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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1917
Page
6
The Daily Journal Printing Co lists Bean Taylor and A W Taylor as publishers and Bean Taylor as editor and manager in the current notice. The item appears as a brief employment or organizational header from the newspaper’s masthead.
The Loutheran Ladies Aid to meet at Mrs J E Johnson's Tuesday at 2 pm. P E O society meets tonight at 7 30 at Mrs Charles Herring on West Broadway. Miss Jessie Prince celebrated a surprise birthday party at her east city home with music games and refreshments. C T U to meet tomorrow at Mrs T B Short’s South Court Street. Ottumwa Courier note reads Miss Theodosia Gumm and Charley Gurley Bush wed Sunday at First Congregational Church. Mrs R C Objartel hosted a theatre party at the Orpheum and Purity supper. R N A to hold an anniversary meeting Wednesday at 2 15 in Moose Hall. members to bring sandwiches and dishes. Edith McConnell and Vern Farnham quietly married at the Methodist parsonage with bridal party. Mrs McConnell’s gown was light blue silk chiffon and taffeta. Mr Farnham represents Freeport Dairy Produce Co in the tri-state area. They leave for a two week trip in Illinois and plan home after May 5.
The marriage of Harry Canterbury and Miss Merle Anne occurred at the groom's mother Mrs. T. P. Woolsey on Tuesday evening. The ceremony was in the presence of close family with Ry. H. A. Anspach officiating. A luncheon followed. the couple plan to reside in Fairfield after the twentieth. Canterbury is a bugler for Ottumwa company of the Third regiment and the pair had planned to wed last August before his call to service on the Mexican border.
President Wilson receives a cablegram from Russian Foreign Minister Milyukov praising U S participation in World War I as speeding Entente victory and thanking Washington for recognizing the new Russian government.
The senate judiciary committee completed the administration espionage bill and will report it to the senate for immediate passage. Key changes tighten offenses by replacing vague terms with definite and specific provisions after the previous measure failed to enactment.
The Methodist church hosted George Ellingwood Joy for an hour and a half address on Citizenship. He urged training children at home to develop better citizens, sharing the latest psychology insights and child study findings to inspire parents.
A series of daily 7:30 p m lectures for parents and teachers runs through the week. Topics include The Child in the Midst The Golden Age of Childhood The Boy Problem as We Face It The Kingship of Control and Training by the Art of Suggestion. The High School course on the Psychology of Adolescence is part of regular school work.
The Journal received flower and garden seeds through Senator Kenyon for the Ladies Improvement Association and the Boy Scouts to use in school gardening and similar efforts. The organizations will distribute the seeds to boys and girls under their supervision in the City Beautiful Campaign.
Nick Williams of Atlanta pled guilty to carrying concealed weapons and breaking into a car near Beckwith. Special agent Mullen found him Saturday night and turned him over to Sheriff Campbell Freeman Allen of Key West and Arthur Williams of Georgia, with Hubert Smith of Ottumwa detained as a witness. Williams likely to be tried tomorrow.
Guy Works of Washington county aged 14 was picked up in the city by Sheriff Shan Campbell and City Marshal J. D. Mitchell on the way to join the navy. He had a gun and a high powered rifle when seized. Parents located after an all night search retrieved him home. Mrs. Thos. Allender is improving from illness.
The Oratorio Society will present The Pirates of Penzance at the High School on Wednesday evening April 25. It is billed as Fairfield’s largest local music work and will feature chorus and soloists after two months of rehearsal. About 250 seats are reserved for P EO convention delegates. seats go on sale April 23 at Jericho & Easton's drug store.
The Iowa Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution passes resolutions expressing readiness to support the government and military in the war with Germany. It urges members statewide to prepare to serve in the national crisis and sends a copy to the state governor. Also notes 5 percent farm loans offered by The Jefferson County Abstract and Loan Co. of Fairfield, Iowa.
Pancoast Hendrickson & Bank advertise hauling and sodding services for South Park Addition. They invite calls to their Stubbs Building office and provide phone number 1739.
Paul Schroeder age 11 and two Hines boys aged 10 and 11 were caught selling seven stolen chickens taken from B. K. Black on West Burlington street. They tried to sell them at the Zeigler poultry house before Sheriff Shan Campbell detained them for juvenile court action.
Joseph H H Defrees vice president of the United States Chamber of Commerce says a committee is being formed to push immediate daylight saving legislation. He reports nearly all major business groups have approved the measure, and the plan to set clocks back would be pursued by Congress.
Vincennes Indiana April 16 Thomas Fitzgibbons fifty five age man was fined 500 and costs and sentenced to six months on the penal farm after pleading guilty to assaulting Omer Rey private in Company A I N G Witzellbens also showed contempt for the American flag by throwing it to the ground and trampling it he could not obtain a lawyer to defend him
Rev. Father James P. Heaney, pastor of St. Mary's Mandota, who entered the Cherry mine fire to give last rites to dying miners, died suddenly of hemorrhage at his Peoria home.
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