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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1912
Page
8
A long list of residents and visitors, including Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wray and their son in Libertyville, and numerous trips by Ottumwa and Fairfield locals to towns across Iowa Illinois and Dakota. The notes record two week stays and family visits with relatives and friends.
The Presbyterian Sunday school picnic at Chau tauqua park drew a large crowd last Wednesday with Unkrich's Boys' band leading the morning parade. Attractions included swings, teeter boards, toboggans, ball games, nail driving, and balloon ascensions. Rev. Montgomery and family attended after months away, while Miss Louise Junkin left soon for Chariton on a farewell from the X Y Z club. Also promoting farm knowledge, an ad urges subscribing to The Iowa Homestead through the local office at $1 per year for both papers, noting agent opportunities.
Readers can secure a regular fifty cent Iowa State Fair admission ticket plus one year of The Des Moines News for 2.25, with Sunday edition available for 2.50. The Iowa State Fair runs August 22 to 30, and the note invites switching from another daily.
Hutchinson Kansas Aug 5 at a preliminary meeting plans were formed to hold a state wide conference of farmers to assist in creating interest in the movement undertaken by the Kansas agricultural college and the various farmers organizations to increase the productivity of the soil.
Robert Jamison of Chicago spent weekend at L A Myers home in Ottumwa. Elizabeth Banfield left for Manhattan Kansas to visit Mrs Charles McFalls. John McLane of Seymour visited family in Ottumwa. D R Way returned from a northern trip. Mrs Johnson and son guests of Rev and Mrs Koenig. Helen Hammond visited relatives in Ottumwa. Mrs P C McElhany and son Paul visited relatives in Sovilla. Mr and Mrs C Frank called to Washington Iowa for death of grandchild. Etha Buchanan left for Michigan to Lake Geneva. James Richie of Woodbury County visiting son Harry on West Briggs. J P Mullenix and Mrs Mel Stevens returned from Yates City and Aurora Illinois. Kittie Norton arrived for a few days at C M Buchanan home. Daniel Coutts to Ledger as linotype operator. W F Bevering and daughter Virginia to Keokuk for medical treatment. he to return. Mr and Mrs M H Cuddy and son William depart for four weeks east. Miss Hester Ball due home Thursday from four weeks west. Arthur Greer and wife return from Kansas City and Pittsburg Kansas.
Infant Gayer Leroy, six months old, died at home on West Grimes and was moved to Ottumwa for burial after a Monday funeral. Lolla Swain Clark died in a sanitarium at Iowa Falls, leaving husband Harry Clark and two sisters. Frank Lucille, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Frank, died in Talleyrand after a few hours, with interment at TalleyRand cemetery.
Fromm J W son of Mr and Mrs Fromm died Friday night at the family home on West Kirkwood street aged fourteen months after a several weeks illness. Funeral was at the home last Sunday at 1 30 Rev S B Ross officiating. Interment in Evergreen cemetery. Bortorff Mrs Felix Bortorff died at her Packwood home last Saturday aged 72. Funeral services Sunday at Methodist church Rev Holiday officiating. Two sons and one daughter survive. Mrs Bortorff born in Pennsylvania and came to Iowa in 1851.
A compact observation highlights that the most desirable outcomes often come from challenging or guarded exteriors. The saying uses fruit and nut imagery to suggest value lies beneath tough surfaces. The message implies perseverance yields worthwhile rewards.
Delegates from Eldon Libertyville and Bata via attended the ninth annual convention in Fairfield. Mrs Nannie Gilbert was elected president for the coming year with Margaret Gantz as secretary and Emma Bradshaw as treasurer. The program included papers recitations music and an assembly address with closing exercises and the song Blest Be the Tie.
Center Township brief s report callers at C P Nelson home Sunday. Ed Neiswanger starts a new well. Culbert Armstrong visits David Wollett family. D M Holgate spends Thursday with Harley Hoopes in Fairfield. Monroe Johnson heads to Illinois to visit relatives. Clarence Beattie enjoys a one month vacation with Wm Beattie family. Leland Holgate trips to Libertyville by auto. S S Leathers of Blackhawk with D M Holgate family Sunday. H F Crile visits friends near Germanville Sunday.
Hymeneas Sawtell of Fairfield and Harry Nelson Frees of Chicago wed at the bride's parents home on South Court street. Rev A F Newell officiated before about 25 relatives and friends. After the ceremony a luncheon was served prior to the couple's departure for Cedar Rapids Iowa via Burlington.
Fairfield businessmen describe numerous changes including a new front for the Buchanan grocery on the north side of the square. The front will feature a side entrance with prism glass top and embody the latest design ideas. Other enlargements are planned soon.
Edward F. Dunne, Democratic nominee for governor, starts a state speaking tour tomorrow. He plans to visit Litchfield Farmville Mount Sterling Browning Medora Grafton and East St. Louis in the first week and aims to visit every Illinois county before October 25, ending his campaign in Chicago.
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