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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1920
Page
3
Fairfield residents flocked to the Barnum show with 5000 tickets sold by early afternoon. The parade featured a milk white stallion a fifteen piece band zebras and mirrored chariots while deputies and locals noted arrests fines and a busy day overall.
Thirty years ago census data put the county population at 15 160 a drop from 1880 though Fairfield gained 296 since then. 1915 county population was 15 922 and 1920 figures were not announced. George White raised hay on the Pierce farm near Lockridge with 15 workers and 6 teams yielding about 80 tons.
Miss Flora Chester begins work at the post office while a boy falls from a Rock Island stock yard fence, breaking several ribs. Fred A. Spielman becomes manager of the new opera house. Wheat quality runs high with yields up to thirty bushels per acre and a planned B Y P S C E supper at Cross Lanes. The McCracken creamery plant and lot, valued at 1500, sold at auction for 200 to satisfy a mortgage.
Jefferson County officials announced plans to showcase county achievements and products at the Ottumwa Coal Palace exhibition. The exhibit aims to highlight local farms, industries, and civic projects to visitors during the upcoming event.
Twenty years ago Bennett and Company were setting machinery and preparing to sink a new installation. The note records their readiness and the steps taken in the project.
Reports mention a runaway injuring Frank Gudgell near the fair grounds and a petition by the Ladies Improvement association for a new Burlington depot. The Mahon farm, 170 acres southeast of the city, sold at $38 an acre to Dr. Grove. Fairfield ladies plan a baby show at the armory while Burlington road officials respond they cannot yet build the new passenger station.
Professor Eugene Davenport at Fort Collins urges community grubs taking to aid back to the farm movement. He recommends forming improvement associations to buy farms and grubstake young couples who wish to stay on the land. He argues federal loans are impractical and the plan would place future citizenship under local control.
Dean Davenport urged forming local improvement associations of community citizens to track young people and assign farm placements. He proposed these bodies receive state or federal funds and advocated low interest personal loans to couples to rapidly acquire farms.
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