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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1907
Page
3
A rural column from Cedar County notes community items including moves and visits. Parker travels to join a brother, families update on Pleasant Ent and Des Moines trips, and local schooling at Eckwith and Plum Grove. Several residents purchase new wagons, attend Billy Sunday meetings, and social visits are reported with minor weathered details.
April notices reveal a baccalaureate sermon at the Presbyterian church by Rev. C. B. S and graduation exercises at the M. E. church on Friday April 26. The class of 1907 comprises five members, three girls and two boys, with community updates on local residents and visits.
Elm Grove reports oats damaged by recent weather. Junkin is sick. A "hard time" dance was held at the town hall.
Cold weather heightens concern over the fruit crop. Frank Hull visits his sister Mrs. J H McCarty. Isaiah Harlan injures an arm after a fall from a barn. Sylvanus Taylor and wife return from California. A B Holliday sells grocery stock to Smith and Green of Glendale. Elmer Morris joins Ottumwa baseball. Aaron Workman and Johnny Shangy visit Fairfield. Frank Oldt leaves for Hot Springs to work for Black Butt Mining. Measles continue locally. Elder Hunt of Fairfield preaches at the Christian church.
Parsonville reports many youths attending William Sunday meetings in Fairfield. Weather is unseasonably cold. Will Carrigan of Albia visits his parents and runs a local tailor shop. Harper Mael from Washington state visits old friends. Mike Damm ships four carloads of cattle to Chicago and spends the week there with Oscar Larson. Death of Mr. Max Fry announced for Sunday.
Merrimac Iowa April 15 Mr Christ Keitz rushed to Dayton Ohio with grandson Roy McGuire to see his son William but arrived too late as death occurred overnight. Remains to Springfield Illinois for burial. Brother John Kevitz and sisters Mrs Fred Williams and Mrs Henry Spielman attend the funeral. Mrs Caroline Craft improving Mrs Chas Haifley still very low. Clarence Lilyblade injured hand.
An accident left a man with a badly broken finger after a hammer fell on his hand. Pete Rich and Allie Messer wed last week. Ernest Geise returned from Minnesota with his bride as about forty companions cheered him with instruments. Mrs. M S McQuire recovered from a severe cold. Estreus Norton attended Billy Sunday meetings in Fairfield with praise. Wm Ross and family visited home folks. Louisa Roos and daughter Katie visited Henry Shuppy’s home.
Miss Lucie Miller traveled to Washington. George Shekelton stuck engine while clearing locust stumps on the public road north of Perlee. Telegraph lines rise on the C R I & P cut-off north of town. A bridge on the new school road is under construction over the railroad. Bridge workers stay at J W Courtney home as Mrs Courtney plans Kansas trip to visit a ill mother. Mortie and Roy Fox return from County Line after duties with C R J P Railway. Elza Bush is ill. Mrs Courtney and Mrs Macy recover. A son born to Mr and Mrs John Kyle on April 6. Nearby residents attended Rev W A Sunday’s service.
The Iowa legislature closed its long session on April 9 after a day of final bill enrollment, speeches, and gifts of gavels. The major action included the final adoption of the anti pass bill which restricts railroad passes to certain carriers. The session also advanced a primary election law shaping nominations for all officers from presidential electors.
The 1908 Iowa session pushes city government reform with nonpartisan primaries for Galveston plan cities, references civil service, and referenda. It tightens corporation rules, constrains political campaign contributions, and broadens rail and reform measures across taxation, public health, and alcohol laws.
Manning's store in Keosauqua Iowa once oldest in the state was sold Monday to L F Pabst of Moravia Iowa. Established by Edwin Manning in 1839 it stood on the riverfront before moving to Second Street as Manning Commercial Co run by the Manning family. S W Manning will focus on banking and farming. Pabst brings eighteen years of Moravia mercantile experience.
The jury in Ft. Dodge Iowa on April 14 awarded Fannie Fenton a full verdict for 5000 dollars with interest in the suit against the Iowa State Traveling Men's Association. She sued to recover on her brother's policy after his death in 1904 from a fall at the Butler hotel in Boone.
Great Iowa Sugar Refinery in Clinton, Iowa, about to begin operations next Tuesday. The plant, nearly completed, will employ about three hundred workers in glucose starch and corn by products production. Train loads of grain continue to arrive to feed the new operation.
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