Local Social and Business Movements Reported
Dexter Sunday visits and Atlantic Friday calls fill a page of social notes. Des Moines and Omaha travel mentioned. Atlantic business and promotions feature with Maine and Maine residents noted.
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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1913
Page
7
Dexter Sunday visits and Atlantic Friday calls fill a page of social notes. Des Moines and Omaha travel mentioned. Atlantic business and promotions feature with Maine and Maine residents noted.
Finis Perry and his wife were welcome visitors Tuesday evening, touring the Record plant from end to end and examining its operations.
M Metz of Wiota accompanied by his mother traveled to Omaha last Monday as she prepared to undergo surgery on a lower limb.
Mrs D Bartlett entertained the O Z Club members yesterday with a six o'clock dinner at the Anita Hotel. The landlady Mrs Mary Brown served the meal and guests reported a very enjoyable time.
Mrs John Eneix spent Tuesday in Atlantic. S C Turner has been making real estate deals the past two weeks. Robert Scott left his check for a year's Record subscription. Joseph Armstrong leased the Thomas Klemish farm north of Anita. Mrs Klemish will move to town. A couple of popular young men north of Anita plan marriage before spring work. Nellie Walker came from Atlantic to arrange training for Helen Dinsmore in the district contest. Guy F Lattig sold his Rose Hill residence to B L Scarlett with possession around March 1 for 3750 dollars. Chas S Sisler bought the L R Barhan farm at 145 per acre. Havens, pianist at Anita evangelistic meetings, visits Raymond Peterson. Dr C V Beaver reports youngest son recovering from croup and Mrs Chris Way's daughter ill with lung trouble. Doctors H E Campbell and C L Campbell operated on John Martin’s son for hernia at Atlantic Hospital. patient progressing. Misses Ethel Brown and Bernice Stone hosted high school students at Mrs Wim C Biggs home on College Hill. Rev J H Boozer, ill recently, marks fiftieth birth anniversary with a quiet celebration yesterday.
The record lists numerous individuals visiting or traveling through Atlantic area towns last week. Names include V. Wilson Omaha visitor, Francis Kohl new subscriber, J Cihak on Des Moines business, Adam Haist Omaha visit, and several others from Casey Des Moines Stuart and Massena.
Montford Luman and wife of Zanesville Ohio arrived in Anita yesterday afternoon and will reside nearby this year after he secured work with J. M. Garside. Luman is a brother of FE B Luman of Massena vicinity.
A. J. Joy, a community supporter and caller at this office last week, paid for three yearly subscriptions to the Record. One is for himself, one for his daughter Mrs. Harry Fairholm of Massena, and one for his brother-in-law Robert White of Pueblo Colorado.
The public sale of personal property belonging to the late Thomas Klemish occurred Tuesday and was well attended. Administrator Joseph Klemish valued the estate at about 2400 dollars, but the auctioneers Colonels Frank Barber and W. E. Clark saw receipts reach 3480 dollars.
KE W Holmes sold his home just north of the First M EF church to Lloyd Price of Nevada Missouri for 2900 dollars. Mrs Georgia Hendricks is expected to take possession around May 1. Holmes seeks a suitable lot to build a modern dwelling per long-planned plans.
Jas A Connelley a former county resident spent several days this week in Greenfield visiting his brother John and family and attending to business matters. He now resides at Redvers Canada where he holds large real estate interests. He will travel to West Liberty to review further holdings before returning to Canada.
Our good friend Chas F. Perry of Massena township called at this office last week. He has been living on an E G Allanson farm and was in the city to close a lease for 1913. He expresses no complaint and looks forward to continued prosperity and success.
Mrs. Fred Saunders visits sister in Des Moines and other households host relatives. Rev. D. M. Houteling and Rev. Thomas of Wiota attend at Rev. C. C. Smith's First M E Church. Dr. John A. Earl of Des Moines College will preach at Congregational Church on Sunday February 9 with invitations extended. He will stay with H. O. Stone and family.
Miss Laura Smith of Ames attends Miss Madsen who underwent appendicitis surgery. S S Van Slyke and wife, summoned to Atlantic by granddaughter Parmley’s death, visit Anita with R F Parmley and wife before returning to Randolph Nebraska. Progressives in Des Moines assert no half way in the new movement, no room for compromise between Republican and Progressive.
The Record notes a major twenty five hundred impression printing order from Menlo last week. The project involved a large run of materials for an unidentified client, highlighting a boost in local printing capacity and business activity.
Mrs. B. L. Hanna of Lacey Iowa is spending several days at the home of her sister Mrs. Louis Pieper.
After a pleasant visit with B. F. Sisler and relatives in Anita and vicinity, Mr. and Mrs. Don Taylor left Tuesday afternoon for their home in Canada.
Frank Miller, son of Mr and Mrs A A Miller, plans to move from near Peets Colorado to a farm south of Dexter Iowa. He will return to Colorado this week to ship his belongings back to the farm including several carloads of cattle.
Mrs. L. E. Bean has been ill and under a doctor's care the past week. Warren McDermott came down from Stuart Wednesday and spent the day with friends.
B F Simpson and his wife, long visitors with their daughter Mrs W K Carey, have traveled to Audubon to spend a few weeks with their son Lafe Simpson.
Miss Amelia Goeken of Atlantic visits Tuesday as guest of Mrs. S W Clark. They are forming a partnership to open a fine line of millinery goods in Anita with the location to be decided between two Main Street buildings.
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