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Newspaper

Fairfield Journal

Location

Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Apr 27, 1917

Page

7

Personal notices from Ottumwa and region mix travel and visits

A roundup of residents and visitors with travel from Kansas City Los Angeles Chicago and Boulder. Highlights include H E Smith Emil Biegle and W E Smith in town for business, Curray and Shirk visiting relatives, and several others returning from trips or recovering from illness. A library curb repair project and Bar Association Banquet invitations close the item.

H. E. Smith Kansas City Texas Emil Biegle Burlington Joseph Curray Los Angeles Cal W. E. Smith Ottumwa Thos. B. Lee Lee Live Stock Commission Co Wm. Eaton A. M. Danielson Wasait Colo Washington J. C. Beatty Creston A. H. Messer Lockridge W. F. Bevering Ralph Lee Galesburg Ill James Hammon Ray Loehr Keokuk Loehr F. W. Jericho Clinton Lucy Miller Grippe North B Street Mina May Fulton Nellie Kyle Ethel Daugherty Della Young Eva Mitchell Mosser Clarence Hague Ft. Madison J. H. McCarty R. Way Harry Fulton Co. M Litton Glasgow Marion Winter Sadie Fairfield Muscatine W. E. McCreary C. E. Nieukirk Batavia Esther Haworth Pleasant Plain Clifford Thoma A. B. Carroll Chicago Bar Association Leggett & Mcemey

Display of the Flag on the School Buildings

Decree directs Iowa school boards to install flagstaffs and raise the United States flag on days with suitable weather. It urges daily flag displays with proper services, teaching reverence for the emblem. Dated Fairfield Iowa April 21 1917.

Iowa United States Fairfield

Tri-State Inter scholastic Track Meet slated at Alumni Field

Ninth annual Tri-State Inter scholastic Track and Field Meet under Par sons College Letter Club at Alumni Field Saturday. Over 130 entries from 24 high schools with prizes worth over $300 in cups and medals. C H Wilson of the Illinois Athletic club to start the meet. Preliminaries at 9 AM. semifinals and finals in the afternoon.

Parsons College Letter Club Calvin Scovel Letter Club Snyder’ Jewelry Merchants’ Association C. H. Wilson Illinois Athletic Club Burlington Des Moines North High Corydon Iowa City Oskaloosa Chariton Washington Milton West Liberty Winfield Wellman Kalona Stockport Eddyville Lineville Seymour Ottumwa Unionville Kirkwood, Iil Wapello Ft. Madison Fairfield

Miss Rankin Dont Like to Travel Unaccompanied

Hamilton Chamber of Commerce in Missoula Montana answers a telegram from Representative Jeanette Rankin urging Montana to stand by the president in his conscription plan. The clubs in Butte wire Rankin to stand alone if needed and support the president's bill.

Missoula Mont Hamilton Montana Hamilton Chamber of Commerce Jeanette Rankin Rotary Pen-Hellenic Butte Miss Rankin

Crail & Brown Meat Market Ad Promotes Vegetable Plants

See Ray Allender for choice vegetable table plants at the Crail and Brown meat market. The note asks if a boarding house advertises as well as a department store, stating the boarding house prosperity needs adequate advertising. A trash and cinders hauling line is listed with phone numbers 732 and 644.

Ray Allender Crail & Brown Meat Market

War Loan Subscriptions Open At State Savings Bank

The notice urges subscriptions to the war loan with every dollar helping shorten the war. It states applications for bonds may be filed at 590 Iowa State Savings Bank Fairfield Iowa, with no profit or commission on subscriptions.

Iowa State Savings Bank Fairfield Iowa Acme Adler

Parasol Missing From Yeoman Hall Returns Sought

A gold-handled parasol engraved Goldena Kleinman was reportedly taken from the Yeoman hall. Police request the return to Mrs. Glen Neibert or contact 3579-oe 642 immediately.

Yeoman Hall Goldena Kleinman Glen Neibert

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Nile Marie Whitmore Keosauqua Charles Shirk W. D. Shirk George Marts Golden West Navy White ‘T’ Store Stubbs Sunkist J. P. Foreman Comfortable Charles Lyon Gaumer Bros Ollebia
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