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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1918
Page
6
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A lively group including Etta Warner Nora Warner Frank Warner Earl Kenyon and Harry Bald win picnicked yesterday on the Skunk river banks near Brighton. The White Rose Club R N of A meets Wednesday at 2 30 with Mrs Peters. W C T A meets with Mrs Gantz at 3 pm tomorrow to elect officers and pay dues with large attendance urged.
Under a government agreement the International Harvester Company and its unlawful restraint case will be dissolved. Machinery lines Osborne Champion Milwau kee and plants in Springfield New York Auburn will be disposed of. Auction sale possible after set deadlines with postwar conditions on representation and competition.
Washington reports the largest US war casualty list to date with 91 soldiers killed in action, 8 dead of wounds, 5 dead of disease, 1 dead in an airplane accident, 4 from other causes, 162 wounded and 12 missing. The total names reach 25, including 1 marine killed and 1 marine wounded.
Fairfield residents urged to attend a community dinner in Walnut Two led by Red Cross ladies. About 350 tickets sold. picnic on the lawn at Sloughville schoolhouse, three miles northeast of Germanville. Tickets from Walter Bean et al. and Eclipse Lumber Co. Auto owners asked to notify Roy Emry.
Des Moines recorded the hottest day in forty years with 110.2 degrees at 4 30 p m. The previous record was 109 degrees set July 27 1901. Temperatures rose from 74 degrees before dawn and stayed above 100 into the night as forecasters expect Iowa highs to reach 110 to 115 in the southwest at Clarinda and Bedford.
Mrs L E Clinkinbeard and daughter Margaret return from Omaha visit. Mrs M E Codd of Nashville visits son Paul Codd who has enlisted and leaves for Salt Lake City. Mrs Fred Wonderlich and Audrey return from Des Moines. Miss Blanche Morriss and Miss St John visit Ottumwa. Churchgoers travel to Packwood for services. Rev Polly speaks and choir sings. Mrs George Ball hears Olive Graber, nurse in France, is on front duty. Mrs H L Rawlings of Denver visits H L Stephson home. Harry Lynn and family start Wyoming automobile trip. Mrs Jeff Watkins of Lockridge visits. Dr Idna Miller visits Packwood. A O Harper family returns to Wichita after extended stay. Mrs 8 S Biddle and Evelyn visit Libertyville. Erma Culp also there. Leslie Daggett returns to Camp Cody after visit. Mrs Clarence Murphy of Lockridge visits. Mrs George Rigor and son and Mr Beasie Double and daughter of Glendale stay with Bert Rizer. Red Cross Garment Shop opens Tuesday afternoon. workers needed. Karl A Larson of Lockridge and Ray L Carlson of Fairfield head to Jefferson Barracks, Mo. Exemption Board reports no transfers for first-class workers under the work or fight rule.
The Salvation Army War Fund campaign closes and all unpaid subscriptions should be settled at once. Within a day or two letters will be mailed to those whose pledges remain unpaid. The committee asks subscribers to minimize postage and collecting expenses.
Des Moines reports a draft expansion could push 25 000 Iowa men into registration if Congress extends the draft age to 18 through 45. The 1915 Iowa census lists 440 000 men aged 21 to 45 and 65 000 aged 18 to 21. From these totals, subtract 216 299 registrants from 1917 and later voluntary enlistments.
In Dubuque Iowa reports indicate only three infantile paralysis cases in the past week and most patients are released from quarantine. State health officials will lift strict quarantine rules allowing uninvolved residents to leave the city with inter state permits as required. Local notices mention visitors from Pittsburgh and visits by Camp Cody serviceman Leonard Greenfield between travel and social visits. A wagon accident left William Woolsey's younger son with a broken arm during a picnic. Others passing through include Earl Daggett Jaque Adams and Fred Gainer from Chicago visiting relatives.
Wallace Reed star in The House of Silence at Fairfield Theater tomorrow evening. Ann Little appears beside him in a Paramount drama about a wealthy amateur Sherlock Holmes pursuing a murder in a mysterious dwelling. A jury like plot and dramatic turns drive the tale from a Turnbull novel.
Mrs N J Anderson died Saturday evening at 6 at her home eight miles south of the city after months of brain tumor illness. Born Anna C Johnson in Sweden October 13 1866 she moved to Kansas at age 12 and married N J Anderson February 6 1887 in Osage Kansas. Survived by children Judith Smith C H Fisher Roy A Anderson Clarence M Anderson Elmer E Anderson Leonard Oliver Myrtle and four grandchildren plus brothers and sisters. No funeral arrangements yet.
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