For Sale North Missouri Farms and Jewell County Kansas Land
Classified ads offer North Missouri farms with various sizes and crops and a 200 acre Jewell County Kansas property near Formosa. It lists a 7 room house a 3 story barn windmill and water access with alfalfa pasture and good fences. Price 140 per acre with 12000 cash or 16000 10 year loan at 6 percent. Realty Dept Union State Bank Formosa Kansas R H Parsons cashier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jewell
Kansas
Formosa
Union State Bank
R. H. Parsons
Stray Jersey cow near College street offered for reward
A Duroc Jersey cow weighing about 400 pounds strayed from premises just north of College. Finder can claim a reward by contacting Henry Eckey Jr at phone 5311.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
College, Duroc-Jersey
Henry Eckey, Jr
Legion Notes Elect Delegates at August Meeting
Allen Jewett post schedules regular meeting for Tuesday evening August 3. Delegates for the Cedar Rapids department convention to be elected. Big Legion and ex service men picnic at Fairfield Chautauqua on August 23 with the Legion quartet singing. Commander Reed offers forms for Victory medal applications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen Jewett Post
Department
Cedar Rapids
Legion
Fairfield Chautauqua
Reed
American Legion
Memorial and funeral notices from Fairfield and surrounding areas
Obituaries and notices recount the deaths and services of Kenneth Standiford in Des Moines area, Weldell Mae born to Mr. and Mrs. Renee Green, and Grace Shields in Denver. Also mentions travel for funerals, birthdays, and community events plus the Bates family obituary from Brush Colorado. Includes church and fraternal affiliations and local social notes.
Eldon Umpire Severely Injured by Baseball Throw
Newell Kerr, an Eldon man, was badly hurt while umpiring a game at Silvis NL when a baseball struck him last week. Major E E Lucas of Des Moines faces lip cancer surgery in Rochester Minnesota after multiple operations. Keokuk county growers ship wool to Chicago. Brighton to lose its hotel after a real estate deal.
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Newell Kerr
Silvis
E. E. Lucas
Fairfield
Des Moines
Rochester
Minn
Brighton
Prairie Chapel social hosts quirky invite and dress rules
Hard Times Social at Prairie Chapel school house near Fairfield invites locals to a Friday eve gathering featuring ice cream and cake. The notice lists humorous dress codes and penny fines for both ladies and gentlemen, plus a mention of the Old Settlers quartet providing music. Additional ad copy touts Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs and hay fever.
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Prairie Chapel School
Tim Se Shul
Prairie Chapel
Fairfield
Brighton Road
Ice Kream & Kake
Foley
Jericho & Easton
Property transfers in Fairfield Batavia and surrounding townships
A sequence of real estate conveyances dated June through July lists numerous transfers in Fairfield Batavia and nearby towns. Transactions include parcels in new plats and additions, with prices ranging from $1 to $55,000 and owners such as Elizabeth Bonfield Lina Kerrick J F Teal and D G Holcomb.
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Elizabeth J. Bonfield
Rosetta B
Johnson
Fairfield
Rachel S. Warner
Mary A. Sullivan
Whitwood’s
Batavia
Elizabeth E. Pearson
A. G. Gonterman
Des Moines
Lina C. Kerrick and
Husband
J. F. Teal
Southwestern
Elizabeth J. Banfield
Florence C. Duncan
Henn Williams & Co
Fh Wely
Fred W. McClain
F. M. Fryer
Fairview
P. M. Seimburg
E. B. Abbey
Elizabeth Hunt
Carrie L. Ross
Leiss
Gust Nordgren
D. A. Stull
McQurrey
Charles H. Goff
G. W. Fisher
Whitwood
Jessie M. Grissom
O. F. Fryer
C .P. Hague
Wires to Birmingham cause daytime outage this week
Fairfield Iowa Electric manager Gentry reports copper wire installation on the line to Birmingham will cause daytime service disruption for at least a week. A large crew is working on the line, but night service remains uninterrupted as connections are made each evening.
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Birmingham
Gentry
Iowa Electric Company
Fairfield
Birmingham Enterprise
Deaths of Dr Archie Winnett Gaumer
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 from chronic nephritis He graduated Fairfield High School 1897 Keokuk Dental College 1903 practiced at Columbus Junction Bloomfield then served as first lieutenant in the dental corps with the 89th division at Camp Pike His overseas exam showed his illness and he was rejected for service in France then mustered out after the armistice He practiced dentistry in Des Moines until retirement.
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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
Fairfield‘ Rendering Works
H. Pence Machine Co
N. Fourth Street
Minneapolis
C. A. Nordeen
Braham
R. No. 1
North Missouri
A. Wiley
Brookfield
Hannah
Real Service
Exide
P. L. Phelps
Ottumwa, Ia
The
Farmers’ Savings Bank of
Libertyville
Frank Dustin
V. D. Koons
Tribune
W.C. Hawes
Desines
Kenneth Standiford
Jad
Arenee Green
Bakersfield
Calif
Weldell Mae
D. F. Spratt
Mansfield
Ill
H. S. Thomson
Presbyterian Church
Wisconsin
Ruth Lamson
Washington, D. C
Ralph Lamson
John Downard
Claude
Springfield
Ohio
Oskaloosa
F. E. Butler
Undertaker
A. V. Frazey
Edna Anschutz
Keokuk
Franklin Lodge No
Caldwell
Bloomsburg
Iowa State Dental Society
West
Briggs Street
H. C. Duckett
T. P. Bence
Yuma
Colo
Bates
Smith County
Kans
Smith Center
Manorah J. Vance
Rexford, Kans
Neighborhood News
U H. C. Vass
Eldon
Fite
Washington
Keokuk County
Chicago
Egbert I. Gillette
Otcumwa
Sigourney
Hillsboro
van Buren Light and Power Company
Milton
Muscatine County
Keosauqua
Old Settlers’ Quartet
Chuck Roast
North Main
M. Florence Sargent
Chas
Ralph Wheatley
Grimes
Friend
J. T. Kriggs
Walnut Township
J. W. Burns
Andrew Johnson
Gustav Bissig
Old Plat Pleasant Plain
C. F. Craft
Ernest C. Helfenstine
Rauscher
Kate M. Jones Raney
John
K. Rébigon
C. R. Britton
Lon H. Israel
Raymond L. Shearburn
Oscar F. Steigleder
Lyle W
Blanch Sparks
Blackhawk
Henry Koons
William Edwin Rains
Locust Grove Township
Pat
Chas. Lyon & CO
Department Store
F. D. Kerrick
North Main Street
East Kirkwood Street
Isaac Hawbaker
T. B. Allender
Chas. Browning
Frazey, the
the Tribune
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