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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1913
Page
8
From Watertown Wisconsin on February 3 1913 Lewis M Martin encloses a fund check for 150 in payment for a subscription to Sherm's paper for the coming year. He offers kind regards and signs Very Truly Yours.
From Menlo Iowa February 2 1915 Rev Stahl writes to Friend Sherm noting a reference to him as a booster and expressing views on Iowa State University funding and prohibition. He mentions papers to burn and sends regards to Anita folks and his box car friends. He wishes success to the editor.
Daisy Townsend writes from Atlantic Iowa dated February 1 1913 enclosing a 150 payment for a year of the Anita Record. She praises the venture promising success and recalls past favors while noting her busy schedule selling the Old Reliable and hoping to visit Anita to meet the locals.
Henry Wiegand writes to friend Sherm praising Long Pine as a hustling town. He notes Nebraska soil varieties and crops, including prairie hay, corn, wheat, oats in the sand hills, and an enormous sugar beet crop. He jokes about C. F. E. Robinson and asks for a note to reach him through the paper.
A Benton County Iowa letter from Robert Black now in California portrays cold damp weather and failed citrus crops. He criticizes the state’s climate and people but says he longs to return to Vinton. The missive, reproduced in the Long Beach Press, notes regional tensions and a harsh depiction of Southern California.
Ruth Foote re entered the fifth grade and is ill. Bernice Deeming in the third grade is very ill. Evaline Deeming of the fifth grade has dropped her work due to illness. Rev. Smith visited the second and third grades and led high school chapel exercises. A high school program last Friday was a success with three visitors.
A series of weekend visits and social events unfold in Atlantic area households. Residents and relatives including Mrs. John Pearce, the McMahon and Hansen families, and others are mentioned with gatherings and health updates. Community events feature a hog sale, cattle shipments, a taffy pull, and Sunshine Club activities with a dinner and musical entertainment.
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