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Newspaper
Fayette Reporter
Location
Fayette, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1911
Page
2
The report from Payette notes a tight election race tied to Prohibition, with Republican and Prohibition forces contesting control as results trickle in. Nearby communities report school openings, local visits, and farm updates as residents prepare for ongoing political and social shifts.
Smithfield Henry Homewood rents a farm near Strawberry Point for the year. John Davis and wife guests in Arlington Sunday. John Adana back from Oklahoma. Hitler Rauth closed revival at Brooks schoolhouse last Sunday. Struckman home party last Friday. Mrs Ida Burns visited Miss Davis. Miss Mayette’s Candle visited aunt Mrs Pattan. Keebler silo blown down Wednesday and rebuilt Saturday. Misses Mittlestad hosted lawn party for Miss Jennie Thomas. Public Sale of School House Centar Township Fayette County set for Sept 16 1911 at 2 pm by order of board. Chamberlains Colic remedy recommended for bowel complaints in children. Available from Rickert & Davis.
A brief ad appeals to households to buy coal now to ensure a warm home and avoid illness. It urges readers to pay for coal rather than face medical costs and frames coal as preventative medicine for Pneumonia.
Freeman R. Conaway writes of former Governor William Larrabee and Ann M. Apene celebrating a golden wedding at Clermont Iowa. The piece details Larrabee’s early life, political career from 1886 to 1890, family, home Montauk, community roles, and a lifetime of philanthropy and hospitality. It notes Larrabee lineage, the couple's rootedness in Clermont, their Christmas traditions, and the family's civic contributions to education and local life.
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