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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1905
Page
17
Libertyville reports a birthday club supper at J. W. Peebler’s home and various local events. New births, visits, moves, and holidays are noted, including families dining together on Thanksgiving and an old soldiers banquet for twenty five veterans and spouses.
In Glendale on December 1 about thirty neighbors with fifteen wagons gathered corn for Perry Hickenbottom who cannot husk due to a hand injury. Mrs Hickenbottom and Miss Holdabright served a feast. neighbors note the labor was a Thanksgiving of good weather and timely aid.
Harlan F. Rupp of Denver visits family in Four Corners. Alma Hildebrand of Fairfield spends part of the week at home. School opened with Verne Turnbull and Edith Beall as teachers. Clarence Carlberg ill with typhoid. Andrew Murphy of West Burlington visits. Lewis Achenbach in New London on business. Conrad Bogner Jr. and Clarence Scheiber return from Minnesota for the winter. John Stephenson celebrates Golden Wedding anniversary. Mrs. Wm. Achenbach, Mrs. Walgren, and Mrs. Lynn ill or absent from meetings.
The Rev. J. O. Borgeson spent part of last week in Burlington, visiting local congregants and meeting with community members during the stay.
Willard Downey opens a meat market at Pleasant Plain. Everett & Son plan to move general merchandise to Mt. Pleasant with G B Everett as manager. George Romack sells a car load of cattle to Harry Mitchell for $100 each. Polly Collins, over 80, visits Ollie for winter. Nate Smith ships two car loads of stock. Quarterly M E church meeting underway with possible extension.
Misses Lida and Kate Hope return from Des Moines while Mrs. Jean Simmons visits Otumwa. J H Graham remains housebound after an operation. Several residents visit family during Thanksgiving including Majorie Norris Keosauqua Chas F E Donald Fairfield and Wm Ruzz Eldon. Rolla B Wells departs for Helena to resume postal work and W S Allen plans a law office closure before a trip.
Mr. Lee Ruggles and Miss Myrtle Moore were married Wednesday evening at six o'clock at the home of the bride with Rev. Vernon performing. They will reside here with Mr. Ruggles employed as pharmacist at Birmingham Drug Co. Rev. and Mrs. Frank Vernon of Kansas attended the wedding.
Bertha M Lamansky and Wm J Kennedy were married Monday morning at 9 30 oclock in St Marys Catholic church with Rev Father Nodler officiating. The bride, daughter of Mr and Mrs N T Lamansky of Glendale, has lived in Jefferson county and is praised for her cheerful disposition. Kennedy, son of P J Kennedy a farmer near Fairfield, has worked in C B Q shops at Burlington IA and will begin married life with his bride at home.
In our city last Thursday Miss Bessie Henry elder daughter of Mr and Mrs Geo Henry died after an oil to gasoline mix up sparked a room fire. Firemen and neighbors rushed to aid but the scream and explosion ended her life, leaving sorrow in the Henry home.
The Poultry Fanciers Association wrapped its second annual exhibition from November 28 to December 2 with high turnout and a lengthy list of prize winners. G M Armstrong Cedar Rapids took top honors in several Barred Rock categories, Rev. Thomas Osborn led White Wyandotte entries, Scott A Power Domination in Buff Wyandotte and other breeds, with many exhibitors from city and nearby towns achieving firsts and silvers in pullets cockerels hens and pen displays. The event also awarded sweepstakes for best ten and best pen and a silver cup for best display.
Miss Bessie Henry longtime operator at Jefferson County Telephone Co is remembered as faithful and trusted. Funeral services were held at her home, Rev Condit presiding, company employees attended and the office closed. Interment followed at Evergreen cemetery with community sympathy offered.
Eight cars of freight No. 908 on the Rock Island wrecked near Belknap, Washington Territory. No injuries reported as one car derailed and eight others, four loaded with meat and four with merchandise, were demolished and scattered along the right of way. Train service delayed. track cleared by night.
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