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Newspaper
Anita Tribune
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1925
Page
2
City Meat Market reports Hans Christensen and his wife moving to the area to live with her brothers east of the city. Local items note small sales on shaving cream and razors this week. Hugo Wiese and wife visited Iowa City for a football game and relatives over the weekend.
Audubon Iowa October 21. At Memorial hall after a good roads meeting no highway commission member committed to a definite program. Delegates from Guthrie, Audubon and Shelby counties urged primary roads funding. Chief Engineer Fred R White praised the need for better southern Iowa roads and said law changes may improve them, while northern pressure to repeal the law worries leaders. Representatives Chas White Guthrie Earl Vincero Shelby W T Shepherd spoke. John Gingery presided. sandwiches and coffee were served by the community club.
Twenty seven heirs of late Nels Hoegh estate sue in Audubon county district court seeking equal division of two thousand acres of Cass and Audubon County land. They request appointment of a referee to divide the property, noting the deceased left cash assets worth several hundred thousand dollars.
Wilbur Petersen superintendent of Elms Orphans Home sues Rock Island Railroad for 10500 alleging fault in a September crossing collision near Atlantic that killed Rev. Jensen and badly injured Petersen. seeks 500 more for the car. Local society notes follow with visits and family news from Elk Horn and surrounding towns.
At the National Corn Growers Association meeting in Atlantic last week a county organization was formed with Chas. FE Malone as president and Frank H. Oser as secretary. Plans were made to organize every township in the county.
The district court last week dismissed the robbery case against Carl Archer after a jury was empaneled. Attorneys for Archer moved for dismissal citing insufficient evidence. Archer faced charges of complicity in robberies of local homes tied to the winter period involving Herbert Barnes and George Collatz who pleaded guilty and received ten-year sentences in Anamosa. Pasture for horses noted. local social and farm updates follow.
The yong married woman's Sunday School class held their monthly social at Mrs Glen A Roe's home with about twenty attendees. Plans include nursery care in the morning, a quarterly conference on October 22, and rallies by the Woman's Foreign Missionary and Woman's Home Missionary Societies. Epworth League leads rally week November 1 to 8. Members organize new classes and fundraisers with bread coupons for the Ladies Aid.
Christian Science services are held at Longs Furniture Store with Sunday morning worship at 11:00 and Sunday School at 10:00. Wednesday evening services are at 8:00 and all are welcome.
The Cass County Farm Bureau reports the Harvey Heath Edna township plot yielded Black's Yellow Dent by Clyde Black of Dallas Center Iowa at 86.8 bushels per acre, followed by Peter Stender 82.5 and Harvey Heath 80.6. The test marks the first Edna township plot with plans to continue next year. The piece also notes orderly marketing by the Producers Livestock Commission and a historic farmer-led price hold in hog markets.
Bernard Stone Ralph Miller and George Dorale attending a Des Moines business school spent the weekend visiting relatives and friends in the city.
H. P. Ziegler, attorney at law, offers practice in all courts with emphasis on abstracts and probate work. Located over Roe Clothing Co. in the city.
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