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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1918
Page
1
A column blends war sentiment and social satire with local items. It envies calm scene at venues like the Unique Theatre while lampooning officials, railroads and war policy. Notes mention Mount Pleasant Telephone Co removing a doctor’s phone for profanity, glass rice kernels found at Camp Dodge, and forecast of a snowy January amid price flurries in coal.
The editor's illness prompts a plea for reader contributions to sustain the paper. The note promises careful accounting and asks distant subscribers to send checks. Local readers and contributors are listed with names and brief notes on recent activity and subscriptions.
Mr and Mrs C D Robinson of Lincoln Center hosted New Year’s day festivities with 115 relatives and neighbors attending a day of games music and a lavish dinner. A G Todhunter returned from Washington D C and Ohio after forty two years noting family changes while planning farming help.
Clerk A A Emigh discloses the selection of Cass County Grand Jury members for 1918. The roster includes N C Burkhart Grant Henry Eppelsheimer Noble J F Gissibl Lincoln Fred Kimball Pymosa Hale Kirk Bear Grove C S Leach Atlantic Wm Leslie Edna C B Michaels Union John Moon It Cass Oscar McFadden Brighton Geo P Spies Massena M H Welton Franklin.
Red Cross Society plans a January 10 1918 sale at Berea with the Adair county rooster as a featured item and other goods. Proceeds fund relief for heroic soldiers at the front and similar causes. Attendance invited for supporters. those opposed asked not to attend.
Miss Eva Marsh married George S. Denison Friday at Audubon by Justice Charles S. White. They visited relatives in Lohrville and will reside with Mrs. Denison’s parents at Anita. Atlantic News-Telegraph reports the ceremony and early plans.
Sherm’s condition improves slowly and doctors prepare for an operation at Atlantic Hospital in about ten days or as soon as his heart is strengthened. He has long smoked, leading to a tobacco heart, but doctors expect a straightforward procedure if no other complications arise. If all goes well, he should be back in a month or six weeks.
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