Various Visitors and Local Residents Return or Travel
A flurry of brief reports details residents visiting relatives and friends, returning from trips, or preparing travel. Notables include Mr and Mrs J W Rains with daughter visiting. several locals return to work after vacations in Freemont Iowa and Fond du Lac Wisconsin. Miss Ina Gantz heads to Drake University. Miss Olive Kearns to Cedar Falls as a state normal student. Mrs Fannie Troxwell called to Washington by a grandson’s illness. J W Clements arrival for business. Rosco Thoma due home from Kansas City. Rev Yule to Washington county for Parsons college work. many others scattered between Ottumwa Galesburg Des Moines and Libertyville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Rains
Louis Easton
Stockport
J. B. Fox
Whitmer
Freemont
Iowa
J. W. DeVork
Ely
Chas. Belding
G. B. Baker
Ottumwa
Geo. Bonfield
Thomas Bonfield
Galesburg
Illinois
Duel
FonDulac
Wisconsin
W. H. Julian
Omaha
Nebr
Pauline Clinkenbeard
Abigal Heaton
Perry
Lucretia Heaton
East Broadway
FE. H. Henry
Rock Island, Il
Henry
Laura Walker
West Grimes
Eric Louden
St. Louis
Burlington
Frank Muzzy
Baby
James Turner
Libertyville
Hulda
Ellen Peterson
Swanson
Ina Gantz
Des Moines
Drake University
Ruth Leggett
Glenwood
Fannie Troxwell
Washington
W. B. Parrett
Hi. D. Payne
Decora
Bob Crow
Eldon
Mary Blair
Alice Booker
East
Burlington Street
Helen Demming
Cedar Falls
Olive Kearns
Iowa State Normal
W. H. Conner
John Vanderveer
Colorado
Conner
Alice B. Booker
Eloise Smith
Chicago
Emma Wright
Forest R. Wright
South Second Street
Richard Jericho
F. W. Jericho
West
Kirkwood
Rosco Thoma
Kansas City
J. W. Clements
Maringo
Hague
Fairfield
Hillsboro
Clifford
Thoma
J. M. Kirby
West Briggs Street
Beatrice Huddleston
Leader
Maude Coleson
Fair
Geo. Whitmore
Bernhart
Jefferson County Hospital
Albert Blackford
J. C. Blackford
West Adams Street
W. P. Sullivan
Order of the Eastern Star
Yule
Washington County
Parsons College
Panama Canal 1913 Project Progress and Plans
Taft tours the Isthmus as Goethals reports 93 percent excavation and 95 percent concrete work completed. By May 1 canal opening hoped, with first ship through on October 5 1914 and formal dedication January 1 1915. Waterways, Gatun dam, Culebra cut, and Miraflores locks nearing finish with extensive dredging, damming, and breakwater work ongoing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
Panama Canal
Taft
Isthmian Canal Zone
George W. Goethals
Tropics
Culebra
Gatun
Minaflores
Bas Obispo
Gatun Lake
Balboa
Pacific
Canal
Canal District
Army
Navy
Goethals
Atlantic Entrance
Gatun Dam
Cristobal
Atlantic
Isthmus
Uncle Sam
Pedro Miguel
Gatun Locks
Atlantic Ocean
Pedro Higuel
Mirafloures
Miraflores
Gatun City
Pedro Miguel Lake
Public Sale of Farm Property Near Fairfield in 1913
Having sold my farm and planning a move to Minnesota I will offer for sale on the Thomas Davies farm located six miles north and four west of Fairfield seven miles southeast of Packwood and five and one half miles south and one mile east of Richland on Thursday January 16 1913 at 10 a m. The sale includes six horses four cattle sixteen hogs eleven sheep farm implements and miscellaneous items with terms eight months on sums over ten at seven percent and cash for ten and under. The Ladies Aid of Pleasant Grove Church will serve lunch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific
Culebra
Balboa
Pacific Entrance
Pacific Breakwater
Gold Hill
Minnesota
Thos. Davies
Fairfield
Packwood
Richland
Deere
Peoria
Concord
Steve Wood
Also Mentioned on This Page
Campbell Whitham
Montana
Marriage of Oceans
America
Gatum
Calabra
Panmaa
Bertha
Allen
Bertha Shy Fox
Reid
Ladies’ Aid of
Pleasant Grove Church
J. W. Shaw
T. B. Allender
J. F. Wilson, Jr
Albany
Progressive Democrats
Sulzer
Friends of the Canneries
Geo. W
George W. Unkrich
East Side Square
Fairfield, Iowa