This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Anita Remembers Through Decades Of Local Events
A retrospective from May 21, 1970 traces Midwestern life with golf wins at Crestwood Hills, county road plans near Cumberland and Anita, a string of obituaries and civic notes, school events, business openings, fire and theft incidents, and weekly birthday lists spanning 1901 to 1961. Names include Eva Baylor, John Dulin, Cleo Burmeister, Charlotte Reed, Ronald Gross, Beulah Gissble, and many others across Anita, Wiota, Atlantic, and Adair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Stoeber
Crestwood Hills
Cass County Board of Supervisors
Cumberland
Anita
Eva Baylor
Wlota
John Dulin
Presto X Co
Omaha
Howard Lett
Fred Wohlleber
Sherbondy and
Cleo
Harold Motors
Carol Fusselman
Danny Anderson
Barbara Jensen
Miss Jensen
Phil Brownsberger
Robert Scott
A. A. Johnson
D. E. Morey
Des Moines
Dorothy Marion
Elizabeth Reimers
Minnie Marshall
Wiota
Atlantic
Blossom Walker
Miss Walker
Glenn McCall
Hagley
Grant City
C. E. Harry
Cheyenne
Wyo
Georgette Lahman
Chicago
KP Hall
Beulah Gissble
Sherman Lowell
Iowa
U.S. 32
Anita Public Schools
Hate White
Avoca
Fannye Stauffer
Oak Ridge
C. O. Conley
Wm. Marlone
John C. Reimers
Adair
Reimers
Schwenneker Bros
Opera House
Unique Theatre