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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1905
Page
13
A break in at the F A Clarridge store occurred Saturday night with revolvers shoes and knives taken. Sheriff Wright arrived with bloodhounds Sunday morning but no suspects identified yet. Local residents and visitors are noted alongside several birth announcements and community events.
May 20 notes from Lockridge report visits by Alfred Anderson from Ottumwa and Edna Carlson in Ridgeway Missouri. Ladies plan ice cream cake and strawberries on church lawn to raise funds for a cemetery fence and other improvements. Locals urged to attend with cake or cream if they have kin buried at Lockridge cemetery. Additional items list trustees and area contractors working on local homes and residences.
Deere corn planters claim genuine edge selection and unmatched accuracy. Marketed as increasing profits by placing the right number of kernels per hill with the No 9 planter. Full line of Deere implements including wagons engines windmills and pumps from Milwaukee binders and mowers.
Farmers have been busy planting corn with much acreage still awaiting completion. Wm Petker of St Louis visited friends here last week. Mrs Wm Grooth of Denver stayed several weeks with her sister Mrs Retha Kauffman. Geo Wandling and family visited near Brighton. Amos Edmund of Ottumwa spent weekend at the Wm Odean home. Henry Rupp to begin a large new barn. L E Zihlman and carpenter Larson to supervise. Lizzie Hildebrand ill with measles. Jesse Vorhies and Glasgow family visited E Vorhies home.
May 29 report notes Miss Martha Lamansky closing a term of school with a short program. Visitors include Miss Anna Wetherland from Birmingham at Jacob Greber's home and Rev. Gentner of Germanville with Rev. Weoit of Hedrick. Numerous local visits among the Diers, Craff, Baumgartner and Werner families are recorded.
In Blackhawk township and Woolson the community formed a Good Roads Society to build road scrapers or drags to improve rutted roads. The No. 7 school held a literary exhibit. Miss Martha Jones was surprised by her pupils. Miss Myrtle Summers taught the No. 7 school. Mrs. Uriah Cox is ill. Amos Hiatt was born to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Dickinson. Flora Harkens teaches No. 6. Whooping cough persists. corn replanting continued. Mrs. Al Johnson died in Los Angeles. Mr. Johnson was with her at her death. Lulu West and George McClellan of Chicago plan a May 1 wedding at the West home.
Glendale May 29 The Historical association will meet Saturday June 3. Mr Jones is expected to present a history of Cedar township with long preparation and likely interest. Reminiscences of Mr Gage will also be read by Mr Ross. A good time is selected for.
Miss Ivy Heston closed a very pleasant term of school at Union Friday. Harry Rider lost a $250 horse to pneumonia Thursday. Robert Teeter visits relatives at Mystic this week. A. H. Hibbard Frank Clarridge and M. Mickey called on business Friday. H Heaton will deliver the Decoration day speech at Bentonsport. Miss Victoria Toothaker is here visiting.
Elm Grove hosts an entertainment and ice cream supper on Friday night June 2. Maggie Flynn of Fairfield visits. Mrs Casaday and Miss Kurtz call on Mrs Palm. Fairfield loses to Brookville 18 to 5 with local attendees. T M Junkin and family visit Chas Gilmer Halick Wilson. Junkin Bros join a Merrimac fishing party. Seth McCarthy visits Saturday. Corn planting nearly complete in area.
Davenport Iowa May 29 Roy Eldridge from a leading Davenport family is being sought by his mother Mrs T M Eldridge and brother Lee Eldridge Des Moines agent for Home Insurance company of New York. He had worked in the map department of Firemen's Fund Insurance Chicago and disappeared last Wednesday with foul play or suicide suspected though no cause is known.
Elmer Keller returns to Iowa after a spring trip to Colorado. A humorous local line notes that once a man drinks water from Big Cedar he will come back for more.
For the week ending May 29 1905 Des Moines reports cooler, wet conditions with widespread showers. Farmers finished corn planting except where fields are too wet planting progress is good elsewhere and replanting due to floods or seed defects is higher.
M H Miller of Davenport promotes a Northern Iowa soil testing program this year to gauge climate and soil for beet sugar. He visits Estherville Emmetsburg Fort Dodge Waterloo and Low Falls to recruit sixteen farmers per site with 16 by 20 foot plots and monthly inspections. Data compiled for a report to capitalists planning two beet sugar factories in Iowa next year.
In Stockport on May 30 Clarence Keltner headed to Ottumwa to take a railroad firing job for the summer. Decoration Day services are planned at Glasgow cemetery with family visits to follow. Local notes report visits by Mrs. George Garmoe and Iris of Salem to Mr. Graham Lowes, and Miss Susan Crenshaw at E. P. Crenshaw’s. H. B. Keltner is in Birmingham and Libertyville for insurance business this week. Marion Martin and son visited Mrs. Martin’s sister, Mrs. James Wright, of Memphis Missouri, late in the week. Little Fayette McKee remains on the sick list. Pete Condor and family visited as part of local social rounds.
In Sioux City Iowa May 29 the Brown case ended abruptly as juror James E. Carter admitted a secret talk with Fred Watkins of Hawarden about a loan and verdict favoring Brown. Carter was fined 25 dollars and excused. Watkins faced contempt charges and was fined 50 dollars. The trial resumes next October.
A cloudburst north of Sioux City on Sunday night sent Perry Creek and the Floyd River to their banks, inundating lowlands and washing away bridges and tracks. Despite fears of 1892 flooding, water diverted into the streams limited loss. The piece also highlights Waterford Pa Agricultural High School and Homestead farming coverage in Des Moines.
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