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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1928
Page
4
The Anita Record notes Christmas departure of Santa Claus and uses editorial voice to critique other newspapers and public figures. It lampoons leniency in the Hickman case and comments on religion and governance with a sardonic tone. It also mentions the newspaper’s status as Cass County official paper.
The Cass County Board of Supervisors meeting in Atlantic approves renewing a $600.00 school loan to Mrs. Catherine Menefee. A .66 refund to Wesley Taylor is authorized. The minutes of prior meetings are approved. A long list of claims from multiple vendors, laborers, and services is ordered paid, with warrants to be issued. The board adjourns after routine committee and county expenses acknowledgments.
December Ist minutes read objections to omissions were overruled and approved. Claims allowed include J D Adams Co repairs 1.72 Atlantic Sheet Metal 3.00 Albert Borens white lead 0.15 A F Choate labor 34.00 Fullerton Lumber 76.70 Hoffman Transfer Freight 4.77 Roy Kearney painting bridges 11.20 John Knop bridge work 75.50 Maas hauling 11.60 Morrison painting bridges 11.20 Millard repairs 37.25 Chester Proctor labor 6.40 Shelby County bridge repair on county line 41.12 Earl Smiley bridgework 78.00 Wagner & Wagner gas 5.25 Bontrager labor 22.00 Brehmer labor 3.20 Camblin assisting county Engineer 2.80 Dill patrol 9.00 Allen hauling 9.00 Wills abers 6.2002.69 Will Grulke patrol 55.80 Louis Goettsch dirt road 75.00 Jahnke repair 7.00 Keese blacksmith 5.10 Massena Grain posts 6.80 McCauley patrol 646 1 D Walters patrol 84.00 Richard Watson patrol 14.40 Wissler repairs 59.70 Atlantic Machine and Auto repairs 8.75 KR Brown bridge foreman 96.70 Bontrager labor 10.80 Elis repair 15.20 Harris bridge 80.00 Joyce Lumber rent 37.50 Kopp hauling 46.62 Lorenz Motor Truck supplies 8.02 Montgomery county bridge on county line 103.75 Merchant Sothern healing 7.00.
A fragmented local item notes a missing object or person between Anita and Wi eta on Tuesday afternoon. The garbled text mentions a brown can and a finder leaving at Swift's Cream Station in Anita. No clear names or dates beyond these clues are recoverable.
A ledger style list records payments to numerous individuals and firms for bridge work, gas, hardware, grading, patrol and labor tasks, including O. W. Shaffer & Son and Anita General Service, with amounts such as 80.00, 65.00 and 7.30. Entries note suppliers like Standard Oil Co. and Green Bay Lumber Company and indicate continuation on Page eight.
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