Iowa Old Press

The Fairfield Tribune
Fairfield, Jefferson, Iowa
Thursday, May 19, 1881

No. 9 and Vicinity.
     Wm. Hedge recently lost a fine mare valued at two hundred and fifty dollars.
     Mr. Daniel Rider had a stroke of paralyses last Saturday evening while sitting on his porch reading; was unable to speak till Sunday forenoon.
     Mr. Abel Evans of Clarktown, Pa., has been visiting friends in this vicinity.
     Most of the gardens are made and the seed most all up.

Wooster.
     Clay Davis is building a new fence from east to west across the south west 160 of Mr. R.T. Gilmer's farm.
     The Sunday school of May 15th, at Ebenezer, was quite interesting and well attended. Among the visitors was Mr. Dodd, a college student. It was voted  to hold the school at Wooster two Sundays in each month, these being the second and fourth. The rest of the time the school will meet at Ebenezer as before.
    Among the attendance at the church services May 15th, were Mr. Martin and family from below Glasgow. At the next session of the Sunday school delegates are to be appointed to attend the yearly Sunday school convention.

Libertyville.
     Aleck Howard is at home. Aleck's health is not good, and he contemplates a trip to the mountains for its benefit.
     Mrs. Lydia Pancoast is quite sick, but not considered dangerous.
     The Rock Island is to be laid with steel the remainder of the distance from here to the Line.
     Our young druggist, Lon Sechrist, is at his home in Keokuk county on a visit.
     Mr. John Welday has rented property here, and it is understood will go into business.
     Mr. and Mrs. A.W. Jackson, with some of the younger members of the family, expect to leave soon on a three month's tour through the west.
     On Monday last, our legal friends Wall and Holsinger left the best state in the Union for a trip through the Southern States, with a view to locate at Bentonville, Ark. Should that point not prove congenial they will at once proceed to the far southwest. They are two noble young men, and have the best wishes of hosts of friends whom they leave behind.

Beckwith Items.
     Mrs. Sarah E. Faron, need Keltner, died of consumption at Beckwith at 9 o'clock A.M. on Wednesday of last week. She was a daughter of David and Martha A. Keltner, and was born in Buchanan township, Jefferson county, Iowa, January 25th, 1854, and was in her 28th year at the time of her decease. She was united in marriage in the autumn of 1874 to Mr. John M. Faron. Last autumn while residing at St. Joseph, Missouri, she felt that her days would not be many more and said she wanted to be brought back to her childhood home to be buried. On Thursday of last week friends and relatives assembled to pay to her remains the last sad rites. A few very appropriate remarks upon life and death were made by Richard E. Caviness. The remains were then taken to the Lockridge burying ground and interred near the grave of her father.
     Thus the children of men
          Arise and pass,
     Out of the world
          Like blades of grass.
     She leaves her husband and three little children, who will sadly miss her, the youngest child being only eight months.

Vega
     Mr. Joseph Brewer, merchant of Glasgow, has sold out his entire stock of goods to Messrs. Barnes & Taylor, who now have an excellent stock of spring and summer goods, and claim that their prices are as low as the lowest, and we predict their business will be a success.
     Mr. Brewer, I understand, has invested heavily in Colorado mining stock and expects to go out in a few weeks and look after the enterprise in person, as he is an old miner of considerable experience.
     Mr. Daniel Chezum and his son Theodore returned home from Montana last Friday. Mr. Chezum returns home in poor health; but Theodore is in much better health than when he started in March. He expects to start on his return trip back on next Tuesday. He thinks he and six others have struck something valuable. They are sinking a shaft with paying ore from the top and hope to prosecute the work this summer if the Indians do not drive them out, as they are at work upon an Indian reserve, without their permission.
     Mr. W.V. Smith, to whom reference was made some weeks since, departed this life on the 5th inst. after a distressing illness of some six months of pneumonia and bronchitis. Deceased leaves a wife and four children to mourn his loss. Laura, the oldest, is with her grand-parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hasket, of Belleville, Republic county, Kansas. The deceased was a native of Illinois, from which state he enlisted in the Union army in 1861; was in the service but a few months when he was discharged on account of disability and sent home; here was probably the origin of his illness. His funeral discourse was preached by Elder Decker of Hillsboro, to a large audience at the Vega school house, from the text, "For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain", Phil. I., 21. The remains were interred in the Lambert grave yard. The family have the sympathy of the neighborhood.
     Aunt Matilda Litton's funeral sermon was presented on the 15th inst. at the Glasgow Baptist church by Rev. J. Lee to a full house, her children all being present. Mrs. Keltner, from the western part of the state was in attendance and is visiting friends in the neighborhood.
     Chickens are dying with cholera in many places. This sometimes is only the beginning of the same disease among the hogs.

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DR. WORTHINGTON
Fairfield, Iowa
Will attend to all calls. Office over Clark's drug store,
northwest corner of the Public Square, Residence,
corner First South and Fourth East Sts. Office hours
from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 6:30 to 8 p.m.

I.L. HARRIS!
Batavia, Iowa.
BLACKSMITH!
Horse Shoeing,
Wagon and Buggy Repairing!
Plow work a specialty. Having employed
a first-class workman, all work warranted.
Give me a trial.

Geo. F. Parker, formerly of the Des Moines Leader, and who has been connected with various newspapers in the past few years, has recently become editor of the Burlington Gazette. Mr. Parker is a clear and forcible writer, and a man whose views are generally sound. He is an ardent newspaper man, a conservative but thorough democrat, and possesses the qualifications of a first class editor. We congratulate the Gazette on having secured so able an editor, and bid welcome to Mr. Parker to the journalism of southeastern Iowa.

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