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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1907
Page
3
Packwood and Glendale columns report visitors and arrivals and departures. Frequent names appear with dwellers in Hedrick Ottumwa Mt. Pleasant and Des Moines. Church events, funerals, school gatherings, picnics, and civic meetings populate community life in June 1907 with news of families,ريض local societies, and notable travels.
Round Prairie June 17 notes heat good for corn. Glasgow M E church Children’s Day program draws a large audience. Charles Hutton and family visited Wayland and Merrimac. Old Skunk river near flood stage upsetting bottom farmers. Glasgow plans Fourth of July celebration with basket dinner fireworks and Prof Gage address. Ice cream supper next Saturday to fund the event. donations welcomed.
Day from Des Moines finds Mrs. Mott back from Drake University and a Batavia visit. A J Douglas builds a new cement walk. D K McGaw’s brother visits from Winfield. Edgar Veatch and wife return from Kansas. Effie Holliday visits Eldon with Kate Fairchilds. Effie Nixon stays with Mrs Edgar Robinson of Batavia. T R Hundeby buys Swift hardware stock. Children Day exercises held at Christian church after rain. Church ladies serve ice cream and cake. Infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Harry Robinson dies in Fort Madison. burial there.
Cedar Two June 17 notes X and Lou Nady visiting Chas Benn at Packwood last week with Mar vin Humphrey. John Samuelson and wife boast a fine young son. Elmer McClain nears completion of a new home. R T McClain to move to former Ulm place farm. Community welcomes the returning family.
In Lockridge Iowa on June 17 Mrs Clarence Walters of Ottumwa visits at the parental John Carlson home. News notes inform of a Fairfield dwelling completed by King and men then to work for John Kleinhan. Free Baptist church women to serve ice cream cake and strawberries Saturday evening with proceeds for sidewalks. Friends sympathize with Mrs Nelse Pierson and family on the loss of husband and father who was loved for his kind disposition.
In Stockport Iowa on Tuesday J A Keck, Geo Keck and families joined H E Ely at his home. Miss Fay Lucas is reported to have returned on Wednesday from an absence or trip.
Nels Pearson born in Sweden January 1 1834 died at home in Lockridge June 12 1907 aged 73 years 5 months 12 days. He came to the United States in 1857 and served in Co F 84th Illinois during the Civil War. He married Emma Larson January 6 1867. they had seven children. Funeral services were held in Lockridge with Swedish and English sermons. He was a member of the Swedish Lutheran church and leaves a wife seven children one brother and many relatives.
A June notice urges Prairie Chapel parishioners to attend Children’s Day services while warning that rats forever outpace cats poisons and traps. The piece notes rats reproduce rapidly from three months old with endless multiplication and vast costs to society.
Evening notice invites the public to a basket dinner at Walnut Quaker Church next Sunday with an all day meeting. Miss Ola Farmer returns to Packwood today. Miss Lillie Potter returned Saturday to her Cherry Box Missouri home.
Elm Grove notes from June listing visits by Mrs. Griffin and Grace of Greenville Ohio to J. M. Fisher and Levi Rittenhouse. Various local residents, including the Salts, Wilsons, Louths, Criles, Pfeiffers, Conn, Schooley, and Fisher families, host and visit relatives with baptisms at Cedar.
The Cedart Rapids Republican urges constant warfare on rats with a foxlike bite of wit. It argues that even persistent effort will only keep rat numbers in check and calls for more cats to reduce rat populations nationwide.
The case of Frank W. Bicknell, former publisher of the Des Moines Mail and Times, illustrated how a prank by thoughtless boys on a Halloween night led to a knee injury that left him partially incapacitated for life. The incident, described as a grave act of recklessness, highlights the lasting harm caused by careless tricks.
The guide lists simple kitchen equivalents for common ingredients and measures. It converts teaspoons to tablespoons and cups to pounds, detailing flour sugar butter oatmeal gelatin eggs and other pantry items for practical cooking and baking accuracy.
The C., B. and Q and other railways reduce timetables citing adverse legislation and higher operating costs. Passengers push for faster speeds while railway men blame defective rails for rising accidents.
The Morrell packing house employees plan an all day picnic on July 16 at the Ottumwa fair grounds. The event will be held at the fair grounds and is described as an annual gathering.
A local sale advertises muslin underwear and hats at deep discounts. The store promotes a large assortment of hats up to 7.50, men's straw hats, and cheap fabrics and household goods with prices as low as 5c to 95c. It highlights summer underwear bargains for men and general reductions across displays and millinery.
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