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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1905
Page
16
The Rocky Ford melon growers earned more than $500,000 from this year’s crop. The fruit was produced on land once deemed nearly worthless, highlighting a dramatic improvement in value and productivity for the farm, orchard, and garden industry.
The average prunes consumption per season is one and one fourth pounds, a figure dwarfed by the many people met who are full of them.
A late magazine writer struggles with material about rural life, failing to capture authentic experience as he misnames a quail call "bobwhite" while it drums on a log. The quip underscores the risks of writing about what one does not know.
The author argues no person raises Belgian hares and calls the fad dead. It never existed as meat production and had no profitable market, suggesting another such craze is overdue.
A woman guides a team hitched to a mower cutting weeds in a large pasture. She works steadily and finds value in plain labor over idle reading or social tea party scenes.
If the hardy catalpa grows well where you live you can profit by planting for post timber. Space plants eight feet apart and thin to one tree per eight feet once a tree can yield a post. The author doubts planting this tree north of latitude 40 degrees.
Across western canning regions many fields yield a bumper sweet corn crop this year. Farmers expect record profits as harvest progresses, citing abundant ears and strong demand for canning.K
A farmer notes five dollars per ton realized for shocked corn and estimates stalks worth 1.50 per acre as waste. He cites good yields of about four tons per acre and urges saving sweet corn stalks for forage, especially for winter dairy feed.
Orchard and garden men near Fort Collins Colorado long viewed sheep manure as harmful to trees and crops. Now abundant sheep manure is seen as a valuable fertilizer, especially for sugar beets, though it can be overused. Land where sheep roam grows richer and more productive.
A cattleman aimed to ship over 500 range horses to an eastern market. Prolonged water neglect during a hot August period left horses locked in cars for 107 hours, 350 dying within an hour of watering. The railway company faces a damage claim for violating unloading and watering rules every 28 hours. The piece notes peat briquettes as a cheaper, cleaner locomotive fuel alternative.
The article contemplates peat from depths of two to twenty feet as an abundant fuel. It notes unlimited, high calorific value and the need for cheap pressing machines and stove adaptations. Northwest peat supplies are said to last for centuries.
The land that floods in wet seasons should be kept as permanent pasture. An acre of blue grass on such land yields higher profits as meat fodder than dry farm acres, netting at least $8 yearly. Cultivation for crops in dry spells wastes the land, leading to a weed wilderness during wet periods.
Will A McConnell died at Roosevelt Hospital in New York City on October 3 after an operation for appendicitis complicated by peritonitis and Bright's disease. He had been a popular Fairfield visits with the William Owen company and had a long career in theatre from Detroit to Chicago and New York. Burial followed a Lambs Club led service and a funeral held at Stephen Merritt Undertaking Company chapel.
The funeral party traveled by train to Woodlawn Cemetery for a brief burial service. A testimonial in memory of Mr. McConnell is planned by several managers and will be held soon at a major theater.
Iowa news in brief notes FH Company D of Manchester arranging a grand military ball to dedicate its new armory on November 10.
Miss Aletha Dare of Osceola, a renowned southern Iowa artist, has just completed study at the Los Angeles School of Fine Arts and returned home.
S. R. Muffum of Lake Park picked a dish of ripe strawberries from his nursery. If frost had held off a few days longer he would have had several crates.
During a thunderstorm the central high school of Montezuma was struck by lightning. The charge was drawn off by the building's telephone conductors and no damage occurred.
A three year old child of Bert Wilson near Estherville was crushed to death when a wagon loaded with oats toppled onto the head. The accident caused instant death.
Twenty five thousand young brook trout were shipped from the government fish hatchery at Spring Branch near Manchester last week to Sol dier's Grove Wisconsin for distribution in streams in that vicinity.
Osceola nears completion of a large gas tank and full city gas system. Mains are laid and gas for cooking lighting and heating will be abundant and offered at a very low rate.
The Mason City and Clear Lake Interurban company awards a contract for a 500 horsepower Corliss engine and a 15 000 volt dynamo. The new machinery will allow cars to run ten miles from the plant as easily as near it.
Woodbury county supervisors authorize construction of a drainage ditch with an estimated cost of 110000. After final accounting, expenses may exceed initial estimates, with extras likely higher than expected. The article also notes various local items including a poultry show setup, a lawsuit, a drugstore burglary, and church dedication events.
Father W. J. Convery aided by two Paulist brothers. John Simmons of Brem er county discovered a large animal tooth embedded in the center of a soft maple tree while splitting stove wood. The tooth measures 1% inches long and 1% across and is sound. The tree is about seventy years old.
The Great Northern railroad will pay Omaha and Winnebago Indians in Nebraska 28387 for the Ashland extension right of way. The Interior Secretary approved the special agent's valuation and the railroad will reimburse about 1500 dollars per mile for the land use.
Alderman Stason introduces an ordinance to curb A. B. Beall who controls Sioux City's billboard business. The measure aims to ease entry for rivals and reduce Beall's long standing grip on the trade.
Elmer Lingle a young farmer from south of Osceola returns to his wife and three children after eloping with Miss Winnie Montgomery who remains away and is believed to be staying with an uncle of Lingle.
John Abrams and Hattie Adams wed in an alley in Dubuque. Despite objections from both sets of parents, the couple proceeded with a determined ceremony. Carriages carried the bride and groom from opposite directions as an Episcopal clergyman officiated the rites.
A long decline of the Independence kite shaped track ends with its amphitheatre being turned into a cattle barn. The piece notes world records once set there and the shift from major racing fame to memory. It also reports a separate incident near Winterset where Horace Carter, 16, who posed as a ghost to extort money from his grandmother, was sentenced to Eldora reform school until age 21 after assaulting her.
In Jefferson County Iowa Frank S Shriner a registered pharmacist applies for a permit to buy keep and sell intoxicating liquors. The filing is in the District Court of Jefferson County Iowa and the hearing is set for the November term beginning November 27 1905 in Fairfield.
State of Iowa Jefferson County heirs at law of Kenagranda Hook deceased and all interested parties are notified that by November 16 1905 a final report will be filed in the clerk of the district court of Jefferson County Iowa as administrator Frank Pacha of the estate
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