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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1907
Page
19
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Ottumwa caller C G Sparks visited Stockport and the Charlie Wise home. Geo Rowe and wife from Pittsburg visited T C Day and G C Mendenhall families. Mrs Mary Newman has interior painting done by her son. Mrs A B Holliday of Bloomfield and sister from Kansas visited with a daughter and teacher in town. Silas Gregory hurt a finger. Oliver Ross from Keosauqua assists in barber shop. Mrs Mary Veatch leaves for Solomon City Kansas for three weeks. Mrs Lane returns from Kansas and Nebraska with Mrs E Stever visiting relatives east of here. Mrs S A Gregory and Miss Layton in Fairfield Wednesday. J P Huff building a new house. Locals attend John Louden sale. Mrs John Donald sick. Springer Harlan returns from Mt Pleasant after visiting a daughter and M E church event.
Libertyville Iowa October 21 William Edgar Geil renowned African explorer lectured at the M E church to a large attentive audience. Local residents reported surprise at hearing such a famed traveler in a small town.
Merrimac Iowa October 21 a large crowd attended the unveiling of a monument for Wm Leafler. Rev Slegh of Omaha delivered an able address that held the people in rapt attention. Several local residents visited Perry Bain and family near Coppock last Sunday. Pete Salzman plans a trip to Cincinnati to visit friends. Henry Shuppy and wife visited Mrs Wade Carper. Mrs Lulu Norton and daughter Nina spent a week in Fairfield. John Craft of Germanville is severely ill with congestion of the brain. Mrs Julius Gentele fell and badly hurt her back. Clover hullers thresh at Fred Williams farm with 86 acres. Ambrose Norton went to Peoria for a visit with his niece.
Glendale Iowa records a birth and word arrives that Mrs G K Davis of Memphis Missouri is gravely ill. Her sister Mrs George Rizer and husband plus daughter Mrs Elmer Sharp of Fairfield travel to aid her. Albert Sharp returns from Nebraska and Carl Nelson comes home from Galesburg. Russell Johnson husks corn in Page county. Local women visit the Heaton home and attend gatherings at the Heaton home on Saturday.
Parsonville Iowa reports visitors from Varna Illinois Mr and Mrs Johnson visiting daughter Mrs John Vedin Mr Johnson returns home Mrs Johnson to return later this week Mr and Mrs John Howard back to Clarks Nebraska Miss Hales concludes term at No 6 Friday Protracted meetings continue at Bethesda Mr and Mrs Oren Fry and son Hubert visit Jean Parsons home Chester Fry also visited there
Miss Mollie Davidson's 160 acre farm near Blackhawk Two was sold last Thursday to an Illinois man. John Davidson has been in Missouri seeking a new location. Mrs Lucy Forman and her daughter from Ohio visit the Davidson family and Uncle Johnny Bell.
Packwood Iowa reports a busy week with Dr Moorman among the sick, Miss Ethel Clevenger studying at the local school, and several residents visiting kin in Hedrick Pekin and Ottumwa. The Endeavor meeting of the Christian church met at the Asbell home and local residents attended services.
Abingdon residents spent Sunday with friends while Grace Bottorff visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Woolum. Amos Rains of Fairfield visited his sister Mrs. Ray Gillett. Minnie McCoy and Florence Anderson, both of Abingdon, were Fairfield visitors Tuesday. Edith Everett and her children of Mt. Pleasant are staying with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Charles Moorman.
A crowd serenaded Bert Avery and his bride after a wedding reported last week. Amos J. Coil wed Malinda Lambert at the bride’s parents’ home with over a hundred guests. A No 6 pie social drew a small crowd but raised about $2.50 for the school. Lillie Potter returned to Cherry Box Missouri and William Lambert left for St. Louis.
Elm Grove announces a Friday November entertainment and box supper. Miss Mable Schlief suffered a serious ankle injury from a saddle accident last week and remains under a doctor’s care but is improving. Local residents Mr. and Mrs. C. D. M. Rains, Chas. Heston, Jim Hagans, and others visit neighbors and attend dances, visits, and social events in Packwood Ottumwa Brighton Richland Brookville Ba tavia Pleasant Plain and Fairfield areas.
The text offers a mix of practical and home advice. It suggests blowing out candles from a height to avoid grease, boiling red peppers with cabbage to control odors, burning dried orange peel to freshen air, and cutting carrots into slices for even distribution. It ends with a fragment about rusty steel ornaments.
Cleaning rust with oil allows rust to loosen then be wiped away. Open windows easily by brushing frame insides with black lead. Salt and lemon juice remove iron mould from linen without harming fabric. Flour in greased pans prevents sticking. tap out excess before baking. Soak new flannel in cold water overnight then wash and dry. Opened tin foods should be emptied promptly. do not carry opened tins of salmon.
Instructions describe narrow hems on tablecloths and napkins with over-seaming to hide stitches. Corners of tablecloths are diagonally marked with intertwined letters to rest on the table edge, sizes ranging three to five inches for cloths and three quarters of an inch to two inches for napkins. Hemstitched sheets use letters above hems centered, mirroring bed linen styles.
Cold mashed potatoes need not be wasted. Use them in soup with hot milk and celery seasoning, then season with salt pepper parsley and a little thickening and butter. Cold mashed potato can be shaped into a cake browned in butter or pressed into strips for fried potato sticks with egg and butter.
For formal dinners place forks on the left in serving order from the outside, knives and oyster forks on the right with soup spoons. Bowls face up, knife edges toward the plate. Large spoons are not set out. salt and pepper boxes go at corners for easy reach of two diners.
Directions describe making caramel by heating half a pound of sugar with water until dark brown, then adding more water and salt, boiling briefly, cooling, and straining. Store in a corked bottle for ready use to color soup.
A promotional note advertises combining The Tribune with Dressmaking At Home 40 page monthly in color fashion content, 24 page National Home Journal humor and stories, Mothers Magazine 40 pages for mothers, and Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean, all for $2.25 for a limited time.
Keokuk Iowa mayor issues an urgent order closing every gambling house in the city effective tonight. The move follows years of tolerated gambling and infighting among bookmakers attempting to monopolize the business.
A vignette from a Woman's Home Companion scene shows a young woman delaying engagement in the parlor at ten p m. Her father voices concern about her youth as the couple remains in the room until 1 30 a m when a stern upstairs voice hints she may soon be ready.
Dr Latson notes that a correct walk is the rarest accomplishment, predicting from 500 people only about 30 to 46 will be handsome, perhaps a dozen good figures, and usually only one or two will walk properly.
James Douglas distinguishes giants of laughter from mere smiles in Shakespeare and Rabelais. Cervantes and Sterne are labeled as smilers not laughers, described as thin ironic smiles rather than jolly roars or guffaws.
A column excerpt lampoons younger women for lack of frivolity while noting women over forty still enjoy dancing and social frivolity. The piece attributes broader dullness in society to youth seriousness and contrasts engagement in politics philosophy and philanthropy with leisure activities.
Open for business at Hand Laundry one-half block east of Iowa State Savings Bank. Offers furniture, stoves, carpets and more in this line. Visit to see stock or request items not on hand.
Having rented my farm I will sell at Public Sale 8 times northeast of Fairfield and 3 miles northwest of Salina Tuesday Oct 29 1907 at 10 o clock a m The property includes 6 head of horses 10 head of cattle 8 dozen chickens 24 acres corn 150 bushels yellow oats farm machinery and harness Ten months time on sums over 10 cash under 10 five percent off for cash notes drawing 8 percent interest no removal until terms met GEO H SCHAEFER T B Allender Audt I W Dyer Clerk Lunch on Grounds
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