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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1919
Page
3
Miss Bertha Miller of County Line visits Ottumwa for business while numerous residents travel or visit relatives in Cedar Rapids Batavia Stockport Mt. Pleasant and other towns. Community events include church boards meeting after prayer service and ongoing homecomings and visits by locals and visitors, with several travel notices and family arrivals.
Fairfield high school juniors present a two night comedy in three acts entitled Her Gloves. The event, directed by Mrs. Alice Booker with assistants Miss Lemmon and Miss Ira Collins, features specialties from Jack O Lantern and The Dance of the Nightingale and an Egyptian song.
Citizens are urged to hold Liberty Bonds but if necessity requires selling them they may go to any Fairfield bank. Banks will pay market price for the bonds and charge no service fee.
First National Bank sells lot 5 in block 4 Johnsons 2nd add Fairfield for 1900. Henry W Mineart and wife sell 367-100 acres in section 1 Penn for 1650. Jacob Shafer and wife sell 78 percent acres in sections 9 and 10 Buchanan for 10000. Joseph Liblin sells 74 percent acres in sections 17 and 20 Walnut for 1. James Cline and Cynthia J Cline sell 131 acres in section 28 Polk for 15000. Isabella F McElderry sells part of block 46 Centennial add Fairfield for 5000.
Jefferson county Odd Fellows and Rebekahs are urged to meet at the two Fairfield halls on Thursday April 24 at 7 30 in the evening to join the parade and celebration. Committee on Arrangements lists items for sale including an iron safe four book cases a set of Iowa reports and other law books by Kate Jones Rainey.
All pauper warrants outstanding should be presented at once at the county treasurer's office for payment.
Des Moines was selected in Cincinnati for the quadrennial meeting of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to begin May 1 1920. The event will attract top clergy and laity from across the denomination, with 130 conferences represented and potential visits by renowned pulpit speakers. Hotel capacity, boosted by two new hotels under construction, prompted the move after past constraints.
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