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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1921
Page
2
Ottumwa and Fairfield communities share news of visits and departures. Families like the Fordyces and Mayes leave for Kansas City while others plan moves to Fairfield and Des Moines area. Social events include church gatherings, a farewell party, and lectures.
Local news from Buchanan Township covers autumn weather, visits by E A Young, Mrs Jo Werner in Fairfield, and Miss Chidester with Miss Ball at Beckwith school. Social events include a Minnie McCormick birthday, a surprise gathering, and a Teachers Association meeting. Obituary notes mention Mr McElroy. A Colorado wedding links Mabel Crile and a groom from Colorado. A telegram reports the illness of Charles McClain. Tanlac ads conclude.
Keosauqua area residents attend a military funeral in Cantril. Families and friends in Richland, Stockport, Fairfield, and surrounding towns visit, host, or send greetings as births, illnesses, and travel mark weekly life. An aeroplane stopped at Stockport, barns burned in storms, and local clubs hold events and anniversaries.
Packwood residents host visitors from Fairfield and Richland while local events include church activities, a sewing session, a 20th wedding anniversary at Mats Fredericks, and funeral attendance in Fairfield. Multiple local families, schools, and farms are referenced with moves, visits, and community gatherings.
Advertisement states Tanlac earns its best promotion from customers who have actually used it, naming Jericho and Easton as examples.
Mrs. A. C. Hollaway started a reclamation project on Carbon river near Faifax Washington to divert the stream and allow a bottom search for a lost engagement ring. While fishing during a mountain trout battle her wedding and engagement rings slipped off. The wedding ring was recovered. the second ring valued at $200 remains missing.
A column urges investors to start a home building project now to benefit the community, stockpile coal for winter, and install a machine shed to protect farm equipment. It extols thrift, long term labor, and the value of a stable home for families.
New Hampton and Waterloo area farmers advance tiling despite tight times. Ian A F Kemman laid twenty five miles of tile this summer to drain wet land. A Waterloo banker added ten miles on low ground. expected gains include ninety acres of clay subsoil and sixty bushels per acre next year. G W Krause also tilled a 160 acre farm south of the project, aiming to redeem waste acres and spur others.
Nice well improved forty acre farm ten miles from Fairfield priced at 125 dollars per acre. Also eighty acres with a small house and barn, fifty acres in corn with a coal mine in operation producing twelve tons daily sold at five dollars per ton. Price set at 100 dollars per acre. Will sell either farm with five hundred dollars down and easy terms at six percent.
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