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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1909
Page
4
Synopsis notes 166 new laws taking effect July 4 plus 70 already in force. It lists general laws plus Fish and Game measures, removal acts, and saloon laws among 304 total new statutes enacted by Iowa legislature. Des Moines dispatch highlights dates and scope.
Section 2539 creates the State fish and game warden position with Governor appointment for three years, a 1200 dollar yearly salary, and duties including hatchery management and biennial reporting. It outlines seizure powers, fish and game protection, and related penalties and licenses across sections 2540 to 2551 detailing seasons, methods, transportation, fines, and licensing requirements.
A long excerpt outlines chapters detailing unlawful hunting practices and penalties, licensing for game, and protections for birds, animals, nests, and non game species. It notes penalties from fines to imprisonment and covers warden duties, licenses for residents and non residents, and provisions for bequest and burial of ex governors.
The text outlines amendments in Chapter 10 altering timeholding district courts and requiring tabular state statements by the secretary of state. Chapter 11 details judge assignment in certain districts by the chief justice.
The record notes appropriation for the Freemen's Institute of Pocahontas County Iowa. It cites an act to grant and relinquish to the city of Dubuque the title to the abandoned Mississippi river bed. The text mentions Omaha Nebraska and Andrew Jackson County Indiana.
Mayor A M Henderson of Marengo faces charges under new law to depose him from office for drunkenness. A pulley accident fractured his skull delaying the trial but he has improved. District Judge Byron W Preston will hear the case in Oskaloosa within a month with County Attorney W J Kirby as prosecutor.
The 1909 1910 Iowa official register nicknamed the red book shows half tones of three female employees Ruth Woodruff Mabel Elwood and Mollie Heist among more than 100 sober legislators. Jay S Brewer edits the 912 page volume the bulkiest red book yet published. It also includes county histories and a complete list of Iowa judiciary with district and supreme court judges since statehood.
Lincoln centennial bronze medals from the United States Mint Philadelphia arrived at the department office of the Grand Army of the Republic in the state house and are ready for distribution to G A R members public libraries and historical societies. The obverse features a Lincoln bust with the motto With Charity to All and Malice Toward None and the dates 1809 1909. The reverse shows a laurel wreath surrounding the inscription struck for the Grand Army of the Republic for the hundredth birth anniversary of Abraham Lincoln.
The last Polk County voter who backed the 1846 constitutional amendment for Iowa's admission to statehood has died at 91. Montg ery McCall practiced law in Camp township and later lived with his son John in Ames. He is buried in Stuart cemetery near his former home.
Cushman of Washington, a deceased representative formerly from Iowa, born in Brighton Washington county, educated at Brighton High School and Pleasant Plain academy. He funded his education as a waterboy on a railroad and later as a section hand before leaving Iowa at sixteen to go west. Had he lived he would have become a senator from Washington succeeding Piles.
J L Bingaman of Green Mountain sold his seventy acre Sella Farm to M F Tuttle of Melbourne for 150 per acre. The farm was bought four years ago for 90 per acre with 1200 spent on improvements, yielding about 1050 profit yearly as land rises in value.
The golden wedding of Mr. Peter Wulf and his wife was celebrated at the Danish Lutheran church in this city. Mr. Wulf came to the county from Denmark about twenty seven years ago and settled on a farm in Audubon county. He and his wife raised five daughters and three sons and built a small fortune.
The aging humorist John L Sullivan entertains a Baltimore audience with a remark to a manager about a wealthy youth called a hollyboy. The piece also notes textile laundering tips praising Defiance Starch for strong stiffening without thickening, touting improved fabric appearance.
A city visitor asks about the village garden and Mr Crosslets boasts the spot is the best place for fishing worms in the entire village, highlighting productive plots and practical cultivation.
A vintage advertisement for Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup targets parents of teething children. It promises pain relief for teething, soothing effects, and claims against wind colic. The ad lists price as 25 cents for eight bottles.
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