27 Sep 1917
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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1917
Page
1
Poetic patriotic verse praising the flag with stripes and white stars. Emphasizes national pride and unique American symbol. The speaker urges readiness to defend the flag and country. The lines celebrate the homeland and its emblematic colors.
Local life notes report Old Jones needing crutches due to injury while oil on Main Street shows improved road service. W. E. Kellaway builds a hog house and granary at Anita yards. chicken thieves alarm residents. Rev. Ei. A. Thomas moves to Anita as M E Church pastor for the year.
Miss Ellen Galvin and Mr. John Metheney wed at St. Patricks Massena with Rev. P H McDermott presiding. A Cass county temperance tour under W C T U begins in Anita and other towns with Miss Louise Hollister as speaker. Charlie Cole, longtime W E Kelloway employee, dies at 36. funeral services held with I O O F honors and burial in Evergreen cemetery.
W M Petit toured Leon Iowa for business last week. Des Moines guests Mrs Stacks and Mrs Helen Harrison visited Mrs Ziegler. Mrs Perry and sisters spent days in Oakland. Misses Anna May and Nannie Johnson visited Anita area. I D Cornett of Massena granted exemption on reconsideration. Rasmussen weighs a Sioux Falls music leadership offer. A farewell for Rev and Mrs Robt W Swick drew large attendance. A missing five gallon lard jar reported. Parker traded farm northwest of Anita to Reason across from Odd Fellows. Capacity transfer set for January 1. Huff family attended Levi Huff funeral. Pratt and Naylor bought twenty head of six month Duro Jersey pigs. Burke, Morgan, and Wilson bought a block of corn at public sale. Husking to be done by Bill Stayer.
Bert Wissler reports the purchase of Eleec trical Supplies and Peter Scott Jr. business with operation in the same building. He offers a full line of electrical goods and customer service, free advice and estimates. Peter Scott Jr. has joined Field Signal Corps. Anita shows postponed until next year due to policy.
The Atlantic District releases names of district superintendents and superintendents in various towns such as Adel, Audubon, Earlham, Griswold, Guthrie Center, Harlan, Manning, Menlo, Winterset, and more. Special appointments include Dr. James W. Campbell and Rev. John F. Arnold among Simpson College leaders and church officials across Iowa. The list covers multiple churches, conferences, and associated educational and religious positions.
The column records W F Bannick family returning to Atlantic after Missouri, Miss Henrietta Boillot leaving Anita post office for Kansas City art school, Don McClure musing on Anita job prospects, Wa H Wagner Sr family homecoming from Hanley Canada, and Rev Robt Swick's reassignment to Diagonal Iowa with Anita church prosperity notes, alongside a forestry unit update on Jack Hansen in Washington and other community tidbits.
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