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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1912
Page
5
County correspondence records frequent Sunday visits as neighbors drop by homes and attend church and band concerts. Local residents, including the Greeson and DuBois families, travel to Packwood and Chariton while others stay close to home for birthdays and greetings.
A warm day ushers in fine corn weather. Several residents, including Anthony McCarty, Alberta Caveness, Verne Cornell and family, and Fern Miller, visited neighbors near Glaslow, Libertyville, and Four Corners. Multiple callings occurred at the Miller, Cornell, Krumholtz, Beacher, Caviness, and Snyder homes with Sundays and Saturdays featuring visits and gatherings among local families.
Mrs. Sarah McCormick returned from Chariton after a pleasant visit. H. W. Free called on business in Burlington. Mrs. Mary McDermott of Ottumwa visited son J. J. McDermott at the M. A. Roach home. Sisters M Florencia and M St Claude with J W Carrington and wife from Albia visited at Charles Carrigan's. Bethesda congregation lawn social was a grand success financially and socially. Mr. and Mrs. B C Roberts spent time nearby.
Mrs L T Gobble and son Carl of Fairfield visited Abingdon early week. Several residents attended a Saturday dance at C L Clark. Visitors included Batavia residents James Bradshaw Otto Hood Frank Fischer and others from Batavia Galesburg Albia and Clin ton. Ed Davis reports melons thriving and ready for orders in a few weeks.
Libertyville and Packwood columns describe visits and guests in the area. Delegates Selah Linder and Frances Ferrer attend an Epworth League convention in Keokuk. Numerous residents and relatives visit, host, or travel to Burlington Medalia and Fairfield. Illness updates and local church activities finish the item.
Miss Grace Moorman and Miss Orrisie Lyon attended normal school at Fairfield last week. O. B. Myers spent Sunday at home. Miss Grace Kelley is in Des Moines attending the summer school. Mrs. Sargent of Des Moines is mentioned.
The column records neighbors visiting kin and friends from Abingdon Stockport and Fairfield. It notes a Wyoming Blade clipping about Walter Elder seeking pardon for a 3 murder conviction, with elder’s father Jonathan aged 72 needing care in Campbell county.
Miss Ely Smith Elsie McVey and Phoebe McVey attended the teachers institute at Fairfield. T D Cuddy and E Roberts of Hedrick were in the area on business last Thursday. Grandma McClung of Bladensburg visited Mrs Clara Smith. Grandma Black and Vena Harrison helped feed cherries. Harve Cummings delivered hogs to Ollie Wednesday. F R Gambell traveled to Bladetown.
Salina area events and visits reported for the week include an ice cream social at Wallgreen farm three miles northeast of Salina on Saturday evening June 29 192. Mrs. McCulley visited Fairfield with her daughter. Ruth Dunlap stayed with McCulley’s family while she was away. Gilworth family from Fairfield visited Salina relatives. Large attendance noted at League Sunday night. Maud Krunholtz returned home from South Dakota. Robert Erickson and Esther with Mr. Lundquist of Fairfield traveled out Sunday. Ruth Krumholtz visited J Schillerstrom’s. H Monson traveled to Fairfield. Enoch Aronson home after working there. Paul Hollander drove the express wagon for Mr. Israel of Fairfield. Eli Blough praised for road work west of Salina. Ernest Aronson in Fairfield. Those seeking a good stock or grain farm advised to see H Monson at Peter Johnson and family visiting Ben Bastwick’s Sunday.
The week began cool and cloudy with light scattered showers. the last days were warm and clear, but average temperatures ran about 8 degrees below normal. Rainfall was well below average, yet prior week rains kept ground in good condition. Corn growth is slow and uneven, small grain is strong with some rust and smut reported. Rye ripening in the south. hay yields near to slightly below average. potatoes promising. berries and cherries excellent though below normal yields. plums high and apples below average. George M. Chappel, Section Director.
Perry Iowa June 23 M I Mullins a Dallas county farmer who lives near Adel has the highest price paid in Chicago for beef cattle in forty years. His cattle brought 9 50 per hundred after delivery last week. Last winter he topped the market at 8 75 per hundred for a similar load.
A writer notes that sending money to distant suppliers reduces local work. The point is made that those who question scarce local employment may be supporting mail order operations elsewhere, indirectly undermining local hiring.
A national movement unites commercial industrial educational and transportation interests with government and state extensions to boost farm management. The plan would place county agricultural demonstrators in every county, funded by a national fund of one million dollars and matched by states and local groups, to raise yields and improve crop practices.
A proposal offers $100,000 with $1,000 per county to fund permanent scientific agriculturist and farm demonstrator roles. It outlines joint meetings, county committees, agricultural memberships, shared funding by township and county clubs, and school collaboration to boost crop production, seed testing, and farm management over two to three years.
County leaders embrace regional agricultural experts to aid small farmers. J C Murray notes partnerships with neighbors provide access to knowledge, preventing costly errors. Over fifty counties study the idea, with eighteen to twenty already installing county agriculturists.
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