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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1913
Page
1
Anita promotes The Great White Way from Davenport to Omaha describing it as the best road across Iowa and urging travelers to use the White Pole Route for speed and scenic travel.
The Eleventh annual meeting of the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Des Moines Conference Atlantic District will be held at the M EF church in Dexter Iowa on April 4 to 6 1913. The program lists devotions reports installation and various talks and musical items with leaders from Dexter Des Moines Perry Anita Casey Portland and Jackson including Mrs W C Smith Rev I M O Flyn and Mrs C L Weaver among others.
Revival and benefiction notices for the Atlantic District Women’s Home Missionary Society invite pastors and visitors to sessions. Reports requested from Auxiliaries Queen Esther Home Guard and Jewels Band. News on local residents Margaret Anderson and others, plus brief anecdotes from Anita and Cumberland Enterprise about King Solomon and Arkansas assault case.
A list of department secretaries and volunteer leaders including Mrs. F. B. Perry Anita Mrs. J. H. Friedline Audubon Mrs. M. F. Bryan Stuart Mrs. Eva L. Brown Harlan Supplies Mrs. F. HH. Townsend Atlantic Temperance Miss Mary M. Varley Casey Systematic Beneficence Mrs. Weg ner Casey.
A playful school composition is shared, plus a Des Moines Register item noting F. H. Sears long service as Anita leader. Horace Van Slyke visits from Westphalia amid family illness, with mentions of his former farm and son-in-law Dr. C L Simmons.
SAY, MR. FARMER. We pay three cents more per pound for butter fat than any other buyers. Bring us your product. Alamito Sanitary Dairy Co. 10 1. J. B. Beveridge, Local Mgr.
The Illinois legislature investigates big Chicago stores over suspected low wages for women workers and reports many earn only eight dollars weekly. It highlights seven million dollars in profits by a major mail order firm and questions Iowa customers and local impact versus foreign competitors.
Will Templeman and wife from near Anita spent several days visiting Mr. and Mrs. Albert Heyn in this city. They traveled to Fontanelle Tuesday evening to see Templeman's parents and planned to return to Anita afterward. Cochran reports a son ill with measles complications.
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