21 Jul 1955
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Newspaper
Anita Tribune
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1955
Page
1
Cass County farmers are urged to adopt Purina Fly Control Program for complete, affordable fly management. Products include Dairy Spray Concentrate, Building Spray, Stock Spray, Fly Bait, Home Spray, and Home Aero Spray. The plan claims reduced flies, healthier cattle, and increased milk production per lactation.
A collection of service times and activities across several churches. Sunday and weekday worships, Sunday School, prayer meetings, choir practices, youth and women’s groups listed with leaders and guest speakers where noted. Visitors invited to all services, with various Mass and service times noted.
Sunday services at 10 09 a m Sunday school 11 00 a m preaching 1 00 p m youth meeting 7 p m youth meeting with Margie Steward in charge.
A Sunday service on July 24 presents the Lesson-Sermon titled Truth. Readings from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy illustrate practical prayer.
This piece discusses fostering a lively energetic child with broad interests, emphasizing health, emotional security, and family love. It urges giving the child responsibility, modeling courteous give and take, and balancing activity with achievable tasks to build independence and self acceptance.
Mary Peterson recounts a family road trip with Jim and his mother, Amy's death when a door opened in a curve. Grandmother remained in back seat tending Amy until the crash, leaving the couple to face a long, sorrowful return home.
The Anita Tribune reports on Gen U S Grant's death rumors and notes July 23 1885 stories. It mentions plans for new meat markets by July 9 and describes local economic rivalries. Sherman F Myers founded the Tribune as opposition to the Times, with J M Briggs launching a third paper Anita Republican.
A look back at Anita notes from August 1965 recounts water tank levels, school staff, the Anita Tribune’s moves, new store openings, and community questions about preserving hometown industries. It highlights editor Sherman F Myers and details local updates, movements, and education shifts.
The front page mentions Sgt Hugh Bowen receiving the Croix de Guerre in July 1945 at Heidelberg. It also references Carl Moore trading land for a tank wagon service, William Biggs receiving a 40 pound channel eatig, and Paul R. Brown edited the local Tribune.
The item recalls a lightning strike on John C. Jenkins residence on West Main Street four decades earlier. It lists locals like Hobart Newton at the post office, H. H. Cate at a convention in Des Moines, and other townsfolk with brief activities from fishing to theater pricing and editorial roles.
The fragment recalls Anita News era edited by W. E. Littler with Mrs. Alpha Nelson preserving copies of Tribune material. It notes March 2 1945 Vol 1 No 17.4, Adair News’s brief revival, and local ads for Adair merchants and a theatre, reflecting small town paper dynamics and cross-town reprintings.
A Briardale grocery advertises sugar prices from 63 cents per ten pounds to six dollars and twenty five cents for one hundred pounds. Kohl and Lantz keep the 43 telephone number in 1955 as in 1925. Local social notes mention engagements and visits across Atlantic Anita and Melcher towns with several Budd family connections and a Rialto Theatre film.
A year ago on 29 July 1954 paving on a relocated highway through Athita was to start in six weeks. Plans were under way for a Sadie Hawkins celebration on 2 August and local social notes mention Mr and Mrs Tom Miller entertaining in honor of sons Robert and Gael.
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