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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1914
Page
5
Local items include additions to E G Allanson’s South Anita home, a May Library Benefit at M E Church with 35 cent admission, and Drake students supporting library funds. Miscellany covers visitors, plant sales, fence ads, musical tuners, and multiple small notices about sales, services, and local personalities.
Important notice to owners and occupants within Anita Iowa to remove all manure garbage waste and rubbish now on premises or streets alleys and keep areas clean and sanitary per state health regulations. Mayor George Scholl and Clerk J C Jenkins oversee enforcement. Also local ads on seed corn windmill water works piano tuning teacher applications bank move wallpaper and resident relocations.
L C Daughenbaugh declares wife Helen R Daughenbaugh has left and will not be responsible for any debts after April 20 114 17 41. Mountain and Ruth Mountain attend funeral of Mrs D A Nichols in West Liberty noting Nichols long Cumberland ties and West Liberty move.
Advertisement for A. D. Dean offering grading sod and lot improvement services at Evergreen Cemetery. Encourages prompt orders to finish before Memorial Day with satisfaction guaranteed or no pay. Includes contact via write or phone and a local phone number.
The Board of Education met Monday night and again deferred any action to elect teachers for remaining vacancies. The report notes Abe Goodpasture is seriously ill with lung trouble following influenza, under the care of Dr. V. Beaver.
J H Trimmer visited Murray and Osceola for business and family. Gwendolyn Taylor ends a successful term in Simmons district and will teach next term. Mrs E Crawford of Canton Illinois rushed to Omaha for ill daughter. Families attend a social in Atlantic for Grandma Petit's Sith birthday. Mrs W L Overman plans to move to Washington state. Merle Taylor to teach seventh grade in Shenandoah with a raise. Katie Scarlett Morrow returns from Omaha to prepare to ship to Anita. Delegates from Anita attend Woman's Home Missionary Society district meeting in Harlan.
KE. S. Smith, once Mas Sena mayor, runs for sheriff as Bull Moose candidate after filing papers to switch from Democratic to Bull Moose. He completed the party affiliation change with the appropriate authority.
Guthrie Center voters approved 35 000 bonds for a new high school building. Miss Mary Snook, Adair teacher, was a Sunday guest of Rev. and Mrs. H. Wilkins. Ernest Tharnish, now in Memphis, returned for his father’s funeral. The F B B Perry bungalow foundation is ready for raising. RASMUSSEN the Tuner offers piano cleaning and tuning services.
Miss Nina McElfresh of Walnut visited her uncle and aunt Jesse and Deora McElfresh last week. G. H. Stoftis sold his express wagon horse and plans to buy another horse or a fresh team. Miss Clara Talbott returned home Saturday after an appendectomy in Des Moines performed two weeks earlier.
Mrs N Burkhart entertained the Happy Hooligans on Wednesday and their Hungry Hounds were allowed to partake at feedin time.
Be Block of Omaha visited the city Thursday to advance old line life insurance in which he has worked for many years with merit. Miss Averil Faulkner, once from Anita, aided by Drake University students, will present a vocal and instrumental concert at the M F B Church on Friday May 5 for the Library benefit.
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