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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1918
Page
7
Miss Lela McCleary visits the city while others plan trips to Chicago Columbus City and Des Moines. Examinations, military calls and camp travel stories mix with license news and a canceled Meneley chautauqua.
The 109th ammunition train from Camp Cody, Deming New Mexico, moved east through Fort Madison early this morning en route overseas. Jefferson County men serve on the train, and the city hosted a long-awaited arrival with a one and a half hour stop for families. crowds from Burlington and nearby towns gathered, provided ice cream and watermelons, and awaited official word amid rumor and secrecy.
Killed in action Lieut. Becker F H Waterloo Corp Metzger O C Allison Private Johnson T Decorah Died of wounds Corp Morrow G A Des Moines Privates Carlson E E Fontanelle Johnson E Floyd Wounded severity Sergeants Kidder H P Waukon Priv Langden I B Cedar Rapids Wounded undetermined Corporals Bannenm Fy Edgewood Morrison Geyer L P New Hartford
Senator Borah of Idaho told the National Dental association convention in Chicago that the war effort must continue with more enlistments. He urged depose of the Hohenzollerns and Hapsburgs before lasting peace and advocated open treaties as a wartime goal.
The Merak an 8023 ton American steamer was shelled torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine at 1:50 p m Tuesday about 15 miles northwest of the Diamond Shoal lightship off Cape Hatteras North Carolina. The vessel was unarmed and part of the merchant fleet defending the Atlantic.
A Waterloo correspondent recounts a nephew's baptism of fire on the Marne. Tom King volunteered with 23 others, endured 86 hours on the road and in action, fighting Germans with machine guns and artillery, witnessing heavy casualties, and returning exhausted to camp.
Government use of oil for military purposes ends further oiling this fall. Oil already used is due at the City Clerk's Office and must be paid within thirty days. Charge is 214 cents per lineal foot or 1.48 dollars for a 66 foot lot. Paul Coleson, City Clerk.
British divisions on the Italian front carried eight raids against Austrian positions between Asiago and Caneve on Thursday night and captured 515 prisoners, according to an official war office summary of operations in Italy.
An official French dispatch reports Germany has complete control of Roumania coal through purchases by the Disconto Society of Berlin and the Bleichroder Bank. The deals acquire mines that produce half of Roumania’s total coal output.
Washington reports the house ways and means committee will likely adopt McAdoo’s alternative tax on war profits in the revenue bill aimed at raising eight billion dollars in the current fiscal year. The draft includes doubled tobacco taxes, a horse power tax on auto owners, and a 10 percent levy on lease payments for wires by press associations, newspapers, and brokers. Auto taxes are tiered by horsepower from 25 or less up to over 40, with rates ranging from ten to fifty dollars.
Clara Kimball Young appears at the Orpheum Monday in Elinor Glyn’s The Reason Why. The heroine Yvonne Marinoff disguises as Zara a Russian refugee who marries Lord Tancred after a life of misadventure, confession, and forgiveness.
Floyd V Goodman and Joseph Zaharris will depart for Des Moines on Thursday August 15 in the special call for auto repairers. Passalacqua Battista, sent from Jefferson county in February and stationed at Camp Grant Illinois, has received an honorable discharge and will be sent home.
State law and City Ordinance No. 138 require destruction of all noxious weeds within Fairfield by August 15 to 18 on all land. If not done, the City may destroy the weeds and charge expenses with interest and penalty to the property, collected by the County Treasurer. R. H. Munro, Mayor.
A Sells Floto circus visit to Fairfield next Saturday August 17 features ponies for children among the acts. The article highlights spotted ponies, collie dogs riding ponies, and a playful scene with a baby hippo named Bon who longs to join the ponies.
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