When news was mostly innuendo

Connersville-Examiner / March 19, 1884

Fairfield fragments:

-- Fairfield will soon boast of three drug stores and three man-killers.

-- Republican scallywags drink and smoke off Democratic candidates who are not posted. 

-- Parties passed through Fairfield searching for a tramp, last Wednesday, who had shot a boy at Whitcomb.

-- The Democrats of Fairfield Township nominated Captain G.W. Claypool, trustee; William Andrew Jackson Glidewell, justice; and L.B. Doyle as constable.

-- The last few days of open weather has afforded a number of our lazy farmers an opportunity to finish gathering last year's crop of corn.

-- Bart Flood, a former Fairfield boy, writes from Gunnison, Colorado, stating the mercury ran down to 50 degrees below zero the past winter, and snow from 20 inches to 8 feet in depth. 

-- The Republicans held a council of war in Fairfield last Saturday and after much sweating and apparent bodily pain, the following ticket was hatched out: Trustee, Hezzie O. Rose; justice, Nelson Trusler; constable, John Snider. 

-- Itinerant

From Everton the same week:

-- We are extremely grateful to some of our pretended friends for the care they have taken in the past few days to circulate false and slanderous talk about us.

From Bentonville:

-- H.H. John spent part of last week visiting at Fairfield, so he stated. But he went away with Langston, and it looked rather suspicious.