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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1917
Page
4
Friday and weekend social notes report many RF Parmley Carroll Roe and others visiting the Record office. A Rexall Store cent sale draws attention with food products and promotions. Local farm activity includes hog shipments sheep feeding and husking progress plus travel to Atlantic and Omaha. Community events cover church social, funerals, Sunday school, and Y M C A fundraising, with rail service updates for Rock Island lines.
R W Calkins from Hot Springs South Dakota asks to change his Copy of the Record from Nemo to Hot Springs. He sends regards to any enquiring friends and signs as B M S.
The First M. E. Church notes special Sunday morning service and standard services otherwise. The Ladies Aid Society will host a Thanks offering at Mrs. Lee Nichols’s home this Friday afternoon with invites extended. Thanksgiving services are set for Wednesday evening November 28 with Rev. Hendricks delivering the sermon. Abe Biggs visited the Record office Monday. The note also mentions buying soft corn.
Anita resident and Neal Institutes Company head Jas. J. Bruce issues an official call for Army and Navy boys from Anita and nearby areas stationed near Chicago to join a Thanksgiving turkey dinner at his Chicago home. He asks for advance notice and proper addresses to forward invitations.
The Helping Hand Club met November 7 at Mrs. F O Worthing's home with husbands invited for the annual banquet. Members and guests attended. two long-serving members were honored. The group announced nine club families have sent sons to serve in the U S Army and Navy, with several members now in training or abroad. The evening featured a two-course dinner and a review of the club's work since its founding, ending with the Nation’s hymn. One member was absent, Mrs Louis Anderson, wintering in California.
Officers of the Bohemian Club were elected: Dr. L. R. Eller president, T. F. Dement vice president, Wm. Bear treasurer, C. P. Richards secretary, Ernie Burke trustee. At the first meeting members voted to buy a fifty dollar Liberty Bond by pooling funds. Harley Miller, son of Willard Miller, arrived for a visit and has enlisted in the army in Minnesota. C. L. Peterson and family visited Anita and plan to Washington, D. C. Mrs. Mina Petite was guest at Clair Sweney’s birthday dinner. a telegram noted a son’s hospital operation and selective examination, with exemption due to disability.
Reverend J F Davis sends greetings from Churdan noting two Weston boys in Company A 168th Infantry and stationed at Camp Mills Hempstead. Des Moines plans Thanksgiving with Dr R A Weston family. Anita installs a cement crosswalk at D A Weatherby corner funded by residents and town. Local volunteers Godfrey Miller Peter Biggs Simon Neilson W T Parker Man Wilburn Henry Lees Fred Weatherby L N Smith contributed.
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