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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1913
Page
4
Numerous entries detail visits, illnesses, and travel. Families such as Loomis, Webb, Woolum, Nelson, Cathey, and Corners appear amid hospital, church, and social events. Notable items include deaths, illness updates, moving plans, and community gatherings at the Linn schoolhouse and churches.
Mr and Mrs Chris Len were called to Des Moines Saturday due to the illness of Clemmie Watkins sister. Union school held a literary program and box supper to fund an organ. funds raised were more than half the cost. Emery Crawford and Charles Larson traveled to Ottumwa. Larson planned to visit Cres ton relatives. Charles Clarke, an Ames student, visited H Heaton. Mrs M Davis visited Ottumwa.
Wesley Walgren and family visited Bostwick on Sunday. Tilphy Johnson and wife of Fairfield were out Sunday. Glen Schillerstrom was home Sunday to visit his parents.
Mrs Margaret Larson and son Lester visited at Rome Sunday Reinhold Mummert of Burlington spent Sunday with his uncle Fred Graff Wm Hildebrand visiting with home folks Anthony Noyd home from Burlington Mabel Pence Fairfield visiting north of town Chas Hildebrand Emil Hildebrand Albert Larson Fairfield business callers Saturday Emil Hildebrand has rabbits for sale Edward and William Browne Galesburg callers Miss Inez Lipps headed to Batavia to visit her parents Mrs Herman Rauscher Mt Sterling visiting Alec Smith Emma Hildebrand returned to work in Fairfield Monday noon
The la grippe continues to affect residents in Center Township. Mrs. Charlie Johnson has recovered enough to be up, while Mrs. Chloe Miller visited Thursday with Mrs. Verne Cornell. A shower for Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Louth at the Wilson home featured many gifts after a recent house fire. The couple will begin anew at their home.
Mrs John Winn called to Vincennes for her mother's illness. Mr and Mrs John H Parsons return from Minneapolis to Ottumwa. Ira Bartholow visits Stockport relatives. Robi Myers and two Batavia children stay with relatives. Professor Lentz injured by snowball and out of teaching. Koonts injured playing basketball. eleven stitches. Dave Boley family moving to new home. Birth announced of a son to Mr and Mrs Earl Burnaugh of Wyoming. Nellie Warren goes to Derby to nurse. Elmer and Curtis Vaught travel to Salida Colorado to settle Solomon Vaught business. C R Swanson assists in Dan Garber post office. H D Davis to start as assessor. Van Topping to marry Nellie Grant January 30. Alta Webb of Fairfield visits. C W Leppo and kids visit Fairfield. Roscoe Riggs visits from Udell. Mrs Hezekiah Robertson improving from pneumonia. Will Hill hosts dinner for twenty. O A Swanson visits Ottumwa. Jerry Woelf moves to Waterloo. Carl Riggs moves onto Woelf vacated farm. Ed Stever to move to Riggs farm. Bige Lawson of Keota visits Henry Hawkins. Clara Sasseen leaves for Enid Oklahoma after six weeks. I O O F officers installed. Hicks of Fairfield installing. Robt Angstead accompanies. Ben Vaught and wife leave for Virginia.
Mr and Mrs R B Kenyon of Packwood spent a day last week at T Kenyon's. F P Steele underwent dental work at Batavia last week. Mrs Frank Roberts stayed with her father Mr Kepler at Kirkville Iowa last week. John Mowery living west of town is very ill with blood poison.
A sequence of transfers shows multiple owners exchanging parcels in January. Ida Lawson to Sarah Schwartz parcels in ne ney 18 71 10. Wm Montgomery to Juliet Evans Montgomery blocks and lots in Fairchild. Mary Florence Sargent to Aletha Cornell Huey’s and Lamson subdivisions. Agnes Hamilton to Orval Ferrell De Marsh’s addition. John Krumholtz to John Stever 10 acres in 29 72 10. E D Morrison to Joel Hoskins and John Axelson to Etna Mitchell partial sections 36 72 10.
In Des Moines a deputy sheriff detective and two special officers fought after a mis identified arrest near the streetcar station. Sheriff Griffin separated them and all were released after minor injuries. Utilities bill seeks expanded Iowa utilities commission with rate setting power.
Des Moines officials report Speaker Cunningham has completed the list of standing committees and will announce them at the opening. Veteran lawmakers are expected to hold key chairmanships with Jacobs, Klay, and Larrabee slated for major posts. Senator W. S. Kenyon attends the joint assembly to seek a six year term as Republicans back him for election. The Republican majority stands at thirty eight. Kenyon may address the convention, marking Iowa’s second senator chosen under the primary system by popular vote.
Creston Iowa January 21 freight moves daily on the new Creston Winterset and Des Moines road. The first shipment from Macksburg was five carloads of sheep killed out by George C and John Thomas who waited fifty years for shipping privileges. Passenger service will begin when equipment is secured.
An application for a temporary injunction to restrain the Modern Brotherhood of America from transferring members to new rates was set for hearing Thursday. Judge Barker had previously ruled some transfers by Supreme President Manley between October and January were illegal but delayed action due to short time. It is alleged January transfers are dated back to December.
Train No 12 eastbound on the Rock Island derailed at Allerton Missouri due to spreading rails. Fifteen people were injured and one may have died. A wrecking crew from Trenton Missouri accompanied by doctors arrived at the scene.
Ina Stand ford and Nellie Busch, both fourteen, admitted they invented a robbery story to escape punishment after spending most of five dollars given by their mother for a gas bill. They staged the scene near a neighbor’s home, fled in mud, and were taken to the city hospital in an ambulance.
J Wooster Lambert noted St Louis’ richest bachelor refused to sign the 70000 appeal bond to free P J Morrin and J Barry from Leavenworth. His decision ends hope for releasing the St Louisans convicted in the dynamite conspiracy.
A government bulletin reveals many so called algretts are merely wisps from rooster tails. Margaret Slington is slated to play Kindling in the south.
Cold weather eases flood misery as relief committees struggle with homeless and livestock losses. Waters crest likely and will recede with rain stopping, from Cincinnati to Cairo the desolate valley bears the toll of the disaster.
New York January 21 leaders of the garment workers strike concede little chance of victory or settlement after Justice Greenbaugh grants an injunction against picketing. They fear strikebreakers fill the strikers’ places as several thousand white goods workers may return to work due to concessions from manufacturers.
In Tarrytown N Y Helen Gould and Findley J Shepard plan to obtain a marriage license and marry tomorrow. The ceremony and rehearsals will be at Miss Goulds country home decorated with pink roses. Seventy five guests are invited. Tomorrow night Miss Gould hosts a wedding dinner for one thousand homeless men at the Bowery Mission New York City. A navy gift arrives a gold flowered bowl ten inches high, engraved.
The undersigned referees in the case of Raymond N. Watson et al v Elsie Watson et al will privately sell the estate real property of C F Watson deceased. The tract spans 160 acres near Cedar township Jefferson county Iowa. Deed to be delivered on or before March 1 1913. Richard Fisher F P Ball
A public sale will be held at the farm near Oak Hill Nursery six miles southeast of Fairfield and six miles northeast of Birmingham on Thursday January 30 1918 at 10:00 a.m. Items include cattle five milch cows three yearling steers one yearling heifer five calves two steer and three heifer, seven head of fall shoals farming implements one Van Crunt disc drill one McCormick corn binder cultivator wood cook stove and other articles. 3060 bushels of corn in crib some threshed hay straw apples and more. Terms cash for sums under ten dollars and nine months for larger purchases with bankable note at six percent interest. Removal only after terms are met. Clark Thompson T Br Allender and H C Pattison clerks.
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