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Newspaper

Fairfield Journal

Location

Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Apr 09, 1918

Page

8

Camp Welcome Hosts Boy Scouts in Patriotic Program

The Camp Welcome event featured Boy Scouts from Fairfield with Commissioner Harry Frank and Scoutmaster Gebble as honored guests. Military style lessons, flag raising, patriotic music, and a campaign to recruit for the First Baptist Sunday School run March 3 to July 4 with the slogan 300 is our cry by the Fourth of July.

Fairfield Harry Frank Gebble Butler Co. H Camp Welcome Baptist Church Capt. Butler Ump Welcome First Baptist Sunday School United States

Photoplay star Bryant Washburn in The Blindness of Vir ewe

The article notes Bryant Washburn from a ministerial background with uncle Rev Dwight L Moody and other relatives urging ministry. He chose theater, starring opposite Edna Mayo as lead in this Essanay action drama The Blindness of Vir ewe. It will be shown at Fairfield theater tonight.

Bryant Washburn Omrate Essanay Virewe Dwight L. Moody Mr. Washburn Edna Mayo Fairfield Theater

Libertyville Community Notes Full of Visits and Events

Libertyville residents share visits with kin in Ottumwa Batavia and Fairfield. A Rebekah club gathering and union midweek prayer service are planned. Prof Vartanian to preach at Presbyterian church. Saturday play The Sweet Family. church events and school updates listed. New marriage Mr and Mrs Harold Messer noted. baby born to Hal Scovell. local club meetings and visits continue through mid April.

Maud Koons Claud Batavia Ollie Smith Roy May Kansas City Fordyce James Turnipseed Foster Fairfield Mont Countryman Sam Berry Montana Ivy Petzinger Rebekah Club Union Anspach Russell Gorman Mr. Messer George F. Messer Libertyville Savings Bank Messer James Gorman Cross Lanes Sweet Presbyterian Church M. FE S. H. Watkins Walter Harlan Carl Riggs Hal Scovell J. O. Boyd Lucy Boyd G. F. Swanson Myrtle Raymond W. Seppo Hazel Scovel Gladys Lawson Floyd Harshman Earl Stewart Albia Howard Harshman

For Sale Classified Notices and Offers

A collage of local ads listing walnut parlor chairs a small acre of land in Fairfield and a modern seven room house with cellar plus other items. Buyers may contact Mc Laughlin Furniture 268 or Hannah Dikenbeard Auto 245 to inspect or negotiate terms and prices.

McLaughlin Furniture Store F. W. McClain West Jackson St Hannah Dlckenbeard Fairfield South Second Street Landology Skidmore Land Co San Benito Cedar Falls

J W Stallman Announces Hauling Service expansion

Notice from J W Stallman to market hauling: added a motor truck to the drag line and ready to haul for city and country clients. Contact phone 1106 and address 265 for service details.

J W. Stallman

Lost and Found Notices From Journal Office

A service pin is found and may be reclaimed by the owner at the Journal office with identification and payment. A black and white shawl lost yesterday on a street. finder should notify the Journal office.

Journal Office

Third Liberty Loan drive in Buchanan No 1 district

J W Cummings reports strong backing for the Third Liberty Loan in Buchanan No 1 with full participation and oversubscription by O W Green and Wester Green. He apologizes for earlier incorrect claims. Also notes a cinema showing The Girl and the Tramp at Fairfield Theatre Friday night.

Buchanan No. 1 O. W. Green Wester Green J. W. Cummings Fairfield Theatre

Money to Loan on approved City Property

A brief notice lists loan opportunity on city property with names fhonma and thoma and a page number 809, indicating where to apply. The advert implies financing on municipal assets pending approval.

Fhonma & Thoma

Wanted help and services in brisk classified lines

A cluster of classified notices seeks workers and services. A young man is urged to apply at Purity for steady work with good wages. a garden plowing role under Sam McElhaney at 508 West Madison Street. wall paper cleaning offered by Shriner and Johnson at 209 with country work solicited.

Sam McElhaney Madison Street Shriner and Johnson

For Rent Notices Mixed in Residential Listings

Several rental ads show rooms and houses for rent around South Third Street West Adams Street and nearby areas. Listings include two unfurnished rooms with electric lights, a seven room house two blocks from the square, a six room house on West Adams Street, a five room house near the corporation line, and an eight room house with garden near the Methodist church. Contact details include phones and street addresses.

South Third Street Square Wm. Hufstedler West Adams Street South Main Street Corporation

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