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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1918
Page
3
Community updates list church activity, visits, and local movements. Names include Prof E E Watson Taunton Il Miss Helen Starr Verle Teeter and several residents visiting kin in Davenport Joliet Galesburg and Des Moines. A marriage license was issued in Burlington and a child sustained a hip injury at Libertyville.
Letters from Mt. Pleasant and Fairfield report Unit R near the RainBow Division in France and base hospitals close to Company M. Capt James mentions Fairfield boys slightly wounded and healing, while Byron Dean of Henry County is lightly injured and in hospital with Unit A care. Mrs Duffy also notes Duffy’s detail bringing Doan to the hospital.
Helen Couser aged sixteen, daughter of Mr and Mrs Bert Couser, died Saturday about 1 30 PM at the family home two miles south of Libertyville after several days illness with grippe. She was a Libertyville high school senior and popular with friends. The funeral was held this afternoon at 2 30. The community extends sympathy to the family.
Montaville Flowers will speak at the Presbyterian church next Wednesday. Admission is 50 cents.
Parsons college Ladies Auxiliary announces a White Elephant sale for April 25 26 and 27. The event is not a rummage sale. teens articles are desirable. Anyone with furniture china or other usable items should save them and await solicitation or call 1112.
Wanted salesmen with rig or automobile for Wapello Jefferson and Henry counties. $100 per month guaranteed salary plus liberal commission. Steady employment and rapid advancement for men who prove honesty and ability. Call at the Leggett hotel ask for Mr Sweet up to Saturday evening. After Saturday write Mr Sweet care Ottumwa Hotel Ottumwa 282.
Miss Katherine Tappert, formerly of Davenport, heads the library at Camp Upton New York. She is on leave from Hagertown library and served as Davenport Public Library staff member. Tappert is a Pratt Institute graduate and sister of Mrs. Charles Heer.
Ruth Clifford suffers ordeals under German officers in a sensational film expose about the Kaiser shown at the Fairfield Theater on April 22 and 23. The production portrays brutal acts during the Belgium advance with a cast including Julian Rupert in the lead role.
Capt James Norman Hall of Colfax Massachusetts and Lieut Paul Frank Baer of Mobile Alabama received Distinguished Service Crosses for boosting air combat successes. Hall led a patrol March 26 and destroyed three enemy machines while Baer attacked seven enemy planes on March 17 and two more on March 16 with several victories near Reims.
An official Rome dispatch reports Italy's war expenditures totaling about seven billion dollars through March. The figure covers ten months of neutrality and thirty three months of active war.
Paris reports Premier Clemenceau spent two days on the battle front visiting General Foch and General Petpin and the British troops, underscoring wartime unity and leadership.
Thoma & Thoma offer money to loan on improved city property at 809. No further details available.
Note from Mark Meller asking supporters to write if money is unavailable and promising funds will be sent. signed 276 Chas Meller.
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