Extension plans for home economics study in county
County home demonstration leaders plan a four lesson series Building Habits and Character to be offered in four sessions across the county. Topics include habit formation, constructive discipline, money use by children, and family leisure. Training schools will equip local leaders to bring home economics information to every woman in the county starting in September. Also noted is a Golden wedding anniversary for Anita community resident and an ongoing health recovery of local business proprietor Kohl after surgery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucille Cochran
Jstant State
Lews
Mirs
Joseph F. Garside
Anita
Ome
Ice Follies of 1939 at Rialto with Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford leads in The Ice Follies of 1939 at Rialto Theatre, featuring James Stewart and Lew Ayres in a Technicolor skating revue with songs and Hollywood backstage glimpses. Also shows Our Gang Tiny Troubles, Prairie Moon with Gene Autry, and a musical short Somewhat Secret plus Iowa News Flashes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joan Crawford
Rialto Theatre
James Stewart
Lew Ayres
Stewart
Ayres
Miss Crawford
Larry Hall
Eddie
Roy Shipstad
Bess Ehrhardt
Our Gang
Gene Autry
Rialto
Smiley Burnette
Gene
Smiley
New York
Shirley Deane
David Gorcey
Walter Tetley
Tommy Ryan
Warner Richmond
Stanley Andrews
William Pawley
Mary Howard
Tom Colling
Iowa
Vacation Bible School Achievement Program
Vacation Bible School closes with an achievement day at the schoolhouse. Regular classes run 8:30 to 10:00 am. At 10:15 a general program features songs exercises and drills. Basket dinner on the lawn at Congregational church. All invited with baskets and families. attendance not required. Appreciation noted for Rev L Thomas and contributors. Frank Rhoads of Glendive Mont visits after sister in law’s death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congregational Church
L. Thomas
Corn Allotment Reminder For Cass County Farmers
Cass county farmers signing 1939 AAA plans are urged to keep corn plantings within their 1939 allotments to receive payments. Two payments exist: 6 cents per bushel on normal yield and 9 cents agricultural conservation. Overplanting forfeits price adjustment and incurs 40 cents per excess bushel deduction from the conservation payment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cass County
Clair D. Becker
AAA
Mr. Becker
Anita Autos Ransacked In Nighttime Thefts
Thieves struck Anita residences last Friday night entering autos parked around the residential district. Victims Floyd Dement Merle Robison Supt M M Felter Alfred Dement C C Heckman and Neil Johnson reported losses including cash from Dement Robison gun cameras and a flashlight from various cars. A door knob was broken off Johnsons car and the trunk hinges on the Feller car were sprung preventing the trunk from closing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anita
Floyd Dement
Merle Robison
M. M. Felter
Alfred Dement
C. C. Heckman
Neil Johnson
Floyd ‘Dement
Robison
Heckman
Feller Auto
Johnson
Feller
Sampson and Neuenschwander wed in Anita Methodist parsonage
Ivonne Sampson and Daniel Neuenschwander of Deepwater Missouri were married at 10 30 p m last Thursday evening at the Anita Methodist parsonage with Rev Arthur V Long officiating. Witnesses were Mr and Mrs Earl Sampson of Anita. The couple will reside on a farm near Deepwater. Also note: Mrs Peter Scott of Cumberland is hospitalized in Kansas City recovering from major surgery. Anita prepares for Old Rooster Day with premium payments from produce stations and cooperating grocery stores offering special prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ivonne Sampson
Daniel Neuenschwander
Deepwater
Anita
Arthur V- Long
Earl Sampson
Peter Scott
Cumberland
Kansas City
Rural Eighth Grade Promotion Exercises Thursday
Eighth grade promotion exercises will be held in Atlantic Thursday at 1 40 pm in the high school auditorium. Miss Georgia Byrne, county superintendent, will preside. Elliott McClure, stationed at Lewis, will give a talk on Summer Near the Arctic Circle. Certificates will be awarded to rural Cash county students who complete the eighth grade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic
Georgia Byrne
Elliott McClure
Lewis
Arctic Circle
Cash County
Bain Klemish wedding near Anita in Iowa
Miss Georgia Bain daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Bain and Leon Klemish son of Mr and Mrs Joe Klemish wed at noon Sunday at the bride parents home seven miles northeast of Anita The ceremony was by Rev C H Rumbaugh in Adair with immediate families present They plan to live on a Guthrie Center area farm Also noted Frank Kopp a Lincoln township farmer is hospitalized at St Marys Rochester Minn after a major operation last Friday reported progressing well
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia Bain
Robert Bain
Leon Klemish
Joe Klemish
Anita
C. H. Rumbaugh
Presbyterian Church
Adair
Guthrie Center
Frank Kopp
Lincoln’ Township
St. Macy's Hospital
Rochester
Minn
Anita Fire Department Praised For Quick Action
The Anita volunteers of 28 firefighters battled a house roof blaze swiftly after an alarm, with five veteran members and Pete Scott as living charter, dating back to 1890. They train yearly at Ames, handle dignified postfire care, and receive no pay, only public thanks. Doris Joan Bartley, born last Wednesday at the Baxter home west of Atlantic, adds to the day’s notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anita
Ames
Cassouty
John Schaake
Frank Lees
Byron Forshay
Pete
John Scott
Doris Joan
Paul Bartley
Mrs H L Rhoads Dies at Atlantic Hospital
Mrs H L Rhoads a well known farm woman living east of Anita died at Atlantic hospital after major surgery failed to revive She was born Sept 28 1898 near Anita and aged 45 years 7 months 26 days She is survived by husband five children two grandchildren and her parents two brothers and two sisters Funeral services were at the Methodist church and burial in Evergreen cemetery Other local rainfall recorded last week totaled .55 inch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. L. Rhoads
Anita
Atlantic Hospital
Rhoda Highley
Hiram G. Highley
Atlantic
Leland
Donald
Russell
Isabelle
Laverne Sperry
Lewis
Harry
Glenn Highley
Elsie Bruce
Council Bluffs
Anita Courdaye
Chicago
Max Rhoads
Austin
Minn
Methodist Church
Arthur V. Long
Evergreen Cemetery
S. A. Trimmer
R. N. Way
Merle Deane
Lester King
Rowley Pollock
Kenneth King
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County Farm Bureau
Kohl
Briar‘Scery
Sun
Iowa Lutheran Hospital
Maines
Rooster
Roberts Produce
Frank Rhoads
Glendive
Mont
Mra. HL. Rhoads
Briardale Grocery
Wheaties
Briardale
Shurfine
Bisquick
Sampson-Neuenschwander
Bain
Tillie
Anita Farm
City
Ed. M. Blakesley
Iowa City
William Heckman
Lytton
Effie Blakesley
Red Cloud
Neb
Edith Leffingwell
Frank
Fred McCord
West Des Moines
Geraldine Kiehl
Ione City
H. P. Ziegler
Rufus Bohning
L. R. Galiher
W. K. Carey
C. D. Aldrich
Des Moines
Mayme
Wainwright
Max Wainwright
Omaha
Nelle Dorsey
Corwyn
Carroll
Frank Exline
Grace
Gerald Carper
Frank Stone
Inlaw
Fred Rud
Fred Richter
Sac City
Carrie Rasmussen
Paul Kellaway
Shirley Rasmussen
Wm. Copley
Bernard
Charles
Mitchelville
Delbert Robinson
Beryl Robinson
Oakland
Bert Willison
Max
Lee
Dorothy
Norwalk
Chester Thrailkill
Dexter
Jens Miller
Ed. Bell
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