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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1907
Page
5
A collection of weekend visits and greetings from Hillsboro and surrounding towns. Names include J E Benn J S Kelly Howard Weimer Russell Johnson Ray Tribby Nellie Bates Neva Taylor Allie Bradshaw and more. Community neighbors share travel, family events and farewell plans as Burke and Herriott families prepare to move to South Dakota.
Blackhawk Mr Mulkina spent last week with his daughter Mrs Teeter Mina Ethel Teeter returned to Glendale Friday Harrion Stansberry suffered a repeated injury but remains brave Frank Bryans sale drew a crowd Frank left Tuesday for a new home in Nebraska Earnest Brown moved to the Wilking farm south of Fairfield last Friday
Classified notice seeking a gentleman or lady to travel and collect for a firm with 250000 dollars capital. Salary paid weekly and expenses advanced. References required. Headquarters at your home. Address Armstrong Alexander 125 Plymouth Place Chicago Illinois 21 w
$100 reward offered for any catarrh case Hall's Catarrh Cure fails to cure. Cure claimed to be constitutional and to act on blood and mucous surfaces. Advertises testimonials and Toledo Ohio address for F J Cheney & Co. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
An old advertisement touts Hollfeter’s Rocky Mountain Tea as a grooming product. It promises a natural toning effect, cleansing the system, reddening cheeks, brightening eyes, and improving taste in the foods you eat.
Rev. William H. Betts delivered a sermon at the Fairfield Christian Church arguing for a higher daily Christian life over church dinners to fund debts. He urged churches to focus on soul saving, questioned denominational creeds, and highlighted the church’s long history and community efforts including a new parsonage funded by longtime member Clark Van Nostrand.
The Iowa push for state agricultural high schools gains statewide support with letters urging petitions and February 24 deadlines. Red Oak leaders tout a farm donation offer and cite success of similar schools in Wisconsin Missouri and Georgia as justification for a state farm high school under Ames and Drake.
A large home talent show titled The Story of the Reformation or Life and Times of Martin Luther is to be staged at the Grand Opera House on February 21 and 22 under the First English Lutheran church. About one hundred Fairfield performers join an illustrated lecture by Mrs D Ed Mayers of Washington. The program features dramatized scenes from Erfurt and Wittenberg with Prof H H M Gage as Luther, John A Hugin as Emperor Charles V, and Rev Pearse Vineh as Frederick III, plus music by Mrs Theo Hochuly and Miss Cora Sull.
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