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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1928
Page
8
Robert Scott and wife Mrs. Peter Beott Sr and daughter Miss Euglce spent Sunday in Atlantic with natives and friends. Mrs. G M Adair spent Friday and Saturday in Atlantic as guest of her sisters Mrs F W Herbert and Mrs H G Dacken.
A movement among former Anita residents in Stuart aims to form an Anita Society Circle in town to preserve community ties and honor their shared heritage.
Mary Walter from Huntington Park California died February 28 after a brief illness. Her body was taken to Jonesboro Illinois for burial. The final hardware fixture sale from the L A Gather building was shipped to Avoca by the Old Fellows lodge trustees. F C Cotton of Shenandoah Iowa, a former Anita resident, visited town. A shift in industrial sentiment favors delaying new garden projects until March. C J Nordman of Stuart, long a Wiota area resident, spent days in the county for business and visiting friends. A donation of fresh beef from Mr and Mrs Wayne Sisler supported the editor and family. The Greater Anita Clan will meet Friday evening for a banquet and town matters will be discussed.
The Birge Valley Creamery Institute reports farming remains highly profitable, with dairying leading agriculture in profits through 1928. Improvements in feeding, weighing cows, and sanitation boost production per cow, stabilize profits, and push winter butter output higher, while prices stay above feed costs.
Mrs W. T. Stingle writes from Council Bluffs to Sherm about family updates. She lists children Ruby in Chicago with a husband at Illinois Bell, Neil in Navy training in Virginia, Fred aboard the Colorado and travels to San Pedro and Bremerton, Phillip at home helping, and mentions a Giant Manufacturing Co. plant and its New Jersey branch shipping pipe-pushers worldwide. She notes a decade in Council Bluffs and invites Sherm to visit.
A brief community letter from C P Lattig to the Record sender encloses a payment and reports the Anita neighborhood as well and prospering. He extends best regards to the Record family and old friends.
In the Independent district of Anita last Monday a single ticket elected Floyd DeMent to a three year term as a school member, succeeding Clyde H. Bowen who did not run, while Harry C. Faulkner was reelected Treasurer without opposition. The J W Dougherty stock of wallpaper paints and stoves is being disposed of to settle the estate. Chas J Wood and family, former Anita residents now in Nevada Missouri, plan a move to California soon and may settle there permanently if conditions suit.
A fifty-strong group from the neighborhood Ladies' Aid Society gathered at Mrs. Lillian Garside Highley’s home on March 8 to honor bride Miss Ruby Weaver, now Mrs Edwin J. Garside. They stitched quilt blocks, offered marriage advice, and enjoyed sandwiches ice cream cake and coffee while presenting gifts.
We thank neighbors and friends for kindness and sympathy after our bereavement and for the flowers. Belle Dougherty and children. Obedience Lodge No. 380 A F and M held a large meeting with first degree work and refreshments after. A special lodge meeting is set for Tuesday evening March 27.
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