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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1922
Page
5
The New Leaf editor is called a liar by a Kansas lecturer in Effingham amid applause. Clifford Metheny left 2.00 for the home paper, while Grandmother's Bread and family news appear in a short rural item. Harry Archer and relatives pass through, visiting Atlantic and Lewis, recalling Anita days and local business ties.
Local notes report a week of Angell's Comedians touring Anita and area. Various residents are listed visiting, returning from trips, and updating subscriptions. A wedding of household topics blends with ads and public notices in this community update.
A fragment promotes Cass County beauty contest and Iowa pride with June scenery lines. It also notes Iowa cigarette revenue 600000 dollars since July 1 1921 and daily 2000 collected, plus 250000 in permit fees to cities and counties.
Ed P Calkins from St Paul and his daughter spent a few days in Anita visiting the family of J A Wagner and the ailing R W Calkins. Calkins, once an Anita boy, now serves on a train route between St Paul and Chicago. Fred Parkinson and wife from Massena joined breakfast with W J Weston family before heading to Minnesota lakes for a two week stay with Dr Robt Weston in Des Moines.
Ek G Holton lawyer advertises practice in all courts with emphasis on land sites and settlement of estates.
Willie resisted in the barber chair as his mother pleaded. The barber stepped out briefly and returned to calm the boy with a firm threat. Willie then sat still, the barber finishing the haircut while the boy smiled afterward.
A playful verse catalogues many leg types with humorous contrast and regional flavor, ending with a light note on fun. Attributed to a North Dakota poet, the fragment surveys variety in legs and the idea of diverse styles and origins.
A former Anita boy known as Old Sammy Etheredge shares a letter from a homesick Iowan who wishes to return to Iowa. The writer laments being far from “God's country” while spending summers in the mountains and winters among California’s-valley fruit lands.
A narrator proclaims love for California while confessing it is partly owned and not forever, venting through a caricatured tour of U S products and places from Connecticut alarm clocks to New Orleans molasses, ending with a jab at a home grown myth.
Mrs H O Stone spent Monday with friends in Stuart. Union services were held at the M E Church Sunday evening. Carmel Daughenbaugh of Des Moines is visiting Cass county relatives. Anita sprinters did well at Casey on July 4 taking multiple prizes. Mrs F R Leffingwell and family return to Mason City after weeks in Anita. An operation on a young man cut short a planned visit. G I McDermott of Atlantic visited Anita. G F Wilbourn and wife of Atlantic visited. Mrs J R Cosgrove and daughter of Route 3 Anita stopped by. L H Crandall and family and Dr J W Macklin and family visited Gerald Kirkwood. George Ward of Princeton has joined Forsyth and Just as plumber and tinsmith to boost their service.
Miss Mary Ludwig returns from Missouri while Geo P Fish of Atlantic visits Anita on Monday. Wagoner and Shaffer expand gas and oil station equipment for growing business. Miss Frances Stone, daughter of H O Stone, home from Birkley California for a brief visit. Miss Helen Dinsmore of Cedar Falls Normal School tours home during vacation and will attend a Dinsmore family reunion in Pennsylvania. A L Harris notes a Record visit. Jared Blattner from Atlantic spends Tuesday in Anita. J D Young and wife at Lake Okeboji then South Dakota. C H McDermott and family take a two week auto vacation in Colorado. Robt O Stuart family from Minneapolis visit uncle H G Stuart. Robert, formerly an Anita boy, works with a Minneapolis adjustment firm.
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