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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1920
Page
4
At Holmes' Lumber Yard 201f Century Three Post notes buyers remain eager to paint despite lofty lead oil and prepared paint prices, driven by homeowner pride and project plans.
Miss Laura Anderson served as caller at the Record office on Tuesday. Several children were baptized at the M. E. Church Sunday morning. James Seamon visited Des Moines last week and stayed with his ailing mother who is improving. Matthew Donohue, recently escaped from Ottawa Illinois, requested the Record be sent to his address for a year for Miss Nella Farrell. Elmer L. Wagner of Ruthven Iowa spent Sunday in Anita with his sister in law Mrs Roy E. Saunders, en route to Nevada Missouri after visiting his mother who has been ill for years. Grandma Petit is nearly ninety.
Gerald Kirkwood of Anita and Missee Dittman of Atlantic wed in a Sunday ceremony at the Methodist parsonage parlor with Rev. N. Paul Barton officiating. Witnesses were Kenneth Rowly and Doris L. Jobes of Atlantic. The couple plans to farm three miles southeast of Anita.
Miss Nella Farrell daughter of Mr and Mrs Hugh Farrell wed Matthew Donohue of Ottawa Illinois at Saint Johns Adair Iowa June 8 1820 officiated by Rev F J Mullen. Attendants Miss Mae Kelley and Joseph Donohue. They planned a short honeymoon then home to Ottawa Illinois after June 20.
F J Cihak and family visited Joe Vuais on Sunday. Two Kuehn sisters plan July 1 travel to Indiana. Wilbert Clifford Smith graduates from Iowa State College in Ames in mechanical engineering. Other county grads include Harry Schultz and Warren Nelson. Irene Conway graduates from St Joseph Academy in Des Moines. Atlantic struggles to fund weekly band concerts, while Anita reports a surplus to cover expenses.
Joseph Vais is hauling material for a new barn on his farm north of Anita. Miss Jessie Talbott, last year’s worker in the consolidated schools at Rhoads Iowa, is at home for the summer. Mrs. T J Monnig and her mother Mrs P S Green were in Des Moines for the St Joseph’s Academy commencement where their sister Miss Genevieve Green graduated.
On the way to Des Moines last week Eby Smith son of Mr and Mrs Jule B Smith was taken ill at Dexter and removed from the train. A local physician diagnosed a slight appendicitis and he was relieved after hours of treatment. W T Stingle and children of Omaha spent last week in Anita area visiting relatives and friends. Tom has a permanent position at a good salary and since Mrs Stingle’s death has kept the children together except the eldest who is with Wilbur Jemmings and wife nearby.
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