Man Found Dead in Burned Car Near Wiota
The charred body of Nels A. Anderson was found in a burning Oldsmobile touring car east of Wiota. Sheriff McKee and Coroner Roland investigated. initial theory suggests a sudden illness or heart attack caused the crash or fire. Anderson, former mayor of Farragut, lived in Des Moines and had ties to Farragut and Whiting Iowa. Funeral services were held in Farragut Friday.
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Nels A. Anderson
Cottage Grove Avenue
Des Moines
Wiota
Milford Mailander
Frank Mailander
Whiteway 7
Mailander
W. A. McKee
Burdette Roland
McKee
Anderson
Farragut
F. P. Anderson
Whiting
Iowa
H. P. Anderson
Myrtle Anderson
Los Angeles
Atlantic News-Telegraph
Nebe Family Guests Of Mrs Hook In Atlantic
F M Nebe and family of Atlantic were Tuesday night guests of Mrs Walter Hook and her daughter Miss Vera.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. M. Nebe
Atlantic
Walter Hook
Vera
Furst Party Makes An Anita Stop While Returning to Pennsylvania
Henry Furst of Fremont Nebraska travels with wife and five children stopping in Anita last Friday on route to Pennsylvania for a belated honeymoon visit with relatives. Furst recalls early Anita days during the building boom when he helped erect the Masonic Temple and other brick structures. Now a farm owner near Fremont, he supervises his property while residing in town and jokes about life on Easy Street with his wife and large family.
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Henry Furst
Fremont
Nebraska
Anita
Pennsylvanria
Henry
Furst
Mr. Furst
Masonic Temple
Civil War Vet John C. Kelley Ill at Anita Home
John C. Kelley, Civil War veteran, has been seriously ill with strangulated hernia. Doctor H. E. Campbell reports slow improvement as family members and in-laws assist at the Kelley home. A planned family dinner for Father and Mother Kelley was canceled and held at Anita with guests Uncle Ham Campbell and Wesley Miller.
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John C. Kelley
H. E. Campbell
Father
Mother Kelley
Anita
Mr. Kelley
Ham Campbell
Wesley Miller
Town Picnic in Long Beach Links with National Postmasters Meet
Harry Cate notes the Town Picnic will be in Long Beach California on August 8, same day as the National Postmasters Convention. He plans a combined Iowa Day feel, jokes about heat in Pasadena, and assures Los Angeles lies outside the quake zone. Clarence W Bruce and sisters visited Harry, praising California and Iowa loyalties.
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Harry Cate
Long Beach
California
National Postmasters
Harry
Iowa
Pasadena
Canada
Los Angeles
Mother Earth
St. Vitus
Santa Barbara
United States
League of Nations
Clarence W. Bruce
Anita Boy
Tampa
Florida
Anita Bruce Consigny
Edna Bruce
Report on South Dakota crops and local events
Ernest A. Stone and wife of Andover South Dakota spend a week in Anita with A B Stone and family. They attended the marriage of Miss Bernice Stone and Paul Hubbard at the bride’s parents home. Stone, a banker in Andover, says all lines of business are strong and crop prospects look unprecedented and profitable despite national inflation.
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Ernest A. Stone
Andover
South Dakota
Anita
A. B. Stone
Bernice Stone
Paul Hubard
The Menace of the Dance to Iowa Girls
Mrs Elizabeth Caldwell Salvation Army Rescue Home superintendent in Des Moines says the modern dance hall with jazz bands and liquor poses the greatest danger to young Iowa women Two thirds of the girls who come to the home as unmarried mothers blame the dance hall for their downfall Spring and summer dances are the most dangerous house dances often loosely chaperoned breed sad cases from good homes The home cared for more than a hundred Iowa girls last year
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Elizabeth Caldwell
Salvation Army Rescue Home
Des Moines
Salvation Army
Mrs. Caldwell
Salvation Army Rescue Homes
Sister of Anita Shaffer Passes in Lohrville Iowa
Mrs. Ernest Hulett of Lohrville Iowa died shortly after relatives arrived to care for her. Sarah Alice Shaffer born November 10 1845 in Indiana married Ernest Hulett in 1886 and lived in Lohrville until her death July 22 1925 at age 70. Surviving brothers are A S Shaffer Columbus and Oliver W Shaffer Anita. Funeral at Lohrville Methodist Church with burial in Lohrville cemetery.
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O. W. Shaffer
Anita
Lohrville
Iowa
A.S. Shaffer
Columbus
Oliver W. Shaffer
Methodist Church
Old-Timers Return to Anita Ed Wheeler and Wife Move In
Old timers Wheeler and wife have moved to Anita after selling their Maine mercantile business. Mrs Wheeler is Jessie Pratt Walker daughter of Mr and Mrs W D Pratt. They will soon occupy their new home and be welcomed by old friends in the city.
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Anita
Ed. Wheeler
Maine
Mrs. Wheeler
Jessie Pratt Walker
W. D. Pratt
Watson C. Trego
Wm. M. Petit
North Anita
Nine tieth birthday celebration for Uncle Watson C. Trego
A North Anita gathering honored Watson C. Trego on his 90th birthday with relatives from Anita and surrounding towns attending. G.A.R. members paid respects. Born July 23, 1835 in Bucks County, PA, he served in the 102nd Illinois Volunteer Infantry and spent his later years in Anita after living in Union Township and Cumberland.
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Mr. Trego
Cass County
Union Township
Cumberland
Anita
Beware of the Ditch on New Grade West of Town
Motorists warned about driving near the edge of the new Whiteway 7 grade between Anita and Viota. A large touring car nearly fell into a ditch Wednesday and was pulled back to safety by passing motorists. The road remains unready for speeding and cautions drivers to stay center.
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Anita
Viota
Helping Hand Club Meets For Quilting At Mrs Schwenke’s
Mrs Frank Schwenke hosted the Helping Hand Club at her home Thursday. Twelve members attended along with visiting ladies and children. A luncheon followed the business meeting, and the next gathering is set for August 6 at Mrs L A Chaney’s home.
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Frank Schwenke
Mesdames Leah Mehlman
Grace Eblen
E. B. Luman
Lelia Darrow
Merle Soper
Rednard Mildred King
Louise Pletcher
Popular Young Couple Wed Here Last Week
A large Anita Farm Bureau meeting was held July 22 at the home of Mr and Mrs Hughes Stone in southeast Anita. Miss Marie Wise played piano, readings by Miss Anna Belle Wise and Mrs F H Osen, Cass County Farm Bureau Quartet performed, J B Cecil spoke on egg shipping, Mrs Earl S Holton read, and Agent Sorden showed pictures. Cake and lemonade followed. The next meeting will be at the home of Mr and Mrs J B Cecil northeast of Anita, with monthly meetings on the fourth Wednesday.
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Farm Bureau
Hughes Stone
Anita
Marie Wise
Anna Belle Wise
F. H. Osen
Cass County Farm Bureau Quartette
J. B. Cecil
Earl S. Holton
Sorden
Bernice Glyde Stone
Paul Myron Hubbard
Adair
A. B. Stone
Doris Hubbard
Rev. Cutler
Stuart
Lillian Woodard
Iowa City
H. O. Stone
Praeludium
Arne Oldberg
Louise Trumbull
Marion Dougherty
Arline Fish
Hubard
Doris
Junior Hubbard
Ernest R. Stone
Andover
South Dakota
Floyd Woodard
Lillian
Returns After Forty Years At Anita And Wiota
Chas. Sanderson and wife of Bovl Idaho visit Anita and Wiota guests of Mrs. Sanderson’s parents Mr. and Mrs. White and relatives L. D. White and Genia Henderson. Once lived in Anita forty years ago while Sanderson worked for Gates, later moved to the Pacific coast then Idaho oil business. Their son in law and daughter Robert Chambers and wife also reside in Bovl.
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Chas. Sanderson
Bovil
Idaho
Anita
Wiota
Sandersons
Pacific Coast
Sanderson
New York State
Horace Greeley
Whiteway-7 Opens Between Anita and Wiota
The Whiteway-7 highway between Anita and Wiota is completed and open to traffic as the new grade is pounded down by heavy travel. Drivers are warned not to speed while the road conditions are still fresh and variable.
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Anita
Wiota
Former Resident Ill in Hastings at Age 76
Asher T. Turner once of Anita is reported seriously ill in Hastings Nebraska at seventy six with little prospect of recovery. His daughter Mrs. Chas Workman has recently returned from the Turner home in Hastings.
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Asher T. Turner
Anita
Hastings
Nebraska
Chas. Workman
Turner
Showing Friends Good Time
Roy Culver his wife and three children of Bosworth Missouri visited near neighbors J F Scarlett and wife. The Culvers, friends of the Scarlett family, are en route to northern Minnesota to spend a few weeks at noted fishing pools.
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Roy Culver
Bosworth
Missouri
J. F. Scarlett
Scarlett
Iowa Poultry for Market in Frigid Anita Plant
At this season of the year when temperatures soar to 100 to 104 degrees a visit to the Anita Produce Company cold storage reveals a car load of frozen dressed poultry ready for shipment in refrigerator cars to New York.
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Anita Produce Company
New York City
Dana F. Brownlee Visits Adair on Tuesday
Dana F. Brownlee, a business visitor, spent Tuesday in Adair engaging in meetings and local inquiries. He toured principal firms and discussed potential collaborations with area executives.
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Dana F. Brownlee
Adair
Why Tell Fish Stories When This Variety is Now in Stock
The Record editor, settled in a dusty armchair, finds his editorial cigar abandoned as the melting pot fails to light. Under Azel Ames’s absent mindedness the metal flows on its own, turning out slugs as usual while Sherm reports Anita’s weather as the hottest in years.
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Linotype
Azel Ames
Sherm
Ames
Anita
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Lidings
Hall
Anita Man
Cass Co
Wm. Kreamer
Chas. E. Lang
Wm. Spies
J. R. Trego
Geo. Spies
Chas. E. Studley
Hillary
Anna Studley
Bert Petit
van Wert
Troy Comley
Casey
W. M. Petit
Wm. H. McIntyre
Bucks County
Pennsylvania
Mercer County
Illinois
102Nd
Illinois Volunteers
Elizabeth K. Wilkins
Watson Trego
the Helping Hand Club
Grant Farm Bureau
Whiteway
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