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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1919
Page
2
Mrs A J Larson died at her East Adams Street home around 7 30 Sunday morning from a stroke of paralysis. She had been ill only a short time. Funeral services will be held at 2 30 pm tomorrow from the residence with interment in Evergreen cemetery.
William Adler and E. Harper were arrested and charged with illegal transportation of liquor. They pled guilty at a morning hearing before Justice Oscar Herring and were fined $100 plus costs.
At Shetland, London reports the first gun in bolshevik campaign in Britain as British socialists at their communal convention open with a resolution urging a British Soviet government. They praise the Soviet system in Hungary and Bavaria, declare war on the capitalist system, oppose the peace conference policy on Russia, and favor distributing revolutionary propaganda in the British armed forces.
London reports Sebastopol evacuated by the Crimean government which is moving to Constantinople. The city now rests with a Revolutionary committee after negotiations with the allied command, an eight days armistice to expire April 25.
The report highlights a severe housing shortage in multiple cities including Pittsburgh Denver Kansas City and Los Angeles. Residents struggle to find habitable homes as tents portable cottages and double occupancy fill the curbsides and hotels. builders push a build now campaign to meet demand while newcomers flood real estate offices.
English Lutheran congregants in Fairfield vote to erect a new church at once, reject basement excavation, and contract a building costing about 30000 dollars. The plan uses the present site as the outgrown structure is replaced with a larger facility to be completed this year.
Tomorrow evening a meeting for sheep growers at the Court House at eight o’clock will feature R T Stone, noted sheep specialist, speaking under the farm Bureau and Wood Growers association. He will cover pasture use, silage, forage chops, protein seeds, sheeping down corn, wool and mutton production cost reduction, wool grading, and market preparation.
Dr. McKensie led chapel services this morning. Debaters met afterward to consider moving a scheduled debate. Wesleyan cannot meet on May 2 due to a change being planned.
The Fancy Work Circle will meet with Mrs. Ray Hemming and Hawkeye Rebekah Club ladies gather at Mrs. J. F. Despain’s home one mile northwest of Fairfield on Wednesday afternoon from 2 to 5. Mrs. Despain will be assisted by Mrs. Nicola. Bring own dishes and sandwiches. Miss Ida Brigman of Leon and Troy M. Deal wed Saturday at Court Hotel parlor with Rev. Ronk officiating. Mrs. Deal a Leon teacher and Mr. Deal Jefferson county agent expect to reside in the city after school term. Friends wish them happiness. The American Girls club meets Wednesday evening with Miss Nellie Kyle at 204 W. Burlington.
Raher snippets report visits from Rev R H Polly and Edna Barr in Ottumwa plus many relatives traveling for funerals. Hiram Angstead and Mrs A J Larson graves mark journeys from Canton Illinois to Tingle Missouri and Edna Missouri. Local piano recital announced for Scheffel pupil tomorrow evening with Moorhead studio.
Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas says both houses will pass the suffrage amendment when they reconvene. Leaders plan an immediate drive for ratification by legislatures in all states then in session and urge special sessions elsewhere to speed ratification, securing women’s vote in the next presidential contest.
C G Sparks is in Batavia on business this afternoon. Mrs Mike OConnor spends the afternoon in Ottumwa. Miss Nora Brown of Chariton guests her mother Mrs Barton. Rolla Nott visited friends in Muscatine yesterday. Mrs Mary Melcher spent the weekend at her home in Burlington.
Government guidance urges holders not to sell but if necessary to meet needs they may trade Liberty Bonds at Fairfield banks for market price with no service charge, ensuring liquidity without loss to the holder.
On Saturday April 26 1919 at 2 pm at the Court House two houses and lots and one vacant lot will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder. Desirable property and real bargains await interested persons. 121 21 23 25 Paka Calvin Hoskins.
A green rain coat lost Saturday between Maxwell's store and the end of South Main. Return to Journal office for claim.
Keokuk lad Harry Snyders was sentenced by Judge Vermilion to ten days in Jefferson county jail and costs for getting off a moving train. execution suspended and he was paroled to his brother in law Nicholas Weis to ensure work and lawful conduct. The Bennett Nylander slander case followed with many spectators in District Court.
H. Walker O. Anderson and T. Spray were arrested yesterday on charges of crap shooting. They are scheduled for a preliminary hearing on Saturday.
Stanley Workman telephoned the Journal to report a remarkable war tank exhibition at Keosauqua this afternoon. The tank climbed bluffs along the Des Moines river and the hills behind the courthouse, ignoring creeks trees poles and barbed wire. He invites Fairfield residents to attend at 7 30 this evening, with about 20 to 30 automobile loads already planning to go.
In Paris, Marshal Foch tells Daily Mail interviewer that peace must be of victors not vanquished and that France must stay on the Rhine as the only safety. He warns Germans remain envious and warlike and will be a menace fifty years hence.
Washington April 21 all organizations forming the Thirty third Prairie division and the Seventy eighth New York New Jersey and Delaware divisions have been assigned to early convex home the war department was informed by General Pershing Coblenz April 21 Secretary Baker and General Pershing are on their way to the American Rhine bridgehead and will review the Thirty third division at Diekirch Luxembourg April 22 and the Eighty ninth division the next day near Treves according to information received at the Coblenz headquarters
New York observed an Easter illumination nationwide as hundreds of office buildings and water front structures lit Sunday night and Monday to mark the holiday. Admiral Maye ordered the fleet-lit display using electric light strings, with many riverside buildings similarly illuminated for a dramatic, color-tinted panorama along the Water Front and along principal streets.
Count Ottokar Czernin once Austro Hungarian foreign minister was arrested on Wednesday by German Austrian authorities while trying to cross the Swiss frontier at Feldkirch near Buchs.
Miss Lucy Cole resumed her schoolwork in Stockport today. She had been away briefly, but returned to classes and routine tasks, signaling a smooth reentry into academic activities at the local school.
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