Local Briefs Show Wide Circle of City Visitors
Miss Sadie McClain visits the city from Libertyville while Roy Castile Arthur Lenhart and Roy Anderson travel to Rome on a business trip. A son Earl born to Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Kafka. Various locals visit relatives in Mt Pleasant Cedar Rapids Chicago Ottumwa Boulder Colo Culver Ind Batavia Monmouth and Burlington. A marriage license issued to William McPeek and Florence Humphries. The Methodist Official Board meets tonight. Mrs. Despain dies in Springfield and funeral arrangements follow in Burlington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Castile
Arthur Lenhart
Roy Anderson
Rome
William A. McPeek
Florence Humphries
George Despain
Springfield
Burlington
William Despain
Local briefs note travels and visits across states
Charles Norvell returns home from a Seymour business trip. Anna Campbell heads to Cleveland to resume YWCA work. Robert Templeton family from Eldorado Kansas visit W C Ball before Illinois trip. Maggie Mixer of Tekamah visits. Elsie Bucher visits Birmingham. Henry Nott of Gravity visits. W H George to Des Moines then North Dakota. Wade returns from Chicago Mackinaw Island trip. Forest Daviness recovering from appendicitis. Quester Johnson returns from Rome Burlington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Templeton
Eldorado, Kansas
W. C. Ball
Illinois
Limited Service Men Report to Camp Dodge for August Movement
Des Moines August 19 two hundred fifty Iowa draft registrants with physical defects will report at Camp Dodge over Aug 30 to Aug 25 for limited service only. White men only. local boards supply two to four men each. Negroes allotted from 83 to 38 in class one, with 38 remaining. all will go Aug 22 to 25.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Camp Dodge
A. B. Carrol Visits City Daughter in Fairfield
A. B. Carrol of Oak Park BL brother of former Governor B. F. Carrol and former publisher of the Fairfield Daily Journal visits his daughter Mrs. Clifford Thoma. He recalls schooldays with Gen. Pershing and R. B. Louden in Kirksville Missouri and knew Pershing’s sister Bessie Pershing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. B. Carrol
Oak Park, BL
Clifford Thoma
B. F. Carrol
Fairfield Daily Journal
Carrol
Gen. Pershing
R. B. Louden
Kirksville
Bessie Pershing
Americans Asked To Limit Use Of Sugar
The U S Food Administration asks every American to limit sugar to two pounds per month until January 1 1919 to ensure supplies for Allied needs. Sugar sources including Cuban beet and Louisiana cane will be drawn on. October beet sugar and November cane crops will enter markets as part of efforts to preserve the national ration and support allied requirements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Food Administration
The
Food Administration
Louisiana
United States
Porto Rico
Java
Urge Advance on Irkutsk by Allied Forces
General Diedrichs, commander of the Czecho-Slovak forces in Siberia, presents a memorandum to allied representatives urging a rapid large scale advance on Irkutsk. He warns that failing to reach Irkutsk within six weeks could mean loss of Western Siberia to the Czecho-Slovaks and leave Russia at German mercy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vladivostok
Diedrichs
Siberia
Irkutsk
Trkutsk
Russia
Old Settlers Seek Civil War Uniforms for Exhibit
The Old Settlers association invites Civil War veterans and families to lend uniforms overcoats or guns for display at the September 12 celebration. Donated items will be preserved in a Jefferson County library glass case under chairman Crane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Settlers
Old Settlers’ Association
Jefferson County
Crane
Fairfield College closes successful term
Prof. J. W. Howard of Fairfield Business College and Select Private School announced the term ended last Friday. The fall term will be announced in the Journal tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Howard
Fairfield Business College
Select
Food Shipments to Allies Rise as U.S. Feeds War Effort
Meat and fat shipments increase by 844,600,000 pounds while wheat exports reach 141,000,000 bushels. Hoover credits voluntary conservation and labor across American society for delivering $1.4 billion in food to Allies and U.S. forces during 1917-18 amid domestic shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Hoover
Wilson
Food Administration
Wis
Wheat and rye exports rise in 1917 18 shipments
Exports to Allied destinations in 1917 18 show 131 000 000 bushels of wheat and 13 900 000 bushels of rye totaling 144 900 000 bushels. For 1916 17 Allied exports were 155 100 000 bushels of wheat and 2 200 000 bushels of rye totaling 137 400 000 bushels. About 10 000 000 bushels of 1917 wheat remain in port.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eeees
Stop Egg Waste to Save Millions
United States Food Administrator J F Deems requires every wholesaler of eggs who sells to others than consumers to obtain a license and count all eggs purchased. The rule aims to curb shipment of bad eggs, saving money and space and encouraging producers to gather eggs regularly and follow related regulations for a larger crop and higher profits. The policy is based on Iowa state law and enforced with cooperation from the state dairy and food commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
J. F. Dees
Deems
Food Administration
Iowa
State Dairy and Food Connesion
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Nile
Fiontiseland
Sadie McClain
Libertyville
City
Vincent Kafka
Earl
Helen Beatty
Mt. Pleasant
Mrs
William Beatty
Claude Holcomb
Cedar Rapids
Emry Clinkinbaerd
Chicago
Mary Louise Gossick
Boulder, Colo
W. T. Atwood
Mary Jane McGaw
Ottumwa
L. O. Gaines
Culver
Ind
Hayette
Fred Wilson
Paul
Kathryn
Batavia
H. E. Snyder
Clark Gossick
Meadville, Mo
Delmer Frazey
Salt Creek, Wyo
A. V. Frazey
Calvin Hoskins
Sioux City
Omaha
Bert Parret
Monmouth
Mamie Droz
Bernice Leathers
B. W. Johnson
Mies LaRue Fisher
Manley Cavines
Afton
Arthur Fourt
Camp Grant, Il
Mre
Frank Fourt
Methodist Church
Charles Norvell
Seymour
Anna Campbell
Cleveland
Ohio
Maggie Mixer
Tekamah, Neb
Elsie Bucher
Birmingham
Henry Nott
Gravity
W. H. George
Mrs. C. W. Wade
Mackinaw Island
Forest Daviness
Jefferson County Hospital
Quester Johnson
Pershing
Loudin
Europe
Select Picture Co
Norma Talmadge
Storm County
Paramount Picture Corp. Presents
Billie Burke
Bluebird Photoplay Company
Mae Murray
Fox Film Company
Ralph Lewis
Paramount Picture Corp
Dorothy Dalton
Carmel Myers
America
Stewart
ROBE
Evan’s
Star Garage
Leggett
Formu
Brassieres
W .B. Forma
W. B
W.b. Reduso
New York
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