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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1898
Page
2
Dress Goods Offering highlights selected items from the Dress Goods Department now discounted. Prices shown include 69c to 49c, 125 to 87c, 100 to 75c, and 75c to 50c as a clearance.
A terse note declares they can and do sell anything in domestics cheaper than the lowest cash price. First class shirting offered at 5c 7c and 6e per yard with calicos at 8 6c 3c and 5c per yard.
Miss Helen McElderry hosted a young folks gathering last Thursday while Dick Labagh welcomed friends at his east Des Moines county home. Marriage notices announce plans for Miss Mary Fordyce and J Mulford Burnett among local residents. Odd Fellows centennial events in Fairfield featured parades, lectures, and Rebekah demonstrations with visitors from Ottumwa and Burlington.
Keosauqua resident Mr Edward Holbert attended chapel while Rev Mr Houston led Tuesday exercises. A concert by Luce and the Mandolin and Guitar Clubs with the Jefferson county band played Eldon Saturday after a postponement due to a wreck. Sam Smith and Hovey Hootman joined Company M in Des Moines.
The ad touts Electric Bitters as a cure for back pain kidneys malaria and nervous troubles. It claims to purify blood boost liver and kidney function and relieve constipation headaches and melancholy. A bottle costs fifty cents at J D McDowell's drug store and a town improvement meeting is set for May 10 at 7 30 PM at the library.
Real estate notes offer good paying trades in Ottumwa and Eldon each valued at 2500 dollars for a prairie farm in Jefferson county. Address I T Flint Eldon Iowa. Money rates to loan on easy terms and low rates from Raney and Simmons.
May records show Mrs. Hawkins ill and Mrs. Sallie Lambert buried at Mt. Pleasant with husband Jerry Lambert passing weeks earlier. Rev. John Lute led both funerals. Mrs. Mary Light to speak on Missions before Epworth League. Local notes cover travel shifts, farming, church visits, sick lists, hog shipments, and local pharmacy. 1871.
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