Carey Farm grows soil building legumes near Afton
W K Carey farm near Afton showcases sweet clover and vetch as soil builders with oats nurse crops, yielding hay and grain. The cow peas prove successful, the Purple Martin home attracts birds, and the farm emphasizes erosion control, fertility, and potential seed production.
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W. K. Carey
Faulkner Place
Afton
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Carey
Missouri
F. H. Scherer
Carey Farm
Purple Martin
Star-Enterprise
Baby left on Scott porch in 1926 note case
A two month old girl found on the Robt Scott porch at Third and Locust streets last Friday night. A note dated May 14 1926 was pinned to her clothing. Dr G M Adair and his wife took the infant into their care after Mayor Millholland advised contacting the physician. The baby is described as clean and well dressed and is reportedly in a good home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robt. Scott
Third
Locust Streets
Mrs. Bessie Parkinson and Virginia Weston Visit Minneapolis
Mrs. Bessie Parkinson of Masena and her niece Miss Virginia Weston daughter of Dr and Mrs R A Weston of Des Moines are spending the week with relatives in Minneapolis.
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Bessie Parkinson
Massena
Virginia Weston
R. A. Weston
Des Moines
Minneapolis
Cassco Cattle Tops Market at Chicago Sale
Hopley Bros of Atlantic sold Herefords at Chicago on June 21 for 10.00 per cwt the top price for the grade. W A Hopley and Harry delivered 97 and 53 head averaging 750 and 770 pounds from South Dakota ranges bought last winter at 25 per head after silage corn and cotton seed meal ration. Gross sale around 10700 dollars, likely the largest cattle deal in months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hopley Bros
Atlantic
Chicago
W. A. Hopley
Harry
South Dakota
Mrs Dora Meairs Visits Anita From Long Beach
Mrs Dora Meairs and her son Junior arrived in Anita last Friday from Long Beach California. They will stay several weeks with her mother Mrs I E Fickel and other relatives and friends. Mrs Meairs last visited eight years ago and remarks on Anita's improvements. The California based Anita exiles send cordial greetings to the old folks at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dora Meairs
Long Beach
California
Anita
I. E. Fickel
Wiebold resigns from Anita Telephone Company
A. W. Wiebold, long connected with the Anita Telephone Company, resigned last week and will join a Collins Iowa telephone company owned by D. C. Phillips of Grinnell, a former part owner of the Anita Exchange. While in Anita he worked to provide patrons with first class service.
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A. W. Wiebold
Anita Telephone Company
Collins
Iowa
D. C. Phillips
Grinnell
Anita Telephone Exchange
Anita
Wiebold
Scholl Family Guests at KFNF and KMA Visit
Mr and Mrs Fred Scholl with sons Leo and Lyle visited Shenandoah as guests of Henry Field broadcasting KFNF and Earl May Station KMA. The Scholls and the Anita folks were entertained at both prominent local businesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Scholl
Leo and Lyle
Elmer Scholl
Shenandoah
Henry Field Broadcasting
KFNF
Earl May
KMA
Anita Folks
Forty Five Years Gap Ends For Long Family Visit
J M Long and wife of Edmon Oklahoma visited with J F Gissibs and Lincoln township relatives in one of the first reunions in thirty two years. Brother H C Long of Princeton Illinois also joined at the Giss home marking the first gathering of the Long siblings in forty five years. The couple had been en route to Vinton Iowa, their former home, for a visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. M. Long
Edmon Oklahoma
Long
J. F. Gissibs
Litcoln Township
H. C. Long
Princeton
Inois
Giss
Vinton
Iowa
Four Generations Enjoy Sunday Dinner At Oak Ridge Home
Mr and Mrs Chas Graham hosted a Sunday dinner at their Oak Ridge home with Betty Marie Graham’s grandparents present in three generations The guests included paternal grandparents Mrs George Bain Mr and Mrs Geo B Graham of Anita and maternal grandparents Mrs Clara Hopkins of Adair Mrs Rebecca Kelsey of Des Moines and Mr and Mrs Genie Kelsey of Adair
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Chas. Graham
Oak Ridge
Betty Marie
George Bain
Geo. B. Graham
Anita
Clara Hopkins
Adair
Rebecca Kelsey
Des Moines
Genie Kelsey
Former Anita Lady Nannie Willison Dies at 51
Mrs Nannie Willison of Anita, long-time Hull family member, died after a protracted illness at her daughter Lena McKee's home in Muscatine Iowa. Born December 1875 in Anita she married Len L Willison and raised three daughters Lena Ruby Freida. Funeral at the Christian church in Anita 2 PM conducted by Elder LaVerne Morris with Evergreen cemetery interment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ira Ruggles
Nannie Willison
Anita
Lena McKee
Muscatine
Iowa
Henry O. Hull
Hull
Len L. Willison
Lena
Ruby
Freida
Willison
Rock Island
Christian Church
LaVerne Morris
Evergreen Cemetery
Pratt Families Gather for Reunion and Picnic
A reunion of Pratt families and relatives totaling about thirty five enjoyed a Sunday gathering at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Tony Kopp east of Anita. A hearty picnic dinner with all the trimmings followed, with out of town guests including Val Kraemer and wife of Long Beach California Rollin Kraemer and son Maurice of Riverside California Eugene Pratt and family Wilcox Canada Ben F Simpson and wife Atlantic John Agen and wife Greenfield Iowa Chas Walker Omaha Nebraska.
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Pratt
Tony Kopp
Anita
Val Kraemer
Long Beach
California
Rollin Kraemer
Maurice
Riverside
Cal
Wheatley Cattle Sale Tops Chicago Market at $10.50
In Chicago on June 28 a sale led by J H Wheatley and son produced the top price of the day at 10 50 per hundredweight. Thirty six head averaged 1395 pounds, black bodied with white faces, bred from Hereford x black cow cross. They were grain finished with corn linseed meal and alfalfa hay, a beefy blocky lot among 26 000 cattle receipts.
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J. H. Wheatley
Chicago
Wheatleys
Herefords Bring Top Price at Chicago Market Sale
Theodore W. Krause of Lewis sold 32 fancy Hereford heifers at the Chicago market on June 30 for 10.30 dollars per hundredweight. Averaging 771 pounds, the smooth fleshed uniform lot sold without sorting amid a sale of 11 000 cattle. The western bred cattle were fattened under average feed lot conditions and paid the market high for weeks.
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Theodore W. Krause
Lewis
Chicago
Krause
Corn Borer Destroys Cass County Crops
The American stock borer causes major damage in Cass county by living through winter on rag weed and invading corn. In Cass township a rag weed field was nearly wiped out, as borer larvae destroyed central stalks. Control by cutting or burning rag weed in winter prevents this pest. European corn borer is not in the region yet and targets tassels.
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Cass County
Cass Township
Middle West
California family visits Anita during Iowa trip
John O'Dea his wife and their ten year old daughter from San Pedro California are spending several weeks in Anita with Mrs. O'Dea’s parents Mr and Mrs J E Brookner. They traveled by auto enjoying the scenery along the way and Mrs O'Dea resembles many former Iowans who later promote California.
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John O'Dea
San Pedro
California
Anita
Acid phosphate saves wheat yield on Johnsons farm
R B Johnson of Pleasant township used 150 pounds per acre of acid phosphate on a wheat field. A strip without phosphate shows the stand is six inches shorter and Johnson estimates the nonphosphate plot would yield about one third less than the rest of the field.
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R. B. Johnson
Pleasant Township
Johnston
Keeping Up With Jones’s At Lincoln Township Home
Harvey Turner and Seymour Mallory finished a new porch a bull-pen and various improvements at the home of Supervisor H. G. Armentrout in Lincoln township Hayes Redburn did touch up the building with paint The scene shows Harv striving to keep up with the Joneses.
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Harvey Turner
Seymour Mallory
H. G. Armentrout
Lincoln Township
Hayes Redburn
Jones
Death of J. H. Cress After Paralytic Stroke in Audubon
Mr and Mrs Frank Tibben were notified Monday of the illness of Mrs Tibben s father J H Cress who suffered a paralytic stroke Friday and died Tuesday afternoon at age fifty eight Funeral services are set for Audubon on Thursday He is survived by his wife four daughters and three sons.
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Frank Tibben
Audubon
Spend Week at Grandma's in Anita
Mrs F R Leffingwell and family of Mason City Iowa and daughter Mrs Bessie Long of Home Gardens California spend the week in Anita visiting Mrs Ida Dilts Mc Cord mother grandmother and great grandmother to the party who are having a glorious time.
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F. R. Leffingwell
Mason City
Iowa
Bessie Long
Home Gardens
California
Anita
Ida Dilts McCord
Bunch
Original Sunshine Club Quilting Session At Mrs Moore Home
The Original Sunshine Club met for an all day quilting session at Mrs C Moore's home. Thirteen members attended along with seven visitors and several children. A delicious lunch was served at one o clock. Visitors named Ruth Wahlert Irisa Heckman Mrs Woodall Mrs Wayne Sisler Anna Behrends Mattie Behrends and Mary Jane Pilmer.
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Sunshine Club
C. Moore
Ruth Wahlert
Irisa Heckman
Woodall
Wayne Sisler
Anna
Mattie Behrends
Mary Jane Pilmer
Highland Church to Hold Sunday Evening Service
Preaching services are planned at the Highland church next Sunday evening at 8 o'clock. Everyone is invited, with Rev Bar on of Atlantic in charge whose efforts have pleased attendees.
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Highland Church
Baron
Atlantic
Miss Blakesley visiting relatives in city this week
Miss Maxine Blakesley daughter of Mr and Mrs Claude E Blakesley former Anita residents now in Belleville Kansas is spending the week in the city as a guest of her uncle and aunt Mr and Mrs G Smither and other relatives and friends.
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Maxine Blakesley
Claude E. Blakesley
Anita
Belleville, Kansas
G. ©. Smither
Touring the West by Auto with Barnholdt and Wescon
Ernie Barnholdt travels the western states in good weather and fine roads for a pleasure trip. He is joined by W. J. Wescon who will visit Montana sites tied to his early freighting days and encounters with Indians.
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Ernie Barnholdt
W. J. Wescon
Montana
Turner Visits Anita En Route to Des Moines Convention
Senator Dan W. Turner of Corning paid a brief visit to Anita on Monday while en route to Des Moines where he will serve as temporary chairman of the Republican state convention to be held there next Wednesday.
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Dan W. Turner
Corning
Anita
Des Moines
Turner
Auto Crash Wounds Injure Anita Idaho Residents
Three former Anita residents. Guy F Lattig and wife and Mrs Cyrus J Lattig, now of Payette Idaho, were seriously injured in a July 5 auto collision while returning from a Payette area celebration. Lattig nose and facial injuries, wife with neck jaw injuries and tooth loss. Others shaken but not seriously hurt. The Dodge driver was unconscious for over a day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anita
Guy F. Lattig
Cyrus J. Lattig
Payette
Idaho
Chrysler
Lattig
Dodge
Guy Lattig
Guy
C. J. Lattig
Iowa winter damaged vast numbers of fruit trees and shrubs
Iowa reports indicate hundreds of fruit trees flowering shrubs and evergreens were badly injured or killed by a wet fall and October freezes. Red cedar white pines and arbor vitae suffered most among evergreens while apple varieties plum trees and red raspberries showed severe cambial damage and sap loss delaying or preventing growth. L G Sorden, Co. Agt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Iowa State College
L. G. Sorden, Co. Agt
Former Anita Man Weds In Lincoln Nebraska
Dorothy Evans and Clarence Brockman married June 23 1926 at the Evans home 8073 W Street Lincoln officiated by Rev J W McDaniels. The bride a longtime teacher and the groom son of former Anita residents recently moved to Lincoln and completed auto school. They will reside in Lincoln.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
Dorothy Evans
Clarence Brockman
D. P. Evans
W. Street
J. W. McDaniels
Arthur Brockman
Anita
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Mrs. Robi. Scott
Rosemary
Cassco Cattle Tops
Georgia Rose
Georgia
Bongers Brothers
Tae
Cass CO. Beeves
Anita Man
Mrs. Brockman
Lincoln, Nebraska
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