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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1918
Page
7
Residents and visitors listed in Abingdon Eldon Ottumwa Pleasant Plain and Des Moines include Robert Collins Ethel Pots Charles Angstead and Richard Crail Mildred Braunhausen Harlan Macy J H McCarty and others. Notes cover license issuance Leslie Daggett and Marian Fulton and several trips and visits to Des Moines Burlington New London and Chicago.
In the Handicap Tournament at the Golf Club C H Heer 12 defeats W D Hunt 12 after an extra hole in a tight 19 hole match. Fordyce 24 beats K E Crabb 16 4 up with 2 to go. Finals set for next week, winner to receive silver trophy, runner-up golf balls.
Mrs. Minnie Berg dies yesterday afternoon at 1 30 at her son Henry Berg's home nine miles northeast of the city. Funeral services will be held at 2 p m tomorrow at the Germanville Lutheran church conducted by Rev Reeber. Interment will follow nearby.
A string of short personal notices documents visits and travel across Ottumwa and surrounding towns. Names include Orval Johnson family in Ottumwa, Treon family from Camp Dodge, Verne Dotcherman of Memphis en route, plus many local guests and departures from Grinnell Batavia Pekin and Packwood. Mrs. Stever resigns from Fair Department store. Etta Stever to Lake Okibiji. Thresherman meal anecdote ends with a social gathering invitation.
County Superintendent Miss June Chidester presents last year’s figures for Jefferson County schools. Totals include 4 540 children ages 5 to 21, 3 887 enrolled students, 2 926 average daily attendance, 2 073 in public and district schools, 4 764 in private or other schools, 168 teacher positions, 60 normal training teachers, 42 with state certificates, 31 first grade certificates, 64 second grade, 0 third grade, and 14 provisional certificates among teachers.
The family thanks friends for kindness and sympathy during illness and after the death of Daniel Walmer. Special gratitude expressed to the old soldiers for their acts of kindness. Signed by Mrs. S. S. Leathers, Mrs. Cora Huss, J. H. Walmer, Mrs. W. E. McMullen, and Charles Walmer.
Notice offers hard coal for sale in any quantity. Contact L Ja Nelson at 897 to arrange purchase.
The writer of this notice states they are entering army service and request their accounts be settled. They ask to call at the office of Dr W Fordyce to arrange payment or settlement.
Dr. G. K. Dunkel traveled to Rochester Minnesota to attend Mayo Surgical Clinics and is expected to return on Tuesday August 138th.
Reserved seat sales begin for the musical comedy Dan Cupid presented at the Orpheum Theater on Tuesday evening August 6. The show headlines a summer entertainment lineup and promises early ticket availability for patrons seeking preferred seating.
West bound trains include No 5 Chicago to McCook 12 53 am No 15 Fast Mail 9 25 am No 3 Chicago to Denver 6 47 am No 7 Fast Mail 8 32 am No 179 Peoria Local 12 44 pm No 9 Chicago to Denver 3 58 pm No 17 Burlington-Albion 6 25 9 gm East bound No 2 Denver to Chicago 1 23 00 am No 8 Fast Mail 4 1 22 am No 12 McCook to Chicago 2 2 am No 18 Ottawa to Burlington 9 2 am No 17 Creston to Peoria 12 22 am No 6 Denver to Chicago 2 29 am No 4 Omaha to Chicago No 2 am
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