Anita Tribune local notes and social happenings 1925
Public sale date printing offered free in every issue until sale ends. Dr JF Smith of Des Moines considers locating here if suitable office space is found. Local residents travel to Ames and Independence Iowa visiting relatives and students at the State Agricultural College. Oak Ridge notes report illness and visitors as Corn husking rises locally. An accident leaves a man shot by a brother in Oakland.
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The
Tribune
the Tribune
J. F. Smith
Des Moines
W. H. Wagner
Ames
Marian
Enid Wagner
State Agricultural College
Independence
Iowa
John Rowland
Muscatine
Lester Shaefer
Graham
Ruth
Peyt
Ross Walker
Anita
Oak Ridge Club
Jack Roberts
Jas. Parkinson
Galesburg
Illinois
Winterset
Clarence Johnson
Electricity Industry Sees Record Six Months in 1925 Profits
Electric light and power firms report higher business for the first half of 1925 than any similar period in history. US electricity production averaged 5.243 billion kWh per month, up 8 percent from last year and over 30 percent from 1920. Despite growth, only about 13.25 million of 26 million homes are wired, and many rural areas remain unserved.
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Electric Light and Power
United States
Americas
Real Estate Transfers and Local News Snapshots
Real estate transfers list several WD deeds and small sums, including Hattie M. Johnson to A J Nelson and others with token prices. The piece also recounts anecdotes from Maine barber misadventures, Iowa fair attendance reaching nearly 75,000, Miss Marion Crandall’s memorial highway marker, and a balloon prize travel mystery from Seneca to Leon with a flour prize via pre paid express.
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Marion Crandall
Davenport
France
Iowa
Mississippi River
Miss Crandal
Whiteway Highway
Pottawattamie
Cass
Adair
Guthrie
Dallas
Jasper
Poweshiek
Johnson
Muscatine
Cedar
Scott
Judge’s strong rebuke to young thief he sentences deed
A Nemaha Kansas judge lectures a young man named Hana after sentencing him for automobile theft. The judge warns of long prison terms, urges reform, and recommends transfer to a reformatory with a five to fifteen year sentence and good behavior deductions.
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Hanna
Ryan
Nemaha
Kas
Tribune
Reformatory
Board of Administration
Obituary and regional notices from early Iowa pages
Obituary for Richard Franklin Parmely details his birth in 1840 in Michigan his death in Des Moines in 1925 and surviving relatives including children and grandchildren. Funeral held at Anita Methodist Church with interment at Atlantic cemetery. Additional items note visits, college guests, Belmond beet sugar factory output and local Rotary Club remarks on beet sugar purity by Mr Tyrell.
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Richard Franklin Parmely
Miles
Michigan
S. H. Yard
Des Moines
Audubon County
Cass County
Mary E. Johnson
Perry F
Myron B
Dennis A
Cyntha D
Yard
Rosella Harris
Anita
L. J. Parmely
Port Blakley
Washington
Sarah Jameson
Marshalltown
Iowa
Ida Blackledge
Pennsylvania
Methodist Church
Extra
B. W. McEldowney
Atlantic
Belmond
Wright County
Iowa Valley
Tyrell
Rotary Club
Storer Visitation Highlights Lincoln Township Visit
R H Storer of Atlantic visited the home of his son Walter Storer and family in Lincoln township this week. Hallowe en decorations invitations masks and candy were prepared for a local Hallowe en party. Homer Kirkham renewed his Tribune subscription at Bongers Bros and arranged delivery to his daughters Mrs Earl Birge Pollock California and Mrs Paul Kelley Brayton Iowa.
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R. H. Storer
Atlantic
Walter Storer
Lincoln Township
Hallowe'en
Hallowe’en
Bongers Bros
Homer Kirkham
Tribune
The
Earl Birge
Pollock
California
Paul Kelley
Brayton
Iowa
Omaha Visitors and Local Bridge Club Notes
M. C. Hansen and Olaf Hansen visited Omaha at the week’s start. Attorney H. P. Ziegler advertises practice in all courts with abstracts and probate work. Mrs. George O. Smither hosted the L. C. G bridge club with substitutes Mrs. Adair Forshay Burkhart and Harry. High score by Mrs. R. C. Rasmussen.
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M. C. Hansen and Son
Olaf
Omaha
H. P. Ziegler
Roe Clothing Co
George O. Smither
L. C. G Bridge Club
G. M. Adair
D. R. Forshay
M. M. Burkhart
C. E. Harry
R. C. Rasmiussen
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C. W. Shaffer & Son
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V. F. Budd
Towa
Oak Ridge
E. V. Benson
Oakland
Hattie M. Johnson
A. J. Nelson
Edwin F. Stone
Marie Boutrager
H. L. Brown
Maine
Spencer
Clay County
Blanche Ward
Leon
Seneca
Kansas
Miss Ward
Madeline. Reynolds
Enid Waener
Wayne Jewett
Max Campbell
City
Burkhart
Unita
Pano
Putshess
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