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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1921
Page
2
Live news from the county reports a home talent play The Deacon Dubbs to be staged at Melson hall Batavia on Thursday December 15 and Saturday December 17 by the Eastern club. Local residents express hope for a large crowd and an engaging performance.
Mrs. Mahlon McCormick announce the birth of a daughter Iona Marjorie. Olive Munson is noted as the mother. Community notes from Buchanan township include visits, school events, a Farmers Union election, a Beekwith program, and a long list of local social activities and travels across Fairfield Ottumwa and Des Moines areas.
Mrs. A J Morgan in Brighton hosts and visits abound as families travel for gatherings. Hog shipments head to markets while carpentry work and church events fill weekends with institute plans and a Christmas program.
Mr and Mrs James Blucher and daughters Marjorie and Ella dined at the Avelo Fulton home in Fairfield. Miss Alice Linder visited relatives in Fairfield. Mrs Lloyd Blucher stayed with her parents in Lockridge. Wm B Loving cut his left hand fatally while butchering and was treated by a doctor. Esther Sherman visited relatives. Mrs Glenn Grant and son Richard Stanley visited the Elliott Taylor home. An oyster supper is planned by the M E church for December 17. Mary Linder of Fairfield was visiting here.
Abingdon society items list daily visits and health notes. Ed Bakers faces long illness. Baker relatives share baskets. Local residents like Gaylord Mowery and family in Ottumwa and Nancy Davis return home. Thurston comedy company shows. Mrs Hawthorne visits Roy McChesney near Packwood. A county collector pay cut remark ends the column.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Neff visited Mt. Pleasant on Friday. Tom Mitchell spent some time in the area as part of a local note from Packwood.
Linby residents report visits to Fairfield and Brighton, with neighbors traveling to Ottumwa and Kansas City. A future timetable change may widen the gap between trains and affect westward travel, while community updates mention Mrs Stafford’s marriage and local gossip about southeastern telephone ownership.
Clyde Lawson and family near Libertyville join Earl Turner family in Lockridge for Sunday visit. Peter Johnson near East Pleasant Plain dines with Chas James family. Edward Craft visits Adam Linn near Germanville. Methodist Ladies Aid earned over 53 dollars at their supper and bazaar last Wednesday evening. A baby was born at Earl Walgren’s home on Sunday December 11. Various family visits span Lockridge, Donnellson, Salina, Germanville and Fairfield shopping trips. A candy social and Christmas program is planned at the schoolhouse Friday December 16. Mrs. Retha Kauffman of Lockridge visited Earl Walgren. Rev. Reichen of Brighton called on local families. Walter Molander and family near ahr gf visited Wm. Quick. Mrs. Ed Axelton of Moline, Ill. spent days here. Germanville Lutheran Ladies Aid met at church parlors. Walter Carlson and Gus Smithburg sawing wood last week. Miss Ira Berger of Germanville works for Mrs. Earl Walgren. Mrs. Victor Jacob, Mrs. Harold Nelson, and Harper Jacobson shopped in Fairfield. Yale Turner visiting grandfather Ossie Hillman near Salina.
Harley Ann made a business trip to Osklahooma Tuesday returning Wednesday. Mr and Mrs Blaine Emry spent Sunday at the Pearl Johnson home. Miss Grace McGaw of Fairfield spent the weekend with Miss Bessi ark. The W I C club met with Mrs Laura Copeland Tuesday afternoon. The officers elected for the coming year are: President, Mrs J L Miksch.
Practical presents for winter safety and comfort promote family value. Eclipse promotes dependable coal waterers self waterers and home improvements from fireplaces to built in cabinets hardwood floors and sheds. A Pyrene Fire Extinguisher is offered as a $10 home gift.
Local notes record Mrs. Leland Holgate as secretary and Mrs. C. R. King as treasurer. Mrs. D. B. Hedge was taken to Jefferson County Hospital for treatment. The Parent Teachers club met at Center Street. A music contest attracted Hazel Scott LaRue Fischer and Enolia King. Mollie Hedge of Belknap visited her sister Mrs. Harry Ramsey. The piece laments farmers arriving late to Jefferson County progress and urges rational thinking to avoid backward petitions.
Monday afternoon twenty interested women met with Miss Bliss to learn clothing care, stain removal, dry cleaning, and dyeing methods and received a stain remover recipe for home use. The event sparked plans for a holiday meeting on December 29 with a big family dinner. Ebenezer church hosted a packed home talent program raising funds for the Sunday school, with Christmas plans underway for Tray Point and Frey School ensembles. Vehicle mishap near the Brown home left no serious injuries. A new baby arrived to Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Samuelson on December 5. Local students join Ames Glee Club, and various shoppers and visitors are noted, with several residents ill or traveling for Christmas. County petitions to end the county agent and nurse are discussed as residents debate county services.
Will Martin of Des Moines visited last week with the Burch relatives. Jesse Hill returned for the winter after months with a sister in La Plata Missouri. Postmaster Gayle Goodman took charge last Monday. A bridal couple Ralph Jamison and Velma Bennett wed at the Free Methodist parsonage. A.O. Teeter hosted a miscellaneous shower for Mr. and Mrs. Lester Popejoy.
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