Fairfield 1890s Market Prices and Local Happenings
Items note Spring 95c Spring wheat 95c fall wheat 1, oats 27c, butter 16c, eggs 11c, turkeys 8c, chickens 1.60 a dozen, hogs 3.50, steers 3. Louis Hirschberger sought Kansas location for wealth. later linked to Fairfield and California. Tribune jokes about Ledger Leggett quarrel. creamery butter process explained. Mayor C. D. McCracken, Marshal T. T. Haines earned 30 monthly. Two strangers canvassed for Hoovers telephone lines in town. Births reported: daughter to Rider, son to Wray. Louden brothers build a 42 by 76 ft barn in Cedar township.
Harris and Cuddy plan new clothing store in Chicago
Thirty years ago W E Harris and M H Cuddy traveled to Chicago to buy goods for a forthcoming clothing store. The era also marked a church completion and an opening sociable. Obituaries note Ebenezer Crew and David McCracken death details with earlier county settlements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. E. Harris
M. H. Cuddy
Chicago
David McCracken
Jefferson County
Local marriages and sales highlight Fairfield notices
Marriage licenses issued to Orin Kellogg and Grace McClain Wayne Buck and Margaret Sappenfield William Bell and Eva Lyon Charles Myers and Edna Vaught G F Lowern and Jessie M Conder Elmer B Carter and Nellie E Smith Mose Black residence sold on West Burlington to Frank Junkin for 1000 Fairfield doctors advertised still practicing Muslin underwear gowns sale priced 35c to 1 25 white skirts 45c to 1 98 McElhany prints 4c 5c unbleached muslin 4c Seginghams 5c 6c percales 6c 8c McCoy twelve cabinet photos and one 8x10 photo for 2 99.
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Orin Kellogg
Grace McClain
Wayne Buck
Margaret Sappenfield
William Bell
Eva Lyon
Charles Myers
Edna Vaught
G. F. Lowern
Jessie M. Conder
Elmer B. Carter
Nellie E. Smith
McElhany
Mary Elmore and Ira Bennett Married at Salina Home
Miss Mary Elmore and Ira F Bennett wed at the bride’s parents’ Salina home. The will of Gen. Louis B Parsons was filed revealing an estate around $100,000 mainly left to Parsons College.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Elmore
Ira F. Bennett
Salina
Louis B. Parsons
Parsons College
Iowa celery farming nets $1,000 per acre in Iowa
A. Miller and sons of Creston report successful celery cultivation using Hendersons Easy Bleaching seed, deep soil prep, barnyard manure, nitrate of soda and salt. They plant in March, transplant by May, space rows 32 inches apart, and irrigate with city water. last season they earned about $2,000 total, roughly $1,000 per acre, selling promptly after harvest. Prof. C. V. Holsinger notes room for more growers in Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
A. Miller and Sons
Creston
Southwest
Mr. Miller and Sons
C. V. Holsinger
Iowa State College
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Louis Hirschberger
Kansas
Hirschberger
Fairfield
California
the Tribune
Fairfield Ledger
The
Tribune
C. D. McCracken
T. T. Haines
Hoover
D. C
Washington
Henry Rider
Fairfield Township
George H. Wray
Joe Carbaugh
Burlington Road
Lincoln
Neb
Louden Brothers
Cedar Township
Ebenezer Crew
William Gordon
Foley
W. F. M. Swyndale
Macon
Mose Black
West Burlington Street
Frank Junkin
McCoy
Union County
State
Miller
Orpheum
Dorothy Dalton
Yukon
Henry B. Walthall
Boomerang
Louis Bennison
Burton Holmes
Toton
Jefferson County Telephone Company
Goodyear
Firestone
W. S. Cromer
Yourealizing
E. Burlington
Burlington Street
J. T Davies
America
Wall Street
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