Coney Island Farm Notes and Local Attractions
A digest of items from Coney Island and Fairfield including legal bonds, illnesses, travel plans, Independence Day music by Unkrich’s Boys’ Band at Merrimac, a lost pocketbook, and a New Chicago fire extinguisher purchase. The Fairfield band concerts draw crowds at the city park as the Electric Farm dairy barn at Coney Island showcases Louden Machinery equipment and electric milking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Unkrich
Merrimac
Fairfield
Louden Metweek
Coney Island
Jersey
Louden Machinery Company
Country Gentleman
Loudon Machinery Company
Broadway
Town
Sands Calhoun
West
New York
Electric Farms
Dreamland
Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea Promises Digestive Relief
In June an ad promotes Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as a reliable tonic for constipation bowel cleansing and digestive strengthening. It offers Tea or Tablets for 35 cents by F. S. Shriner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollister
F. S. Shriner
Local Notices and Miscellany From Fairfield Page
Ads mention Peters Pumps and a five cent cigar. Social items note the Foreign Missionary Society meeting at Mrs. John Mohler and Mrs. W. E. Harris’s Pythian Sisters temple tours. Reports cover a lawn mower finger injury, a Crane home gasoline stove fire with minor damage, C. E. Carlson’s trip to Red Wing for church synod, Claude Downard’s Wooster trip for university equipment, and New Hope lodge officers.
Deaths: Emma Herring Dies After Prolonged Illness
Emma Herring of Fairfield dies at her mother Mrs Jane Herring’s home on West Broadway after a long illness. She was active in Congregational church affairs and the choir, served in P E O Sisterhood, and is mourned by family and friends. Funeral held at 1 pm Thursday at the Herring residence with Rev Samuel Ross and Rev Burch officiating. interment in Evergreen Cemetery. Floral tributes reflect community regard.
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Emma Herring
Jane Herring
West Broadway
Miss Herring
Fairfield
Congregational Church
Herring
Samuel Ross
Burch
Christian Church of
Evergreen Cemetery
Robertson-Cicle Wedding Ties City and Mason City Couple
Miss Gertrude Cicle of this city and John Robertson of Mason City wed Wednesday noon at Justice D B Wilson's West Hempstead Street residence. Friends attended the ceremony and a wedding repast followed at the bride's sister Mrs John Crawford's home. The couple left that evening for Mason City to establish their new home.
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Fairfield
Real Estate Transfers and a Diarrhoea Remedy Ad
Real estate transfers list multiple parcels and buyers including Cranmore W Gage, W R May, Otto B Hartman, William H Coop, J J Kritzler, Henry F Anson, E R Smith, James B Keller, Fay Bates, F J DeMarsh, C I Shaner, F T Duke, George Cows, Fannie J Cox, Laura M Trail in various townships with prices from 50 to 3250 dollars. An advertisement urges readers with moderate means to buy Cham berlain s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy at 25 cents, claiming reliability and long use. sold by F W Jericho in June.
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Cranmore W
Henry F. Anson
Glasgow
E. R. Smith
James B. Keller
Parsons College
Fairfield
C. I. Shaner
E. Lock- Weee
F. J. DeMarsh
Fay Bates
Perlee
G. T. Duke
George Cows
Fannie J. Cox
Laura M. Trail
Chambérlain
F. W. Jericho
Also Mentioned on This Page
Coney Island Farm
Sloan & Hochuly
P. I. Halston
West Grimes Street
Fritz & Droz
Etta Stever
Fair Department
Libertyville
Leo
Roscoe Thoma
Louis Thoma
Cambridge University
Birmingham
Fritz & Parker
John Fritz
New Chicago Department
The
Hunt-Ireland Shoe Co
North Side
Cash Grocery
Swifts Pride
K. C
Phone
J. E. Roth & CO
J.e.rotheco
Merrick & CO
Emma Morrison
Lambert
D. G. Higley
East Side Square
West & Downing
Concrete Contractors
Will
W. N. Strong
Bevering’s. Tf
Cora Rodgers
C. E. Carlson
Red Wing
Minnesota
Mr. Carlson
General Synod of the Swedish Lutheran Church
Dell Ward
Ruth Ruben
Davenport
City
Batavia
East Burlington Street
Claude Downard
Wooster
Ohio
Wooster University
United States
Parsons
Downard
New Hope Lodges No
Tressia Fisher
J. E. Cracht
Elder
P. C
Gumm
Smith
Fay Boley
Emma Boley
W. E. Harris
Burlington
Miss Emma Herring
Ceorge W. Mnerich’s
George W Unkrich
Edison Phonograph
Mr. Edison
Snyder & Co Jewelers and Opticians
Iowa
North Side Square
East Side Hardware Store
Everbody
East Side
Brown dHughe
Dr. King
Isfactos
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