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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1913
Page
4
East Grant records a string of personal updates. S. T. Perry previews a full feed after March 4. Residents report illnesses, travel, sales, and births. Reverend Burleigh's congregational call is discussed as community hopes for acceptance.
Neighbors and friends visited Mr. and Mrs. Chas V Wilson in Lincoln township for an evening of music and refreshments. Also ads urge timely electric wiring orders, report A H Winder reading the Record daily Capital, and promote Emma Boulton’s Opera House engagement starting Thursday January 2 with A Convict's Sweetheart in four acts and prices 25 50 cents.
Dr H B Campbell asks all who owe money to call and settle amounts up to January 1 1913 by cash or note. He seeks to close the books for the old year and start the new with a clean slate, thanking friends and patrons for their support and wishing a happy New Year.
Several hundred copies of the Anita Record are mailed this week to households within the Anita post office delivery. The publishers hope each family will review the new paper and subscribe, either in person or by mail, to avoid extra postage costs.
About 6 000 evergreen trees offered at 25 cents each while supplies last. Local notes describe Frank A. Smith returning from Iowa to Cass county and leasing a farm near Anita. Visits by A A Lutz and Mrs. Burkhart decline to play into nostalgia. Various social mentions include Miss Georgia Thomas and Rev Thomas family visits, a brief mayor's court for minor fines, and a humorous account of Bill Millard's blacksmith work and day at the shop.
G S Daughenbaugh who leased his Benton township farm and planned to move his family to Wiota will not leave the old homestead. After a heart to heart with his wife Belle they decided to stay, much to local anticipation of a June visit for a feast of yellow legged chicken hot biscuit and coffee.
I. W. Brown, who bought the Peter Martin property in South Anita months ago, called at the Record office Monday evening. A long-time resident of Washington township Adair county since 1877 he moved to Anita from that area. He originally emigrated from Ohio and wagoned to Indiana then Iowa, riding by train from Burlington for part of the trip. Brown's tales recount early days and changing times in this Iowa region.
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