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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1907
Page
4
Public record lists 110 South Court Street as the subject of a formal notice. The notice outlines location details and the involvement of local authorities.
Program outlines events from Sunday September 1 to Tuesday September 2 in a small town. It lists a sermon at Pioneers Memorial Presbyterian Church and a Union Vesper at Chautauqua park, plus meetings and contests for old settlers, soldiers, and a parade with Maj J F Lacy address and a Fifty fourth Regiment band concert.
Fairfield will host a three day Home Coming celebration for past residents starting Sunday September first through Tuesday evening. The Old Settler’s jubilee will be Tuesday September third with business leaders urged to join. Program seeks hundreds of visitors to tour city progress including Parsons College and Chautauqua Park while ministers and the Fairfield Fellowship Club plan events.
Home Comers invited to a Monday evening picnic at Chau tauqua park with contests in rail splitting, knitting, spinning, wood sawing and more. Prizes for poetry, pioneer stories and music by old citizens. Tuesday features reunion exercises, a 4th Regiment band parade and concert, Major Lacey address, and an over 70 chorus.
Cleve Gaumer on vacation from McLean's jewelry store suffered a badly thrashed foot in a farm accident near the S. K. West farm yesterday. While helping in a hay field he jumped from a wagon gate, fell while rejoining the wagon, and the wheel ran over his foot.
Mr. and Mrs. Orrin Ogden welcomed a baby boy. Christ Johnson and family visited Jobo Vedin. Tressie Nelson visited sister Mrs Swanson in Salina. Helen Parsons spent time with friends near Glasgow last week. Altha and Marie Bates recover from measles. Easton of Salina and Eugene Parson joined at William Bush home. Hales of Keosauqua was in town last week contracting for school number six.
The Iowa Board of Railroad Commissioners announces the first joint freight rate effective today. Shipments may move from one railroad to another at 80 percent of combined local rates, with no transfer charges for carload shipments. If not carload, transfer charges apply between stations unless depots are shared. Continuous mileage rates below 80 percent of local rates void the joint rate.
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