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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1912
Page
5
Miss Lydia Monson returns home Wednesday for the holidays. Mr and Mrs Will Buch visit friends in Stockport. The Sunday school plans a Christmas tree and program on Tuesday evening December 24.
Lockridge and Fairfield residents appear in a collage of moving reports visits calls and social events. Notables include Earl Murphy Lockridge moving to Fairfield funeral attendance Charles King, Chas Keltner, and many Fairfield callers with extended family visits and Christmas programs at Lockridge and Pleasant Hill schools. Local lodge meetings and W O W officer elections are listed along with a Peterson hall dance and a one week school vacation.
Miss Ethel Greeson enjoys a two week home visit while Luther Quillen is sick. Ed and Frank Booth families attend events as neighbors visit Scrabble library night draws a crowd and several households host guests including Koontz Neiswanger Fisher Davidson Barrow and Regester.
Locals recount a six week coast to coast vacation and return home to jobs at the railway. Church Christmas exercises planned and many visitors noted across Ottumwa Fairfield Packwood and Galesburg with numerous social calls and school activities.
Linby residents report visitors from Packwood Des Moines and Mt. Pleasant School vacation extends two weeks Sunday offerings collected for Rev Norton at church amounting to 12 15 Mr and Mrs Edwards celebrate 25th wedding anniversary with music and games
In Libertville Mr. Thornton Fordyce suffered a painful accident while using a circle saw, cutting the back of his hand and severing a ligament. He will be laid up for some time. The piece also lists locals visiting for Christmas and several family travel plans among residents from Cedar Falls, Chelan, and Udell, with social events at the M. E. church and planned home improvements.
Abingdon people welcomed visitors and hosted events as Merle Hood Harve Cummings and G E Engstrom held auction sales. Families like the Goble sisters visited their parental home while dances, Christmas program, and Santa Claus appearances drew local crowds.
Community notices list church events and visits. Presbyterians plan a Christmas program and tree on Wednesday night the 25th, while Lutherans host entertainment and tree on Friday night the 27th. Local marriages and travels include Ernest Aronson and Miss Adda Carlson wed on the 18th.
Mrs. Crouser and family from Libertyville visited sister Mrs Norville Caviness. Nellie Root spent Christmas with daughter Blanche Nelson in Lucas. Sarah McCormick returned home after a Whit ham visit. Lucy Dempsey of Parsons Kansas been visiting her...
Packwood residents share travel and family news as Ola Johnson from Illinois visits the Harve Johnson home. I O Webb spent a day with his parents. Fay Caldwell from Hedrick visits grandpa L G Myers. The town school closes for a two week vacation with a program. Various locals, including Blanche Sanchez in Omaha and Arthur Miller in Mt. Pleasant, are noted for travel and visits.
Washington December 24 A ton of turkeys is President Tafts Christmas gift to White House attendants and others employed there. Turkeys will be delivered to recipients homes with a card bearing the presidents name and Christmas wishes.
A heavy snow storm hit the east today giving a white Christmas. New York reports traffic interference as snow drifts close routes. The storm extends along the Atlantic coast impacting travel from Maine to Florida.
Washington reports the treasury department will, after Christmas, submit to President Taft an order to reorganize the federal customs system yielding more than seven hundred thousand dollars in annual savings. The plan has been confidentially submitted to the house committee on expenditures, but no steps have been taken due to potential loss of patronage under the Democratic party.
London reports the six great powers press Turkey to abandon Adrianople and accept the Balkan allies terms from the last peace conference session. A faction in Constantinople urges Turkey to break up talks and resume the war now that forces are reinforced.
In Washington on December 24 President Taft and Mrs Taft arranged distribution of Christmas presents for White House employees before their departure for Panama.
The president and family will miss their usual Christmas in residence as the family apartments stay dark. Mail carriers have delivered packages from around the world in anticipation of a belated holiday gathering after the Isthmus trip.
An elderly man and neighbor thwart a burglary at Clayton near here when a thief armed with a butcher knife attacked Mrs. Wasser aged sixty two. The assailant was knocked down after Mr. Wasser aged seventy and a neighbor intervened.
State of Iowa Jefferson County notifies John A Johnson and co defendants that by January 20 1913 a petition will be filed in Jefferson County District Court alleging John A Johnson is of unsound mind. Hulda Johnson guardian seeks court action naming Fred W Johnson Axel T Johnson Anna Johnson Andrew Johnson Hulda Bliley Hilda Cook and Joseph Crompton among others as listed.
Four heirs Drew Johnson Hulda J Bliley Hilda Cook and Emma Crompton claim undivided one seventh shares in the south half of the northeast quarter section 4 township 72 range 8 west 80 acres Jefferson county Iowa Descent from Adolph Frederick Johnson and Matilda A Johnson William Stortz named administrator seeks to establish title and order sale of lands and partitioned net funds Court notice to appear by Feb 2 1913 Fairfield Iowa default may be entered and judgment rendered"}
Curlew Washington December 23 police search for Edward Stoddard a homesteader after his three year old daughter died from breakfast poison claim states he poisoned her to spare her from hunger. He left for town to fetch a coffin and has not been seen since.
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