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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1923
Page
5
Andrew Nelson and Roy Parkinson are mentioned with dental work, radio installation, and moving. Neighbors help with tasks and social visits occur at the W I Kirkham, Charley Graham, and George Graham homes. A cold snap, wolf hunts, and the Oak Ridge Telephone Company meeting are noted along with exams, subscriptions, and a marriage at the Peterson Jensen home.
A.J Joy and wife returned from Winterset after weeks with daughter Mrs H L Fairholm. Calls for a plumber surged as pipes froze, while Miss Beulah Stater returned from Des Moines University to Anita to clerk at the post office. George Talty of Adair visited the Record office and faces a busy year managing his many interests. The Cornish College biology department hunted for rats in Mount Vernon and found none, sparking claims of a ratless town. At a February 1 dinner for Superintendent Andersen and guests, informal games followed a convivial mood. Multiple residents were listed as Atlantic visitors, Davenport trip participants, or moving within Anita area as street paving aims set for September 1. Harry DeCamp and Wm Galvin figures highlighted local employment moves and family travels amid ongoing civic activity.
Sunday School at 10 a m and 11 A M preaching. Epworth League at 6 40 P M with preaching at 8 P M. G F Mearke of Route 2 Adair subscribes to the Record. Walter Hackwel plans to return to Canada. Raymond Reed, son of Mr and Mrs D C Reed, is ill with tonsillitis.
J J Lewis died last week at Exira aged 185. He was among Audubon county’s first pioneers introducing horticulture to western Iowa and settling in Dubuque county in 1845. He arrived in Exira township fifty three years ago and helped build the county’s early lumber facilities and plow virgin soil. He was a Civil War veteran.
The Biological Survey of the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports successful jackrabbit eradication campaigns in Idaho Washington Oregon and Texas. Traps and poison baits killed thousands of rabbits. Idaho saw 640 050 killed by methods including baited poison drives. Washington Idaho Oregon Texas counts show broad actions and crop damage mitigation.
The Anita Drug Company will operate under the same name despite new ownership. Credit customers will receive statements and are urged to settle promptly to help the new owners meet old obligations. L. and Trumbull serve as managers. The city council held a regular session on Monday. Godfrey Miller bought DC Bells interest in the Anita Drug Company, with the Miller acreage in South Anita transferring to Bell.
Win F Crawford hosted a Sunday dinner honoring Mr and Mrs V Jenkins seventy first birthday and their thirty third wedding anniversary with Mr and Mrs W T Slater and daughter Beulah. The Des Moines sale of a Hereford bull calf reached thirty thousand dollars amid beef price talk. Ward and Lewis won a contract to install Lennox furnace and plumb the home of Dr H E Campbell.
Frank W. Stager has disposed of his restaurant interests to his brother Wim H. Stager who will take possession. Frank intends to move to his farm in Audubon county.
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