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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1918
Page
3
Ot tumwa residents attend Ellen Peterson funeral while others visit Des Moines and Washington. Marriage licenses issued to Joseph Blakely and Violet Harter. A city council meeting was postponed due to absence. Various residents travel, visit kin, or plan trips to Ames, Muske gon, and Memphis. illness updates and a lodge meeting are noted.
Mrs J A Hanna returns to Des Moines after a week with Thos Davies on South Main. Eugene Brinton of Brighton visits the city. Miss Helen Smith of Pleasant Plain is in town. J A Hicks of St Louis visits friends. Wilbur Day of Brighton on city business. Mrs Wm Kann of Perlee attends Miss Ellen Peterson's funeral. Mrs Howard Wood yesterday with Mrs Thos Pollock in Libertyville. Mr and Mrs John West back from a week at Excelsior Springs. Mrs Mary Myers and children leave for Dallas City to aid ill aunt. Charles Wilkins of Fort Dodge to visit before moving to Oklahoma City. Wilkins visiting Kansas City en route.
The Community Bible class led by Prof. V. A. Vartunian meets this evening at the Baptist church. Visitors and new members are welcome. The lesson covers Chapter 12, Triumphal Entry and Rejection, with questions on feelings, motives, and the significance of the event.
Marion Whitaker Stucker, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Whitaker Stucker, died last evening at about eight o clock at their home nine miles northwest of Fairfield after illnesses from grippe measles and pneumonia. Born April 4, 1917, in Des Moines county near New London he is survived by parents two brothers and four sisters Ruth Ethel Mable Max and Harvey. Body to be taken to Pleasant Grove near New London for funeral services tomorrow.
Paris reports Second Lieutenant Dinsmore Ely of Chicago and former Lafayette escadrille dies from injuries after a crash. The French government awards the war cross to Sergt. David Be Putnam of Brookline Maine Wellman of Cambridge Mass and Phelps Collins of Detroit for service in escadrilles 156 and 87. Collins was killed March 13 in combat.
The local high school junior class stages A Kentucky Belle on May 3 with a strong cast and several special numbers. Mrs. Alice Booker coaches the production, and proceeds go to the Red Cross. More than thirty students participate in the play and festivities.
The Woman's association requests donations of old newspapers and magazines. Call phone 3458 to arrange collection.
We thank friends for kindness during illness and death of our husband and father and for the flowers. Relatives Mrs Percy Croz and others donated autos. Food Sale Saturday by the Ladies Auxiliary of Parsons College in the room north of the Iowa State Savings Bank. Cinders hauled 75c a load call 173. William Cox.
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