Anita Tribune summarizes local society and telephony issue
The 1938 Anita Tribune reports West Iowa Telephone Co policy against reverse toll calls affecting local patrons, calls for town council action, and notes community happenings. It details local incidents from Gertrude Kinen’s ankle injury to John Herbert’s birth, plus social gatherings at Anita, Griswold, and Noble Center.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anita Exchange
West Iowa Telephone Co
West Iowa Company
Bell Telephone Co
Iowa
Anita
the Tribune
Anita Town Council
Greater Anita Club
Oat Growth Threatens Spring Legume Seedings
Iowa State agronomist J C Eldredge warns rank oat growth sown with legumes as a nurse crop risks destroying legume seedings if oats mature. Clipping high or cutting oats for hay at heading may save seedings. sacrificing oats could protect legumes worth up to $25 a bushel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. C. Eldredge
Iowa State College Agronomist
Eldredge
Mr. Eldredge
Death cause list issued by state health department
The state health department reports 2,227 March deaths with heart diseases causing 536. Cancer ranked second with 264, pneumonia rose to third with 233, up 46 from February, due to lower winter resistance and chill dampness. Nephritis 188 and digestive diseases 122, plus all accidents at 117, also listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Health Department
Department
Iowa
Carl FF. Jordan
Division of Preventable Diseases
Freezing Strawberries In Cold Lockers For Short Cake
Iowa State College extension nutritionist Miss Ruth Cessna says cold storage lockers keep strawberries no better than they were when placed in. Use only sound firm berries for freezing and wash and hull them, then dry sugar or syrup may be added in standard proportions. Senator Dunlap Premier and Blakemore varieties are best for freezing. A windstorm near Lake City uncovered a 1836 muzzle loading rifle barrel found in a farm barn during demolition, surprising owner Mason Ross.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Cessna
Iowa State College
Cessna
Senator Dunlap
Premier
Blakemore
Lake City
Calhoun County
Mason Ross
Ross
Cow Swallows Egg and Bolt in Pocahontas Tale
A Pocahontas report tells of a cow that swallowed a hen’s egg whole with no shell damage. John Alden sent the dead cow to a rendering works where workers examined the stomach findings showed an egg intact and a 1 1/4 inch bolt inside, believed to have caused the cow’s death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pocahontas
John Alden
Pocahontas Rendering Works
Anita Iowa council approves cigarette permit for F W Benning
In a special session on May 31 1938 the Anita Iowa town council with Mayor Darrow and five councilmen present granted a cigarette permit to F W Benning and ordered the clerk to issue it. Ayes five none against.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anita
Iowa
Darrow
Burke
Dement
Howard
Kopp
Petersen
F. W. Benning
Solon A. Karns
Corporation Fund
Geo. L
Fred Exline
F. Darrow
Iowa Electric Company
Anita Lumber Company
H. C. Faulkner
Don Hagen
C. A. Beaver
F.W. Stager
D. C. Bell
W. B. Inhofe
Burke and Kopp
F. W. Stager
Bongers Bros
C.A. Beaver
Foster Golden Wedding Anniversary Celebration Planned
Bridgewater couple Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Foster to celebrate their golden wedding with open house June 19 from 2:00 to 5:30 pm at home. Guests include Chas Salmon and families visiting Cambridge and Santa Monica relatives, plus Anita community friends. Evening bridge club hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Ross Kohl with Chester A. Long as guests. covered dish dinner and bridge games on Walnut Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chestnut Street
Fred G.boren
Friday Bridge Club
Elmer Scholl
A. V. Robinson
D. L. Spiker
C. H. Johnson
L. G. Foster
Bridgewater
Mrs. Foster
Anita
Evening Bridge Club
Chester
A. Long
Ross Kohl
Walnut Street
Picnic Marks M. M. Circle Members Change in Keystone Park
Fourteen old M. M. circle members, five new members and twenty one guests attended a picnic last Thursday in Keystone park. Each brought a covered dish. Illness prompted Mrs. Witte to resign as circle president and Mrs. Turner was named successor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. M. Circle
Keystone Park
Unclear event at Fontan area noted in local report
Fragmentary summary notes a family gathering Sunday near Fontan area. Mentions Mr and Mrs Robert E Smith and Mrs Robert Cryer along with Drake and gang, with Hayter and wife Towa, plus other relatives, but details are obscured by OCR errors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guy. Hayter
Towa
P Tove Ty Ning Garrison
Robert E. Smith
Robert Cryer
Mig
Griam Drake
Fontanternoon
Elle Sunday
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Crawford’s
Clover Farm
Glendale
Foodland
Anita Tribune
The
Tribune Publishing Co
F. Budd
Gertrude Kinen
William Kinen
Wiota
Donald Adams
Russell Adams
W. W. Adams
Griswold
J. P. Christensen
Orville Christensen
E. E. Barnholdt
Barnholdt
United States
New Orleans
John Herbert
John FE. Budd
Atlantic
Atlantic Hospital
Ethel Budd
Ladies and Society
Noble Center
Wesley Johnson
Johnson
Society
George (White) Pearson
Pearson
Soren Sandbeck
Vera Sandbeck
Carsten Henneberg
Karma
Roscoe Smith
Karen
Ethel Henneberg
Kanges
Westinghouse
Leland Peterson
George
H. H. Turner
Des Moines
Peterson
Capitol City
Council Proceedings
Donald Hagen
Townsend Club
Methodist Church
Casey
Casey Rendering Service
Saturn
van Camp’s
Wisconsin
Chas. Salmon
Margaret Jean
Thomas Newton
Cambridge
Ohio
Clara Peters
Santa Monica
Cal
Oscar Idso
Margaret
Sioux Rapids
Kermit Jacobson
Paullina
Town
Wolvernes
Roe Clothing A
Roberts Produce
Aubudon
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