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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1920
Page
7
Des Moines visit ends for Pearson and Miss Sade with Elthy Pearson accompanying home for vacation. Dozens of residents visit, travel, or recover at home with illnesses, visits to Ottumwa Fairfield and Columbus Junction noted. Cemetery meeting set. church groups host events. numerous family visits from Davenport Agency Richland Batavia and Fairfield.
Mrs Laura Shipler and Mrs Irvin Bowers of Fairfield visit relatives here Monday. Mrs Roscoe Ri hosts Lafalet club Friday May 28 with a fine lunch. R F Erwin Peru Ind recounts relief from indigestion biliousness and constipation after using Chamberlains Tablets and endorses them.
In a Monday program Arm tron will star in a comedy titled Just Once It is noted that the show will also feature a reminder about sugar use. The Green P store is listed in the item with jobs and local notices including Wanted A job pulling white daisies and sowing oats. Lost and found cow notices appear with Harold Nelson and Raymond Jacobs named as contact points. Disinterested laborers are sought by the Salina Farm Union to sort sugar amounts, while worm proof capsules are advertised by The Salina Worm-Proof Co. Henry Bombshell manages. Ten Years Ago recalls farm life transitions and a shift from animal power to tractors describing past conditions and weights. Social visits mention So ny night, Richland Sunday, and travels of Simmons, Ebbins, Mowery, Saldell, Edmund, Dysert, Sabel, and Loughary with various town moves and church attendance noted.
Forty five acres near Libertyville described as 189 acres total with 140 acres plow land 49 acres blue grass sod well watered contains a school house on farm well improved in fine location and with a fine view.
Advertises land at $200 per acre with $5,000 down and a 10 year balance at 6 percent. Claims potential buyers can become wealthy by investing, noting a farm in Iowa will in 19 years sell for more than double the purchase price and that the rule has never failed for 40 years.
A rough offer outlines price of 150 dollars with 4000 dollars cash and the balance financed over ten years at six percent. The proposal notes that any of these farms would rent sufficiently to cover interest and taxes.
The passage extols land investment in Jefferson County Iowa claiming endless profits from farm purchases and declaring no other region from Texas to Canada offers greater gains. It urges buyers that oil stocks bonds or wild land pale beside Jefferson County land.
Des Moines visitors Lindy and Mrs Heston with cousins A and B Ramsey stayed Thursday and Friday. Mrs Lucy Book left to return home. R L Scott returned from Ottumwa after eye treatment and is recovering well. Samuel Nelson and sister Clara of Packwood plan Chicago surgery. The Smiths hosted Uncle R B McClung and Hedrick relatives. Bender visited son Edd in Truro before returning home. Alfred Ramsey in Ottumwa Saturday. Miller and Mowery with Steele family visited. Cline, Ray Nelson delivered hogs. Fred Bender’s family visited Chas Edwards. News came of Mrs W A Capps death near Pekin. Ray Nelson and family visited Sigourney. Barngrovers prepare move to Burlington. Nelson infant ill in Fremont reported.
Headache often stems from constipation or a disordered stomach and may be relieved by Chamberlains Tablets. The ad promotes these easy to take, mild tablets as a cure by correcting the underlying condition.
Vera Herslow returns from Chicago while Ralph Jacobs makes a business call in Fairfield. Memorial services in Fairfield are attended by several Salina residents. The Swedish Lutherans report a successful mission sale with a large crowd, fine dinner, and program.
An advertisement touts Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy as essential for every family. It claims immediate use during severe colic and cholera morbus and notes its uniform success and rapid cures, urging it as a staple item in trade.
Packwood Miss Ruth Samuelson visits Fairfield friends while E. E. Edwards and family tour Pleasant Plain and Brighton. Numerous local residents travel, recoveries noted, and a death near the town. Many with relatives in Ollie Hedrick Abingdon and Coppick, plus a new agent moving into a former home. The week records illnesses hospital stays and decoration day gatherings.
An advertisement urges readers to use Chamberlains Liniment for chronic and muscular rheumatism. Massage the affected parts twice daily for relief or cure.
Neighbors share a busy period of visits from Ottumwa to Brookville with extended family reunions. Mrs. Arthur Johnson recovers from an operation at home while Miss Josephine Van Winkle arrives from Nebraska to visit relatives and nurse a newborn. The community reports schoolhouse upgrades, a Farmers Union meeting, and a near miss with a speeding train on a Beckwith crossing.
A historical patent remedy claims to darken gray hair naturally with Sage and Sulphur. The formula, advertised as Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound, is applied with a sponge to strands, allegedly restoring color, gloss, and a youthful look without treating disease.
The text promotes pest control and farm improvements. It warns about flies in homes and germs on food, urges screening to prevent entry, and pitches sturdy farm sheds and the CAN'T SAG GATE. It advocates concrete watering troughs, easy cleaning, no repairs, and urges immediate building.
A scrambled snippet mentions a wife and gratitude plus a dining scene. It describes light woodwork light walls and draperies enhancing cheerfulness and making the room feel larger than it is.
Concrete storm cellars provide reliable protection during cyclones and serve as practical storage for fruit and vegetables year round.
Creameries pay for cool clear sweet milk as the concrete floored milkhouse protects dairy products. Eclipse Milks offers free house plans to ensure cleanliness and easy maintenance.
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