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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1917
Page
6
An entry notes mail matter of the second class registered at the Fair Geld Iowa post office. The fragment indicates formal classification for postal processing and delivery as part of official notices in the source.
Terms of subscription by Carrieroeeee offering three months for 26 se 88 and four months in advance by mail 1.09 dollars 1.00 four months. Report irregularities in carrier service promptly. Telephone No. 23.
Company M baseball tossers extend their winning gait by defeating Co B of Waterloo 23 to 2 in Des Moines. Only two games lost since organization, with wins in the early season.
China officially declares war on Germany and Austria-Hungary, with the declaration dated from 10 o clock Tuesday morning. Washington reports receiving notice from Pekin via cable dispatches to the Chinese legations confirming the declaration.
Chicago August 15 Illinois National Guard officers Brig. Gen. D Jack Foster and Brig. Gen. Henry R Hill receive brigadier general appointments. Regular army colonels Col W J Nicholson of Fort Sheridan and Col W C Lanefitt of the Third Regiment of Reserve Engineers also elevated.
Chicago August 15 hogs surged to a top of 17.75 a hundredweight as Canadian buyers enter a tight market for 199 pound hogs. Dealers predict further gains with a possible move toward 18 a hundredweight as Canadian demand drains supply.
A British destroyer was sunk by a mine in the North Sea. The captain, two officers and forty three men were saved. In the House of Commons it was announced that 9 748 lives were lost on British merchantmen from the war's start to June 30 1917. 3828 were passengers with the rest officers or seamen.
Public notice lists August 17 and 18 exam sessions at the court house with a full schedule of reading grammar history spelling arithmetic civics writing geography and music. Students with partial days must attend opening sessions and those with Saturday afternoon subjects should come at 12 30 to finish in time for the Declamatory Contest at Chautauqua. Also offered is spring chickens and cucumber pickles by C J Fray.
The John Robinson circus, oldest tented outfit, arrives at Fairfield Fair Grounds for two performances today. The troupe arrives in three train sections, brings 500 horses and four herds of elephants, plus about 100 cages of animals, adding around 1 000 residents to the population for the stay.
Graduates gathered at Miss Florence Roth’s East Burlington home for a pink and white dinner before attending Mischa Elman at Chautauqua Park. Notables from Des Moines Dallas Chariton Kirksville and Chicago visited, with plans for an afternoon picnic and Kitties Band concert at the park. Charles Brodie of Kirksville will rejoin T. E. McLean jewelry later this fall.
Canadian Kitties open the regular Chautauqua program this afternoon and evening. Tomorrow's schedule lists morning lectures, a round table, Hawaiian singers, band concert, and an illustrated lecture on wild animals in captivity.
An enthusiastic audience at the Chautauqua auditorium welcomed Mischa Elman the famed violinist with an encore after each number assisted by Phillip Gordon at the piano. The Canadian Kitties band and a varied program drew large crowds with vocal and instrumental solos. Workers erected 22 tents for the John Robinson circus with 375 performers and a grand hippodrome opening at two o clock.
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