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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1926
Page
5
Miss Evelyn Dean, Anita High School class of 1926 graduate, left Tuesday for Glendale California to start a permanent job at a good salary. She was accompanied to Omaha by her mother Mrs A D Dean and brother and sister in law Mr and Mrs Kenneth Dean.
Frank Morgan and family visit Dunlap relatives while samples suggest a strong potato yield this year. R S Kiehl returns from California for Anita visits before heading to Indianola. Phillip B Pilmer of Des Moines, formerly of Anita, attends to farm interests south of Anita. Hobart E Newton and family from Atlantic visit Ed Newton in Anita. Lela Booth, last year in Alta schools, returns home for summer. Chas E Faulkner and wife plan summer at Lake Okoboji fishing and boating.
Miss Anna Metz, daughter of Mr and Mrs Mike Metz of Benton township, formerly a Wiota teacher, has accepted a job in Moore Montana at 125 dollars per month. The Grant township Board of Trustees will meet Friday afternoon July 2 at 2:00 to transact business.
A note from Wiota reports Mrs Harvey Morgan, who had been a patient at Atlantic hospital for several weeks, has recovered enough to be discharged to her home. Her family and friends, including Ed Wagner and his wife with two daughters Enid and Marion, alongside Mrs Lulu Faga, visited Clarinda and Shenandoah and other southwest town points to tour radio stations and the Henry Fiell & Co and May Seed Company facilities.
Mrs. Lula Bullock of Atlantic spent Sunday in Anita. Regular rehearsal of the Anita Concert Band was held Monday night.
A rumor suggests Anita may host a fall festival and home-coming in early October. The item mentions local activity and community plans, plus notices about a stove for sale and visits from residents to relatives and nearby attractions in southwest Iowa.
Miss Mary O Leary of the D and D Institute in Council Bluffs spends the vacation period in Anita with her brother Dennis O Leary.
Fred Stauffer, confined to bed at his sister Mrs Robt Scott’s home for most of the past year, shows slight improvement.
Mayor Maria Millhollin and her wife completed their trip around the circle and came home this week. They plan to resume daily duties for another year.
Annuilionne R and Mrs R J Badger plus Miss Wilhelmena Staffin and Mrs Effie Myers of Murray Iowa were over Sunday guests at the home of their nephew and cousin Azel S Ames and wife.
W H Bilderback of Minneapolis, a former Cass County resident, writes to the Record editor with cordial greetings for his many friends in the old home town and community.
John W. Budd and his son and daughter from Dexter visited Anita on Friday. Budd, current owner of a Dexter cafe, may take a position with the Atlantic News Telegraph if near-term conditions improve. See Larson for more.
A Kansas town writer gains notice for a vivid wedding portrait praising a bride as modern and angelic while narrating the altar moment. The piece contrasts literary flair with the calm of small town life amid weekend society notes from Anita and region.
Denison Pearce and wife returned from an extended auto trip through southwest Iowa Nebraska Kansas and Oklahoma and enjoyed brief visits with Anita and Cass county people along the way. They noted farmers in Kansas and Oklahoma threshing grain of exceptionally good quality and yielding well. Denny said they have different ways of doing things down there but they get there.
The Board of Supervisors will receive bids for two hundred tons of screened coal from Illinois LaSalle Old Ben and Eastern Kentucky to be delivered at the Cass county Court House. Bids will be opened at 1 30 P M Monday July 12 1926.
Mesdames E S Holton and Harry C Faulkner hosted a reception and tea at Marrs Hill on Saturday from three to five oclock in honor of Mrs Leon G Voorhees of Ardmore Oklahoma. About fifty old friends attended the courtesy. Mesdames Guy Rasmussen and M C Hansen assisted the hostesses.
The Transcript notes farmers in Boston enjoying strong hog meat profits despite a bean-based economy. It observes corn fed to hogs is sold to bring home the bacon, as Ed Blakesley and his family visit Anita on Tuesday evening.
Fred Hansen a longtime Rec ord subscriber served as caller Monday. Shaffer and Christensen sold a Chevrolet coach to W. A. Linfor and D. R. Forshay. Fred Bell family attended a band concert in Anita. Gail Burke visits his grandmother Mrs. Guss Ballenseifer in Wiota. Lost a brown and white Fox Terrier female. liberal reward offered. Miss Emma Wade to Galatia Kansas for a visit with relatives. Donald Shipman of Scottsbluff Nebraska visits Anita with Grandma Elvira Hyde.
Local residents report a Monday tonsil operation on Malen Baier and visits from Mrs Glen Newton and the Nevada Iowa group staying with Postmaster Ed L Newton. Henry Beel Sr accompanied Fred Baier home to Cozad Nebraska for several weeks. Anita produce ships poultry and eggs to New York City.
Mr and Mrs Wm Tharre of Casey and Mr and Mrs Wilson and their daughter of Menlo were Sunday guests at the Robt Bain home.
The stop jar mode globes along both sides of Main street through Anita are being replaced with newer globes that provide greater quantity and higher quality light.
Ants invade homes in summer. remove by poisoning nests with borax and sugar, or sodium fluoride on pantry edges. Kill young with bait, keep ants from food surfaces with water-filled legs and kerosene rims, seal entries with napthalene or oils, and destroy hills by pouring carbon disulphide or calcium cyanide into mounds.
Louis J. Neff and Dick Neff of the Neff clothing firm Atlantic visited Anita last week for the Atlantic Christian church young men's orchestra performance. The group presented a capable noon hour program broadcast from station KFLZ, based in the Walnut Grove Hog Remedy Company headquarters in Anita. The orchestra earned merited praise and the Neffs take pride in the boys' efforts.
The Ladies Aid Society of the Congregational church plans an all day meeting at the home of Mrs. G. M. Aldrich on Thursday with a covered dish lunch served at noon.
Alfred Mangeldorf John Baker and Red Simms were injured when a car was struck at the foot of a hill between Dexter and Stuart. Red Simms died Monday from a skull fracture. Mangeldorf and Baker sustained severe and varying injuries. Doctor H E Campbell attended the trio after the midnight accident.
A fragment notes a trip from Fruitland Idaho toward Anita Iowa in May with a two dollar money order payment for a 1926 record. The writer and spouse plan to reach Anita before winter snow if travel is feasible, mentioning Mr. and Mrs. Griep as former Anita residents and kin to local families in the area.
Peter Nepper his wife and four children of Wilcox Canada are spending several weeks among relatives in Anita and Wiota areas and will visit relatives of Mr Nepper in Creston. Mrs Nepper is sister to Cass county residents Mike and J P Metz. The family traveled by auto preferring the gas wagon to varnished cars for travel pleasure.
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