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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1905
Page
13
Mystic resident Roy Heron visits cousins Mathias and Ralph Hickenbottom while Henry Raucher family from Brighton joins relatives in town. A farmhouse barn begins for Oscar Sherman. church programs, Sunday school plans, and a Jamaica aid collection of $45 are noted along with various visits to and from Fairfield Stockport and Glasgow communities.
Miss Velma Jones hosted friends at home for her eighth birthday. A fire at the No. 4 Greasy Flat schoolhouse caused only minor damage from a faulty chimney. Local residents note May Day observances and corn planting underway as farmers anticipate large acreage.
Abingdon residents report attending a funeral in Blakesburg and visits to relatives in Pekin Batavia Fairfield Hedrick and Fairfield. A May 6 wedding unites Thomas L Walker and Malissa Vanness at J B Mowery’s home. Local residents include John Loehr Gurley Baker and many others visiting family and friends.
May reports from Burr Oak note Miss Agness Fritz left for Burlington on Saturday. Four Burr Oak pupils join the town, with a new buggy contested by the girls. Andrew Wolf slowly recovers from illness. Celia Arant misses school due to sickness. Farmers plant corn as another buggy arrives. Teachers and scholars collected wildflowers Friday. Willie Lamansky and Albert Thoman to speak at Pleasant Plain on the 11th.
Henry Miller of Burlington stayed a week visiting friends and relatives. Ida Giese is seriously ill with pneumonia. Louisa Boos of Fairfield visited friends here. Ida and Otto Gillen wed April 29 at the Quick home in Ottumwa. Alma Hildebrand of Fairfield returned home. Mrs. O F Lillyblade went to Mt Pleasant for her daughter Mrs. Fred King who suffers a severe brain fever.
Mr. Jacobs born May 7 1825 in Mjdby Sweden grew to manhood. He married Anna Catharina Nelson in October 1847. They moved to Burlingtoin in 1851 and settled on the old homestead northeast of Salina in 1853. Survived by wife six children and twenty one grandchildren. Funeral at New Sweden Lutheran church near Four Corners on May 7.
May and Miss Mary Schneider of Fairfield spent a few days visiting Richwoods and Germanville. A pie social drew young folks to the upper Richwoods schoolhouse. Burlington visitors Mr and Mrs William Wolf and son Willie stayed with Mr and Mrs Henry Diers. John Anot of Waterloo visited his son. Rev Fred Chamberlain will preach at Richwoods church Sunday night.
Libertyville reports visits and illnesses including Mrs. Roy Fry and Mrs. John Fry visiting Fairfield and Van Buren county. The Epworth League marks its 16th anniversary at the M E church May 21 with a program. Also notes marriages and deaths in nearby towns including Dr Luella S Cleveland marrying Chas Coplin after saving his life, and Harry Collins found dead from heart disease after larceny jail time.
A health notice warns about cigaret smoking harming youths including heart damage digestion and growth stunting. It cites universal findings from universities and military schools, notes moral decline and behavioral changes, and urges parents to stop cigaret use to prevent further harm and aid proper development.
John Jacobs died at his home four miles northeast of Salina on Thursday May 4 at age 79 years 11 months and 27 days after a five day paralysis illness. He appeared in good health prior to the affliction which brought his death.
Montrose Iowa May 8 The prospect for a good strawberry crop here and at Nauvoo Illinois is gratifying. Plants are in full bloom. Last year about fifty cars of berries were shipped from the area despite a late crop.
Des Moines Indiana reports a population of 74 178 as per the state census, marking an almost 20 percent increase in five years.
Judge Gaynor of the district court upheld the new Iowa ditch law as constitutional. The decision signals hundreds of drainage ditch enterprises statewide with the Monona-Harrison project starting, costing about $300,000 and draining hundreds of thousands of acres.
William Owen, a leading Shakespearian actor on the American stage, is praised for a splendid physique and resonant voice. He and J. W. McConnell have produced the major plays of Shakespeare and others, with Othello as Iago among his greatest successes.
The English Shire stallion New Cut President 5705 will breed in 1905 at John Larson’s stable near Fairfield Iowa. He is a strong jet black horse with one white hind pastern and a bold strip in the forehead foaled 1899 import 1900. Prize winning in England and at state fairs Chicago international show. Four Shire yearlings shown. two imported, two home bred. Terms 12 dollars to insure colt to stand and suck. Larson Shire Horse Co. keeper. 5-61 Crop Bulletin for the Week Ending May 8 1905 Des Moines Iowa May 9. Weather notes and farming updates follow. White man marries colored woman at Keokuk May 8. Marriage of Davis Linn 21 and Eliza Grison 20 in Keokuk. third mixed union in city this year.
Notice states a paper purporting to be the will of D. P. deceased is on file with the Jefferson County Clerk. A May 24, 1995 at 7:00 p.m. has been set for proof and final hearing during the April term of the district court. Clerk E. E. Lucy signs the notice.
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