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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1888
Page
5
Voorhies' hat shop headlines with fall styles and local ads. notes on marriages, moves, business updates, school reopens, and a Baldwin murder verdict. Mentions Henry Neylon injury, postage of excursions, and a lecture at the Episcopal church. Local names include Cummings, Junkin, Scheman, and Carpenters returning to practice.
Glasgow cornet band hired to play at Lockridge Gear meeting fails to impress the Fairfield delegation. Two hundred marchers were expected but only five remained when the train arrived, leaving the band to perform for few pounds of raw-hide.
Newark Arkansas man credits Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption with curing his lung illness and enabling farm work. Decatur Ohio resident says doctors declared him incurable but he recovered. Sample bottles available at Clarke Junkin drug store. Also includes a political critique by R J Wilson opposing tariff claims and defending tariff protection as raising prices to support government.
Electric Bitters praised as a pure medicine curing liver and kidney diseases and skin issues. It claims to drive malaria from the system and relieve indigestion and constipation with guaranteed satisfaction or money back at Clarke & Junkin's drug store.
The Penn township Sunday school convention at Pleasant Plain on October 6 and 7 drew Hf. M. Morgan state organizer from Burlington and Rev. Sampson of Lockridge, with thoughtful talks, fine singing, and a moving rendition of Jessie Hollingsworth’s Blame Me not for Weeping. The event impressed attendees as one of the township’s best.
A Tribune visit to the Richardson & Becker clothing firm illustrates why Fairfield prospers. A salesman shows coats and chinchillas priced from five dollars to fifteen dollars and a vast stock of pants, explaining the strong demand and varied stock driving success. A separate note requests return of a small old tin breast box as a souvenir.
Auction at a Jefferson county farm near Libertyville features six horses and mares, four Short Horn cows, a two year old bull, yearlings and calves totaling about 60 head. Also Empire self binder, corn planter, hay rake, harrow. sale starts 10 am. terms over 5 dollars with approved security. Also two Shipley farms of 202 acres for sale by Mt. Pleasant and Fairfield, Iowa. Auctioneers listed.
Mr. Frank Switzer will finish a new thousand dollar residence on his farm three miles northeast of Fairfield this week.
Dissolution notice states the partnership Hufford & Starr ended August 31 1888 Starr retired and Hufford continued the business All persons owing the firm are asked to settle with Hufford Rt H Starrorp J W Starr
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