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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1917
Page
5
Ad warns of cold air and promotes warm underwear for runners. It markets boys and girls fleece union suits ribbed yarn 75 to 98 cents, ladies white long or short sleeve and sleeveless at $1.45, men’s fleece grey or matted unions $1.45 to $1.75.
Local shop offers in stock home made comforts crafted by the Christian Aid Society ladies. White cotton cot ton items priced at 3.75 with underselling on staples including Percales Ginghams Cotton Batts Blankets Aprons Turkish Towels Hosiery and Sweaters.
Mason Linderman shipped in 350 head of lambs from Omaha last week. Potatoes arriving later this week. place orders now. Printer notices indicate local meat market and produce ads detailing goods and prices.
Anita L A Schoonover operates as a chiropractor in Anita Iowa located in the Anita Bank Building. Office hours run daily from 9 00 A M to 12 00 M with phone contact 256.
Local residents undertake daily tasks and plans. Notable items include Mrs. Mother Weatherby confined with rheumatism, County Attorney Tom C. Whitmore in city for official business, and families planning holidays in Sioux Falls. Property changes involve J. C. Lightfoot and family moving to east Anita. Hog shipments from Chas. L. Wilson and Avery Wallace reach Omaha market. Potatoes sold at $1.50 per bushel.
The Anita and Grant townships organize to raise funds for the Army Y M C A. Ed L Newton chairs with N W Way and B B Forshay as vice chairs. Soliciting committees list S W Clark, Jankins, H H Cate, H L Bell, F Myers, Ches Scholl and school district delegates led by Cecil, Barber, Wheatley, Hosfield, McDermott, Linderman, Wahlert, Worthing, and J D Peterson for the Anita Independent District.
Financial report for Anita Red Cross Branch period ending November 1 117 shows total receipts 1660.23 from membership fees gifts and benefits and Cass County Chapter returns. Disbursements include Red Cross room expenses 117.01 Cass County Chapter dues remitted 600 and materials purchased 535.72.
Ladies' Aid holds an all day session at the church and a December 1 bazaar date is urged. Bible School and Christian Endeavor meet Sunday with Emma Wagner leading Senior Endeavor. Pastor plans sermons on doubt and hindering angels. Local notices span health, charity, and civic items including Red Cross nursing, Liberty Bond support, village business changes, and a community literary society update.
Miss Mabel Robison attended a funeral in Des Moines for a friend who recently stayed weeks at the Robison farm southwest of Anita. Mrs. Cora Cochran has returned from Colorado and stays with daughter Mrs. Viola Hansen near Frayton. Dennis of Standard Oil reports busy deliveries of gasoline and oils to farmers extending from Anita, maintaining steady work in new territory.
Mrs. J F Robinson baled a twenty three ton straw stack and sold it at a good price. Audubon township organized an Army Y M C A Fund subscription chaired by Wm F Kirkham with Frank Tielen secretary and Chas Bahme treasurer. School district solicitors were named by district and quota set at 300 dollars oversubscribed by about 100 dollars.
The Ladies of the Christian church invite the public to a Bazaar and Chicken Dinner in the church basement on Saturday November 24. A JC Trimmer and wife spent last week with relatives near Grant Iowa.
A shipment of oil meal and bran is planned to be delivered by Anita Roller Mills on track for next week. The notice indicates a car load shipment in transit with company name and commodity details.
Turner offers a Thanksgiving dinner supply with ducks, geese, or turkeys available dressed or alive. Orders should be placed early. Miss Hattie Naylor has been under care of Dr H J Campbell and Dr GM Adair. A boy was born November 16 to Mr and Mrs Clarence Mathies, and another boy born November 4 to Mr and Mrs Marl Lewis.
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