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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1908
Page
4
The city boosts new telephone switchboard work resuming after pauses. Juniors announce their annual class play for November 10 with rehearsals underway and high hopes for an exceptional production given careful casting and strong cast performances.
In Fairfield fifty Ottumwa attendees joined the Sunday dedication of the new Swedish Lutheran church. The event featured English and Swedish sermons, Ot tumwa quartet music, and a debt reduction that enables easier future work. The ceremony highlighted the growing Swedish community and local faith efforts.
Gertrude Allender hosts thirty ladies for Miss May Kamp’s upcoming marriage. Mrs. Wirt King entertained a group of thirty with refreshments after a F. B. C. meeting on East Madison Street. The note mentions legal bonds abstracts and hair removal by electricity.
We will have two cars of fancy Northern potatoes on track this week. Now is the time to get your winter supply at bottom prices. We will be glad to quote prices on any quantity you may want.
The note highlights good books and worthwhile savings while promising cost reductions on school supplies of all kinds for readers and shoppers.
Fairfield council members travel to Davenport to study alternating current lighting proposals and contract implications. Rev. W F Jones of the Presbyterian church announces farewell sermon before moving to Pipestone Minn. Registry period set. voters must register or cast ballots by oath if out of city. Wit and Wisdom club reports lively meeting with officers elected and committees named. Louis Howard departs for San Francisco after twenty years in groceries. Court term closes with many cases disposed. Judge Vermilion leaves. County Superintendent Buchanan continues fall school visits. Rev A J Hanson to address Fellowship club at Library hall with special music. all welcome.
The regular October examinations will be held at the Courthouse on October 28 29 and 30 beginning promptly at 8 o'clock Wednesday morning. BESSIE B BUCHANAN County Superintendent.
Providence, R I Oct 19 Captain Benjamin D Manton of Colon Nicaragua rich landowner elopes with his fiancee in an automobile and marries Miss Sarah E Hartman of Philadelphia a writer about half his age in Fall River The ceremony was performed by Miss Hartman's brother the Rev John Hartman of Mansfield Mass The romance began in Nicaragua when she sought historical data and met Manton on their trip
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