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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1916
Page
5
A collage of items from Des Moines to Anita Iowa includes Ed L Newton visiting Atlantic, Mrs Bessie Lowell in Des Moines, callers at RECORD office, rental ad for a six room house, A Forrester recovering from la grippe, and various sales and notices. Also hogs for sale, a Manitoba press ad, and farm for sale 160 acres with water.
A residence on Park Avenue near City Park in South Anita with one 866 by 150 foot lot and option for an adjacent lot. Six rooms two closets a coal shed and water well. Public sale set for Wednesday November 15 1916 at 2 30 PM. Auctioneer A D Dean Guy H Deeming announces terms at sale. plus local notices and routine community items.
Lloyd Biggs of Menlo visited Anita Saturday for business and social calls. FE A Stone attends Grand Lodge of Eastern Star in Cedar. Furniture and Miss Ethel Allen items sold at public sale. Mrs C E Harry and baby midweek in Adair during doctor’s Galveston trip. Guy White and family in Anita with Emaline White and August Pieper. Maggie Long of Atlanta now oversees home duties for Mr and Mrs H O Stone. Maryie Clark attended a dance in Atlantic. W H Pearson and family from Madison Minnesota spent days in Anita visiting relatives. Pearson runs a Madison hotel and reports good patronage. Wilma Wagner, pupil at Highland Park College, Des Moines, stayed with W H Wagner Jr and wife. homesick moments noted. Agnes and Katharine Tierney visited RECORD office. Wilbur Wheatly from Glendon Iowa spent weekend in Anita, says farmers will back Harding for Governor. Alderman Chas Scholl of the Seenth ward stopped by to share political views.
A residence property for rent is listed with contact by phone 128 or by Ira Bontrager. The notice repeats. The Anita City Steam Laundry owners Mr and Mrs J Singer and Mr and Mrs J Abrahamson are settled in a new home in the vacated residence formerly occupied by W B Park.
The near season’s first snow arrived Thursday after morning rain, turning to sleet and heavy snowfall through the day and night. The forecast warns residents to prepare heating stoves for winter to avoid colds and illness and high medical costs.
Mrs Mayme Hubbell called at the RECORD office Monday afternoon. Prompt action was taken last week by the Mayor and City Council sitting as a Board of Health in establishing quarantine and taking necessary precautions to guard against the spread of a supposed case of courage ous disease. Mrs Nellie Eneix was a caller at the RECORD office Monday. E S Wolfer has overhauled and repaired furnaces of the Congregational and Evangelical churches and improved the heating plant at H Bangham residence.
Roy Wortman, nephew of D Wortman, died after his car overturned west of Adair during a hill descent. A boy and another youth were injured as a second car failed to avoid the overturned vehicle. Funeral services for Wortman were held Tuesday at 10:00 AM.
We advertise first class machinery for corn shelling and wood sawing and urge patrons to call 191 for service. Also reported is a note that Jake Hill faces strong discipline from the Independent order of Never-Sweats for allegedly slipping to Hill Coshran’s and husking cvern until he sweated, violating a principal commandment.
Mike Metz of Wiota, the Democratic nominee for the Board of Supervisors, spent Saturday in Anita interviewing voters. Harold Van Slyke visited Friday night and stayed with his grandparents O. W. Van Slyke and wife. On his frequent trips Harold always stops to greet the snake editor with a pleasant call.
Mrs. John Stone and Baby Katharine of Omaha visited H. O. Stone and family over the weekend. Ed L. Newton, Republican nominee for Representative, and Abe Biggs of Anita and Grant township attended the United Taxpayers League meeting in Atlantic Saturday.
W S Reed Republican nominee for member of the Board of Supervisors from the first district travels to win votes during the past week. Michael Tierney struggles to leave home for a trip to Grand Rapids to see his new grandson while Withnya Marie Rose and Zeta stay scattered in Dubuque Lemars Grand Rapids.
Hendricks leases Mrs. Richards J S Johnson farm near Anita. Joe E Morgan visits his father in South Dakota. James P Hill former county Sheriff dies at 65 in Portsmouth Iowa after paralysis. He served in Mason and I O O F Lodges. Services held in Menlo with interment there.
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