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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1908
Page
7
The report lists many locals visiting cities like Chicago Des Moines Fairfield and Ottumwa for illness family gatherings business and millinery work. Names include Hoagland Moburg Hanna and Kate Porter with multiple trips noted between February and a recent Sunday visit.
About twenty six relatives and friends surprised Mr and Mrs Levi Rittenhouse at their home seven miles northwest of Fairfield Iowa. Elmer Berchtold played graphophone music and light refreshments were served. The event marked their upcoming move to Collette Iowa and neighbors noted the loss as others gain.
Bertha Pequignot Hanna born March 12 1876 in Cedar township died February 22 at her Iowa home after months of illness. She taught in public schools in Iowa and Colorado, married Herbert S Hanna September 4 1906, and is survived by her infant son Marshal Pequignot Hanna. Funeral mass at St Marys church noted her Catholic faith and ties to Jefferson county.
The Tribune invites donors to bring clean cotton rags to its office at 46tf. Rags will be used for ink production and newspaper operations.
The Nemo Self-Reducing Corset is advertised as a safe comfortable aid for reducing the abdomen. It promises a better dress fit, potential three to four inch skirt reduction, and longer wear than standard corsets. Each corset is priced at $3.00 and marketed to provide lasting shape.
Mrs. Joseph Klineman suffered severe burns in a house fire at home near Parsons College. Her husband Mr Klineman found her on the couch engulfed in flames after returning from work at a meat market in New Chicago. She remains under opiate care with uncertainty about her condition as neighbors express sympathy.
A Sunday morning blaze discovered between 10 and 11 o clock gutted the roof of Prof Powers home near Lincoln school. Fire risk increased by a defective flue and upstairs stove. Family reunion interrupted, few items saved, walls water damaged, insurance to adjust loss, repair to follow.
Chester Thompson of Ottumwa, missionary for the American Sunday School Union, has organized Sunday schools in sixteen communities across Wapello Jefferson Van Buren Davis Appanoose and Monroe counties over the past fifteen months. The efforts have brought Bible instruction to 549 members with 39 school visits and 206 gospel services conducted.
Preaching over 200 times, 1 149 family visits, 310 prayer services, 143 Bibles given, five preaching stations, two youth societies, 4 000 tracts distributed and 38 conversions. American Sunday School Union missionaries report 1 87 Sunday schools organized or reorganized, 102 034 total membership, 13 764 schools aided, 24 874 sermons, 254 592 family visits, 64 20 651 church organizations, 76 church buildings and 34 hopeful conversions.
Samuel Thomas describes a Scott county catalpa grove project begun in 1882. He details seed from Douglas & Son, nursery steps, planting spacing, growth to 20 50 feet, and harvesting 500 posts in 1906. He urges farmers to plant groves for future timber and benefits their families.
An article notes the shift in farming views toward birds as helpers rather than pests. It describes birds protecting grain from rodents and the changing practice of guarding fruit trees while forbearing excessive hawk shooting. It argues farmers now rely on birds and wire netting rather than punitive measures.
Fairfield Iowa will receive sealed bids for 1000 tons of coal by 6 pm March 19 1908. One thousand tons to be delivered to the city waterworks April 7 1908 to April 1 1909 and another 1000 tons delivered freight paid on the railroad track in Fairfield from April 1 1908 to April 1 1909. Bids must name the mine or district and the Water and Light Commission may reject any bid.
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