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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1908
Page
12
The Fairfield Tribune lists editors C. R. Spencer and G L. Bargar with business manager duties. It announces annual subscription terms at one year in advance for one dollar and shorter periods at twenty five cents and three months in advance.
A collection of remarks and items from Des Moines and Iowa towns touches on political races and figures, labor trusts, and proposed limits on saloons. It notes a money dispute over state claims, press notoriety for a diamond robber, and a new lumber trust. It also mentions Taft and Roosevelt postures, Cummins in the senate, Iowa divorces rising, and a Japan US sparring matter. A Blockton woman dies in a burning home, an Albia man faces desertion charges, and Fairfield earns praise for civic virtue and pavement funds.
A Chicago man claims a process that can convert a body into gold for 515000, suggesting only a few would be worth more dead than alive. the note warns of immense responsibility for loved ones facing such a fate.
A satirical look at a future economy where deceased forebears become stock in trade. The piece imagines pawning or selling gold filled ancestors like Miles Standish and Pocahontas, creating a booming industry for Fairfield capitalists and redefining wealth through lineage. The tone mocks materialism and speculative finance.
Vermillion South Dakota November 26 Mrs Christiana Clark accused of murdering her former husband was found guilty by a jury. The verdict returned was manslaughter in the second degree.
Prohibitionists in Marshalltown Iowa have organized for the city campaign. A ward committee will decide whether to nominate strictly cold water candidates or to support independent contenders in the field.
Fayette Iowa November 20 President Wm A Shankland of Upper Iowa University received a $30,000 check from Andrew Carnegie fulfilling a pledge that triggered once $150,000 more endowment was completed.
A newspaper advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only complete remedy for catarrh. It claims the medicine fights the constitutional disease from within, building up strength, and offers a one hundred dollar reward for any uncurable case. It lists F J Cheney & Co of Toledo, Ohio, as owners and notes 75 cents price and a testimonial list request.
Overseer Glenn Voliva plans to present to Receiver Thomas a proposal to buy the entire estate of John Alexander Dowie. He aims to keep Zion City in the hands of Dowie’s followers by raising about 1,300,000 dollars.
Ting Fong Lee a Chinese laundryman in Iowa Falls wed American Mary Alger at Ottumwa last Saturday the couple are in Iowa Falls where he will operate his laundry after Cedar Rapids federal court fined him 100 and sentenced thirty days for bootlegging and a state case failed to convict him for nuisance as he proved the snake juice he sold was a medicinal remedy and displayed the celestial snake in court.
Four men seized Hughes county bank cashier R C Greer at Blunt South Dakota and forced him to unlock the vaults. About 150 dollars were stolen, with the time-locked safe remaining intact. Two suspects Frank Gorman and Frank Lilly are jailed. two more held in Huron.
In Blockton Iowa on November 27 Mrs. Monroe Newton perished after reentering a burning home to retrieve a cherished rug. Her husband escaped as the roof collapsed, the couple having earlier saved belongings. The tragedy casts a somber mood over Thanksgiving.
Three masked men forced entry to Mrs. David Gilbraith near Letts Iowa at 3 pm. They brandished revolvers, searched trunks and closets, failed to find cash, and looted winter fruit from the cellar before fleeing. Mrs. Gilbraith feared hysterics after the confrontation and the intruders departed with fruit.
A Missouri Kansas Texas freight engine exploded near Idenbro six miles south of Parsons Kansas. Engineers Frank E. Melville of Parsons and F F Wulfe of Dallas were killed and fireman C E Roe injured. Melville died with mangled body. The mogul engine had just been overhauled and caused no damage to the train.
A farm near Fairfield and Brookville will hold a public sale on Tuesday December 8 1908 starting at 10 o clock. The seller has sold the farm and will offer the listed property at the auction held six miles northwest of Fairfield and two miles east of Brookville.
A Fairfield sale lists 1 extra good 4 year old mare 1 good 3 year old mare 1 3 year old gelding 1 mare coming 2 years old 2 Shire colts 1 yearling draft colt 1 spring mare colt 2 mares in foal 2 mares 10 years old 1 blind mare 20 head cattle 5 milk cows 7 yearling steers 7 calves 3 steers 4 heifers 1 2 year old Short Horn bull 44 hogs with 11 sows 25 fall pigs 8 spring pigs. Implements include harrow mower plows wagons planters cultivators and more. 40 acres stock and meadow pasture corn hay grain 1300 bushels corn 28 tons hay. Terms cash under 10 dollars. over 10 sums on bankable note at 6 percent. No property removed until settled. Auctioneer C. P. Hague. Lunch on grounds.
At Iowa Falls on November 27 thirty railroad train service workers were discharged under the Rock Island road alcohol rules. The superintendent said the policy is the strictest in the system and employed men are summarily dismissed if they frequent places selling liquor.
Des Moines reports a rumor that postmasters in Iowa's Eighth district may resign en masse before Congressman Hepburn's term ends. The move could allow reinstatement to four year terms by presidential and post office department aid, preserving federal spoils for standpatters.
Albia Iowa November 26 St Elmo Collins learned the woman he believed was his wife had never been divorced from a previous husband. After repeated arrests bailments for wife desertion and support issues he filed for annulment of his marriage. The court granted the petition.
State of Iowa Jefferson County notifies Mary B Snook John N Snook Esther S Snook and others of the estate of Calvin Snook deceased that Ella A Snook as administratrix will file a final report on or before January 1, 1909 seeking approval and discharge. If they do not appear by February 2, 1909, default will be entered and further orders will be made. Attorney I D Jones represents.
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