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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1904
Page
13
The M E church Christmas program drew a large crowd with a gift for each teacher a treat for the Sunday school and a $3.00 purse for the superintendent. Local residents and visitors from Milton Fairfield Batavia Eldon and Keokuk shared in holiday visits events and community cheer across Libertyville in late December.
The Christmas entertainment at Moyer M. E. church was a success with Santa Claus visiting homes in the community. Residents enjoyed Christmas dinners and good cheer, and well wishes for a Happy New Year are offered as Mr and Mrs Harry Rider visit from near Glendale for the holidays.
D A Miller shows slow but steady improvement after a week in bed with heart trouble. The Fairfield M E church choir performed the cantata Josephs Bondage in the opera house to a good crowd, with fine singers noted. J S Robertson of Mt Pleasant visits on business. Mr and Mrs J W Clark attend the wedding of Vada Smith and Thomas Smiley at Manford Clarks home. J W Young relocates with his family from Hillsboro to occupy a cashier post at the new bank earning 100 dollars monthly. Mrs Fred Cramer and family depart for Canton Illinois where he starts a new business.
Christmas visits span nearby towns as residents travel to Burlington Keokuk and Muscatine. Beckwith school plans weekly literary sessions while local families report births illnesses and recovery including a baby boy and whooping cough cases.
In Packwood Iowa December 24 Mr and Mrs Curtis Woolums will spend holidays in St Joseph Missouri with Dr and Mrs G D Packwood. Mrs Chas Coykendal traveled to Denver Colorado to join her husband in business. Chas Benn bought Fryer property at Third and Lyons. Bursa Carr moved to N Main Street. P B Graftons visiting son Albert in Peoria Illinois. Mrs O F Fryer returned from Malvern Iowa visit. J C McKay and family visit his parents at Washington. Woolums captured an oppos sum on his farm Wednesday and plans to save it for Christmas. Rev J L Smith will start meetings at the Christian church.
J A Hemmings of LeRoy is guest at the Crumley home. Miss Mabel Hendrick of Richwoods visits friends. Miss Edith Eck visits Fairfield. Albert Thomas plans holiday with East Pleasant Plain parents. Ed Ingham spends Thursday with Myrtle Lynn. Mr Banebrick of Orion NL visits brother E W Banebrick. Father Jacobsmyer delivers farewell sermon at St Josephs East Pleasant Plain. Mrs Rollyn Emry and Mrs Edna Balderson shop in town. Master Huston Harvey is ill. Miss Josephine Klingman out of school due to sickness.
Glendale residents are reminded of a sheriff's office meeting on Saturday January 7 at 1 p m to discuss a monument in memory of John Huff. Also notes Christmas visits by Harry Rider family Gertrude Damm Frank Sense Beddinger Elmer Smith and Rev Le Baron with church meetings concluding Sunday night.
Four Corners notes travel to Moberly for a new home. Wm Hildebrand takes over the blacksmith shop. David Beck from Red Oak spends winter with family. Miss Clara Hildebrand from Mt Pleasant returns home for Christmas. Herman Bucher discovers a coal mine on his farm and will work it. Rev C Mueinike and August Hildebrand visit Wilton for a few days. Miss Luella Jones visits her parents at Pleasant.
A society column comments on wartime style shifts with gowns and long sleeves, hints at social mores, and jokes about marriage and money. It notes Bertha Krupp's $2.4 million income, baby carriage licenses in Berlin, and a test of soap taste while weaving in pithy proverbs and gossipy observations.
Dr. Charles R. Henderson urged that character and education shape beauty more than cosmetics. He argued for civil marriage and public licenses, and for preventing marriages of consumptives and the feebleminded, insisting the state address marriage as the root of childhood and future delinquency.
The article lists fruits and flowers used in home made wines including blackberry elderberry currant gooseberry rhubarb grape plum damson cherry apricot orange and lemon. It details German recipes for wild cherry elderberry and rhubarb wines with ingredient ratios and aging guidance.
Mix the liquid, add two pounds of sugar, and allow fermentation in an open vessel with a blanket. After fermentation transfer to a keg with open bunghole for three months, then cork and keep for another three months. Draw off to a clean keg and age a year before bottling. Rich wine. add more raisins or omit sugar to intensify. California raisins may substitute Malaga.
In Webster City Iowa on December 24 Elwood Kidder forgot to secure a marriage license for Ada Caruth. The minister used a telephone to contact Hamilton County Clerk McAdow who sent the license by phone. The ceremony proceeded at Ada Caruth’s home with guests unaware of the last minute paper work.
Four local men Postmaster Whinery W I Clarke R D Dutton and City Marshal Frank Gifford form a powerful quartet with a combined weight of 1210 pounds and an average height of 6 feet 2 and a half inches. Whinery weighs 315 pounds at 6 feet 4 inches Clarke 314 pounds at 6 feet 2 inches Dutton 285 pounds at 6 feet 6 inches and Gifford 296 pounds at 6 feet. The group’s average weight is 302 and a quarter pounds.
Davenport December 24 John Gibson a switchman was shot and fatally injured by Herman Jasper city dog catcher during a dispute over a dog tax last night.
Burlington offers winter round trip tickets to Denver Colorado Springs and Pueblo for 34 90 with returning validity until June 1 1905. A 21 day round trip sale on December 6 and 20 provides a 27 30 rate. P E Heflin agent.
A jumble of quips and tall tales describes a winter tonic mix of method hustle and muscle. A misspelled theater reference lands a playful jab about a purported "The Thithilian Printh" arrival. A town dreamer dies and ascends to heaven in a nightly dream vignette. A Chicago judge fines a man seventy five dollars for stealing an umbrella, with a snarky note about the judge’s own missing umbrella last week.
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