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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1918
Page
6
Public notice lists carrier rates and delivery months with prepaid options. It states 40 quarterly quarters per year and 1.25 for quarter months in advance, plus 1.00 for mail orders. Post office address at Fair-Pelatowa lists mail matter at ten cents in official notice.
Canning guidance explains preserving via living organisms and sealing. It discusses sugar use, substitutes, and steps to sterilize and seal jams, jellies, and fruits with advice to minimize sugar and use light syrups, half sugar half corn syrup, and drying fruits where possible.
Early in spring United States Food Administrator J F Deems of Burlington asked Iowa women to double their home canning and preserving. The campaign, led by Mies Neale Knowles and Catharine Mackay, promotes sugar free canning, communal kitchens, fruit exchanges, and preserving wild fruits to support soldiers and conserve food and reduce purchases of commercially canned goods.
In France Aug 16 the French army commander praised American troops for their ardor during the Picardy offensive alongside the French in the region. The remark came in a briefing to reporters.
The Orpheum Theater announces a free week starting August 19 with away passes and a souvenir photo of all leading stores. A weekly program will be attached for attendees to pick up each week.
Fairfield residents learn Rainbow division soldiers are all well through a cable to Mrs. J. D. Ebert. The message from Sergeant Verne Bert confirms Fairfield’s J. Verne Bert in Company M France is safe and in contact with home. Parents and relatives of the unit feel relieved by the update amid ongoing battle reports. Soldiers likely at a rest camp back from the front.
List of individuals including Morris J. Bullock John E Copeland Leo J Fritz Mahlon D McCormick Joseph F Drywark Michael R Bloomquist Glen C Larson Harold R Pence Harold H Burg James T Baugher Wm J Simmons Wm B Huddleston Clarence R Laughridge James E Crafton Bemass D Nordquist Vernie Wright Maynard E Ellmore Archer Reighard Loyd E Heston Raymond J Kessel Fred M Raney Harold C Messer Ives McKay Wm McDonald Wm B Helfenstine Daniel Ww Saner John E Parsons Harry 8 Bagdy Ralph E Smith Clarence E Lander Van T Lawson Clarence W Hamilton Ernest L Lundquist Clarence M Blough Guy V Gillian Fred Spray Francis Benda Fay A Champ Fred L Gallup Clarence W Finney Bernard E O Neil John Campbell John B Tagioreur Ray W Jacobs Noble Fines Carl VY Arama Frank Emon Earl Martin Laurence J Fritz Victor D Leech
A presidential proclamation clears about 15 050 acres of grazing and agricultural land in New Mexico from the Lincoln National Forest. The lands become subject to entry October 9 and disposition October 16, with homestead rights restored prior to settlement.
Day Hunt returns from Chicago business trip while Walter Lewis of Des Moines visits Fred Comingore and John Duncan returns from St. Louis. Mr and Mrs John Du Baly and Mr and Mrs Marvin Humphrey travel to Mr Pleasant for Henry county fair. Mrs GL James learns sister Zelpha Kamp, stationed at Fort Des Moines hospital, and 19 nurses are departing overseas today.
A weekly giveaway runs in August offering a souvenir photo of all leading stars with the weekly program attached. Collectors can obtain one photo each week during the promotional period.
In Mt. Pleasant Henry county fair attendees Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Shriner. Edith C. Grove and William D. Rbynas of Stockton were married at the Methodist parsonage by Rev. W. R. Keesey with only witnesses present. Mrs. Victor Bates hosted the Non Seista Club on West Jackson, sewing for the Red Cross and voting to serve no refreshments at meetings.
Dr Edwin A Schell resigns as president of Iowa Wesleyan to join Red Cross chaplaincy and sail for France mid September. Rev J H Krenmyre, North English Methodist pastor and Wesleyan alumnus, is chosen to supervise field work and spearhead a large enrollment drive aimed at 150 trainees with growing interest from high school graduates and girls. He will oversee the campaign while a successor is sought.
Washington reports Corporal Ralph H. Salts of Co. M Rainbow division wounded in action on July 15 in the Soissons Rheims sector. The Fairfield Iowa native, 23, married Eva Franz May 2 1917 and has a newborn son unseen by his father. Mrs. Salts in Fairfield awaits further word as officials with Adjutant General confirm the injuries.
Iowa prepares to mobilize 240 men under the limited service plan announced by Provost Marshal General Cyrondor. Enlistments span Camp Dodge Camp Greene Camp Upton and other posts with most states assigning recruits to Dodge or Greene and Up ton for training and eventual deployment.
Weather permitting street services will be held this evening at 8 oclock with three teams and speakers listed. Attendees are invited near their homes to attend at designated corners in Adams West Grimes East Lowe and nearby locations.
Amsterdam reports the murder of Kerr Von Senghusch, a Gere Min official at Wonden, Russia, with the killer escaped. The note marks the fourth in a string of German official killings in Russia, following the deaths of Count Von Mirhach in Moscow and Von Riehorn and his aide in Ukrainna. Wonden lies in Livonia, northeast of Riga.
United States Senator Jamen Patallton Lewis arrived in Paris and planned to visit General Derewingy. He intended to inspect the American front and discuss Allied coordination.
The report notes Nira and Skeffington in exile after deportation from Trelynd. Tandon and Ane 16 Mrs Sheehy Snetineton are mentioned as released from gateway prishy where they were detained. Authorities denied a permit to proceed to Tegland.
A local promotion announces a free souvenir giveaway every week starting the week of August nineteen. Citizens are invited to collect a new keepsake as part of the ongoing program and build a small, valued collection.
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