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Newspaper
Anita Tribune
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1908
Page
5
A garbled 1908 note from D H B Campuzzyy closing his books and requesting debt settlement by Jan 1 1908. The message thanks local patrons and mentions family figures in Sac City and Columbus with wishes for a prosperous New Year. The piece references Ermers Supply Store Pegau and Co and W Harrison Medical practice.
Local merchants signed an agreement to close all business by 6:00 p.m. daily except Saturdays from January 1 to March 1909. The notice lists participating firms and urges readers to subscribe to The Des Moines Register and Leader for daily legislative coverage during the session.
Scribbled ad notes sale of phonographs and twenty five records at home. Mentions reasonable rates and direct owner operator sales. Irregular text points to a small market listing with limited legible details.
A joint installation of officers elected for the year will be held at Magonle Hall Anita Iowa on Friday evening January 8 1009 at 7 40 PM. All the members parters and families are invited to attend Anita Iowa December 30 1008 Fraternally Yours Committee on Arrangements Obedience Lodge No 340 AF Abbrev notice of Sunday evening service at M E Church featuring Brot Raymond Reave and Miss Matto Wiegand with choir and sacred dust.
Sylvester Kirkham Sr was born in Blackburn England on April 8 1832 and died December 20 1808 near Anita Iowa at age 76 He lived in Peoria Illinois Marshall Missouri and Cass County before settling near Anita Survived by wife and nine children funeral at Congregational church conducted by Rev P A Ric assisted by Rev Cushman Obedience Lodge No 380 A B and A M bore his casket and Evergreen Cemetery burial Misses Ruby Bangham Love Jenkins and Lena Young sang at the services The writer recalls a long friendship with the deceased noting his good man and citizen status
Card of thanks from Mrs Sylvester Kirkman ann Fawming and Mr and Mrs S V Jungums for aid during illness. G W Preston sold residence on Whites Avenue to O C Anson for 2009. Miss Lillian Kincaid, daughter of postmaster A E Kincaid, married O N Collins of Chicago. Rudolph Linhart of Walnut visited and viewed the D M James farm in Lincoln township offered for sale at 315 per acre.
Torr Lane, Oregon, December 1908, writes of Anita, Iowa emigrants living near Payette Idaho and Portland Oregon. He notes apple harvests, new cold storage, and large ranches while praising the Payette valley, meeting old friends, and forecasting growth in the Pacific Northwest. He mentions W. Dufford, George Thurman, E. W. Blakesley, and Clarence Heath.
A Lyland Printer uses a wartime metaphor to urge advertisers to invest in a single strong newspaper space. The piece argues two or three papers spread thinly are less effective than one dominant, wide ad in the best paper, likening it to using a large hammer to drive a tent peg.
A fragment from a religious page cites commandments against stealing lying and defrauding neighbors. It warns thieves and oppressors face divine punishment and notes the universal judgment with references to wealth, oppression, and the fate of the wicked.
William White arrived from near Woodward Oklahoma to visit his relatives and mother Mrs White near town. He owns a premier southern farm and sends news of crops and prices. The piece notes Anita natives in Woodward and nearby, mentions several families, and lists local social visits and travel plans including Clint and the babies to Plover Iowa.
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