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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1905
Page
8
A column on farming tips and observations covers crop ideas such as plowing hog yards into rape before August, bee ranching with imported queens at high cost, and favorable fruit tree varieties. It notes a Texas overproduction of Bermuda onions and reports high pay from onion crops, plus general notes on winds, weather, and rural life.
A fossilized carcass was buried about seven feet in a bog near Morgan township, a few miles northeast of Dows. The peat bogs, once a buffalo rendezvous, now supply peat sold as a coal substitute on the market.
Celia True, 13, without a home or friends, has been moved among counties and state institutions. Formerly in Onawa with a relative, she was placed by A W Laningham of Des Moines at the Iowa Children’s Home. Due to mental status she could not be placed, sent to Glenwood then Correctionville, Woodbury County, with relatives refusing care. officials plan to return her to Montgomery county.
The column extols salt treated hay palatability, cites rape as summer hog feed, notes rising rice production, and taxes reciprocal cheese trade with Canada. It values a man at 5000 dollars, and discusses poultry revenue, potato bug control, and the gospel of grass for soil and profit. It laments selfish farmers hindering drainage projects and urbanizes on farm labor disputes and leadership.
Frank and Arthur Larson and Clifford Bangs unearthed a buffalo skeleton while digging peat in Morgan township Hampton Iowa. The discovery occurred in the peat bog revealing the remains of a large ancient animal.
Delaware county fair officers plan military maneuvers during the September 5 to 8 event in Manchester. Companies from Vinton and Independence will assist Co D of Manchester in bell bar drill style demonstrations, with tents on fair grounds and daily maneuvers for visitors.
Commandant C. C. Horton filed with the board of control a biennial report for the Iowa Soldiers' Home. Improvements sought total 71 500 dollars while past costs ran 270 554 dollars, net 142 829 after government inmate payments. Average annual population 773 with a 96 47 per capita cost. He calls for a larger hospital and a larger women’s dormitory.
LeMars Iowa August 6 Pat Hopkins a pioneer shipper from LeMars began shipping the largest herd of hogs ever sent from Plymouth county. He starts 2500 head from his yards and aims to market them in a day or two. Hopkins has forty years of continuous shipping and is credited with sending more hogs to markets than any other individual. He has shipped over 10000 car loads from Plymouth county and has paid as high as 15 dollars per hundredweight and as low as 2 dollars per hundredweight.
E L Crow of Mapleton reported two brown horses and a buggy stolen Sunday night. He recovered one horse and the harness at MorningSide in Sioux City where the thief had traded the items and fled with a single rig. The second horse was traded before MorningSide. Crow will continue pursuit. Local suspects are suspected in involvement.
Miss Mary Louise Bernier of Salix was arraigned before insanity commissioners in Sioux City on August 5 and committed to the Cherokee state hospital. Doctors cited illness and a belief she is married, intensified by a faithless lover, as the cause. She is 28 years old.
Aug 4. Axtel Gartz a freight department employee was killed instantly at West Burlington shops when a jack elevating a car struck him in the head as the lever flew back. The accident occurred during routine operations.
In Council Bluffs Iowa opponents of old style vaccination challenge a board of health order requiring scarification for school entrance. They argue no smallpox epidemic exists and contend the order cannot be enforced if the emergency status ended. Case to be heard in September before schools reopen.
Mrs. Isaac Stone, 28, visiting her sister in Burlington Iowa, mutilates herself with scissors multiple times. two temple wounds, arm injuries, and many abdominal wounds. She initially holds her six week old infant, then ends attack. now hospitalized and unlikely to survive. Detected mental strain linked to ill health.
Eddyville Iowa Aug 5 James Harris prosperous farmer was found dead at his Kirkville area home. A revolver lay in his hand and the bullet pierced his brain leading investigators to deem it a likely self inflicted death though accidental circumstances cannot be ruled out. He leaves a wife and one son. affairs were reported in good order.
Intense hot spell in Elkader Iowa this week felled four elderly residents. Marie Huene 70 Guttenberg Otillie Hochhans 73 Elkader James McGee 70 Elkader and Peter McGee 85 Elkader all died leaving the McGees as a single household casualty cluster.
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