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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1917
Page
4
The Anita Record urges prompt payment of delinquent subscriptions with promises of legal action. The column also reports on local health, schooling changes, community visits, and upcoming church conference in Indianola plus minor notes on residents and a medical X-ray case from Dr Campbell in Anita.
Otto Johnson visits Anita with his son while Abe Biggs attends a Defense Council meeting in Des Moines. The Massena District Fair starts next Monday and lasts through Thursday with fast races and special attractions. Cash premiums for stock and exhibits, plus twelve merchant prizes will be awarded. Mike Farriell and Tommy Tierney return from an auto trip through northeast Iowa and parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin visiting kin and enjoying Dubuque’s features.
Jos. F. Gissibs of Lincoln township and his brother in law Henry C. Long of Yale visit the ReEcoRD office. Anita area residents install furnaces this fall, keeping Ed S. Wolfer and assistant S N Goodrich busy with winter heating installations.
A series of Gospel Meetings will be held in a tent on the Lincoln Center school grounds starting Sunday evening September 16 at 8 o'clock and continuing indefinitely. Evangelists D R Charles of Omaha and C W Ross of Kansas City will conduct the meetings. Everyone is invited to attend.
A weekly notice lists travel plans and social updates from Anita Iowa. Dr G M Adair and Ray Asay visited. several locals such as Mrs Richard Louden and J I Fieckel appeared as callers. Grapes at seven cents per pound. an oyster feed for Masonic lodge next Tuesday. various visits to Des Moines Omaha and Muscatine noted.
A letter from State Center Iowa dated September 9 1917 asks Postmaster H H Cate to help locate a young Anita Iowa man who has a brother in the area The letter describes a Cheyenne Wyoming Fort Russell home sick lad and urges communication to lift his spirits The piece also notes other local happenings including army service certified residents and a theaterlike shop window display by Val Wingand Son Shoe Store with Otto Wiegland and Wayne Homphill involvement.
Announcement notes a stockholders and directors meeting at the Victoria Hotel on Friday September 21 at 8 P M to decide if Anita will hold her annual colt show. Local items report Chas Hockenberry visiting Exira, Emily Bailey starting school in Ida Grove, L EB Moorehouse and family in Massony, and I A Thompson returning to Indianapolis after Kuhn family visit.
Notice to auto drivers that the law requiring four lights on autos at night will be strictly enforced. Auto owners are advised to govern themselves accordingly. Mayor Homur Kirkham.
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