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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1905
Page
6
In Libertyville, thieves pried open F. A. Clarridge’s store Saturday night and stole revolvers, shoes, and knives. Sheriff Wright brought bloodhounds Sunday, but no suspects identified. Local notes record visits, births, and community events through the week.
Alfred Anderson of Ottumwa visits Andrew Anderson home. Edna Carlson visits Ridgeway and a church lawn ice cream social Saturday to raise funds for cemetery fencing and improvements. Trustees John Heron, George Craft, Brice Mickey. Mark Toothacre from Middletown attends graves. Henry Horton visits Fairfield relatives. Local contractors work on George Miller and Elmer Mutang residences. Chas Griffith and family reside locally.
Deere corn planters boast genuine edge selection and unmatched accuracy. The No 9 planter is advertised to place the right number of kernels in every hill, with a full line of Deere implements, line wagons, gasoline engines, wind mills and pumps, and Milwaukee binders and mowers also shown.
May column reports farmers busy planting corn with some finished and much acreage left. Visits include Wm Petker of St Louis and Mrs Wm Grooth of Denver. Ozhoos and kin visit relatives. Lizzie Hildebrand sick with measles. Henry Rupp to start building a large barn. Larson and crew from Lockridge to construct it.
May 29 events list local residents visiting relatives and pastors visiting homes. Miss Martha Lamansky closed a school term with a short program. Visitors include Miss Anna Wetherland from Birmingham Rev Gentner from Germanville and Rev Veoit from Hedrick.
In Woolson and Blackhawk May 2g a No 7 school and literary society held an exhibition. A new Good Roads Society formed to build scraper roads. Farmers use scrapers after rain to move soil to road centers, improving travel. Also notes on school entertainments, teaching staff changes, illness, births, a death, and upcoming marriage of Lulu West and George McClellan on May 31.
Glendale may 29 The Historical association will meet Saturday June 3 Mr Jones is expected to read a history of Cedar township which has been in preparation for some time Reminiscences of Mr Gage will also be read by Mr Ross A good time is looked for.
Miss Ivy Heston closed a very pleasant term of school at Union Friday. Miss Victoria Toothaker is here on a visit. Messrs. A. H. Hibbard Frank Clarridge and M. Mickey called on business affairs Friday. H Heaton is to make the Decoration day speech at Bentonsport. Robert Teeter is visiting relatives at Mystic this week. Harry Rider lost a 250 horse of pneumonia Thursday.
Elm Grove hosts an entertainment and ice cream supper on Friday night June 2. Maggie Flynn of Fairfield visits the community. Fairfield lost to Brookville 18 to 5 with locals in attendance. T M Junkin and family visited Chas Gilmer Halick Wilson and Junkin Bros joined a Merrimac fishing party. Corn planting nearly finished.
Davenport, Iowa May 29 Roy Eldridge a member of a prominent Davenport family is missing after departing for Chicago where he worked in the map department of the Firemen's Fund Insurance company. His mother Mrs T M Eldridge and brother Lee Eldridge of Des Moines report him missing with foul play suspected or possible suicide.
May 30 Stockport notes report Clarence Keltner taking a rail position in Ottumwa for the summer. Decoration Day services planned at Glasgow cemetery with Frank McCully of Ottumwa to attend and visit kin. Mrs George Garmoe and Iris of Salem visited uncle Mr Graham Lowes. H B Keltner on insurance business in Birmingham and Libertyville. Mrs Martin and Marion visited Memphis Missouri kin. Fayette McKee ill. Pete Condor and family visited.
Elmer Keller returns to Iowa after trying Colorado last spring. The column humorously notes that a man who drinks water from Big Cedar will always crave more, implying local pride and stubborn preference.
Week ending May 29 1905 in Des Moines Iowa was cooler with scattered showers. Corn planting progressed though some fields remained wet requiring replanting while acreage may be less than planned. Rains boost grass and grains, apples light, cherries light, strawberries heavy.
M H Miller of Davenport leads a northern Iowa soil testing program this year with 16x20 foot plots at Estherville Emmetsburg Ft Dodge Waterloo Iowa Falls and others. Fifteen to sixteen farmers are enrolled per site seed is supplied and Mr Miller will monitor patches every thirty days to compile data for capitalists to decide where to build two beet sugar factories next year.
In Sioux City on May 29 court opened to affidavits accusing Fred Watkins of Hawarden Iowa, and in law a juror James E Carter of seeking a verdict favoring W E Brown. Carter was fined twenty five dollars, censured and excused. Watkins faced contempt charges and was later fined fifty dollars. Carter admitted the conference and proposing a two thousand three hundred dollar loan. The jury was excused and Brown's trial postponed to October.
Heavy rains flooded Sioux City suburbs as a cloudburst north of the city filled Perry creek and the Floyd river. Bridges washed away and grain and stock were lost while residents moved to higher ground fearing a repeat of past floods. The flood routed water away from built up areas by directing flow into nearby channels.
A Des Moines Homestead feature by H. O. Sampson details Waterford Pennsylvania’s growing agricultural high school. It covers student interest, course work, student essays, frequent farmer conferences, and the blend of practical and theoretical study appealing to both city and country students. The Tribune promotes Homestead subscriptions for wider circulation among Jefferson county farmers.
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