
3
The Atlantic Record passage lists local names and events from Christmas week. Crandall and Uncle George Deeming served as record callers yesterday. Subscriptions, farm leases, visits from Nellie Holtz and Mattie Harrison, Christmas guests, and changes in police chief are noted along with tax removal on express and passenger shipments beginning January 1.
An indefinite notice states that the Uncle Tom's Cabin performance has been postponed because participants did not attend rehearsals. Ticket buyers may refund purchases from the original seller within a short time.
An evangelical church invites listeners to a Sunday vesper service with organ and violin by two local musicians and a volunteer choir. The sermon topic is The Lost Christ, with morning service at eleven and Sunday School at ten.
The Anita Congregational Church reports a well attended Christmas service with praise and gifts arranged by volunteers. The January 11 annual meeting will include officer and committee reports. Social items note the marriage of Evangeline Blakesley to Dr. W B Vanderloo in Gowrie Iowa and congratulations from local friends.
A mass meeting for taxpayers in Anita is planned for Friday evening December 30 1021 to be addressed by Louis Cook of Des Moines. The open gathering invites farmers businessmen laboring people and others to attend and discuss current conditions at the Unique Theatre or the Odd Fellows Ball.
Miss Ruby Arline Goodwin daughter of Mr and Mrs Goodwin and Joyce W McDermott son of D F H McDermott were married at the M B Parsonage in Atlanta on December 14 1921 Rev F W Simpson officiated. Witnesses were Isaac Griffith and wife Ross Lewis and Hazel McDermott. The bride worked as an operator for Rural Telephone Co and the couple will live on the farm after March first.
The Anita Ladies Literary Club enjoyed a Christmas program led by Mrs. Fred M. Sheley at Mrs. K. E. Porch’s home featuring readings, recitations, and selections. Ten new member applications, a new constitution, and a January meeting were noted alongside a schoolhouse program at Oak Ridge and a update on Rev. Noon’s family history and abstinence work.
Christmas observances and family gatherings are described as residents visit relatives in Anita and nearby towns. Local officials and business activity are noted, with several residents traveling to Des Moines Atlantic and Omaha. The piece mentions new hires at the Hotel Victoria and community anecdotes from Linda and Oak Ridge regions.
The Anita Record notes readers’ holiday visits from Mrs. Dr. Woodward and baby in Iowa City, Arthur Pine and Roscoe Turner visitors, a renewed subscription to 1923, and local Christmas gatherings at the Hansen home. It also recalls Uncle George Deeming’s Mayo Clinic examination at eighty plus, John Stoffs’ past business prominence, and a shift toward horse farming as Iowa’s farmers increasingly raise horses to utilize cheap feed and rising fuel costs.
All accounts for phone rental and tolls for the last six months of 1921 are due and must be paid by January 1, 1922. Phone rentals for the first six months of 1922 must be paid in advance as the company operates on a strictly cash in advance basis after January 1, 1922. T Rural Telephone Co. T T Saunders, Manager.
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