Real estate transfers in Cass County including road easement
Sheriff Cass County transfers to Garrett Johnson for 148.24 acres including a right of way and public highway, value 15459.58 dollars. Homer Kirkham and wife transfer land to Frank E. Miller with multiple quarter sections, water rights, road easement 66 feet wide, value 2750 dollars.
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Cass Co
Garrett Johnson
H. P. Ziegler
Arrett Johnson
O. v
Homer Kirkham
Frank E. Miller
Kirkham Finn nuptials conclude in familiar home setting
Miss Bernice Kirkham daughter of Mr and Mrs William F Kirkham married Mr William Finn of Lexington Kentucky in a ceremony at the Kirkham home last Thursday at 4 pm Rev E O Douglass officiated The bride a Anita high school graduate attended Iowa State College Ames home economics In Lexington Mr Finn works in the cost accounting department at the University of Kentucky They will reside in Lexington after a short wedding trip
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Bernice Kirkham
William F. Kirkham
William Finn
Lexington
Kentucky
E. O. Douglass
M. E. Church
Anita High School
Iowa State College
Ames
University of Kentucky
Maine retailer Swanson trades store for Atlantic residence
M. L. Swanson who bought the John Schaake store in Maine about a month ago has traded it to Earl Beech of Atlantic in exchange for a residence property in Atlantic.
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M. L. Swanson
John Schaake
Maine
Earl Beech
Atlantic
Miss Dorothy Dinsmore Plans Chautauqua Tour This Summer
Miss Dorothy Dinsmore, a Drake University student in Des Moines for two years, will travel this summer through Ohio and Indiana with a chautauqua company.
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Dorothy Dinsmore
Drake University
Des Moines
Ohio
Indiana
Chautauqua
From Our Old Files June 17 1897
Items from the old files note Casey without saloons. Atlantic postmaster salary cut by 100. Anita post office salary reduced from 1400 to 1300. New green walking shoes touted. A four legged four winged chicken is hatched by Frank Gipple. Sidewalk funding requested for Evergreen cemetery. Northward street from Citizens Bank being filled under Commissioner McLaughlin. Widespread corn replanting and replanting notes. Mr and Mrs D C Reed host 18th birthday for daughter Iva. Valentine Wiegand elected I O O F representative to Davenport in October. Marriage planned for Charles W Major and Gertrude Estella Anderson June 30. A woman in a neighboring town loses a tongue bite after wheel fall. Wheels demand rises. wives urged to ride. Editor hints trouble with a certain married man. many inquire if item refers to them. Miss Ethel Gardner Blakesley and Mr Chas P Lattig announce June 28 wedding at Congregational church. reception at Rose Hill Ave home.
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Casey
Atlantic Post- Master
Anita
Frank Gipple
Evergreen Cemetery
Citizens Bank
McLaughlin
D. C. Reed
Iva
Valentine Wiegand
Grand Lodge I. O. O. F
Davenport
Charles W. Major
Gertrude Estella Anderson
Ethel Gardner Blakesley
E. W. Blakesley
Chas. P. Lattig
Congregational Church
North Rose Hill Avenue
Faulkner to Attend Citizens Military Training Camp
John Faulkner, recently finishing a term at the State University in Iowa City, plans a trip with his parents H. C. Faulkner and wife to Fort Crook Nebraska for the Citizens Military Training Camp where he serves as a second lieutenant. The family note Raven Pig Meal sold by Bartley Produce.
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John Faulkner
State University
Iowa City
H. C. Faulkner
Fort Crook
Nebraska
Citizens
John
Christian Church Notes Wayne Greene Pastor
Sunday School attendance reached 80 with prayer for higher turnout next Sunday. Ladies Aid meets Thursday with Mrs Lee Crane. Children Day exercises filled the church and highlighted a strong program. Pastor available in June. services announced for Sunday. invitation to all to attend. Jesus is more than a weekend visitor.
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Ladies Aid
Lee Crane
Jesus
Christian Science Services Held at Long's Forniture Store
Services conducted in the morning at 11:00 o'clock with Sunday School at 10:00 A M. Wednesday evening gathering at 8:00 o'clock. All are welcome.
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Long
Record Time Made In Assembling Chevrolet Car
Right members of Ui Washington section SES demonstrated the advantages of standard automotive parts by assembling a half ton Chevrolet chassis in six and a half minutes in a seven team contest at the SAE annual meeting in French Lick Indiana. Three winning team members were engineers from the United States Bureau of Standards. Each car ran five laps around a nearby loop to certify results after parts were mixed and matched from two tool sets.
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Ui Washington
Society of Automotive Engineers
French Lick
Ind
Chevrolet
United States Bureau of Standards
Flint
Mich
Shaffer & Christensen
Squirrel Hunt Turns Harvest of Farm Enemies
Audubon sportsmen held a spring hunt targeting crop pests. Two rival groups, led by captains, competed with the smaller tally paying for a joint supper. Weather limited turnout to 86 participants and two days of hunting yielded 69 jackrabbits 10 hawks 169 crows 11 gophers 84 prairie gray squirrels 185 striped squirrels 19 rats 42 grown sparrows and 82 young sparrows.
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Audubon
Divorce suit and alimony request amid cruelty allegations
Minnie Beaver through Swan Martin and Martin sues J W Beaver for divorce and asks $1000 temporary alimony plus $25000 permanent alimony. She cites cruel inhuman treatment and threats, seeks an injunction, and notes the husband’s $50000 property and alleged plans to defraud creditors. The piece also notes banking rules requiring new towns under 3000 population to have $25000 capital and $5000 surplus to open banks, aimed at weeding out small “wild cat” banks, with broader reform anticipated.
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Swan, Martin & Martin
Minnie Beaver
J. W. Beaver
Banking Department
Iowa
Lost Blue Scarf Among City Visitors
Lost blue scarf with red flowers. return to Helen Scarlett. Donald Long of Fonda, Iowa visited in the city late last week at the home of his Uncle Chester A. Longy and family. Hobart E. Newton, Cass county district court clerk and son of Ed L. Newton, was in Des Moines last Thursday and among fifty nine who took the bar examination and passed to be admitted to the Iowa bar.
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Helen Scarlett
Donald Long
Fonda
Iowa
Chester A. Longy
Hobart E. Newton
Cass County District Court
Ed. L. Newton
Des Moines
Hobart
Anita
Cass County
Gasoline Tax Revenue Climbs in April Under New Law
Treasurer R. E. Johnson reports April gasoline tax at 840973.70 due to law change taxing imports. April 1926 tax was 322768.34 and March 1927 tax stood at 367625.43, with the April total based largely on stock on hand.
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R. E. Johnson
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Goodyear
Pathfinders
Wagner
Anita Tribune
the Tribune Publishing: Co
W. F. Budd
Kirkham
Finn
Christian Church
Wayne Greene
Christian Science
Ford Service
Ford
Cement Motor Coq
T. W. Dempster
Pasadena
California
T. E. Root
Burkhart Grocery Unita
Michigan
Kellogg’s
Rumford
John Lowe
Lillian
Wooster, Ohio
City
Abe Biggs
Farmers Coop
Poultry and Egg Co
Phone
Riviera
Omaha
Middlewest
James Foote
Cement Motor Co
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