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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1928
Page
1
Fred Hill purchased Hamburgs Republican consolidating with Hamburg Reporter. The Hamburg Reporter under Hills leadership grew into a leading Western Iowa weekly. The merger ends dual papers in Hamburg and aims to reduce advertiser costs while expanding readership.
The passage recalls Fred Hill, son of the late Rev. Enoch Hill, former pastor of the Anita M. E. church. It notes Fred’s business success and attributes it to his pure bred stock and his father’s direct preaching style.
Sam M. Houston of the Anits public school corps of teachers is stationed at Attica Indiana this week directing a Redpath Chautauqua Bureau course. The $3600 program marks his first season in this work and follows a swift rise from southern assignments to a broader field of responsibility under Harry P. Harrison.
On Monday July 30 the final state and district conventions will be held at Council Bluffs. W C Ratcliff of Red Oak will be renominated for judge in this district and faces no opposition for renomination.
Miss Helen Swinehart daughter of Mr and Mrs Joe L Swinehart died Thursday evening at the Atlantic hospital after a major operation Wednesday. Survived by parents four sisters Grace Barns Omaha Lenora Dorothy Jean Adair three brothers Charles Lynn Adair Ted Chicago. Funeral Sunday July 15 1928 Presbyterian Adair Rev DeBerg interment Sunny Hill Cemetery. Citizens extend sympathy to the family.
Experiments show bad roads cost drivers about 22.3 cents per gallon, assuming 10 mpg on rough surfaces. At 33 mph, gasoline and tire costs per 1000 miles reach 33.10 dollars for a typical four cylinder on rough roads, versus 12.80 dollars on smooth highways. Paving is the cheapest long term solution.
W G McFarland of Los Angeles spends weeks in Anita and vicinity to tend city and country real estate interests and greet old friends. He notes the Cass county California colony in good health and recalls Dr Elverton Major, longtime local drugstore owner and prominent Cass county professional.
A local Farm Bureau announcement explains six horse hitching for gang plowing. Using two lines with three and three horses reduces lines to manage and keeps teams cooler, especially in hot, fly-filled conditions. Demonstrations will be offered this fall to farmers by W. C. Duncan, county agt.
Red Oak broadcasting station refused permission to operate a remote control jail studio to continue poultry and hatchery talks after contract holder C. E. Tuttle was fined $66 and jailed for injunctive violations tied to bootlegging. Board of Supervisors denied the petition, calling it a new point in criminal proceedings.
Mrs John C Kelley has been ill health the past week with unspecified symptoms and routine care noted. No further details provided.
The article touts Iowa’s abundant wild fruit offerings including cherries raspberries gooseberries blackberries grapes strawberries and even a few plums. It contrasts Iowa’s bounty with California and Florida in a celebration of the state's natural resources.
Russell Wood son of Mr and Mrs Samuel Wood Wiota will graduate this week from the commercial dairying department at Iowa Agricultural College Ames He is an Anita public schools graduate and has worked for Blue Grass Creamery Company Chicago where he will be connected permanently.
Mrs. Madeline Kirkham travels to Iowa City to visit her mother Mrs. Carrie Reynolds who has been in the sanitarium for weeks. Reynolds' condition remains about the same but she is progressing as well as expected.
Honorable Harry Green of Avoca and representative from Pottawattamie county visited Anita friends Monday while traveling to Des Moines for the Republican state convention. He sought regional backing ahead of the gathering.
Des Moines resident F C Young visited Anita for a couple of days to install new Lan dis Machine Company equipment in a recently opened local shoe shop. He and wife Mrs Young once lived in Indianola near Simpson College when Bessie Myers Lowell studied music.
Frank Bontrager visited Scranton Iowa for the sixty third wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. G W Earhart. Both are in their eighty fourth year and in unusually good health. Earhart, a cousin of the famed ocean flyer, would not travel far now, preferring to keep at least one foot on solid ground.
E. P. Chase editor and Ben A. Wood chairman of the county Republican committee joined by Mrs. Chase and Mrs. Wood visited Anita briefly on Tuesday. They travelled as delegates from Atlantic to attend the state convention in Des Moines.
Lar son Atlantic features an eye specialist known as a reliable tie to local health services. The column highlights expertise and community trust in the physician.
The J W Berry homestead of 500 acres south of Atlantic Cass county has been purchased by Harry and Wayland Hopley. The brothers already own most of their land in Cass county plus a large stock operation. They operate a private grain elevator with 10 000 bushels capacity and ship from Hopley Station on the Rock Island line. They keep 100 blooded Shorthorn and 60 Angus cattle and buy thousands of bushels of feed annually. In 1927 1928 they shipped 157 carloads of cattle to Chicago and Omaha totaling about 550 000 dollars. They employ ten married men and their families on the Hopley farms.
Des Moines officials announced plan to attract a half million attendees at the 1928 Iowa State Fair and Exposition starting August 24. The Executive Committee adopted the Half Million Year slogan and expects up to 70 000 more visitors than last year’s 430 000. A five million dollar exposition features the largest and costliest entertainment program in fair history with over 30 000 in racing purses and aerial bomb fireworks replacing rockets. Exhibit features will be the Midwest’s largest, says Secretary A. R. Cory.
E M Bonney formerly of Anita now living in Greenfield where he runs a business was in the city Sunday and caught a train to Omaha for a few days of business. He was escorted by his daughter Miss Babe Bonney who visited her sister Mrs Grace Winder and friends in Anita during the afternoon.
George Railsback Jr., 17, of Griswold, died from injuries after a Friday night crash between Griswold and Lewis. The car overturned when it struck a rut. Ray Clark, the driver, escaped with minor injuries.
Judge Wm. R. Green former congressman and Ways and Means chair returns to Council Bluffs for a brief Iowa visit. Now judge of the United States Court of Claims with Washington headquarters, he will spend about thirty of his two month vacation in the state.
Eugene Pratt of Wilcox Saskatchewan visits Anita and Extra with his wife and two children. They traveled over 1,100 miles from Canada in three and a half days aided by good roads.
The Hopley family raises hogs and cattle with about 1500 head mostly Hampshires. Their farm now focuses on harvesting wheat oats and barley with a strong corn stand. Wayland Hopley says livestock is essential to turning crops into profit and they remain staunch boosters of the livestock game.
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