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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1904
Page
6
Miss Emily Haskins visited Fairfield last week while James Farmer from Perlee called on H D Davis. Several residents relocate and attend church services as Easter programs are held. many townsfolk travel to Fairfield Keosauqua and Pekin.
Mrs S G Gaumer traveled to Bedford Town for her son J Edward's wedding to Miss Nellie Teachner. N B Regester owns a Columbian incubator hoping for grand success. Reports say local illnesses improve. J W Ross added a garden fence. frost appears retreating. W D Hudgell sold a horse to Harry Baker and T M Rider sold to Al Greeson. Henry Rider and J W Ross had wild duck. John Koontz and family visited town.
April updates from Woolson and Blackhawk list Stacy McCracken working for his uncle Eli Jones. No. 2 school opens with Ida Morgan as teacher. J O Nelson recovers slowly from pneumonia. Werse Ireland improves after Ft Dodge treatment. Frieda Bray also improves. Mrs Uriah Cox suffers paralysis. Robert L Nelson and Fred L Hannah visit Fairfield Saturday. Floyd Hixon to live on W H McCracken property. Charley Hadley ill with lung fever. No. 1 school to be taught by Ber.
In Abingdon Mrs Clara Adams is reported seriously ill and Miss Josie Davis worse than before. G A Mowery leaves T W Gobble Co to farm with his brother Paul. Town boys raid W A Blacks rats tallying 171 rats. Prof Caviness from Rome visits to find housing before spring term. Pension day brings veterans to town. Effie Wilson of Batavia visits Mrs D King. Mrs S D Cline returns from Hedrick visit. B E Clark of Downs Kansas visit nearby.
The town records the burial of a child from the Davis family after a Thursday death and expresses sympathy. Annie Bates and Nellie Bates visit a friend. Shifts of visits include H Heaton in Middletown and Gus Schillerstrom in Fairfield. Mary Louise Hickenbottom is ill under Dr Morrow. Mice have been exterminated and oat seeding is favored by good weather this week.
Ralph Ogden is sick at present. A Christian Endeavor party was held Tuesday night at Mr Layton home with about sixty five attendees. Women in the vicinity are cleaning house. Miss Lottie Ogden spent part of the week at home. The boys held an eoy roast Saturday evening. John Larson spent Saturday night with Tol Carter.
The Ladies' Assembly met with Rose Hickenbottom last Wednesday. They adopt a motto, Be sure you are right and then go ahead, as bad roads and rain dampen travel but attendance remains strong and the gathering is enjoyed.
The district diary records Mrs Scott McCormick meeting planned for the last Wednesday in April. Miss Clennie Johnson visits Elsie Nelson this week. Mr and Mrs Wrinklespacker stopped by M C Parsons Sunday. Mrs Dane Bush grew potatoes on Good Friday. Maggie Lamansky returned home to visit. Will Bush hosts his mother. Dell Parsons and family visited G B Parsons. Mrs J Howell visited kin near Libertyville. R E Parsons found two Uneeda biscuit boxes in straw while hauling yesterday.
Elm Grove reports Messrs John and Jim Crowe in the city for a Saturday visit. Mrs. S G Gaumer stayed with her son Edward at Glenwood and attended his wedding in Bedford. Roy Junkin joined Easter services in Fairfield. The Board met Monday morning with Seth McCarty in attendance. Jno Gantz improving slowly. Crowe brothers broke a colt. School began Monday with Miss Bertha Kurtz as teacher. Lucian Oliver of Packwood plans to buy Geo Johnson’s farm. Miss Sherman visiting the Crowe household. Roads drying fast and a fair week forecast. cats sown or plowed in the fields.
A Chicago to New York trip includes a stop in Texas to visit a brother. One sibling is a Malay Peninsula merchant, the other a former S Clarkst cheap restaurant cook. The merchant sent a draft payable in New York and urged the cook to cash it there before heading to Asia.
Real estate transfers listed with multiple buyers and sellers, parcels in Fairfield Packwood and vicinity. Dates March 9 through March 14 show deeds, guardianship deeds, and administrator notices with prices ranging from 35 to 9,300 dollars.
The Pittsburg Gazette denounces frequent public receptions where the president must greet hundreds, calling it a degenerate royal levee that attracts tourists and serves as Washington excursion advertising, arguing the president is a republican magistrate with important business to attend to and should not be accessed by idle curiosity.
An amusing report from West Coker describes a Plymouth Brethren chapel incident when a cow browsing on a hillside fell about twenty feet and crashed through the chapel roof. No service was underway and the cow left unharmed after the owner unlocked the door.
Achtison Globe Lightly riffs on morals and quirks in a jokey column. Witty vignettes cover a preacher social, wife control, baby naming, wives’ treatments, poker oddity with five aces, and Christian Science explanations. Various anecdotes tilt humorous social observations.
A playful dialogue clips a collector pressing Slopay about an unpaid bill. Slopay pleads illness and deflects responsibility by saying he must see his wife about the bill and he is not himself today. The collector insists the contract requires payment.
A quarrel over a newborn girl reveals class and elitist smugness as Popley boasts he will deny a foreign nobleman access to the child, illustrating snobbery and future expectations.
A teacher hands out flower seeds to children and promises a prize to the first to report growth. One morning a household guest named Tommy Tucker rings the bell, prompting the man of the house to answer and ask who is there.
A boy named Tommy arrives early to tell Miss Adair that "mine's growed" and seeks urgent business she must hear immediately. He is admitted to the parlor and she hurries to learn what has happened.
The piece describes a railroad time watch with two stacked dials showing hours and minutes and a price around six dollars. It also notes an imported alarm clock in a watch case with a third hand, marketed for travelers and business use, priced from four dollars, with French and German variants mentioned. local makers have not yet duplicated them.
A simple magic trick uses three almonds, candies or raisins under hats. The performer shows hands are empty, invites audience to identify items, and then eats the contents under each hat in turn. The final reveal is achieved by placing the chosen hat on the head to move the article.
In Mt. Pleasant on April 1 Miss Mattie Fawcett ran into a burning building to save someone or something in her home and was burned to death despite onlookers warnings. The tragedy highlights the danger of attempting rescues without proper equipment or help.
Meager details follow a fatal blaze near Irishtown that consumed the Fay home. The charred remains of a woman, about forty, were recovered beside a trunk after her crippled father was prevented from entering the furnace by onlookers. James Breshnehan saw smoke and helped pull articles from the upstairs, but the victim did not heed warnings. The house and trunk are all that remain, leaving the elderly father to mourn a total loss.
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