1879 -- you needed to be there then

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.

Weird is what makes news

 

Anyplace, Nebraska -- March 1910

FEARED TO MOVE THE 'BODY'

Nearly let woman freeze in snow while waiting for the coroner.

Misconception of the coroner's law nearly caused Miss Olive Sanders of Brookville to be frozen to death in a snowbank. In a warm room, the "dead" woman came back to life.

Miss Sanders' sister missed her from the house and found her, seemingly dead, lying in the snow in the barnyard. Neighbors were called and stood in a ring around the body, consoling the weeping sister and all possessed with the notion that none dare touch the dead until the arrival of the coroner.

It took two hours to get the coroner to the Sanders place. He viewed the body and it was carried into the house and the undertaker called to prepare for the burial. At this stage, Miss Sanders revived.

(She finally died in 1951.)

Democrat, June 1907

REMONSTRANCE

Prevented Allen Lewis from getting a license -- Fairfield will continue dry.

The County Commissioners were in session. A remonstrance containing the names of two-thirds of the voters of Fairfield Township prevented Allen Lewis of Fairfield from being granted a liquor license. Philip Meyer of Brookville was successful in securing the license, although an effort was made to prevent it being granted.

(Fairfield, to the end, never had an active liquor license.)

American, November 1908

'Nether Two-Legged Pig

Lurton Roberts of Route 1 probably had the most interesting show here last week. It was a two-legged pig.  It had only two front legs and count get about with ease, balancing the body. There are no evidences of any attempt to grow legs, the body being perfectly smooth. Th pig is a pet, having ben cared for by Mr. Roberts since its birth.  It is well worth 10 cents to see this freak of nature.

(Pickled pig's feet.)