Connersville, 1879
Fairfield News
Fishing parties, croquet parties, and moonlight buggy rides are all the go, and by the by, they tell a pretty good one on a party of five who went fishing one afternoon recently.
Charles Mason, a dashing young gent from Cincinnati, has caused quite a flutter among a certain class of the youthful feminine population for a week past.
For Several weeks past the Fairfield Flouring Mills have been running night and day on custom work alone, in order to supply its large army of customers.
Wednesday night of last week, some scoundrel stole two sets of farm harness, one set of buggy harness, one saddle and a nearly new farm wagon belonging to a man named Coe, living three miles southeast of this place.There is talk afloat of reorganizing the Fairfield baseball club this summer.
The store room in Odd Fellows Hall has been newly fitted up, painted and calcimined, and is now occupied by R.L. Irwin for a dry goods store.
Rev. R.N. John will conduct services next Sabbath morning and evening at the Ireland Universalist Church.
Elder Cox held services Saturday and Sunday last at the Baptist church west of town.
George Loper is this week taking a dozen or more new buggies from his shops here to his branch salesroom in Connersville.
The pedagogues of Harmony Township met last Saturday and held in interesting institute.
Host Doyle of the Fairfield House announces a ball for Friday evening, Dec. 23. Smith's string band of Fairfield furnishes the entertainment.
William Organ, agent for W.T. Bowers, of Liberty, has been in our midst selling pianos and organs. That crossbred dog came near giving him away one night recently.
Miss Belle Holland is entertaining the chicken pox.
John P. Hanna, south of town, captured an 8-pound carp in a tree top. The river was on a boom last week, delaying the mails.

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