Local Notes From Anita Area Visitors and Events
W A Linfor visited Dexter this week while James Brown and John Dull finished hay harvests. Des Moines visitors include James Brown family and Herbert Bartley of DeMent Motor Co. Anita Drug Co. promotes Eye A Day and 32-11 Worm Oil for hogs. Uncle John W. Berry, age eighty, mingled downtown after illness. Anita Concert Band aided Guthrie Center's open-air concert. J A Wagner family arranged ISU enrollment. Roscoe Wagner, Clinton engineer, visiting Anita. Miss Gertrude Christianson of Des Moines stays with Richter family.
Work Wanted Advertisements and Local News Snippets
Classifieds show daily help wanted notes and small notices from Anita and Des Moines areas. Items include a by the hour work ad, resident visitors, farm work, sales of goods, travel to Colorado, stock sales in Chicago, and local subscriptions along with brief family and political event mentions.
Mme Kitaieff to Star in Herodiade at State Fair
Opera at the Iowa State Fair features Mme Kitaieff a renowned mezzo soprano in a leading role in Massenet’s Herodiade Aug 25 to Sept 3. The production includes a cast of well known stars and an international ballet under conductor M Thaviu.
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Mme. Kitaieff
Massenet
Iowa State Fair
M. Thaviu
Women Exhot at The Fair Des Moines
The Iowa State Fair hosts a large Women’s Building exposition featuring cooking schools demonstrations pageants and home management. Sponsored by the State Federation of Women’s Clubs Iowa Farm Bureau and the Iowa Parent-Teachers Association among others it highlights Baby Health Contest daily style shows and new physical development demonstrations for women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Women of Iowa
State Federation of Women's Clubs
State Women's Committee
Iowa Farm Bureau
Iowa Parent-Teachers’ Association
Iowa
Des Moines Iowa State Fair boosts harness and running purses
The Iowa State Fair increases total horse racing purses to over 21500 dollars with special racing on Derby Day. The schedule features both harness and running races across the event, with over 200 fast horses from midwestern stables entered and many harness entries fresh from grand circuit wins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Mid-West
Expect Record Livestock Show Des Moines Special
The National Livestock Show at the Iowa State Fair this summer aims to top the 1925 edition in size and quality with premiums over 80 000 dollars. Public view will include more than 7 000 swine cattle sheep and horses as barns open. Entries come from Vermont to California with notable breeding farms from across the United States. A new feature highlights poultry sheep pies and calves raised by Iowa’s youth farms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Vermont
California
United States
Iewa
Fiddlers Contest at Iowa State Fair Draws Veterans
The bio championship fiddlers contest at the Iowa State Fair will be held Friday and Saturday August 27 28 attracting veteran musicians from the mid west. Contestants must be fifty or older and may perform only tunes from an earlier generation. Details available from A R Corey Secretary State Fair Des Moines Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pes Moines
Mid-West
Iowa
A. R. Corey
Des Moines
Fair to Offer Motor Show at Iowa State Fair
The Iowa State Fair will host a mid season motor show from August 25 to September 3 with over 100 new designs on display. Western manufacturers and dealers will send special shipments to Des Moines, and the exhibits will include trucks tractors and intercity buses to augment the automobile display.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Moines
Iowa
Des Moines
Signs brighten town buildings in northern Iowa week
L. J. Hofmeister tours northern Iowa this week as a new sign decorates the Hugo Wiese Bakery plate glass front and Postmaster Ed Newton’s office displays a neat painted sign. Deloris Arline is a baby girl born to Mr and Mrs Waldo Herkelman.
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L. J. Hofmeister
Iowa
Emo Jena
Hugo Wiese
Ed. L. Newton
Emasin Deloris Arline
Waldo Herkelman
Pasture for cattle ready for turning in
Good blue grass pasture offered by Wm Bangham ready to receive cattle. Located for immediate use and suitable for grazing in the current season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bangham
Extreme Heat Strains Corn Crop Midweek
Wednesday’s scorching heat created a dangerous crop stress as corn yields face heat related damage. Farmers reported stressed plants and diminished moisture, prompting concerns over potential reductions in harvest.
A J Kuehn Heads West For Family Visits
A J Kuehn left Tuesday to see a son in Wisconsin a daughter in Chicago and another daughter in Fort Wayne Indiana.
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A. J. Kuehn
Tueday
Wisconsin
Chicago
Fort Wayne
Indiana
Mrs W T Slater Hosts W P G Club Dinner
At her home on West Main Street today Mrs W T Slater entertained the members of the W P G Club at one o'clock for dinner.
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West Main Street
W. T. Slater
W. P. G. Club
Ladies' Union Club Holds Meeting and Picnic
The Ladies' Union Club met with Mrs. W. C. Rich ter for a 1 PM dinner and an afternoon of activities. The club held its annual picnic Sunday at Keystone Park Anita where members, husbands and families enjoyed a large meal and various sports.
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Ladies’ Union Club
W. C. Richter
Keystone Park
Anita
Family visits and travel notes span Illinois Kansas and Nebraska
Mrs. Mary Forwinkle of Moline with son Ben and daughter Mildred visits cousin John Wade and family by auto. Walter F Wise with wife and two daughters leave for Pittsburg Kansas to visit relatives, with plans to reach Denver if weather holds. Porter White, former resident now in Alda Nebraska, suffered a mild paralytic stroke but is recovering satisfactorily.
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Mary Forwinkle
Moline, Illinois
Ben
Mildred
John Wade
Walter F. Wise
Pittsburg
Kansas
Mr. Wise
Denver
Colorado
Anita
Porter White
Alda
Nebraska
Local Notes on Residents and Nearby Farm
Miss Anita Highley returns to Council Bluffs to work in a department store. C. A. Carey reports another well drilled on his southwest farm with promising water prospects. L. C. Bangham and wife from Des Moines visited Mrs. A. L. Turner and daughter Miss Neva and other relatives on Sunday.
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Anita Highley
Council Bluffs
C. A. Carey
L. C. Bangham
Des Moines
A. L. Turner
Neva
Seven dollar item and travel notes in Anita
A brief notice lists a Beatrice cream separator at seven dollars and reports A L Harris returning from Excelsior Springs Missouri after rheumatism treatment. C G Hansen Cumberland chairman visits Anita on official business. Summer vacations are noted and an impending ice famine is discussed. Harris notes local wheat yields of 32 1 2 bushels per acre with wheat priced at 1 25 per bushel.
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Bartley
C. G. Hansen
Cumberland
Board of Supervisors
Anita
A. L. Harris
Excelsior Springs
Missouri
Old Home Paper highlights Bert Forester’s Anita roots
A representative from a Greeley Colorado paper visits Bert Forester formerly of Anita now living at 1715 12th Avenue Greeley. The piece describes Forester’s home and its surrounding garden with blooming iris lilies tulips roses and climbers among a display of classic landscape plantings and porch boxes.
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The
Record
Greeley
Colorado
Bert) Forester
Anita
12Th Avenue
Bert
Gaillardins
Gardeners showcase a lush home plot with vegetables and flowers
The residence of A Forester features a well kept yard with a thriving vegetable patch including turnips beets lettuce and strawberries. Long rows of squash peas tomatoes beans cabbage and peppers sit beside a rich flower bed with dahlias gladioli marigold cosmos and various annuals. A woodbine arch and climbing roses accent the lush border.
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A. Forester
Miss Edna Pieper Requests Change of Address
Edna Pieper of Oskaloosa Iowa writes to the editor asking that her record be sent to Lacey Iowa instead of Oskaloosa. She notes frequent address changes and weekend visits with her sister at Lacey, asks to avoid bother, and mentions recovering from torsilitis while hoping to return to Anita sometime.
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Edna Pieper
Penn College
Oskaloosa
Lacey
Iowa
Anita
Local Station KFLZ Boosts Power to 250 Watts
Broadcasting station KFLZ at Walnut Grove Iowa increases power from 100 to 250 watts enabling wider reach. Improvements and future plans aim to place KFLZ among leading small-town stations nationwide and on par with larger outlets.
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KFLZ
Walnut Grove Hog Remedy Company
Anita
Iowa
Walnut couple visit old friends in city
Mr and Mrs D R Dondhoe of Walnut, formerly from Anite, greet friends and neighbors in town Tuesday. Bert and Deek Dondhoe now run a cafe in Walnut and seem to enjoy a hopeful measure of happiness and prosperity.
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Billy” Penohoe
Walnut
D. R. Dondhoe
Anite
Bert
Deek
Awn Ané
Avi
Also Mentioned on This Page
Brookfield Butter
Margerine
S. A. Rose
W. A. Linfor
Dexter
James Brown
John Dull
Anita Drug CO
George Scholl
Jane
Crow
John Dill
Wayne Sisler
Chas. Marshall
Wagner
Herbert Bartley
DeMent Motor Company
Anita Drag CO
G. M. DeCarmo
James Morgan
John W. Berry
J. A. Wagner
Ames
Ernest
Byron
Iowa State College
Guthrie Center
Roscoe Wagner
Clinton
Gertrude Christianson
Wm. Richter
Wiota
Christianson
Fauna Suplee
Des Moines Daily Capital
Anita Record
L. E. Bruce
H. G. Highley
J. Decker
Corning
A. M. Mikkelsen
Lincoln Township
Herman Baier
Harry E. Fickel
Oscar
Alvin Ostrus
Capitol City
Goodwin
Henry Robson
Helen Shepherd
Greenfield
City
Mrs. L. B. Trumbull
Isaac Brown, Jr
Berea
Dora Rupperle
Ruby Weaver
Louise Pletcher
Audubon
Edna Robison
Sherm F. Myers
Bessie Myers Lowell
Sherman
Atlantic
Jeand Opera
Plan Id Fiddlers
Omaha
Atlantic, Iowa
Miller’s Meat Market
Sherm
Iowa Electric Company
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