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Newspaper
Anita Tribune
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1925
Page
2
Notes from Anita Iowa May 14 1925 report local activity. E W Noah business caller Glen A Roe and wife visit Athletic Thursday. Esmeralda senior class play at Unique Theatre drew large crowds. Various residents attend Des Moines meetings and visits. An Indianola woman burned by a faulty electric fan wire receives $750 insurance settlement.
A public auction will be held on Saturday afternoon May 16 offering a quantity of lumber including barn boards and dimension stock. The sale advertises the timber as available to bidders and invites attendance from interested buyers.
Miss Noriie Furst tied the knot with R B Wheeler of Adair at the Wesley church in Des Moines on Sunday. The couple, with roots in Adair, plan to settle after a wedding trip to Chicago and other eastern cities.
In Adair on Sunday night J B Miller entered his grocery store after church services and saw a man jump through an open rear window. An inspection next morning showed the intruder had been inside only a few minutes, believed after lemon extract.
Real estate transfers include Herman C Baier and wf to C V Wilder with lease for one dollar and land described as e2 se4 27-77-34 sub. Frank Barber et al to James T Turner with specified quitrent and land blocks for one dollar. Visitors include H P Harrison of Chicago and W V Harrison of Columbus with family, and J A Wagner and wife at Bondurant Iowa visiting Calkins family. notices mention Frank Miller's Florida trip and potential return to Colorado, health issues of Mr Calkins, and Miller’s possible long stay with parents in Anita.
Pastor John W. Ferner reports a prayer meeting Wednesday evening with special business. The state conference of Congregational churches comes to Creston May 19–21, alongside the 39th Iowa Woman's Home Missionary Society meeting. Next Sunday 11:00 AM sermon titled A Program of Excellencies, praise for Bible school teachers, Christian Endeavor topic How to Make Most of Summer at 7:00 PM, and evening service resumes Map Making with Theocracy to Monarchy themes.
The official board met Monday evening and approved a resolution urging the pastor to conduct a daily vacation Bible School this summer beginning in early June. The WCTU held a Mother's Day program at the Methodist parsonage Tuesday afternoon. The Boy Scouts meet weekly at the church with twenty boys active and more expected. Rev McEljowney is Scoutmaster with Garlock Holton Bartley on the troop committee.
Services are held over Long's Furniture Store with Sunday morning worship at 11 o clock and Sunday School at 10 o clock A M. A Wednesday service is planned at 7 99 o clock with Steeple weaving mentioned.
Eva Edwards Trumbull born May 22 1874 in Ainsworth Iowa died May 5 1925 in Anita Iowa aged 50 years 11 months 13 days Wife of J M Trumbull mother of Mrs Orlen Williams Beloit Wisconsin and Bernard A Trumbull Pittsburg Kansas Granddaughter Gloria Elaine Trumbull Sister Nelle Neff Earlham Maggie Galloway Casey Brothers Fred H Edwards Storm Lake Clyde W Edwards Adair Funeral held at L B Trumbull home conducted by Rev J W Ferner Interment in Adair cemetery
Card of thanks from Mrs. Nancy Edwards and family and others for sympathy. Local notices include subscriptions, Scouts game 3 to 2 against Atlantic, wolf and chicken hawk counts, a fatal lightning incident, a new moral code project for Iowa schools, social club events, farm bureau meeting, and early orchard planting near Peru. Also mentions Des Moines to 44 county seat routes on gravel and road material experiments.
A Monday evening Eastern Star chapter meeting was held. Atlantic attorney S. H. Rudolph called in from the city last Thursday. 80 acres near Anita offered for sale at 50 dollars per acre. Baby girl Letha Mae born May 4 to Mr. and Mrs. E. E. McIntyre at the home of Mrs. McIntyre’s parents in Searcy Arkansas. Mr. and Mrs. Carl H. Miller hosted Sunday guests from Adair and this city, including George Harry K. S. Correll Henry Wark and Dr. C. E. Harry, about twenty present.
A baby boy was born last Friday morning to Mr and Mrs Edwin Burkhart. The infant has been named William Leroy. Both mother and child are doing well and the father wears a happy smile.
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