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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1908
Page
7
Harry Rasmus fell about three feet from a ladder while painting last week and slowly recovers. Initial reports overestimated his injuries though friends and relatives now believe his condition is not as serious.
For sale. Fancy recleaned German millet seed offered at 1.00 per bushel. Advert by Yost and Sherrick of Libertyville, Iowa. Local notice style brief and direct.
Miss Etta Miner of Holdridge Nebr and many others visit relatives in town. Visitors include Mrs. H. C. Alston, Miss Sarah Simmons of Aurora Ill, Mr. Chase Gibson, and Mrs. John Wildman. People travel to Chicago, Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, and other cities for business, funerals, or vacations.
A drayman discovered a severely burned infant body in an oil cloth sack left in a C B Q box car. The fully developed male child was missing one hand and both legs, with the body decomposed for 10 days to two weeks. A coroner's jury could not identify the perpetrators. Authorities pursue leads and press for justice.
A severe tornado struck Charles City Iowa at 5 AM killing one man Christian Doeck and four children injuring many and leaving 200 dwellings and barns wrecked a bridge down and a wide desolation. Lisbon faced a 300 foot wide tornado path over a mile long causing building, farm, and livestock damage and darkness from the power plant wreckage.
Pretty Helen French of Keokuk reportedly retired to a room and fatally blew out her brains on June 8 prompting widespread shock across the community.
Fertile Clay and Peat company begins operations in Fertile Iowa with a 30 000 brick per day plant and 50 workers. Ross Keller machinery powers the facility while peat briquettes total 80 000 daily. J H Malthouse of St Louis oversees the project and the first brick goes to the new First Presbyterian Church in Fertile.
A devoted wife writes to the National Biscuit Company offering to work to repay 900 dollars her husband is accused of withholding during his travels as a salesman. Jones was arrested by detectives upon Des Moines police requests. The father negotiates an out of court settlement.
Mason City Iowa on June 9 a man failed to obtain a marriage license after an hour long parley with the court clerk seeking to wed Miss Myrtle Loungden of Plymouth The report notes the delay prevented the marriage at that time.
Pace of Austin Minnesota took his bride and drove home disgusted after learning his divorce from a former wife three months earlier. He sought to remarry with a minister ready in an outer room to perform the ceremony, but the act was illegal under the lawn laws.
Cedar Falls reports Miss Mary Roinhold died from injuries endured Sunday morning May 31 after being struck on the Central tracks while returning from the country. She was deaf and continued walking on the railroad despite the danger. She did not regain consciousness.
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