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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1907
Page
5
The Board of Supervisors notes that American forests are rich in medicinal plants as medical writers attest. It cites Indian knowledge before white contact and credits ongoing efforts that produced a broad range of valuable American medicinal roots.
A fifty foot well near Cantril Iowa last week exposed a thirty foot vein of potter’s clay with an additional twenty feet shown below the surface. Samples were sent to Ames Iowa and Monmouth Manufacturing for testing.
Dayton May Smith and Edward J Hayden petition in Jefferson County Iowa for partition of the west half of the southwest quarter and the west three-fourths of the east half of the southwest quarter in Section Five Township 71 North Range 10 West containing 140 acres. They ask the court to establish each party's undivided two-ninths interest and order partition. If you fail to appear or defend by May 6 1907 default will be entered and judgment rendered.
Des Moines reports imply a possible GOP contest in eastern Iowa over the Fifth District congressional seat. Rumors tie to Robert G. Cousins and a potential fall from a clear path if he seeks re election amid statewide speculation of a broader bidding field. In Waterloo a farmer, John Steen, mental collapse follows a letter from his wife at Independence asylum.
William Peetz son of a Clinton saloon keeper caused a riot by entering a saloon, brandishing a large club, ejecting patrons, and sitting on the bar threatening violence until city police arrived and jailed him.
Mason City Iowa April 15 Eleanor Graves five year old daughter of A M Graves of Plymouth was fatally burned after stepping on a match igniting her clothing. The child was on the upper floor when her screams drew her mother but too late.
State of Iowa Jefferson County. Susan Hayden Pearl Hayden Jessie Brooks Frank Brooks Margaret Dayton Harold C Dayton May Smith Edward J Hayden Mrs Edward J Hayden John W Hayden Emily Hayden James F Hayden Caroline Hayden Thomas M Hayden Edith Hayden notified that by April 24 1907 a petition of Sarah E Davenport will be on file in the District Court seeking division of described Jefferson County real estate with shares assigned to each Plaintiff and Defendant as specified including Sarah E Davenport one sixth John W Hayden one sixth Thomas M Hayden one sixth James F Hayden one third Susan Hayden one eighteenth Pearl Hayden Jessie Brooks Margaret Dayton and others.
In an 1907 Chancery proceeding M S Welsh and Mary E Welsh seek to quiet title to 170 acres in Jefferson County Iowa described as parts of sections 17 20 and 21 township 73 range 9. The suit targets multiple heirs and unknown claimants including Frank Noble Charles Noble John Kyle and others and requests removal of several recorded mortgage clouds against the land and full satisfaction entries on margin records. Defendants are notified to appear by May term 1907 at Fairfield Iowa or default will be entered.
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