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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1918
Page
2
The fragment shows a postal notice from Fair Geld Iowa detailing subscription rates for carrier and mail delivery. It lists months prepaid options, with figures like 1.26 and 1.00, and notes mail matter status with the Post Office.
A group including Miss Etta Warner Miss Nora Warner Frank Warner Earl Kenyon and Harry B Bald enjoyed a picnic yesterday on the Skunk river banks near Brighton returning home in the early evening. The White Rose Club R N A will meet Wednesday at 2 30 with Mrs. William Peters on West Broadway. The W C T A meets with Mrs J S Gantz at 3 p m tomorrow with officer elections and dues. Attendance is urged.
An agreed decree ending International Harvester as an unlawful monopoly will be enforced at once. Machinery lines including Osborne Champion and Milwaukee brands will be disposed of, with plants in Springfield Ohio and Auburn New York sold. the Justice Department released terms of the agreement.
Mrs L E Clinkinbeard and daughter Margaret return from Omaga Neb. Mrs M E Codd of Nashville Tenn visits her son Paul Codd who has enlisted and leaves for Salt Lake City. Audrey Wonderlich visits. Blanche Morriss and Miss St John visit Ottumwa. Churchgoers from the Christian church attend Packwood services as Rev Polly speaks and choir performs. Mrs George Ball learns Olive Graber in France was on front duty. Several other local residents visit or plan trips including to Wyoming and Camp Cody. Exemption Board reports no transfer orders to class one under work or fight rule.
Washington reports the largest casualty list of the war department to date. The tally includes soldiers killed in action seven rough totals, wounded, missing, and deaths from disease, with a separate marine loss and wounded count. The overall figure reaches 285 names in the combined lists.
For sale a Ford touring car. Phone 165. The message is incomplete and presents a brief contact detail and item description.
Fairfield urged to attend a Red Cross ladies led community dinner in Walnut Two. About 350 tickets sold for a lawn picnic at Sloughville school house three miles northeast of Germanville. Tickets from Walter Bean Ray Maxwell Fred Johnson F W Jericho J Ray Oliver C E Anderson and Eclipse Lumber Co. Auto owners should notify Roy Emry.
Des Moines logged the hottest day in forty years with 110.2 degrees at 4 30 p m surpassing the 109 degree record of July 27 1901 The temperature rose from 74 degrees before dawn and stayed above 100 into the night Weather officials expect Iowa may see 110 to 115 degrees in the southwestern counties such as Clarinda and Bedford.
The Salvation Army War Fund campaign asks all unpaid subscriptions to be settled promptly as letters will be mailed to delinquents within a day or two. The committee urges supporters to reduce postage and collection costs.
Des Moines reports that if Congress expands the draft ages to 18 through 45, about 200000 more Iowans would register. The 1915 Iowa census lists 440000 men aged 21 to 45 and 65000 aged 18 to 21, from which the 216299 registrants in 1917 and later volunteers would be subtracted.
Dubuque Iowa August 5 reports say only three infantile paralysis cases in a week and most recent patients released from quarantine. State health board orders lift strict quarantines for unaffected residents with permits required for travel to other states. Local notes include visitors from Pittsburgh and Chicago, a child’s arm injury, and guests from Camp Cady before overseas service.
Wallace Reed stars in The House of Silence a Paramount picture shown at Fairfield Theater tomorrow evening with Ann Little. The story follows a wealthy amateur Sherlock Holmes tracing a murder hoisted by a defended woman in a mysterious dwelling. Based on a Margaret Turnbull novel.
Mrs N J Anderson died Saturday evening at 6 at her home eight miles south of the city after a months long brain tumor illness. Born Anna C Johnson in Sweden in 1866 she came to Kansas at age 12 and married N J Anderson in Osage in 1887. She leaves six children and four grandchildren with brothers and sisters in several states and no funeral arrangements yet set.
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