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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1908
Page
3
A Stockport column notes a snowfall last Friday and lists visitors and locals from Cedar Rapids Bonaparte Ft Madison and Rock Island. It mentions illness death of Miss Miller and various social visits including weddings and family gatherings reflecting small town life.
Larsonville records show Monday first day of school with T. Hales as teacher. Harold Larson left Burlington on No. 6 to attend Elliott's finess college. Larson and Rauscher rode to Burlington Monday. Miss Marguerette Roach returned Ottumwa with her daughter Nell who had gallstone surgery. Parsonville church children prep a Thanksgiving program.
Libertyville Iowa November 16 The Kies Aid Society of the M E church will serve dinner in the R Community Hall on Wednesday evening November 25 from 5 30 to 10 The week also brought visits from relatives including Mrs H D Davis and daughter Ruth of Fairfield Miss Ethel Rodgers Center Two visited here Mrs Mollie Minter and sister Mrs Emma Sayer of Central City and Mr and Mrs D B Hedge spent Sunday at T B Is The Misfolk incident involved Roll Stansberry falling from a hay wagon injuring his wrist
In Round Prairie Township on a frosty morning boys check steel traps causing some opossums and skunks to be taken. Mr and Mrs Burt Litton and daughters Florence and Sylvia visit Otowa relatives and return today. Clay Hill school grants two weeks vacation as winter term nears opening. Hal Denhall teacher vacationing near Richland. Unkrich sells Glasgow business for Des Moines river farm to Anson who will move Glasgow. Sherman family visit Huttons and plan corn harvest wrap up.
In Glendale Iowa the lingering snow keeps the Husker players off fields. William Stewart a 1936 pioneer cared for a cataract in Burling ree weeks ago and remains away from home. Mrs Stewart travels with him as he nears 87 and they mark a long marriage. Caroline Schmadaka visited Lamansky while Frank Cooper joined in a Thursday gathering.
Packwood Iowa reports a light snow episode last Saturday. Local residents share visits with families including Loomis Bundy Hinshaw and Mitchell households. Church groups meet and farmers work corn as recent weather remains mild.
The annual meeting elected A G Jordan as clerk, E C Bock as treasurer, C H Gage auditor, C C Risk trustee for three years, and two deacons W M Hufstedler and F J L Black. Mrs J Hammer and Mrs J P Manatrey named to standing committee. Ushers named Albert Sargent John Green with assistants. Nearly 100 pastorate applications received. pulpit to be filled soon.
St Louis Nov 15 President D G Simmons of the National Prosperity association released a letter to members announcing its work is done. The letter says Roosevelt avoided messages to Congress that attacked railroads or large corporations and credits the association with shifting public sentiment in the south and southwest toward these industries. It asserts muckrakers and demagogues have faded and prosperity will quickly return.
The Tribune invites readers to subscribe now to support a contest that will award a valuable prize to a selected participant, highlighting community involvement and prize potential.
Mark W Harrington former chief of the United States Weather Bureau and scientist disappeared from Mount Vernon New Jersey ten years ago. He was identified as John Doe No 8 at Morris Plains asylum after a chance Western paper notice. His wife and son traced him through letters and sightings in Raleigh Washington and Baltimore.
The notice seeks to buy yearling steers posted by J. E. Prince with a contact phone 5211 for responses.
An ad for George W. Unkrich highlights mens and womens fleeced underwear and union suits priced from 23c to 98c per item. It promotes boys and men’s undergarments, cotton blankets, and Dixie Hosiery in economical ranges, stressing value and quality.
Maj Holmes Day recalls a Maine bank on two legs run by Conductor Nate Swan on the Bangor and Piscataquis line. For decades swan kept woods crews' pay safe on the train, sinking ten dollar bills for deposit and never a dispute with depositors.
A village theater barred a man who entered with a basket of twenty four eggs after buying a ticket. The basket lid slipped revealing the eggs provoking a joke. He left the eggs with the box office, attended the show, and the manager later returned the eggs to him.
A department store salesman visited the Cherokee Female Seminary in Tahlequah to measure students for uniforms. He reported that the girls are healthy and cheerful and share a common request to adjust their outfits with tighter waists and longer skirts to feel more grown up.
A rock maple on A. L. Hardy’s West New Vineyard farm measures 14 feet in circumference at the base with a short trunk and heavy spreading branches. The tree has grown here since 1806, when Samuel Nevins the first settler arrived, and has been tapped nearly every year for 15 years with few dead limbs remaining.
A United States forestry investigator concludes that Block Island’s natural conditions, including gases and salt spray, prevent successful tree growth. Resident discouragement and lack of united effort hinder any reforestation plan.
Ben Smith rests at a small wharf after a long day and a bystander misreads the scene as amphibious. The old man retorts that the creature would bite any arm off before you could say Jack Robinson, highlighting rural humor in the encounter.
A humorous item from Harper's Weekly notes Howard saying he has four mothers and asks how it is possible. The joke explains he has his own mother, a godmother, a stepmother, and an in law’s mother, as a playful play on family ties.
A cut depicts the Paschal ear of corn which won the Grand Prize at the Ames corn show in 1907. It is hailed as one of the most perfect ears grown and it sold for an unspecified price.
The prize car sold for 250 dollars at the last National Corn Show in Chicago amid rising interest in corn. The Short Course in Fairfield Iowa runs December 7 to 12 with Prof Holden leading corn methods that could raise yields. Enrollees range from 14 to 84. courses cost 2.50 and 1.80 for tickets with CHAS H. GAGE as secretary.
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