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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1898
Page
7
Removal in the McElhinny block will occur at the end of June with no goods that can be sold. The sale features odds and ends at half price and deeply discounted apparel and footwear including dresses, corsets, hosiery, and assorted men’s and children’s shoes.
We invite everybody to this sale and highlight new price tickets marked in red in plain figures. One price to all.
Local residents arrive home from Des Moines and elsewhere while relatives plan visits. Notables include Miss Annie Kilroy from Burlington and Miss Clara King from Marshall Texas expected in town for a month with several families.
Mrs. Michael Curtain of Plainfield Illinois says a month of treatment by her physician failed to help her lung consumption. After trying Dr Kings New Discovery her health improved from the first dose and six bottles later she was sound and back to housework. Free trials at J D McDowell s drug store with large bottles priced 50 cents and 1.00.
Plain screen doors ranged 60 to 80 cents with fancy varieties from 80 cents to 1.00 at D. R. Speck's. The listing highlights affordable home hardware and shop pricing for customers seeking durable screening options.
A three and a half year old girl, daughter of W J Hubert, fell from a Leggett house second story window in Keokuk after a screen gave way. She suffered concussion but is improving and doctors are hopeful. Hubert travels here for Smith Hamil Co. The report notes Mrs Hubert and child arrived Tuesday night preceding the accident. The piece also mentions a six percent money offer from Rollin J Wilson and details a local high school commencement at the opera house with twenty seven graduates and a full program.
Decoration Day events planned in the city include assembly at the G A R hall at 1 00 PM and a parade to the cemetery with drum corps old soldiers W R C and school children. A park program features addresses recitations songs and a conclusion with “America.”
Grain-O is a delicious, appetizing food drink to replace coffee. It tastes like finest coffee when prepared properly but has none of coffee’s injurious properties. Grain-O aids digestion and strengthens the nerves. Not a stimulant, it benefits both children and adults. Costs about a quarter as much as coffee, priced at 15 and 25 cents.
A May 24 letter from Central Kentucky describes Company M leaving Camp McKinley by train for Tampa Florida. The journey includes waits in Des Moines Davenport Chicago and along the Monon Route amid cheering crowds and delays. Two men stay behind in hospital. the unit is hailed as tall and strong as they travel toward battle. The piece ends with a note about local grocery prices at Weikert's New Grocery.
The State Line Democrat cites Fairfield Tribune noting a long list of women in business in Fairfield. It says women prove more capable, avoiding tobacco and liquor, and urges Hood’s Sarsaparilla for spring health while advertising Empire Ranch stallions.
The schedule lists Academy Prize Contests in Orations and Declamations at Presbyterian church May 26 8 00 pm Music by Parsons College Orchestra Foster Prize Debate Library Hall May 27 8 00 pm plus mandolin guitar club. Baccalaureate Sermon May 29 11 00 am and address by Rev Harry R Stark. Commencement Day May 2 June 2 10 00 am with Oratorio Society College Orchestra solo by Mrs Luce. Receptions and senior events noted.
County Auditor Horn reports a $219,624 drop in personal property valuation from $962,044 to $742,420 this year due to the new law setting personal property at 25 percent of value including money and credits. Despite more money and credits found, levies will rise to cover required funds as shown by township totals and a 4,218 poll count. The piece notes the need for prompt assistance and mentions remedies and prescriptions from local sources.
A fragmented ad lists cheap values on ladies vests and hosiery, men's socks and undergarments, shirts, collars, dress pants, pins, oil, envelopes, and writing paper with prices like 25c, 45c, 29c, and 89c.
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