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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1904
Page
6
Libertyville scene recalls a well attended Christmas program at the M E church with teachers each receiving gifts and the superintendent a purse. Local families make Christmas rounds visiting kin and friends as holidays stretch into late December.
The Woolson and Blackhawk report says the Christmas entertainment at Moyer M. E. church was a success with Santa Claus visiting homes in the community. Residents enjoyed Christmas dinners and a season of good cheer, with wishes for a Happy New Year. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rider of near Glendale are visiting relatives locally for the holidays.
D A Miller improves slowly after a week of heart trouble in Birmingham. Fairfield M E church choir performed Joseph's Bondage at the opera house to a good crowd. J S Robertson of Mt Pleasant visits for business. Mr and Mrs J W Clark attend the wedding of Miss Vada Smith and Mr Thomas Smiley at Manford Clark's home. J W Young relocates with family from Hillsboro to work as bank cashier at $100 monthly. Mrs Fred Cramer and family depart for Canton Illinois where he begins new business.
Christmas travel and family visits fill Buchanan Township notes. Residents and visitors from Keokuk Burlington and Nebraska are noted, with school vacations and a literary society weekly at Beckwith school house. Local health updates and a pastor’s return to Muscatine conclude the brief rural roundup.
Packwood Iowa residents report travels and home changes. Mr Curtis Woolums and Mrs Woolums will spend Christmas in St Joseph Missouri with Dr and Mrs G D Packwood. Chas Benn buys Fryer property at Third and Lyons. Bursa Carr moves to N Main Street. P B Grafton visiting son Albert in Peoria Illinois. Mrs O F Fryer returns from Malvern Iowa. J C McKay family visiting Washington parents. Rev J L Smith of Gilmore City to lead Christian church meetings starting soon.
A collage of light essays and quips on health fashion and marriage in 1905. Topics include diet tips with lettuce asparagus cranberries and soap testing, reflections on love work and society, and a joke about Bertha Krupp’s wealth and a widows remarriage. Genevieve McLeod inherits money on marriage condition.
The article lists fruits and flowers for home wines and shares German methods for wild cherry elderberry and rhubarb wines. It details ingredients, fermentation steps, aging times, and bottling cues, noting the healthful aims and traditional usage among communities.
Pleasant Plain Iowa December 24. J A Hemmings of LeRoy is guest at the Crumley home. Miss Mabel Hendrick of Richwoods visits friends here. Edith Eck a Fairfield visitor Wednesday. Albert Thomas to spend holidays with parents in East Pleasant Plain. Ed Ingham with Myrtle Lynn Thursday. Banebrick of Orion Illinois visiting brother E W Banebrick. Father Jacobsmyer delivered farewell sermon at St Josephs church East Pleasant Plain Thursday. Rollyn Emry and Edna Balderson shopping in town Wednesday. Master Huston Harvey is quite sick. Miss Josephine Klingman out of school this week due to sickness.
Glendale travelers and residents share holiday tales as Christmas visits continue. A meeting to discuss a John Huff memorial monument is set for Saturday January 7 at 1 pm in the sheriff's office. Elmer Smith heads to Chicago with cattle from his father's feeding operation.
Mr and Mrs P W Kroggel plan to move to Moberly Missouri next year. Wm Hildebrand takes over the local blacksmith shop. David Beck from Red Oak Iowa visits for the winter. Clara Hildebrand of Mt Pleasant Christmas at home. Herman Bucher found a coal mine on his farm and plans work. Rev C Mueinike and August Hildebrand visited Wilton Iowa. Luella Jones spends a week with her parents at Pleasant.
An editorial wields satire on female vanity and foreign matches, urges mental cultivation to improve appearance, and cites Dr. Henderson on marriage ethics. It includes improvised home wine instructions using raisins and sugar as a curious aside. The piece intertwines social criticism with practical demonstrations from a conference.
Elwood Kidder forgot a license for his wedding to Ada Caruth ten miles away. Clerk McAdow, aided by the telephone, faxed approval to the minister who married them on the spot with a paper license readied in minutes. The ceremony impressed guests as a novel county event.
Iowa Falls posts four men Whinery Clarke Dutton and Frank Gifford form a heavy quartet with total 1210 pounds and average height 6 ft 2 3 4 in. Whinery weighs 315 pounds at 6 ft 4 in, Clarke 314 pounds at 6 ft 2 in, Dutton 285 pounds at 6 ft 6 in, Gifford 206 pounds at 6 ft 0 in. Average weight 302 1 2 pounds.
Davenport December 24 John Gibson a switchman was shot and fatally injured by Herman Jasper city dog catcher following a dispute over a dog tax.
Special winter round trip and twenty one day tickets go on sale daily for $34.90 for Denver Colorado Springs and Pueblo with return valid until June 1 1905. A twenty one day round trip option is $27.30 on sale December 6 and 20. P E Heflin agent.
A quirky note warns readers to tell friends about a stranded streamer and a mock title The Thithilian Printh. A local dreamer reports a heaven visit while a Chicago judge fines a man 75 dollars for stealing an umbrella, with the judge’s own umbrella reportedly stolen the week before.
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