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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1919
Page
3
Local notes list Batavia, Brighton, Libertyville, and Detroit visitors and residents with weekend trips and gatherings. Includes Miss Lillian Cline’s Springfield visit, Clara Carter’s Libertyville relatives, and Mrs. Laura Taylor’s return from Warren Ohio. Also mentions Sgt Boyd Greeson’s discharge from Camp Pike and a church rehearsal updated to Prof. Moorhead studio Tuesday.
Tickets are going fast for the Junior Night program at the high school auditorium on May 2 and 3. The show features new acts with costumes from Chicago and a new spotlight. The cast includes specialties such as Over the Top and The Girl on the Magazine Cover with leading performers and choruses.
Mr James P Moorhead begins a ten week piano term on Monday June 9 resigning as director of Parsons College Musical Department last February. He will start private work and his downtown studio will be the Moorhead School of Piano Playing. Also tonight at Parsons College Baumgardt presents an illustrated lecture The Romance of Human Progress.
Keep your liberty bonds but if you must sell them banks in Fairfield will pay market price without charge near Baumgardt at Parsons Col Averill Hammer and Chas Brooks who is afraid of his wife. Attend the Junior play tonight. Illustrated lecture on free piano tuning offers one free piano tune per church with careful work. Leave orders with Unkrich jeweler. A J Petrie piano tuner Ottumwa Iowa.
The Baracca class of the Lutheran church met in Fraternal Aid hall Friday to discuss forming a Sunday school baseball league. A committee was appointed to consult other city Sunday schools. The class noted several strong baseball players among its members and enjoyed a two course supper after toast remarks by toastmaster John Huglin.
King Albert hosted Josephus Daniels secretary of the navy in Brussels in a special audience and luncheon. Guests included Brand Whitlock and wife, officials and military officers, with Daniels later attending a city hall reception, visiting Waterloo battlefield Bruges and the Yser district before heading to Flanders.
The note credits Mary Whitney as Mrs Charles Brooks and asserts women can manage on their own with or without ballots, guiding readers to see her performance in Her Gloves on May 2 and 3.
Advertisement promotes Haarlem Oil Capsules as a fast relief for kidney troubles. It warns against delaying treatment, urges action at first backache or fatigue, and promises money back if not helpful. The copy touts Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules as the original remedy imported from Haarlem, with three sealed package sizes.
Frank McClain purchases an interest in the Richardson hardware store. W. E. Richardson has been away due to ill health for over a year. McClain now holds Richardson's interest while William Pedrick retains his stake. The store will reopen tomorrow with the same high standards of goods and service under the firm.
Miss Emily Hitch arrives home in Fort Madison while Dr Baumgardt, famed American scientist, presents an illustrated lecture at Barhydt chapel tonight at 8. Parsons also hosts an event this evening. Friday features an Egyptian song and dance by a noted actress at the high school auditorium.
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