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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1909
Page
3
The notice touts stove values and new lines from W. Young company with a focus on quality and trade lines. It invites customers to visit and become regular patrons, highlighting ample selection for all piers.
Brighton notes include travel, visits, and funerals. Families like Cornell, Sutherland, Bridwell, and McConnaughey appear among moves, arrivals, and farewells. The community reports school preparations, fair attendance, and local deaths with brief mentions of relatives and observers.
Community visitors include Miss Gertrude Bond from Alva Oklahoma and Mrs Reeves of Tarkio Missouri visiting Rankin home. multiple families from Fairfield Packwood and Perry Bates Fairfield share Sundays here. A nine pound boy born to Mr and Mrs Fred Daven spike on August 31. Donald R. son of Mr and Mrs W Dale died Sunday cholera infantum funeral held at Advent church. Nellie Anderson hosted about 25 friends with refreshments at Mrs J R Laughlin home. Interment at Fell cemetery. Kemp Earnest Bates and Perry Bates noted as locals.
Rolla James shipped a car of lambs to Chicago Tuesday. Charles Pontius was taken to the Ottumwa hospital for treatment. Carl Rudolph Neal and Charley Greenfield C M Carr and W W McCreery were state fair visitors. Harve Thompson was in Ottumwa to see the Barnum circus. Levi Rittenhouse delivered a horse at Fairfield. A J Montgomery and family visited Hillsboro Friday. George Rudolph drives a new buggy.
Pete Salzman attended the state fair and Art Carper will ship cattle and hogs to Chicago this week. Jake Shafer has a new automobile. Charlie McGuire returned from Minnesota Saturday night. Mrs Anna Shuppy attended the state fair last week and returned Saturday evening. Ed Shodts was called to attend the funeral of his sister Mrs Maggie Hull near Mt Pleasant. Carrie Williams was ill last week but improving. Frank Shuppy will go to St Louis later this week to buy fall goods for Wade Carper Co. Some boys attended the Mt Pleasant show last Tuesday. Dr Roy McGuire and wife visited his mother Sunday. Chas Haifley and family spent Sunday with Will Brennen. Mrs Morrison from Trenton visited her daughter Mrs Art Carper.
Aeronaut Banker of Aurora plunged from 500 feet during Labor Day event at Electric Park near Sycamore. Parachute failed to deploy and injuries proved fatal as onlookers watched. the man sustained numerous fatal fractures.
Prominent Iowa leaders join Des Moines crowd as President Taft visits for a first ever central west military tournament at the state fair grounds. 56 000 regular soldiers from central west posts will participate with demonstrations by signal corps dirigible balloon engineers pontoon bridges and heavy artillery.
Colonel Al W. Swalm American consul at Southampton travels Iowa with his wife, feted by friends. Former editor of the Oskaloosa Herald and Third Iowa Regiment colonel, he recalls Civil War days, shows changed appearance, and returns with news of Professor Lawrence M. Byers death in a London hospital from an aerated tooth complication.
Professor H Randall, former debating coach and lecturer in the College of Law at Iowa State, has accepted a position on the faculty of the University of Oklahoma Law College. Professor J C Monatt, another Iowan, was recently named dean of the college.
A western movement seeks to unite the Grinnell and Central Iowa associations of Congregational churches and ministers. A September 28 and 29 meeting at Plymouth Congregational in Des Moines will decide on consolidation. About seventy-five churches in central Iowa are involved.
The executive committee of the State Federation of Labor met in Des Moines to plan defense of the Iowa charter at the national Toronto meeting on November 8. The Iowa federation seated delegates from the Electrical Workers who had seceded from the national group, risking charter revocation.
Mayor Ralph Otto of Iowa City joins the State University law college faculty as the new major instructor succeeding the late Professor Lawrence M. Byers. Otto will maintain his duties as chief official of Iowa City and continue to preside.
M. J. Wade of Iowa City, attorney for Mayor A. M. Henderson of Marengo, said the appeal will be ready to file Oct. 1 and a hearing is hoped for at the October term of the supreme court.
Hugh L. Smith auditor of the Iowa Telephone company and son of the late Congressman Smith died of apoplexy in Des Moines. He was found in a semi conscious state near 707 High Street and died shortly after being taken home.
W. T. Buchanan longtime managing editor of the Des Moines Daily Capital resigns to pursue a career in show business.
Special excursion details to 320 acre homesteads in Wyoming with routes via Chicago and Omaha. Promotes low round trip Burlington fares and guided trips for settlers to crop friendly lands with substantial rainfall. Advocates Mondell Act lands 18 to 21 inches yearly and offers a free folder with a large map.
The Blade of Toledo presents itself as a national weekly newspaper with broad circulation across the United States. It emphasizes family friendly content, clean news coverage, and varied departments including Household, Farmstead, and Question Bureau aimed at a wide readership.
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