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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1912
Page
7
A Gospel Wagon will begin operations on May 1 to extend winter religious work. The mobile platform will tour city districts on select evenings with preaching, singing, and prayer for those unlikely to attend churches. Country outreach includes automobile trips to rural churches with a quartet and sermons, prayer, and talks.
Fairfield High School's library, now nearly a thousand volumes, adds works including A Source Book in Roman History, The Sketch Book, Private Life of the Romans, Stories of Shakespeare's Tragedies, Myths of Ancient Greece and Rome, How to Prevent Typhoid Fever, and farming and agricultural titles such as The Dairy Herd, Meat on the Farm, and Pruning.
A list of rural life subjects appears including horse feeding, insect effects on life in rural districts, tree planting on school grounds, eggs as food, seed corn germination, forest planting, farm management, the school garden, milk fever, mushroom cultivation, toad usefulness, silo costs, poultry management, hog and seed corn farming, split log drag on earth roads, corn harvesting machines, common disinfectants, southern dairy industry, corn nutrition, muskrat, school plant exercises, cigar leaf tobacco in Pennsylvania, economical meat use at home, bread making and hog cholera.
A nearly century old will of Amos Mills born 1752, from Guilford County North Carolina, is rediscovered. It names his wife Elizabeth as life tenant, guardianship for Elizabeth, provisions for heirs, executors Jeremiah Mills and John Maris, and specific bequests to children and grandchildren.
The article argues for treating farming as a viable path for immigrants, noting 95 percent could own their jobs on farms versus five percent in cities. It calls for citizen education on economics and law, criticizing lax immigrant integration and urging a nationwide shift to teach responsible citizenship and law awareness to all residents.
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Rowland age nearly 88 dies Sunday at her daughter Mrs. J W D Linden's home on Church street. Born 1824 in Allentown Pa she was a great great grandmother. She leaves survivors including daughter Mrs Kate Webb of Chicago and other descendants. funeral Wednesday at 10 at the Linden home with burial in St Louis Bellefontaine cemetery.
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