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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1888
Page
3
S Hopkins market items show sales and prices on wallpaper, refrigeration, clothes and farm goods. Rail excursion and convention tickets from C R I and B Q routes offered. legal notices cover a jail case and pension update. hail damage and council actions wrap the page.
The Fairfield High School senior class staged a year end program with performances by Maud Unkrich and others, including recitations, a class prophecy, and a farewell address. The ceremony closed with the class song and praise for the graduates. Miss Scofield hosted a senior gathering at Mrs. Chester’s home with games and ice cream, and next week thirteen graduates will hold commencement exercises. The program lists multiple orations, diplomas to be presented, and remarks on the class’s energy and future plans.
Mrs. Mary A Kerr wife of Rev Joseph Kerr died in Fairfield Iowa May 2 1888 aged 74 after 30 years residence. Funeral held Tuesday at Presbyterian church. Also lists uncalled letters in Fairfield post office and notes a reception for Miss Day teacher in No 11 school by the Young Woman's Foreign Missionary Society.
Local merchants raise 1200 dollars to join three gentlemen in matching 2700 dollars for converting the old flour mill to a steam roller process, aiming to improve efficiency and production.
Frank Freeman of Rockwell City visits for a week. Miss Stella Van Doren to spend summer at Hutchison Kansas. Laurie A. Turner returned from Marietta Ohio after sixteen months. Mrs A W Weldy of East Des Moines visiting brother James Beck for several weeks. Mrs Clara Valandingham of Keokuk county visiting her parents. Cora Helm of Jetmore Kansas staying several months with W E Thompson and family. McElhinny and Ennis attend Cedar Rapids wheel men meet then visit O Donnel boys in Dubuque. Emma Day of Mt. Pleasant and Sarah Abbott visiting in No 11 Sabbath. Ehinger returns home with Eva Harper to stay. H L Brown family Juliet Stever and William Hufstedler plan June 14 departure for Los Angeles. Browns to remain, others for summer.
Clarke & Junkin druggists advertise Dr King New Discovery for Consumption Dr King New Life Pills Bucklen Amnic Salve and Electric Bitters. They guarantee satisfaction and offer refunds if results are not satisfactory, claiming universal approval and merit.
In this city on May 28, William Albert Sparks and his infant daughter were buried together after both died from measles and related complications. Sparks, 29, left a wife and two children. the family moved here recently and he died after exposure to dampness during work. The Free Methodist church hosted the funeral. both lie in one grave.
A marketing notice touts Dr tion as a guaranteed remedy for throat lung and chest diseases including consumption inflammation of lungs bronchitis asthma whooping cough and croup. It claims safety pleasant taste and dependable results with trial bottles offered by Clarke and Junkin.
Senator Wilson has donated 126 miscellaneous books purchased in Washington along with about 50 volumes of congressional documents and a year’s North American Review subscription. The list includes science, history, travel, literature, and educational works by numerous authors and series.
A fragment lists titles and authors including Qua Girls at Home Ruth Erskine's Crosses Ester Ried Julia Ried King's Daughter Wise and Otherwise Ester Ried Yet Speaking and Links in Rebecca's Life From Different Standpoints Three People Household Puzzles Modern Prophets Echoing and Re-echoing Those Boys The Randolphs Tip Lewis Sidney Martin's Christmas Divers Women A New Graft The Pocket Measure Mrs Solomon Smith and The lall in the Grove Man of the House An Endless Chain 25 volumes by Pansy.
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