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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1922
Page
2
Mrs. Frank Fell hosted a Friday afternoon party for ladies at her home December 8 honoring Mrs. Hattie Fell turning 81. Attendees listed include Mesdames S. F. Fell Ettie Scovel W. D. Wilson Carrie Laughlin and others. Funeral notices follow with local residents making visits and moves.
Miss Lizzie Teeter visits George Teeter family at County Line. Many neighbors attend meetings and visits while news covers illness, school absence, farming, and church events. The piece notes marriages, hospital trips, institute plans, and road work affecting cellars and drains in Pleasant Plain and surrounding towns.
Peter Landis of Meyersdale Pennsylvania reports his grandchild had a very bad croupy cough with no relief until Foley's throat chest and bronchial irritations Honey and Tar was given. Coughs colds and croup were quickly relieved with Foley's Honey and Tar sold everywhere.
Clement Kessell delivered a solo at opening exercises Tuesday morning. Hazel Hosler and Josephine Soboski with Teresa Shrack were absent recently. Glee club practices continue with several songs planned for the December 15 program. Students sell Christmas seals again. A Farmers Institute play is in rehearsal for December 15. Farson boys defeated Pleasant Plain 47 to 7 in a Friday basketball game. Ninth to eleventh grade girls played a Friday basketball game, Whites 8 Blacks 6, with Mildred Chalupa and Mary Benda as captains leading the teams.
The Christian church women plan a December 16 dinner supper and bazaar at the store building with goods for Christmas. Local residents share visits, illnesses, and social events including birthdays, club gatherings, and travel notes across Packwood and nearby Oska loosa Linby Salem Ottumwa Yar mouth.
Miss Jane Rietveld visits Cedar township. Rev A L Whitcomb to conduct at Pleasant Grove church for two weeks with Rev G Edwin Ellis assisting. Services at 7 30 p m weekdays and 10 30 a m 7 30 p m Sundays. Farmers Union Local 415 postpones meeting due to bad weather and reports large turnout oyster supper funds church purchase. Officers reelected. $18 50 collected. Miss Rockhill conducts garment making lessons in Ames Centerburgh. sessions paused due to severe cold. W I C to hold all day meeting at Mrs Curtiss home. Cockerell family visits King home.
Fairfield area items report Good Cheer club all day meeting and Bethesda Sunday school with Rev Gardner sermon. Visitors week brings twelve Beckwith visitors. praise for teacher Mary Burnett. George Parker funeral attended. sympathy extended. Bible class hosts at Elmer and Mrs Davis with twenty five attendees. Local residents listed among attendees and a skating mishap injures Arthur Johnson. Vic Root loses a horse to infection. Frank Ogden visits Milner Illinois. Leonard Prince stays with Charles Hisel in Center. The Wide Awake Sunday school closes the snippet.
A class tried to surprise Miss Cecil Green on her birthday last Wednesday but she discovered the plan. Despite the reveal, they enjoyed a pleasant evening out. Miss Chidester visited Beckwith school on Monday.
Mrs. Caroline Baldwin hosts visitors including Elmer Baldwin and Frank Baldwin while Lloyd Blucher and others deal with daily work and repairs. A baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Davbs on November 30. Local residents like John L. Bower, Edgar Ridgeway, and James Blucher are noted with visits and errands in Fairfield, Brighton, and nearby areas. Several illnesses, travel plans, and minor renovations appear among local exchanges and social calls.
Abingdon news notes a baby, Robert Eugene, born to Mr and Mrs Bruce Beard. Marjorie Steele undergoes neck vein surgery and recovers. Local residents, Nate Smith Ray Nelson and Elmer Davis, visit Fairfield on business. Home talent shows in Batavia and Packwood. Abingdon plans a Christmas program. Devil's Lake schoolhouse to open early next year. Ira Davis schedules public sale December 12 and moves to Hedrick to work in a garage. Mrs James Snyder remains ill.
Northwood Iowa reports two test plots planted last spring with one surviving cut worm damage. Knut Trustem’s Bristol township plot is destroyed while L I Hendrickson’s Deer Creek plot shows promise with ten of twelve varieties home grown. The Reliance variety performs best and C A Kittleson Joice notes improvement over prior corn.
The regular annual meeting of Iowa Loan & Trust Company stockholders will be held at their Fairfield Iowa banking house on Tuesday January 00 1923 at 2 30 p m. The purpose is to elect directors and transact other business as may come before it.
The annual meeting of the stock holders of the First National Bank of Fairfield Iowa will be held in its banking rooms from 10 00 a m to 4 00 p m on Tuesday January 9 1923 for election of a Board of Directors and other lawful business. W H Bangs Vice Pres 43 1 c
E R Pine of Diagonal operates an ice cream factory on his dairy farm joining Diagonal a key rail line serving towns including Clearfield Shannon City Benton Maloy Tingley Euston Grand River and Mt Ayr. Demand grew prompting two expansions and an ice house with 550 tons capacity. The Farm Bureau backs home manufacturing to keep wealth local. Pine sources from neighbors and uses cream testing about 35 percent butterfat.
A. W. Schram, living two miles from Burnside, owns 101 April pigs averaging 225 pounds each.
Properties listed by Russell Smith in Fairfield Iowa describe several farms for sale within five miles of Fairfield and one mile to Lockridge High School. Offers include 60 acres clover 40 acres corn 20 oats 40 pasture 80 total with chicken houses and hog fencing priced around 250 dollars per acre with easy terms.
Dream tale follows Enry Ford negotiating for 195000 acres in Elk Horn Kentucky and West Virginia as Mayo’s early coal gambit is recalled. Mayo, once a schoolteacher, built a small start into a $20 million fortune through patient buying and risk, teaching a lesson on perseverance and delayed rewards.
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