(source]--"The Fairfield Ledger", Iowa, February 25, 1903, page 2,:
A VETERAN IOWA EDITOR
William Wallace Junkin, for a half century, Editor of The Ledger. Youngest child of Joseph and Sarah Rambo Junkin. The four sons of the family have followed their father's footsteps and are now connected with Iowa newspapers. The father located on a claim three miles south of Fairfield. The barefoot boy of fourteen, clad in homespun. He well remembered when there was not money enough in the community to pay the postage on a letter; when dressed pork sold at a dollar a hundred; and when he, with other boys, broke a basket of eggs by throwing them at a mark in the park in Fairfield because he could not sell them for two and a half cents a dozen after carrying them three miles from the farm. Methodist Episcopal Church. Indian inspector under the Harrison administration. The casket was carried to the grave by former and present employees of The Ledger: C. L. Sheward, editor Birmingham Enterprise an apprentice in the office 44 years ago; Jesse H. Daggett of the Richland Clarion; G. F. Turner; B. F. Crail, Jr.; George E. Olive and Theodore Keltner. The body was interred in the City Cemetery, where representatives of three generations of the Junkin family lie.
A VETERAN IOWA EDITOR
William Wallace Junkin, for a half century, Editor of The Ledger. Youngest child of Joseph and Sarah Rambo Junkin. The four sons of the family have followed their father's footsteps and are now connected with Iowa newspapers. The father located on a claim three miles south of Fairfield. The barefoot boy of fourteen, clad in homespun. He well remembered when there was not money enough in the community to pay the postage on a letter; when dressed pork sold at a dollar a hundred; and when he, with other boys, broke a basket of eggs by throwing them at a mark in the park in Fairfield because he could not sell them for two and a half cents a dozen after carrying them three miles from the farm. Methodist Episcopal Church. Indian inspector under the Harrison administration. The casket was carried to the grave by former and present employees of The Ledger: C. L. Sheward, editor Birmingham Enterprise an apprentice in the office 44 years ago; Jesse H. Daggett of the Richland Clarion; G. F. Turner; B. F. Crail, Jr.; George E. Olive and Theodore Keltner. The body was interred in the City Cemetery, where representatives of three generations of the Junkin family lie.
(source]--"The Fairfield Ledger", Iowa, February 25, 1903, page 2,:
A VETERAN IOWA EDITOR
William Wallace Junkin, for a half century, Editor of The Ledger. Youngest child of Joseph and Sarah Rambo Junkin. The four sons of the family have followed their father's footsteps and are now connected with Iowa newspapers. The father located on a claim three miles south of Fairfield. The barefoot boy of fourteen, clad in homespun. He well remembered when there was not money enough in the community to pay the postage on a letter; when dressed pork sold at a dollar a hundred; and when he, with other boys, broke a basket of eggs by throwing them at a mark in the park in Fairfield because he could not sell them for two and a half cents a dozen after carrying them three miles from the farm. Methodist Episcopal Church. Indian inspector under the Harrison administration. The casket was carried to the grave by former and present employees of The Ledger: C. L. Sheward, editor Birmingham Enterprise an apprentice in the office 44 years ago; Jesse H. Daggett of the Richland Clarion; G. F. Turner; B. F. Crail, Jr.; George E. Olive and Theodore Keltner. The body was interred in the City Cemetery, where representatives of three generations of the Junkin family lie.
A VETERAN IOWA EDITOR
William Wallace Junkin, for a half century, Editor of The Ledger. Youngest child of Joseph and Sarah Rambo Junkin. The four sons of the family have followed their father's footsteps and are now connected with Iowa newspapers. The father located on a claim three miles south of Fairfield. The barefoot boy of fourteen, clad in homespun. He well remembered when there was not money enough in the community to pay the postage on a letter; when dressed pork sold at a dollar a hundred; and when he, with other boys, broke a basket of eggs by throwing them at a mark in the park in Fairfield because he could not sell them for two and a half cents a dozen after carrying them three miles from the farm. Methodist Episcopal Church. Indian inspector under the Harrison administration. The casket was carried to the grave by former and present employees of The Ledger: C. L. Sheward, editor Birmingham Enterprise an apprentice in the office 44 years ago; Jesse H. Daggett of the Richland Clarion; G. F. Turner; B. F. Crail, Jr.; George E. Olive and Theodore Keltner. The body was interred in the City Cemetery, where representatives of three generations of the Junkin family lie.
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