For Sale North Missouri Farms and 200 Acres in Kansas
For Sale listings include North Missouri Farms with various sizes and prices and crops such as corn wheat oats blue grass and timothy. Also 200 acres in Jewell County Kansas near Formosa with a 7 room house 3 story barn windmill water access and alfalfa pasture, asking 140 per acre with cash or 16 000 over 10 years at 6 percent. Realty Dept Union State Bank Formosa Kansas R Parsons Cashier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Missouri
A. Wiley
Brookfield
Jewell
Kansas
Formosa
Realty Dept
Union State Bank
R Parsons
Strayed Jersey Cow Offers Reward Near College
Strayed from premises north of College a Duroc Jersey cow about 400 pounds. Finder to notify owner and receive reward. Phone 5311. Henry Eckey Jr. 23-tf-c.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
College, Duroc-Jersey
Henry Eckey, Jr
Amendment to bank articles increases capital stock
At the annual meeting of Farmers' Savings Bank of Libertyville Iowa held July 8 1920 in Libertyville the stock holders adopted an amendment to the articles of incorporation increasing capital stock from 15000 to 0 000 likely misread. Frank Dustin president and V D Koons cashier are named in the record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Farmers’ Savings Bank of
Libertyville
Iowa
Allen Jewett post meeting plans and Legion event notices
The next regular meeting of Allen Jewett post is on Tuesday evening August 3. Delegates to the department convention at Cedar Rapids in September will be elected there. A Legion and ex-service men picnic is set for August 28 at the Fairfield Chautauqua. Post Commander Reed offers forms for service men to apply for Victory medals. The American Legion quartet will sing at the picnic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen Jewett Post
Department
Cedar Rapids
Legion
Fairfield Chautauqua
Reed
American Legion
Local residents attend funerals and family events across states
W C Hawes travels to Des Moines for a nephew Kenneth Standiford funeral aged seventeen. Births include Weldell Mae at Bakersfield California on July 13. Spratts attend Denver sister Grace Shields funeral in Mansfield Illinois. Various locals visit kin, birthdays and vacations from Memphis Missouri to Wisconsin. Oskaloosa golf club beats Fairfield 28 to 12 with a rematch planned next month. Undertaker F E Butler succeeds A V Frazey. contact 1382.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. C. Hawes
Des Moines
Kenneth Standiford
Clarence Green
Bakersfield
Calif
Weldell Mae
F. Spratt
Mansfield
Denver
T. M. Baker
Memphis
G. T. Baker
Joel Turney
Jefferson County Hospital
Doris Gilmer
H. S. Thomson
Presbyterian Church
Wisconsin
Ruth Lamson
Washington, D. C
Ralph Lamson
John Downard
Claude
Springfield
Ohio
Eldon mayor fled. others face trials and trips
Newell Kerr injured by a thrown baseball while umpiring in Silvis. Do- H. C. Vass elected Eldon mayor by the council after absences tied to a $15,000 alleged embezzlement. Major E. E. Lucas seeks cancer surgery in Rochester after multiple lip growth removals. Washington residents win an injunction banning Sunday baseball near the ball park. Keokuk wool shippers sent 44,585 pounds to a Chicago storage company on July 20. Brighton real estate deal may cost the town its only hotel, with plans for a new one. Photographer Egbert I. Gillette, once in Fairfield then Ottumwa, dies in Sigourney. Hillsboro approves a twenty five year electric franchise by two votes. A Milton man’s milking cow dies from lightning, injuring the milker who dies two days later. A Muscatine County farmer grows 200 acres of cabbage. An aviator offered ten minute flights to Keosauqua residents, with 24 aboard at ten dollars each.
Fairfield Dentist Dies After Quincy Visit
Traveling salesman Fairheld died during a visit to Quincy ten days earlier. He married Edna Anschutz in June 1907 and is survived by his wife, parents, five brothers, and two sisters. He held multiple Masonic and Shrine memberships and was a member of the Iowa State Dental Society. Funeral services were held Friday July 23 at the parental home with Masonic burial rites conducted by Rev. H C Duckett and T P Bence.
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Ie Fairheld
Quincy
Edna Anschutz
Keokuk
Franklin Lodge
Bloomfield
Caldwell
Bloomsburg
Bates Harriet Elizabeth Bates obituary summary
Harriet Elizabeth Frazey Bates was born March 2 1846 in Jefferson County and died July 13 1920 in Brush Colorado at age 74. She married Ephriam Bates on November 28 1867 and they had eleven children, four living Edgar Franklin Nevada Alma Townsend Myrtle Lulu Bates and Elmer Ellsworth. The family moved from Kansas to Smith Center and later Smith County. She joined the Methodist church near Fairfield and was a devoted wife and mother. She leaves a husband two living children a sister nine grandchildren two great grandchildren and many friends.
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Yuma
Colo
Bates
Smith County
Kans
Smith Center
Fairfield
Manorah J. Vance
Rexford, Kans
Prairie Chapel Hard Times Social Invitation and Price List
A playful notice from Hard Times Social at Prairie Chapel school house invites locals to a social event near Fairfield on Friday night July 30. The piece lists costume rules and a comical set of fines for various wardrobe items, plus a brief music note by the Old Settlers quartet. An accompanying ad promotes Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs and related ailments from Jericho & Easton druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prairie Chapel School
Prairie Chapel
Fairfield
Brighton Road
Kaliker
Ingersoll
Old Settlers
Foley
Jericho & Easton
Real Estate Transfers June 30 and early July
A list of property transfers in Fairfield Batavia and Des Moines area detailing buyers sellers parcel sizes and prices. Notable entries include Elizabeth Banfield to Rosemary Bonfeld 6000, Kerrick to Teal 1500, and multiple one dollar transfers. A long note from Birmingham Enterprise about copper wire installation affecting daytime service for a week.
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Mary M. Knerr
Amos Foote
Penn Township
Elizabeth J. Bonifeld
Rosetta B. Hoskins
Fairfield
Charles W. Mountain
Lina C. Kerrick
Gates
Parsons College Inc
Elizabeth J. Banfield
Nady
R. C. Leggett
Johnson
Rachel S. Warner
Mary A. Sullivan
Whitwood’s
Batavia
Elizabeth E. Pearson
A. G. Gonterman
Des Moines
J. F. Teal
Southwestern
Florence C. Duncan
Henn Williams & Co
Deaths Gaumer Arch ie Winnett
Dr Archie Winnett Gaumer born February 4 1878 in Center township Jefferson county Iowa died July 21 1920 at J R Williams home in Quincy Illinois after a year long illness of chronic nephritis Graduated Fairfield High 1897 Keokuk Dental College 1903 practiced in Columbus Junction Bloomfield Des Moines early 1918 he joined the army as a first lieutenant dental corps served in eighty ninth division at Camp Pike rejected for overseas service sent to Camp Dodge mustered out after armistice resumed practice in Des Moines to begin
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Gaumer
Archie Winnett
Center Township
Jefferson County
Iowa
J. R. Williams
Quincy
Illinois
Fairfield High School
Keokuk Dental College
Columbus Junction
Bloomfield
Army
Dental Corps
Eighty-Ninth
Camp Pike
France
Camp Dodge
Des Moines
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Stucky- Gossick Milling Co
H. Pence Machine Co
N. Fourth Street
Minneapolis
Minn
C. A. Nordeen
Braham
Hannah
Exide
P. L. Phelps
Ottumwa, Ia
Frank Dustin
V. D. Koons
Tribune
F. E. Butler
Undertaker
A. V. Frazey
Neighborhood News
Newell Kerr
Silvis
Lil
Do— H. C. Vass
Eldon
Fite
E. E. Lucas
Rochester
Washington
Ball Park
Keokuk County
Chicago
Brighton
O— Egbert I. Gillette
Ottumwa
Sigourney
Hillsboro
van Buren Light and Power Company
Milton
Muscatine County
Keosauqua
Chuck Roast
North Main
M. Florence Sargent
Chas
Ralph Wheatley
Grimes
Friend
J. T. Briggs
Walnut Township
J. W. Burns
Andrew Johnson
Gustav Bissig
Old Plat Pleasant Plain
C. F. Craft
Ernest C. Helfenstine
Rauscher
East Lockridge
Samuel Johnson
Frank E. Ratcliff
O. F. Fryer
J. L. Underwood
Oakland
Kate M. Jones Raney
John
Lindbom and Wife
Z. A. Robison
G. R. Britton
E. R Smith
M. D. Webber
Spahn
Fred W. McClain
F. M. Fryer
Fairview
P. M. Schomburg
E. B. Abbey
Henn Yass & Co
Elizabeth Hunt
Carrie L. Ross
Gust Nordgren
D. A. Stull
McQuirey
D. G. Holcomb
L. E. Copeland
McQurrey
John W. Yeager
George W. Huber
Whitwood
Roy Goff
G .W. Fisher
Charles H. Goff
G. W. Fisher
Jessie M. Grissom
C .P. Hague
New Plat
Lon H. Israel
Raymond L. Shearburn
Oscar F. Steigleder
Lyle W
Blanch Sparks
Blackhawk
Henry Koons
William Edwin Rains
Locust Grove Township
Birmingham
Gentry
Iowa Electric Company
Birmingham Enterprise
Olane
Pat
Chas. Lyon & CO
F. D. Kerrick
North Main Street
East Kirkwood Street
Isaac Hawbaker
T. B. Allender
Chas. Browning
Frazey, the
the Tribune
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