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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1914
Page
8
Floyd Dement and Roscoe Turner accompanied Arthur Martin to Omaha this week and sold him an Abbott Detroit six passenger car for 1950 dollars. It is described as one of the finest in this region.
A letter from Sam Cooper, who with Mother Cooper holds a claim in Wyoming, will appear in the Record next week.
Mrs. Mabel Worth Gaylord of California visited the city Sunday with FE C Worthing and wife and spent the day with the Worthing families. Friends in Anita are glad to hear she has fully recovered her former good health after a period of failing health.
A rural village minister quits in a dramatic final address accusing parishioners of indifference. He laments lack of deaths, marriages, and salary, brands donations as mouldy fruit, and declares he is chosen as penitentiary chaplain. He ends with a biblical blessing and farewell般.
G W Boatright completed thirty one years as station agent at Stuart on the Iowa division for the Rock Island Railroad. He began at Van Meter around 31 years ago and also served Anita before moving to Stuart in 1897 where he has remained.
With the Odd Fellows celebration and the Chautauqua and Old Soldiers reunion, Anita will stay actively involved in entertainment duties and avoid organizing a separate Fourth of July celebration.
The Des Moines Masonic grand lodge week gathering drew its largest attendance in years with many visitors and delegates. Grace Blood returned from Massena to Anita visiting her parents, W J Weston and wife, with Mrs Bessie Parkinson. A light humorous note from the New York Press on pants and social norms closes the item.
A set of keys is missing and should be returned to the RECORD office for a reward. No details on keys or owner are provided.
A Stuart News item argues farmers lose value by selling hogs and buying cured meat. It recounts a farmer who sold twenty hogs for 8.10 per hundred, bought ham at 20 cents a pound, and suggests killing, curing, and smoking hogs locally to avoid rail, commission, and freight costs. It cites a Christmas example: 550 pounds yielded four hams four shoulders four bacon pieces fifty pounds lard and forty one pounds sausage.
A reflective essay urges Chicago readers to value the church as vital to social life and personal renewal. It contrasts church with fraternal groups, argues the church’s unique spiritual power, and pleads for active support, urging time talent and treasure for its continued witness.
Albert Miller insists the cane is a medical necessity not a fashion or pension aid. He describes a persistent back stitch that has nearly floored him, making mobility difficult and raising concerns about treatment.
Victor Hastey and his bride formerly Miss Lucy Miller daughter of Chas Miller a well known traveling man are spending a few days in the city as guests of Val Wiegand and family.
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