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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1908
Page
4
The Tribune seeks new correspondents to cover neighborhoods lacking regular representation as late-arriving mail causes backlogs. Readers may request supplies and instructions for submitting local news by addressing The Tribune. Nearby social notes recount a party for Mrs. C. W. Sullivan and her sister Bessie before returning to Illinois with Mrs. Mulkins visiting.
Miss Eva A Lertha Larson leaves for Minneapolis to spend a month with uncles Elmer and Mrs Larson Sr. H R Parsons visits his father Robert Parsons then returns to Tennessee. Fred Peterson visits his wife and aunt Mrs John Jenks. John Jenks and family join E A Parsons Jr and Mrs Wedine for Sunday at their home. Mrs W H Fuller and daughter spend Sunday with Elma Mitchell near Perlee. Albert Larson and family visit Oscar Larson's home.
Stockport Iowa August notes report hot days hinder crop progress threshing active oats fair price near fifty cents. Mrs Clark and Mrs Ogburn of Des Moines visit relatives. Rev L E Marshall conducts Christian church services. Edgar Brewer and Grace Wilson wed at Birmingham. Upcoming Rhynas Workman horse sale at the dockyards features western horses and Amos Long Wolf the Indian roper.
Beckwith Iowa August 3 farmers will soon have their threshing done as the machine moves through the neighborhood. A man entered the home of Frank McCormick while Sunday school was in progress and stole $2.50 a razor a knife and some edibles. He was arrested later by Deputy Sheriff Charles After and taken to airfield for trial. Local families Mrs Elmer Hollander and others visited. Several residents remain on the sick list and news of Mrs Martin's improving health is reported.
Miss era Hewett from Beaver City Neb and Grace Milano from Wymore Neb visited cousins as the thresher’s whistle sounds across the region. Mr Spencer from Missouri stayed at Uncle Johnny Sell’s home while Miss Mabel Moyer and Mary Ruth Hudgel made short visits after Cedar Falls.
Pleasant Plain Iowa residents report hot dry weather and a forthcoming carpet rag tacking at Mrs Ed Snooks. Visitors include Mrs Goodnoe from Fairfield and Emry family from Cedar Rapids to see ill Mrs Shekelton. Local arrivals include Winnie Hodson Olive Shaffer Mary Williams and residents James Hodson Alson Hodson and families with updates on Mrs Shaffer and Mr Whitacre. Harvesting winds down as the community notes social calls and neighborly visits.
The article notes the death and funeral of eleven months old Dorothy Byczek buried in the Polish cemetery. Clergy from Davenport and Chicago led services, with local attendance from Fairfield and area families including Kasowski Kurka Burk and Kasowski relatives at the Polish church services on July 26.
Miss Birdie Linquist of Keokuk is visiting her sister Mrs A M Morrow in Lockridge. William Grove and family of Stockport spent Sunday with Mrs Pearson and with Mrs Fred Rauscher and Mrs Alex Smith at Mt Sterling. Mrs Garrison and daughters have returned to Gladstone after visiting Mrs Brown. Mrs Charley Erickson was here last week with her mother Mrs Graby.
Aug 3 local notes report a new baby born to Mr and Mrs Dan Bennett. Visitors include Mrs Frank Shriner of Fairfield and Mrs Charles Belding of Lenox. Several residents spend Sundays with friends and relatives in Eldon Center township and nearby towns. Reverend C Springer leaves for North Yakima Washington for several weeks. Harvest trips sent Earl Riggs Lloyd Riggs and Emil Heston to the Dakotas. The entry ends with Mr Walt Byers and wife from Illinois visiting Libertyville area.
Miss Amy Topping and Miss Olive Martin of Burlington visit Mr. and Mrs. Homer Topping while staying with relatives.
Center Township held its annual Sunday school convention in the Plum Grove schoolyard on August 2. The day featured devotional guidance by Dr. Monfort, addresses on Education and the Sunday School, music by the Star quartet, and a well-attended dinner served from baskets. New officers were elected for the coming year.
Paddy and Prince of the Sioux City fire team won the free-for-all race in Clinton Iowa during the state firemen's tournament. They set a world record with a half mile run using a bank hitch and coupling in 1 15. Des Moines teams finished second and third.
Sluggish torpid liver causes coated tongue head ache biliousness indigestion and bowel irregularity. Relief comes after using Dr A W Chase's Kidney and Liver Pills and a few weeks of this regulator of the liver. One pill a dose 25 cents a box at dealers or W Chase Medicine Co Buffalo NY.
Dr A W Chase's Kidney and Liver Pills advertised at Theome's Pharmacy in Fairfield Iowa promoting a tonic for kidney and liver support.
A massive blaze in Chicago destroyed Burlington elevators E and F and the dock transfer house, with about 100 box cars burned or ruined. Armour & Co. estimates grain losses at 700000 dollars, total losses near 1000000. Fire started around 1 p.m. from chemicals. 80 engine companies fought the fire, confining it by evening.
A glass bottle cast into the Des Moines River at Ottumwa by James Shaw and companions on Memorial Day drifted 1,600 miles to the Bay of Mobile in 29 days. It was recovered near the entrance to Mobile Bay by John B. Dickson and confirmed Shaw’s story. The走journey followed winding waterways, making exact distance uncertain.
Des Moines reliability run from Des Moines to Boone sparks talk of forming an auto club in Boone Iowa. Enthusiasm grows as machine owners discuss uniting this week to take initial steps toward organization.
John Lepley shot himself in a room on August 2, fracturing a group portrait on the wall with the bullet. Investigators note Lepley was mentally unbalanced.
Des Moines Iowa Aug 3 weather in past week ideal for field work. Corn growth rapid with early fields forming ears and some three feet high. Threshing showing better small grain yields. oats ahead of southern reports but below average. wheat rye barley fair to good. pastures and potatoes in good condition though rain would help. Geo M Chappel, Section Director.
West Point hazing case leaves eight cadets in limbo as final action awaits congressional or executive mercy. Roosevelt officials dispute prior reports and say no final decision has been made. Wright defers comment, saying the president’s position remains unresolved.
The $50000 piano selected for the 1908 Chautauqua will be sold to the highest bidder at meeting close. The instrument, famed in hundreds of homes and used nationwide for sixty years, is sought by many as a prize for fine musicians and daily listeners.
Ackley Iowa July 31 after waiting over a third of a century for a new depot at the Iowa Central station active work has begun on the structure and it should be ready by October 1 the depot will be twenty feet wide and ninety feet long the old building has served since the road reached Ackley over forty years ago the company has promised replacement repeatedly
Iowa Falls reports rural carrier Hadley pioneering a motor cycle on a 25 mile route serving 75 patrons. The device cuts delivery time significantly, signaling potential growth of motorized mail service on rural routes nationwide.
A fire from a dropped cigar ignited an awning at the Utica store in Des Moines early today. An office boy on the upper floor had just lit a cheroot when the wind carried smoke outside, while downstairs the incident caused concern. Firefighters prevented further damage.
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