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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1919
Page
1
Various community items describe returning servicemen and their furloughs, wartime updates, and local concerns. Discharges arrive while others head to Pensacola or France, and families hear from sons in the trench and hospital. A church pastor volunteers, a nurse dies, and local civic figures receive honors.
Mrs. W. E. Kelloway Mrs. D. R. Forshay and Mrs. Wayne Bullock visited Atlantic on Monday. The western city lot pond, part of the town’s history, is now bone dry for the first time.
A. Berger and wife are spending the week at the home of G. W. Fordyce. Frank W. Luxford and wife have returned from Excelsior Springs, Missouri.
Monday pension day for Civil War veterans. Des Moines trip for Ed L Newton. Tom Root visit in Massena area. Anita to receive new resident March 1. Joe Vetter near discharge and return to work for Dr. Campbell. R. C. Rasmussen briefly ill. Anita planned memorial for soldiers. Critics fear political talk masked as democracy safety. Mrs Avril Brigham, Omaha naval officer, visited grandparents in Anita. Fred Chinn returns to Farmers' Supply Co after leaving bank insurance department. Bank banquet at Roycelea in honor of staff. George Scholl recovering after flu and illness. Fred Whited on furlough from Camp Funston visited Cass county family. Miss Clara Schwandt improving after severe burns. family from Wisconsin staying. 75 guests toasted Mrs Karns for 44th birthday with oysters and music.
Peter E Voorhees resigns from Farmers' Supply Co to focus on farming. Death opens Wiota postmaster vacancy with multiple applicants. Mrs J F Robison recovering from a knee dislocation with O H Elliott of Atlantic visiting. Floyd Dement returns from army service and runs a branch Hog Remedy office in Guthrie Center. Joe Kirkham calendar from Johnson Bros Clay Works. John Gunderman visits Anita from Lenox to address business. Neva Armstrong teaches in Adair county earning praise. Lew Stauffer recovering from illness in Pagosa Springs. Ed Johnson husks in northwest Iowa noting good corn and high husking pay. Bert Thomas and wife occupy Vernon residence. Bert returns to Rock Island railway. Arthur Hansen serves with American forces in France now in Germany. Mrs Lee Van Slyke of Salt Lake City visits Anita family. attends sister's funeral in Nebraska then returns. Chas E Lyst and Miss Inez Wheatly wed at Anita Christian Church parsonage. to live near Menlo.
Ernie Barnholdt and his brother Arthur lease a Carl Hansen farm in Berea to till the soil and raise stock. Ernie will quit his Regulator job February 1 and the brothers move to the farm March 1. Wishing the Barnholdt Bros success.
Carl and O C Hansen visited their brother in law H P Hansen of Extra who was operated on for appendicitis. The operation revealed a serious condition but he is slowly improving with favorable recovery chances. Mr Hansen runs a lumber and coal business in Extra and formerly worked for the Fullerton Lumber Company in this city.
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