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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1914
Page
5
A collection of small town notices includes a spring and fall piano tuning reminder by R. C. Rasmussen, contact details, and local classifieds for a mare for sale. It also notes U. S. Walker buying a new auto, promises woven wire fence sales, and visits by residents Mrs H. E. Boatright and daughters Anna May and Virginia Des Moines.
Seed corn for sale lists White and Yellow Dent seed corn with quantity 221. D. Aldrich is noted. A. Thompson and wife have ordered the RECORD for one year to their daughter Juanita Lowe in St. Joseph Missouri.
Advertises Harding's ice cream as best and sold at two large Omaha drug stores and by Clyde H Bowen of Anita. Cooper Hat Shop offers a one third price reduction on Ladies Misses and Children's hats for Thursday Friday and Saturday this week.
A Firestone casing is missing on Lincoln Center road. The finder should return it to Dr. G. H. Parchen in Anita, Iona, and will receive a reward. Ed Bell, long ill with pneumonia and twice operated on for relief, is reported much better after weeks of illness.
A local advertisement notes piano tuner R. RassMUSSEN on Main Street Anita offering tuning after Saturday events and a separate claim by J A Irving selling woven wire fences at reasonable prices urging customers to call before ordering. The piece evokes a festive crowd scene and business promotions.
Town of Anita Iowa orders removal of manure garbage waste and rubbish from all premises streets and alleys and disposal as required by law. Premises must be kept clean and sanitary to meet State Board of Health regulations. By order of Town Council Mayor George Scholl.
A compilation of local items lists people visiting and traveling to Des Moines Atlantic and Chicago. Mentions include Irwin W Joy selling cattle. J B Timmons, F O Naylor, W Cox, Miss Matilda Simon, J L Stalcup, W G Wilson, J H Hill, W A Bailey, Miss Harriet Dilts, H Storer, Mrs L B Pray, C D Robinson, Ira Soper, Mrs C A Thompson, R C Rasmussen, Augusta Simon, Mayor George Scholl building a barn, Godfrey Miller, Miss Helen Henery, Fred Townsend, Mrs John Hall, W W Eller recovering from injury, and local business ads and notices including memorial flowers and varnish sales. Also mentions a missing keys notice and various community events and illnesses. Several names tied to Atlantic and Anita appear.
Mrs. Daisy Hall Bringoff and her son Billy from Denver arrive in Anita to spend the summer with Dr. Wick Fish and family and Grandma Reynolds.
L Eby and wife and J M Trumbar wade of Adair visited L B Trumbull and family Sunday. Tuner R C Rasmussen advertises cleaning and tuning services. Saunders and family took a Corning day trip in the Saunders car, visiting Milo Brink. Arthur Hansen, with Nickle Plate R R, returned from Arizona and stayed with Andrew Hansen and wife before heading to Des Moines.
Ellen Johnson reports eight brood sows on her farm one mile northwest of Anita. Six sows already have forty two pigs, while two are due to farrow soon.
The Cedar Rapids Oil Company asks for all gas and oil drums to be returned as soon as empty to meet demand for shipments. Agent Geo. H. Stotts notes the company needs every empty drum.
Notice to settle accounts after disposing of restaurant business to J. E. Jewett. Call at earliest convenience to square books and settle all amounts owed. Thanks for patronage. 18-31. F. W. STAGER.
Mayor Scholl announces that Ordinance No 31 (63) on speed limits for automobiles and motorcycles within Anita will be strictly enforced. Drivers must observe the ordinance to avoid penalties and ensure front and rear lights are maintained and used correctly.
Mrs. T. E. Carey spends a few days this week with the Carey families in Anita and also visits her father H. Elliott of Lincoln township.
Stephen A Douglas becomes manager of the Alamito Sanitary Dairy Company in Anita. Victor Gearheart is transferred to Exiva.
Walter F Wise will lead the Christian Endeavor meeting next Sunday evening with the topic The theide Meaning of Recent Events. The Junior Endeavor meets Saturday at 3 00 P M. No church preaching due to union services at Congregational and M E churches next Sunday. Pastor H H King elected delegate to the K S of M EF Convention in Marshalltown June 11.
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