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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1914
Page
5
Transients in Des Moines and Atlantic travelers report activity with Gipple and Bissell noted. Hog cholera disrupts Berea and Bridgewater while Miss Janey Brown visits Atlantic. A Stuart Anita game ends 4 to 4 with a Fort Dodge visitor in town. States inspectors and local doctors are active. sales and family visits cited with several names and places.
Advertisement for woven wire fencing by J A Irving. Cr ane buys forty steers from H O Stone at forty cents per hundred, reported by R M Crane.
Miss Addie Hoffman of Atlantic visited Sunday with sisters Mrs Aldrich and Mrs Dorsey. The piece records social greetings and local ties among Atlantic residents and their kin.
J A Irving advertises a full range of woven wire fences at reasonable prices and invites customers to call before ordering.
Glen Fordyce is under the care of Dr. R A Becker after a sudden appendicitis illness, delaying the Fordyce family’s planned Colorado trip.
Local ad by R C Rasmussen offering piano repair and tuning services during the summer. He can fix tones that won t sound or linger too long and refin ish worn hammers to restore resonance and strength. Contact phone 200 25 21 for service in St Joseph Missouri.
The LI. E. church plans its first union service of the season in the park next Sunday evening with a cordial invite to nonmembers. Sunday School finished half the year's study of The Life of Christ and the Christian Endeavor Society will elect officers Friday evening at the church if weather permits. H. H. Kina, Pastor.
Congregational notes urge all to attend next Sunday worship at regular time with a sermon on Possessing Our Possessions. Lord's Supper to follow, then a 7 PM Christian Endeavor service, then an 8 PM open air park service with multiple churches.
Ira H. Soper and family spend the week at Greenfield and Diagonal visiting Jno Connell ey and Lew Soper. Advertising costs are not expenses but investments that pay substantial returns.
Rev Robt W Swick spent Monday in Avoca with Prof J C Sehmitt superintendent of Avoca schools. G W Boatright and daughter Miss Virginia of Russell arrived Tuesday for a weeks visit with their son and brother H E Boatright. Virginia was a longtime Anita teacher and Uncle George is in his 80s and still vigorous.
Mrs Henry Kuehn visits Des Moines at her parents home. Dr J Z Plunket of Lewis sells his practice and plans to leave the county. Chas F Chase orders a Blau gas cooking plant for Anita residence. Dr and Mrs C V Beaver attend son Raymond Beavers marriage to Grace Blood in Des Moines. Hazel Winder of Wapello visits Anita and plans two months of vacation. Jno Connelle y Greenfield visits on business. Daniel Carver of Fontanelle dies and is buried. Mrs Caulfield returns to St Louis. A cannon cracker near the RECORD office triggers a tarantula fit. Wm Schaake promotes Alamito Sanitary Dairy ad.
G. A. Pegan his wife and daughter Miss Lenore along with Clarence Hedges and wife were automobile companions to Lewis on Sunday and were guests of Harry Hopley and wife for the day.
F. O. Naylor and wife traveled to Des Moines on Tuesday and will visit Bedford, Iowa briefly. M. Day and wife, who spent the past week in the city with W. ER. Spence and wife, returned to Clarion Sunday afternoon.
Miss Mary Moss of Centerville Iowa is visiting this week with Miss Ruth Wilkins. The two ladies have long been intimate friends since living in Keosauqua with their families years ago.
In the vacant lot behind the RECORD office a patch of sweet corn and potatoes is receiving care from Bert Stauffer. The crop appears promising, with potential yields described as a thousand bushes to the acre.
Clint Carey met with residents in his neighborhood to exchange cordial greetings and outline the latest news and general condition of local matters.
J L Thomas and John Nichols completed interior and exterior painting of W G Wilson's residence in a satisfactory manner.
A Friday evening storm again cut electric light service, forcing residents and businesses to rely on old lamps, lanterns, and candles to provide the needed illumination.
A suggestion urges residents between Anita and Adair to trim trees along the power line corridor to ensure safe transmission of electricity to Anita. The notice implies the work could be done now rather than later.
Peter Scott Sr and his son Robert spent a busy afternoon chasing a sporty fish up and down the stream. The fish grabbed the hook quickly but would not stay close enough to be landed.
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