Bids Sought for Tractor Power to Operate King Graders
The Cass county Board of Supervisors Atlantic Iowa invites sealed bids by January 30 1917 10 30 AM for oil or gas tractor power to run one 10 foot and one 12 foot King grader units to complete temporary grading and crowning of the county road system for 1917. Bid includes power operating expenses supplies and an experienced operator per grader with about 70 days work. Bond and contract required. $40 certified check with each bid. right to reject any bid.
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Board of Supervisors
Casa County
Iowa
Atlantic
C. E. Kringel
Cass County
C. KE. Kringel
Philosophy of the Poilu Front Soldier’s Wry Logique
A mailed front line morale piece circulates among French troops. The quip outlines a chain of two option choices at each stage from mobilization to recovery, ending with “done with worry forever” as a punchy defense of stoic endurance.
Social notes of visitors from Adair Van Meter and Zo not a
Anton Richter and his brother William and family visited here part of last week. Mrs. Floyd Switzer and her sister Miss Mable Mullins spent the last of the week here. Wellington and Leo Ecklin of Zo neta Canada are visiting with their uncle C T McAfee and family, arriving last Thursday.
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Frank Faust
Boone
Iowa
C. V. East
Guy Hasty
Baby
Davis
Mary Lodweg
Albert Sager
Newberry Cooper
S. C. Cooper
Omaha
Anton Richter
Adair
William Richter
Floyd Switzer
van Meter
Mable Mullins
Wellington
Leo Ecklin
Zoneta
Canada
C. T. McAfee
Vernon Perkins
Kearney
South Dakota
G. H. Stoffs
J. F. Rachels
Atlantic
Lester
Iowa farm wealth soars beyond billion dollars
The Greater Iowa association highlights 1916 farm production reaching about 1.2187 billion dollars when crops livestock and factory output are combined. Potatoes and grain price jumps amplify income while the era’s high cost of living is noted with rising farm product values.
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Iowa
Commonwealth
Greater Iowa Association
Local notes from Anita and surrounding towns
A digest of brief hometown items reports Lester Pond visiting Pocahontas kin and returning home. Frank Bontrager attending a funeral in Grant. a gold ring offered to babies under one year near Anita. visits between Anita and Atlantic families. a large sale bill from Elliott Smith in England tied to Upton Lodge. an Adel mystery of anonymous money sent by a “Person with a Guilty Conscience” to several locals, with suspected connection to a prior post office theft.
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Anita
G. W. Fordyce
Tona
Elliott Smith
England
Exchange State Bank
Upton Lodge
Northamshire
Stuart Herald
DeSota
Adele
Adel
Local Visits and Historic Lesson Highlight Weekend Passages
Joe Cannon of Wiota visited on business last Friday while Anita’s students explored a history lesson. A Massena will filed in Atlantic appoints Herman Walker as sole heir and George W. Platt as executor with witnesses Mary Platt D P Hogan and Stella Robinson.
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Joe Cannon
Wiota
Delno F. Walker
Massena
Atlantic
Herman Walker
George W. Platt
Mary Platt
D. P. Hogan
Stella Robinson
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Amos W. Shipman
A. H. F. Zilgler
Des Moines
Earth
Clyde H., Bowen
G. H. Parden
Stuart
Carey
Columbia Grafonolas
Columbia
Clyde H. Bowen
NEW Rock Island Time
Eevee
A. M
Ceeveee
Avoca
Neola
Council Bluffs
Oon
Way Freight
Majestic
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G. F. Wilbourn
Casey
John C. Voorhees
R. A. Robinson
Josiah Sullivan
Massena Township
Lester Pond
Pocahontas
Frank Bontrager
Grant
Kryptok
Rye
Advanc
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Fullerton. Lumber CO
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