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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1925
Page
4
Public record line shows second class mail matter status dated January 2 1913 at Anita Iowa under act of March 3 1879 with contact phones obscured in OCR.
The piece surveys tax policy prospects and war finance, notes radio adoption among farms, advises seed corn selection, and comments on labor wages, protectionism, and U S policy toward international engagement. It cites exports to Japan and broader manufacturing gains, reflecting a 1920s open commerce context.
The Iowa Industrial News Bureau reports better farm conditions nationwide with the west of the Mississippi and north of San Francisco singled out as heavily agricultural. Banks note stabilized farming activity postwar, rising land inquiries, and healthier prices boosting agriculture though many farmers overspend. caution urged before investments.
Iowa boys and girls guided by John A Day and county agents demonstrated systematic feeding care and pluck to produce top baby beeves at the Iowa State Fair. Three hundred fifty beeves sold to eight packers with forty eight shipped to New York City and one hundred fifty five to Iowa packers. Total sale reached 48607.55 dollars, average 14.50 per hundred pounds, about five dollars above last year.
The clipping notes umpires toil on Labor Day, recalls silk stocking votes as a handicap, mentions an anarchist found in Florida facing limited freedom, and suggests 150000 striking anthracite miners enjoying a holiday while reducing a national gasoline surplus.
A noisy claim suggests native girls in Africa crave more clothing as a sign of regressing civility. Dr Mayo contends the value of human chemical constituents is ninety nine cents, while he ignores imitation Scotch sold at ten dollars a quart.
A series of notices lists residents and friends visiting or spending time in Adair Atlantic Fontanelle Wiota and Anita. People mentioned include John Wade wife Bessie Myers Lowell H G Stuart James Furman John D Roe Miss Prudy Johnson Chris Vohs Emma Wade Lafe Koob Dr Phil Williams A R Kohl and Mrs A A Mikkelsen with various domestic visits and a Jersey boar pigs for sale by C D Armstrong.
Farmers read that skimmed milk aids laying hens. US imported over eleven million pounds of butter in 1924. The number of farms dropped by 30 000 last year. It cost 30 cents to test each cattle head for tuberculosis. The dairy cow yields enough milk for four people, while population grows faster.
Sixteen carloads of limestone totaling about seven hundred tons have been shipped into Cass county this year to sweeten soil for alfalfa and sweet clover. At fifty cents per ton plus freight the delivered price is about 1.75 dollars per ton. Farmers are urged to place orders for fall delivery to secure rock for winter and spring use, as quarries close in winter and demand is uncertain. L. G. Sorden, County Agent.
Des Moines visitor De Walter H Faulkner stops in Anita while James Morgan plans a Florida winter. Local residents like Tim Knowlton Mrs F O Brownlee and Paul Denham with family are noted. Royal Neighbors meet Friday evening. photographs of a south Anita airplane wreck offered by Walter G Crono.
A notice offers to trade a ten room modern house in Atlantic Iowa and an eighty acre farm near Whitewak 7 highway with good improvements and up keep. Respond to post office box 259 Atlantic Iowa.
A Jasper County Record note suggests the Non-Partisan League of Wall Street benefits from Brookhart’s absence in Washington as town land prices rise for campaign purposes. It cites Gus Elsig selling 160 acres near Iowa Falls for 224 dollars cash and A H Rice exchanging farm property at 350 dollars per acre. H B Allfree disposed of half of a Jasper county 160 acre interest at the 1919 price. Across the state farm land sales at good prices become common.
Julius H. Barnes argues tax free bonds shift tax load. A billionaire with over 50 million dollars in assets paid no federal income taxes since 1916 by buying tax exempt bonds yielding 4 12 percent. He would have paid more than 850000 dollars to support federal government, yet federal costs stayed unchanged.
The National Republican Committee of Wisconsin serves notice on Bob LaFollette denouncing him as not aligned with their party. The Iowa Republican Committee also denounces Brookhart, declaring their loyalty intact. Brookhart and La Follette are in the same class, both willing to sacrifice the public for ambition, per the Cumberland Enterprise.
Infant Howard Johnson remains ill under care of the family physician. On Sunday October 3 at Municipal Ball Park Anita Carl Zellmer's Wild Cats meet Bill Steele's Colts in a fast game to close the season. Admission twenty five cents.
A Spencer corseting program offers tailored posture improving corsets for women. Mrs Stella Cruise, Spencer corsetiere, takes measurements and figures to design each corset and will visit or explain the service. telephone 260 Atlantic Iowa.
Mrs. G M DeCamp entertained the Knot A Kare Club at her home on September 23. High score was won by Mrs. L R Johnson. Substitutes included Mrs. W E Fish J D Young H A Marshall and Frank Carter.
Residents report mail planes passing over Anita at unusually low altitude during the past week, prompting questions about air traffic patterns and safety.
Acme quality Paints and Varnishes and Bongers Bros are mentioned. Mr and Mrs Chas Wagner and daughter of Dows Iowa visit Anita staying with Dr G M Adair and B D Forshay. Hobart E Newton deputy Clerk of the district court visits Anita with his family at Postmaster Ed Newton home. Wm J Weston returns from Massena where he stayed with his son in law Fred Parkinson and wife.
Dr. G. M. Adair and wife and Miss Jane Gotsche spent Sunday in Des Moines with the Doctor's mother and sister Mrs. S. E. Adair and Miss Margaret Adair.
Mrs. Frank Louden has been in ill health for several months and was taken to the Atlantic hospital on Saturday for special treatment, with a possible operation considered.
Miss Evelyn Dean Emma Wade and Harry Osen attended a young people’s social gathering at the Ben Tammerdah home near Adair Monday evening.
Albert Karns and family of Anita and Ira Rater with wife and daughter of Adair have returned home after a two weeks visit with relatives and friends at Galatia Kansas.
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