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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1888
Page
4
Local notices detail Voorhies hat store new neckwear line and fall hats. C B Q rail line expands freight division with agent reshuffles. Balloon accident near the fair grounds and community thoughts on politics noted. Sermon summary weighs amusements like dancing theatre and cards with caution and virtue.
Mrs Samuel Lawson visits relatives in Ottumwa while Geo Lee of Appanoose county stays with cousin H B Keltner for several weeks. Jimmie Shelton travels to Gravity Taylor county to visit friends and may work a month. L C Liming retires as editor of the Keosauqua Democrat. F L Fosner takes charge. Jay Copeland moves to Clarke and Junkin as clerk and aims for pharmacy. Rev C G Milnes and wife from Gilroy California visit D W Mason. Milnes formerly led the M K church here about fifteen years ago, now in California for ten years.
Garretsville Ohio resident W F Beyer reports his wife suffered from a long catarrh and persistent cough until using Papillon Catarrh Cure. He says she is now free from cough and throat healed after one bottle purchased at Clarke and Junkin's drug store for one dollar.
Two remaining Harvest Season trips from Chicago offer half fare round trips to Kansas Nebraska Minnesota and Dakota with first class tickets valid 30 days Return journey via Rock Island’s own lines in palace cars Dates October 9 and October 23 1958 for travel to western points Tickets and full details available from William Rickery Davenport Iowa or E A Holbrook Chicago Illinois
The article argues youths should avoid card playing due to gambling risks and moral harm. It notes checkers and backgammon are generally harmless, provided no gambling is involved, and praises games as safe family pursuits that keep youths occupied. It warns that even small bets can lead to vice and detracts from life’s serious duties.
A historical ledger style record lists miscellaneous claims presented and allowed in the September 1888 session. Entries include Iowa institutions such as Hospitals and Colleges, the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans Home, Iowa Institute for F M Children, and various county services. Totals and line items show payments for clothing, boards, lumber, medicines, and public works along with coroner and insanity matter expenses and city finances.
The program lists opening devotional exercises and addresses by W W Jones and A H Hunter, essays by John Kyle Perlee Mira McConnell and Anna Elis, songs, declamations, and Sabbath talks. Sessions run Oct 6 7 in the Pleasant Plain Presbyterian church with basket dinner and afternoon activities.
Marriages list several unions in September 1888 in Fairfield township and surrounding areas with officiants noted. Births record numerous newborns across Fairfield township Buchanan Libertyville Des Moines Walnut and Brookville with dates in September 1888. Transfers detail Warrantee and Quit Claim deeds for town and farm properties, including Fairfield Pressant Plain Verlee Abingdon and Des Moines townships, with various buyers and prices. A catalog notice from A S Jordan solicits customers for lumber and building materials at the old Jordan Bros. & Co. stand.
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