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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1925
Page
2
Anita May news notes many local figures visiting, working and aging, with Gladys Pray of the Anita corps of teachers set to spend vacation in Des Moines specializing in school work. A wide range of residents and visitors, from mayors to traders, are reported in Anita and nearby towns with updates on family illnesses, travels, and community plans including a Cass County Farm Bureau picnic and Fourth of July events.
The Wiota Consolidated Senior class enjoyed a Friday evening gathering at Lucille McDermott’s home with black and gold decorations, dancing, and a lunch by Merle Connor Ethel Humphrey and Rex Prather. The Wiota Rebekah lodge celebrated homecoming with forty members, letters from absentees, and light refreshments. Wiota P T A closed the year with a program by fifth and sixth graders, election of officers for next year, and a vote to purchase a hospital bed for the school followed by lunch. The Junior class held a hard times party at J Mailunder’s home, sponsored by Winona von Lackum.
Mrs W F Graham and her young son visit her sister Mrs J W Zike in Minatare Neb this week. R M Chizum of Shenandoah visits. Jim Moon builds a new barn south of town. Star Legion meets at Frank Berry home. Ladies Aid Society gathers at Mrs John Montague’s. KB Berg spends week in Massena on business. Maud Webster returns to Iowa City hospital for further treatment. Prof C R Olsen chosen superintendent of Lewis schools for next year. Ruby Wissler named fourth grade teacher. Mrs Percival returns from Colorado after winter absence. Pay Smith of Omaha visits his mother Mrs Rosa Smiley and daughter Bergh. Mothers Day observed next Sunday. HD Bunce installing a curri ta c on east side of property. Mrs Carl Smith and baby visit his mother Me Lucy Starr. Gretchen Much plans to graduate May 12 from Jennie Edmundson hospital Civic Bluffs. Roy Burkhalter family occupy old Mattie Elliott residence during her absence.
Adair Iowa May 7 Special to N T Mr and Mrs de Patterson and son Odell of Dallas S D are guests of Mrs Patterson's parents J B Smith and wife in Berea community. Elsie Patterson of Cumberland visits niece Mrs D R Raffensperger. Wheeler and Furst families motor to Omaha and return. Kenneth Rowley Mondamin and former Adair boy transacted business. Mrs Arthur Kelsey and now Robert Kelsey visit Atlantic. Myrtle Lovell recovering from mastoid operation returns home to resume schoolwork.
Clarence Blake of Atlantic and Mr and Mrs Martin Sorenson of Atlantic visited Marne. The Aber deen group left for their home after attending Mrs Harriett Allen who is ill with pneumonia but improving. Squires from California returned home after visiting Mrs Harriett Allen. Jesse Brown and his wife spent Sunday with her parents John and Tobieson. Mrs H A Gill visited Council Bluffs to see daughter Alice at the Deaf and Dumb school. Cora Blake of Atlantic came to visit Marne friends. A brick fell from a chimney narrowly missing Hung Anderson. Marne grade school defeated Pottawattamie Hayreeds 9-3. M P Ladies Aid met May 7. Presbyterian Ladies Aid met May 6 for quilting. Matilda Knotts of Herman Neb visited M P Gundersons and will visit Stena Johnson and the Gundersons.
Miss Anna Green visits grandparents near Winterset. Omaha residents M D Walker and Roy Sewart family visit Elliott relatives. Max Moore recoveries and Hudson coach purchase. Henderson school superintendent elected. J J Osborn buys stock, moves goods. Reppeys move to new building. Research club meets. Maude Sundell visits from Kansas City. Farewell party for Rev and Mrs Sutton as they move to Washington LA.
Special items report visitors Hans Hansen of South Dakota visiting his parents Mr and Mrs Knude Hansen and relatives. A P Anderson family from Iowa hosts Miss Nielsen of Copenhagen. Chris Christensen returns from Excelquir Springs Missouri still ill and bedridden. Mr and Mrs George Petersen of nearby Korbeck welcome a baby boy born May 4.
Nick Fisher and family left for Weleme Minnesota after visiting relatives in town. Mrs Helen Henningsen of Red Oak visited her mother Mrs Neary. Mrs Lula Ashbaugh recovering from grippe. Rev Brewling and children visited Hastings. Donstine and Brynar of Griswold in town on business. Ackerman spent day in Omaha. Bourck and Westover drove to Des Moines on business. Field Meet attended in Elliott. Clyde Jones plans to join the smile gun. Mr and Mrs Jarvis drove to Atlantic. McCue and Miss Laura Dumke visited New Market. Porter spent Tuesday with his in laws in Corning. L C Wiatt of Atlantic visiting Mrs Porter.
Des Moines report alleges the first all woman jury interacted with interested parties during a contested suit involving Jenna and Wim Nelsson, losers who request the jury verdict be set aside. In Los Angeles, Grace Day seeks a new trial after a recent conviction for an acid attack on her husband. Darby Day Jr., scion of a Chicago family, was postponed for proceedings Monday morning.
A Griswold News notes items from May 8 detailing farm bureau session in Wave land township with Miss McComb on color theory, visits by many residents to relatives in Morton’s Mills and Atlantic, illness strikes, new leases of land for sand pumping, travel to Bridgewater and Atchison, and local residents including Jorgensen, Bishop, Dieus, and Thulin making short trips.
Honolulu dispatch reports Admiral Coontz and General Hines urging Oahu as the key Pacific base with Hawaii defenses. They call the island chain the Gibraltar of the Pacific, citing Oahu as the site of the main naval base and concentrated VAM defenses.
Waterloo Indiana reports that W. E. Orvis turned in a quarter of an ounce of whiskey unearthed while spading his garden in a local revolt against the eighteenth amendment. The incident prompted police headquarters to take the item for disposal.
Shenandoah Ind May 9 A Missouri man FLOM Streeter was sentenced to 30 days on the streets for flirting with high school girls. He was arrested near the local high school in Shenandoah.
In Des Moines a vehicle carrying Cesar D Appella remained involved in a downtown scene as a car was dragged through the streets. Police Chief Cavender ordered the vehicle to be towed and criticized mixing booze with gasoline, aiming to make an example of the rowdy behavior.
One hundred forty Japanese and one hundred twenty six Chinese athletes will land in Manila tomorrow to compete in the Far Eastern Olympic games. The dispatch notes the arrival in the capital ahead of the event.
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