Red Cross Benefit Play To Aid Local Chapter
A forthcoming benefit at the Anita opera house will feature home talent under director Frank J. McCord with all participants volunteering. F O Worthing donated the venue and proceeds go to the local Red Cross. Admission will be affordable and details will follow.
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Frank J. McCord
F. O. Worthing
Red Cross
Anita
Red Cross Fund Sparks Townsfolk Response in Anita Area
In Anita and the Grant and Lincoln townships residents answered the Red Cross appeal with notable generosity. The cooperative effort highlights community support during a period of need. Local volunteers organized drives and collections across the region.
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Grant and
Lincoln
Red Cross
Anita Red Cross Schedule for Anita Chapter Work
The Anita Red Cross Chapter schedules weekly sessions beginning July 9 at the work rooms. Monday to Saturday activities include muslin bandages, hospital bed shirts, young people projects, knitting, gauze work, and white sheets with 1:30 p.m. start times. Members are urged to attend and select preferred tasks with leaders present for instruction. Military enlistments and local notices follow in the section.
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Anita Red Cross
H. J. Wilkins
Omaha man visits Anita sisters in carnival note
Roscoe Griffith of Omaha spent last week in Anita visiting his sisters Mesdames Chas Ragan E C Porch Frank Norton and Della Winder The Adair News editor complains about an Anita auto driver arrested and fined for speeding criticizing the town marshal and mayor We wish that marshal would move to Oakland The Acorn notes no objection to thirty miles an hour but forty five should be restrained.
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Omaha
Anita
Vicinity
Mesdames Chas, Ragan
E. C. Porch
Frank Norton
Della Winder
Adair News
Oakland
Potatoes and Travel Fragments From Local News
Uncle John and Mother Aldrich helped editor’s family with new potatoes last week. Weather made travel difficult with slick highways. Jim Lewis hoped for a Kansas City trip but Mrs dim accompanied him to Omaha via Rock Island route. Mrs Robt Scott visiting Walnut with Mrs Nettie Rogers. Mrs S W Armbreast from Des Moines in Anita with the Turner family. A S Kiehl and wife from Winterset visited Anita for Eva Kiehl. Kishs attended W B Davis funeral in Lewis.
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Aldrich
Jim
Lewis
Kansas City
Dim
Rock Island
Omaha
S. W. Armbreast
Des Moines
City
S. C. Turner
A. L. and
W. C. Turner
A.S. Kiehl
Winterset
Anita
Eva Kiehl
Letter from Edgar Vernon of Anita Boys 1917 in Navy
Mr and Mrs R D Vernon receive a note from their son Edgar Vernon a member of the Anita Boys of 1917 serving in the Naval Service of the United States. The letter confirms his continued enlistment and calls for family support as he participates in naval duties abroad.
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R. D. Vernon
Edgar Vernon
Anita
Naval Service
Uncle Sam
Letter From Sailor Aboard Michigan 1917
In a June 8 1917 message from the U S S Michigan a firesman writes home of ship life and limited news while at sea. He describes evenings spent writing or at the movies, longing for one day at his mother’s table, and confirms his proudness as a Tama fireman aboard the vessel. He notes the ship is barred from public access and provides his forwarding address in care of the New York City postmaster.
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Tama
Mother
U. S.S
Michigan
New York City
New York
Great Lakes Camp Letter From Paul McEvoy
Paul McEvoy writes from Great Lakes Illinois on June 26 1917 about military camp life. He mentions receiving the Anita Record and plans to move to New Orleans, a pending fight and wrestling tournament to watch, updates on Navy recruitment, sewer and water works improvements, half soling shoes for hikes, a possible trip to Conocya Michigan, and learning to swim 100 yards before for permission to swim. He signs with routine news of life at camp.
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Sherm
New Orleans
Navy
Conocya
Michigan
Fort Des Moines Soldier Letter from 1917 Details Training Move
From Dr S E Daughenbaugh Des Moines June 22 1917 letter describes nineteen men from Sioux City units undergoing final medicals and enlisting as regulars. The group plans to travel Sunday to Fort Riley Kansas for training after a destination change from Allentown Pennsylvania. Fort Des Moines barracks house many black trainees for officer training. over 1200 men compete. Chow and accommodations praised. Sender promises future letters.
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Des Moines
No. 2 Field Hospital No
Sioux City
Fort Riley
Kansas
Allentown
Pennsylvania
Fort Des Moines
Anita
Young man fined for voting while unqualified
Wheeler Harrison refused to register on June 5 claiming immaturity. Judge Rockafellow fined him 200 and, unable to pay, ordered confinement in county jail up to sixty days. Harrison had voted in the previous fall election and may remain jailed if funds are not raised.
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Rockafellow
Young Harrison
Harrison
Illinois
Wilson
Audubon Republican
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