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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1907
Page
3
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Elm Grove Iowa notes corn rapidly maturing with frost danger near. Plum Grove Sunday school to lead services at Pleasant Plain. D. M. Rains family and Chas. Salts visit Fairfield and Batavia relatives. Ed Casady from Indianapolis visits his parents. Several residents make weekend trips and home repairs. Vernon Salts departed for unspecified destination.
Covington Indiana resident Chas Ball plans a trip to visit relatives while his farm house, formerly Ed Tuller’s, receives a fresh coat of paint. Ike Hupp of Brookville is handling the painting work.
Dry spell speeds corn drying. Dr. Nellie Morris and Mrs. Augusta Morris visit relatives in Kansas. Mrs Ray Day of Moravia visits. Miss Carrie Taylor to Mason City to teach. Harry Huff of Chicago visits. heads to Montreal Sept 24 to race. Sherman Morris to auction Sept 19 then plans move to Chicago. Local social visits, fairs, and school movements noted. Tile factory to be rebuilt. Several residents ill or traveling.
Blanch Root departed Beckwith Indiana on Saturday to work in a Fairfield millinery shop. Threshing machines operate at full capacity as the community notes J. R. Davis improving after illness. A new cottage rises on the Catherine Parsons heirs' farm. Elmer Huff and family visited the Lotridge home on Sunday.
Geo Hitchcock and family from Peoria Ill visit Four Corners for weeks with relatives. Jacob Pohren and family visit West Burlington relatives. Rev J M Personius moves to Grand Forks Minn. Grandfather Hillman ill. Trabert Bogner and Vorhies plan Texas Panhandle excursion. School at No 8 opened last Monday with Lizzie Milks teaching. L F E Zihlman family visited Coppock. Threshing near completion and corn cutting underway.
Merrimac Iowa recalls Burlington origins as Mrs Margaret McGuire aged 86, an early settler who arrived in 1834 with her father. She reunited with brother William Ross, who came to Burlington in 1833, during the Home Coming events.
Packwood Iowa reports Mr Deck er to preach at the Methodist church this year. Numerous residents attend events and visit friends across town, including a Fairfield trip and a watermelon social by the Christian church Endeavors.
Frank Libertyville of Ia noted a business trip to Ma Friday with Ot Hurst. Miss Bessie Speers of Fairfield visited over Sunday with her cousin.
Geraldine Roberts James Peebler and Oscar Swan son leave Tuesday for Garden City Kansas S H Watkins and Clyde Morley leave Tuesday for Dalhart Texas Mrs T H Carter and Mrs S H Watkins spent Friday in Ottumwa Mrs Clara Pratt of Fairfield spent Saturday here Mrs Loehr and babe of Fairfield visited last week with her sister Mrs Curt Vaught Mr and Mrs Sol Vaught and son Ben left Monday for Colorado for their son's asthma Vanderbilt shower at Rankin home Creighton Richards left Tuesday for I W U Mt Pleasant W F M of M E church met at Mrs E Warner home Mrs Barnie Gifford died Sunday funeral Tuesday body of Mr David Winsell arrived Friday funeral at Will Gifford home Sunday Interment Mt Moriah cemetery Mr and Mrs Chase Hibbard left Friday for Sycamore Ill Mrs Mollie McClelland and two children of Mila visiting her parents Mrs Mike Peebler Obituary Tyler G Cornell born Feb 26 1845 died Sept 9 in Warren county Ohio married Elizabeth Gibbs June 23 1870 six children two living Jesse and Viola living Ohio four brothers four sisters funeral Sept 11 at 2 00 pm Fell cemetery
Glendale Iowa Sept 16 directors of the Jefferson County Old Settlers Park Association will hold a meeting at I D Jones law office on Saturday Sept 21 at 2 00 PM Mrs Anna Zahn of Nebraska visiting sister Mrs Lamansky with daughter Catharine and son Harry Also notes the passing of Mrs Rizor who lived on the same farm 50 years since last March and mentions surviving husband John Rizor one son seven grandchildren and one great grandchild plus relatives at the funeral including Joseph Kirtz Eben Pach and Eliza Winedup.
No. 6 school at Perlee opened last Monday with Miss Gertrude McCarty of Pleasant Plain as teacher. Miss Jennie Coop will teach Riverside east of Brighton and Miss Mae Simmons Cedar Township. M. O. Watts left for Ellsworth Illinois for a week, and many residents visited the Fairfield fair. Miss Anna Peterson of Ottumwa arrived for a short visit with her parents.
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