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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1909
Page
3
The ad notes complete heating devices available now with peculiar construction and promising the latest models. It invites customers to inspect graces installed by W. Young and promises new lines to attract tradesmen, aiming to convert readers into regular customers for stove values in heaters cook stoves and ranges.
Administrator L P Emmons notifies Mary Ellen Bradshaw and heirs at law of E B Bradshaw deceased that the final report of administration will be on file by September 30 1909 in the Jefferson County District Court at Fairfield Iowa. Defendants must appear by September 8 1909 to defend or default will be entered and discharge granted.
The Tribune invites correspondents in every neighborhood to report news from Jefferson and surrounding counties. Readers may send contributions signed with full address. Mrs. William Hancock and son Cecil of Monon Indiana visited Miss Ella Reeder and others. Ella Reeder visits Fairfield while Mrs. Andy Anderson and Susan Shuppey return from Pennsylvania and Indiana trips.
After last week’s rain farmers plow and sow fall wheat while others cut corn and clover. Local residents with brief movements include Lawrence Laughlin starting at Par sons College, Edwin Tuller at Presbytery in Middletown, and Rev McNeil on vacation in Canada.
Local residents and visitors cover a weekend schedule with visits, travel plans, and gatherings. Names include Mrs Nash, Mrs Calhoun, Sam Topping, John Jenks, Miss Lillie Metz, Miss Goldie Anderson, Miss Eva Shores, H. D. Davis, and D. L. Rodabaugh. Events feature visits to relatives, business college in Burlington, a horse sale, a birthday club supper, and a Presbyterian lawn party with 120 attendees.
Henry Lawson and Willis McKee attend a recent horse sale in Ot tumwa. Emory Carter re paints his residence. W. W. McCreery rents a half section farm near Packwood. Harvesters return from the wheat fields. Grover Schwartz returns from Oklahoma and Rolla Lawson from South Dakota. James and Creek purchase butcher stock to ship to Chicago.
Residents attend church services and social events across Eldon Ottumwa Selma and Keosauqua. Names include Reverend Beaner Isaac Griffitts Earl Ward Emanuel Morrow Evert Sumner John Pearson and families with visits moves and travel noted through Sunday and Saturday activities.
Friends report Tressa Nelson remains in serious condition. Oscar Larson spent Sunday with family, lately in Lockridge. R L Castile of Stromsburg Nebraska visited relatives and returned home Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Gus Castile accompanied him. Parsonville trustees plan a pie ice cream and coffee social next Saturday evening September 25 1909 on Perry Hickenbottoms lawn. All invited.
Local residents and visitors are listed in a weekend social roundup. Mr and Mrs Shook plan a winter stay in Pomona California. Wade Carper and wife traveled to Burlington by auto. Mary Kucher visits Sophie Carper. Pete Salzman traveled to Des Moines on business. Mrs Ella Hancock and son Cecil visit Henry Shuppy’s family en route to Nebraska. Dave Gates preached at Mohawk. Mat Trabert Alf Eshelman attend conference. Maggie McGuire visits Effie Haffley. Carrie Williams resumes teaching at Sharp Corner. Ab Lumbeck and Walter Shuppy spend Sunday with neighbors.
C L Brawner and family attended the State Fair last week. Mrs Carrie Stucker and children of Pleasant Grove visited relatives in the area. Meran Laughlin is in Minnesota on an extended trip. Mr and Mrs N A Lammer and daughter of Fairfield Sundayed with Mrs Lamme's parents, Mr and Mrs George Whitmore. Miss Florence Laughlin, Harvey and Morris Laughlin started school in Fairfield today. Mrs Frank Whitmore visited Sunday with her sister Mrs Joseph Hupp. Mr and Mrs J W Miller expect friends from Illinois this week. School begins next Monday September 13.
A large group from Eldon attended a Wednesday show in Ottumwa. Families and neighbors, including C. E. Lasley and wife, Mrs. Alice Smith and daughter Effa, Tip Allman and family, Glen Seitz, James Poling, Martin Shear and wife, I. C. Griffitts and wife, Evert Sumner and family, Jen Pool of Selma, Mrs. Isaac Griffitts, John Sharp, Morris Cole, and Will Seitz family, stopped in Eldon for visits or business recently.
D H Mealey and wife visited at their daughter Mrs Klinerman's home Sunday. Mrs Sanford Humphery stayed with her son EM HIE last week. John Obnes and wife of Waterbury Nebraska are visiting friends locally this week. Dr Bailey was called to Birmingham Monday to see a sick sister. Vera Lynn visited relatives near Packwood. Frank Peck returned from Colorado. Johnathan Hodson and family Elizabeth Hodson and Susie Nordyke visited the Winter Sun Pool home. Henry Pickard had a cistern built with John Kyle as contractor. Clarence and Victor Kessel visited relatives Friday. Mrs Whitacre went to Fairfield Saturday. A heavy rain Monday night with estimates of about three inches. Mahlon Roberts' children recovering from typhoid fever. The Kaska sisters moved their millinery shop to the room east of Frank Ecks. Wm Follen and wife spent Sunday with a sister near Packwood. Little Humphery visited his parents last week. Jane Mealy returned home Monday.
On my farm 4 miles east of Fairfield on the Burlington road 1 mile southwest of Beckwith I will sell at public auction Tuesday October 5 1909 at 10 o clock a m The sale features four year old mare two year old mare three driving mares two geldings two sucking colts ten cattle including three cows two yearling heifers two spring calves etc Forty five hogs thirty shoats fifteen spring pigs 25 acres corn in field 50 bushels oats 12 tons hay in barn oats straw implements and household goods Champion binder Deering mower Avery corn planter two riding cultivators sulky plow walking plow farm wagon hay loader etc Sharples cream separator and more Lunch on grounds Terms twelve months credit on bankable notes $5 and over bearing six per cent interest from date Amounts under $5 cash Presented by T B Allender Aud C P Hague Clerk Hugh C Sands. Lunch on grounds
Public sale to be held one percent mile south of Salina and near Fairfield on Tuesday September 28 1909 starting at 10 o clock. Items include 50 head of cattle 142 year old steers 16 yearling steers 4 milk cows 7 spring calves 4 steers 3 heifers 1 fully bred Hartford bull 6 yearling heifers one 2 year old filly and 40 head of hogs twenty spring pigs one sow with five pigs nine shocks weighing 100 to 150 pounds. Terms 12 months on sums over 10 bankable notes cash under 10 four percent discount on cash over 10. T B Allender auctioneer J W Ellis proprietor.
Col. Johnston of Des Moines details the capture of J. Burroughs alias Chester Washburn alias West alias Dr C Burroughs a prolific forger and embezzler. Burroughs used false names and padded bank records to dupe banks while his wealthy parents allegedly bail him out. He is serving time in Nevada for forgery.
Doc Cole of Popejoy and Ada French of Rowan wed after a Dows Advocate want ad. Cole, seventy, found a wife through the paper and the pair married before a magistrate then plan to live at Rowan.
Clinton county offers a bounty on ground hogs to curb rapid population growth and farmer losses. A payment of 16 cents is awarded for each eligible ground hog captured or killed.
A fragmented real estate notice lists 60 acres eight miles from Fairfield described as brush land with good soil and potential for a home after cleaning. It also notes 85 acres six miles from Fairfield with a good house and barn and a fine spring, plus 65 acres of good corn land all hog tight. Prices indicated.
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