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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1920
Page
5
Classified lines list items for sale including a ten-twenty Titan and a three-bottom plow with inquiry at RECORD office. Local moves note Wm R Johnson family leaving Wiota for Cambridge Iowa. Hats sold at 75 cents and voile discounts offered by The Racket. Church services report overflow as District Superintendent W B Tally spoke.
An Anita area notices item lists shoe treatment shop T. Smith & Son and a shoe shiner sale. It notes social visits by residents Nelse L Larson, Chas Faulkner, Mrs Alfred Bailey, Mrs Josephine Halliday, and others. Also reports hardware deliveries, a new concrete bridge construction near Anita, a trip for voice lessons, an injury from an electric washer accident, and a sheriff arrest for bootlegging with mentions of enforcement.
Safety deposit boxes are advertised for rent at Citizens Savings Bank. The notice also lists local residents visiting relatives and graduating students from Iowa State College and St Joseph's Academy. Atlantic faces band funding shortfalls threatening weekly concerts, while Anita reports a surplus in expenses.
Miss Anna Johnson returns as day operator for the Rural Telephone Company replacing Mrs Goldie Williams who resigns and will move to Texas. Stager and Larson return from lakeside cottage renovations and visit. Mrs Peter A Smith travels to Illinois after sister Mrs Dennis dies from operation on her birthday. Dr Campbell and Dr Maynard operate on Mrs Rodgers tumor with Mrs Houston nursing. Rodgers recovering well. Elder J B Corbitt of Cumberland visits the editor with local tidbits and health praise. Chas H Bartley and family plan auto trip to Minneapolis then Colorado visits before harvest.
A Peter F. Anderson family reunion and picnic near Oakfield drew Branches of the Anderson clan including Hank Johnson, Harve Delaheyde, Chet Caldwell and others in a festive gathering. Mabel Corlett Gill and her Colorado Springs daughter visited Anita and surrounding areas, sharing memories with long‑gone ties as families dispersed across the country.
Miss Anna May and Miss Virginia Boatright of Tabor IoWa spend the week in Anita and nearby areas visiting relatives and friends. Anna May recently completed her first year as an instructor at a Berea College program for young ladies in Kentucky.
Chas. H. Bartley and wife were informed by the War Department in Washington that the body of their son Oscar Bartley killed in France during World War I will be brought to the United States sometime in September.
Mrs Eva Suplee returned from Linden Iowa where she visited her sister and relatives. Miss Freida Aldrich of Des Moines is visiting Anita with her parents Mr and Mrs Chas A Thompson and Mr and Mrs Jno H Aldrich. Mrs Clyde Yount of Atlantic formerly Miss Elsie Couchman spent Monday in Anita visiting Mrs C H McDermott and friends.
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