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Newspaper
Fayette Reporter
Location
Fayette, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1911
Page
3
Long list of holiday ads and notices from Gaynor and Youngs Hardware plus residents and shoppers in the area. Mentions prices on cloaks and horse blankets, Christmas visits, farm goods, lumber, and hardware bargains. includes names like Miss Rose Hastings, Miss Eden Lockwood, Max Bishop, J A Lockwood, and Geo Gaynor stock being closed out.
W K Humphry's announces season greetings and a Saturday sale featuring oranges bananas grape fruit grapes New York Bald win and Greening apples celery lettuce buckwheat flour pancake flour canned salmon Longhorn cheese and other pantry items.
A broad assortment of candy and nuts is available, with many varieties to choose from. Shoppers can find classic favorites alongside newer treats, all displayed in an inviting layout for easy browsing.
A grocery store promotes its coffee and tea quality with bold claims. It lists prices 25c 28c 30c 35c and highlights a new 25¢ line. The ad touts Mystic 1.50 Rex 1.35 and recommends trying a pound to be convinced. Also announces a car of Gold Mince Flour arriving this week from Minnesota’s top wheat region.
Mrs Sarah Bailey Eddington reunites with friends in Willard Cole over the birth of an eight pound girl named Elizabeth. Also notes a sale at Young Hardware with reduced blanket prices and mentions Ada Buhimas and Lela Bushman returning home for holidays and Lela planning to attend college locally.
Professor Odilon Marc Lannelongue dies in Paris at seventy. Margaret Horton Potter novel ist dies in Chicago. Mrs Issenhuth drowns trying to dip water in Huron. Henry N. Van Dyke dies on a Broadway car. Mrs Giroy Avery dies in Cleveland. Fire destroys Clara Koch home in Lagrange Missouri. Alaska railroad bill proposed by Sulzer. DOJ to prosecute Brazilian coffee interests in Philadelphia. Adelaide Erlanger obtains divorce settlement. Michael Cudahy inheritance taxes yield to California. G Luther Brown acquitted in Arkansas bank failure. Chicago grand jury indicts Boneham and Channel for Mrs Hattie Kaufman murder. Wright Lorimer dies by gas in New York. N T Olsen sentenced for head severing in Kansas. Judge King sentences. Virginia proclamation on vote selling. Stoneburg and Queltette sentenced. Arthur Bolin dies in Crane company accident. Yale expedition members return from Peru. John E Townsend sentenced for second degree assault. Rebecca Powers to inherit after brother's death. Grant county bachelors seek wives and publish catalog. $25,000 diamond theft reported in Chicago. Maine relic requests refused by Navy. Jennia Caleno lamp fire disaster in Brooklyn. Philp, six, dies trying to help. Officer Hewston shot in Portland. Lacome Kid linked to banditry dies fatally wounded.
Smithfield A Rutledge and family spent Christmas with the W KR Herrel family. Misa Cora Herrel 18 apending her vacation at home. ert Badger and wife were called to Oelwein Sunday to attend the funeral of his brother Horace. Horace's body was brought from De Kalb Illinois to be buried beside his wife. Two of Mr Badger's sons could not be located.
Arlene Gray Paul born in Saratoga County New York on December 26 185 married to Jesse Paul at nineteen she moved to Fayette County Iowa where she died December 24 1911 aged fifty nine years eleven months and twenty nine days She left eleven children Mary Hattie Nellie Hadith Ina Marion and Tressi plus sons John Chester Walter and Laura and many relatives Friends and neighbors mourned her Devoted wife mother and Christian she spoke of reunion with seven daughters who had gone before Funeral held at home Thursday conducted by Dr F gy Young with several relatives and friends present Burial in Grandview Cemetery
G E Morton of Colorado Agricultural College argues that barley can replace wheat in rotation for stock feeding, preserving land fertility. He notes barley in Fort Collins district sells competitively with corn for feeding, and cites trials showing barley yields comparable to corn for lambs and fattening cattle, boosting Denver market prices.
In Council Bluffs on December 25, jurors in Benjamin Marks conspiracy case ate Christmas dinners at home. Judge Arthur warned jurors to avoid discussing the trial or reading about it in newspapers. Two telegrams to Mabray from Council Bluffs in November 1907, signed by Marks, were identified. Police testified about gang operations and the Little Rock arrest of February 23, 1909, with exhibit papers numbering over eighty, some missing.
Des Moines reports that P. Holden, educator from Ames Town state agricultural college, is the center of a launched gubernatorial boom. Republican leaders and allies say the 1912 race will be one of the strongest in Iowa history as Holden’s candidacy gains support from various party factions.
Edgewood Ind Dec 25 Miss Dina Alger daughter of Mr and Mrs H A Alger of this city has been in the mission fields of China for months. She is among a group of American missionaries ordered from out stations to Kuling a place considered safe in the empire. The city hosts foreigners of many nationalities and is cited as a safe refuge.
Waterloo electrician Leo A Boyce dies after stepping onto a moving switch engine near the Galloway factory. Linn Grove postmaster L A Campbell removed for alleged shortage under $200. Britt woman dies in home gasoline stove explosion. husband injured. Anguat Mandella, 17, loses right leg in accidental shotgun firing while hunting. St Charles fire damages Odd Fellows building area with $80,000 loss.
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