Son of Santa Fe time keeper shot by Mexican
A son of Fred Gerard, time keeper for the Santa Fe railway in Arizona, was shot by a Mexican on Tuesday of last week. He was taken to Santa Fe hospital in Los Angeles, five hundred miles away, where doctors will try to remove the bullet. The shooter, displeased with his time record, is in custody and guarded as the injury’s outcome remains uncertain.
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Fred Gerard
Santa Fe Railway
Arizona
Santa Fe
Los Angeles
California
Gerard
Building Good Roads on the Great White Way
Anita supervisor Abe Biggs grades and fills the Great White Way from Anita to the county line. The road is widened for two passing lanes with no unsafe ditches as low spots are filled and the grade improved. Anita will soon boast one of the best built roads on the White Way.
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Abe Biggs
Anita
Adair News
Get Busy With The Letters In Anita Community
Old-time residents of Anita and vicinity are urged to write letters to the RECORD. The editor asks several hundred delinquent readers to send in their notes and stories before time and opportunity pass.
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Anita
Anita Moves Forward With New High School and Bank
A visit to Anita last Sunday impressed the News editor with rapid growth and major improvements. A handsome new high school building costing about 37 million dollars is a fine addition with a better location. The Voorhees bank building promises lasting benefits, and many new residences are underway.
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Anita
Voorhees Bank
Adair News
Request to change RECORD address to Lindsay Colorado 1913
A letter from Sammy Etheredge requests changing the RECORD mailing address from Los Gatos to Lindsay, Colorado, noting winter plans in the valley. He mentions family travel, visits to San Francisco and San Jose, and his son Cecil reporting for the San Jose Morning Times. He urges a better front page picture.
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Lindsay
Colorado
Sherm
Los Gatos
Father
Rass
San Francisco
California
Cecil
San Jose
LETTER FROM SASKATCH TO SHERM DESCRIBES TRIP
Milestone Saskatchewan September 16 1015 letter recounts travel through St Paul and Minneapolis visits Cass county residents Roscoe Blue and wife and the Pratt household. The couple stays in a cook in shack with Maude cooking for twelve men threshing wheat oats and flax on a Case thresher. They tour George Renwick and job as foreman with George Gillpatrick the engineer described as greasy.
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Sask
Sherm
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Corinne
Cass County
Roscoe Blue
Maude
George
Jean Pratt
George Renwick
George Gillpatrick
Letter From Anita Colony Settlers in Woodward Oklahoma
The writer in Woodward county reports good health and plenty to eat and wear as the Anita colony settles in Woodward Oklahoma. They relocated to a seven room house on East Main Street near the Delta Hotel and mention a two gallon jug heirloom as a joke about a key hidden under it.
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Sherm
Anita
Woodward County
East Main Street
Delta Hotel
al Gilbaugh
Lona
Ike
Obituary of Cyrenius S. Alvord of Anita Iowa
Cyrenius S. Alvord born Howell Michigan June 3 1844 died Anita Iowa September 1 1913 aged 69 years 3 months 16 days. He married Celinda Eastman January 24 1877 at Dodge Center Minnesota, leaving two children Rosella who died in infancy and Lulu Faga of Ponca Oklahoma. A Civil War veteran he served three years in Wisconsin List Regiment, discharged July 1 1865. Funeral at Congregational Church led by Rev H J Wilkins Meade Post 90 G A R and Pythian Sisters with interment at Evergreen Cemetery. A Cass county resident long past from Atlantic, health declined, yet he remained a good neighbor and citizen.
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Cyrenius S. Alvord
Howell
Michigan
Anita
Iowa
Celinda Eastman
Dodge Center
Minnesota
Rosella
Lulu Faga
Ponca
Oklahoma
Alvord
List Regiment
Wisconsin
Congregational Church
H. J. Wilkins
Meade
Pythian Sisters
Rebekah
Evergreen Cemetery
Mr. Alvord
Cass County
Atlantic
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DENBY
Bonita
Tom Keene
Panatelas
Black Hawk
Palmer House
Havanna Rickey
John M. Cullough
F. W. Stager
Chiropractic
Menlo
Sears Building
G. H. Parchen, D. C
Sammy
Etheredge
Saskatch
KE. W. Marsh and Wife
Woodward
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