Local News Briefs From Brighton and Surrounding Cities
Local brief notes list residents visiting in the city, attending funerals, or traveling to nearby towns. Names include Calvin Hoskins, Rollie Millhouse, Carl Riggs, B F Brinton, Mrs Thomas Cline, F Phillips, Frank Mowery, Will Dyer, Mrs Ivan Ipsam, Miss Margaret Bishop, Theodore Despain, Ethel Gorman, Helen Droz, Bessie Buchanan, Mrs Will Gosick, Charles Jordan, Salt Creek Wyoming travelers, and others. A marriage license was issued to G C Peterson and Ruth May Krumboltz.
Fairfield Soldier Loren Goddard Wounded Twice in War
Loren S Goddard of Fairfield, a member of Company M, was wounded again by the Huns during World War I. A letter to his sister from Davenport reports he is in a hospital and feeling well. His family has multiple members in service, including another son at Deming and stepson Harry Jolly wounded in March.
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Fairfield
Co. M
S. E. Goddard
Loren S. Goddard
Marie
Davenport
Rainbow Division
Goddard
Red Cross
Deming
Harry Jolly
Jolly
France
Standardizing Camp Shows Aims to Unite Liberty Theaters
New York aug 22 liberty theater stages in training camps nationwide will be standardized to unite the two liberty theater circuits and book same attractions, announced by the theater division of the war department commission on training activities.
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New York
Liberty Theater
Theater Division
War Department Commission On Training
Piano Tuning Availability in Fairfield
Piano tuning services offered in Fairfield from August 26 to September 4. Leave orders at Leggett House or Scheffel's music store, or with E. J. Elsenhart. 961.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairfield
Leggett House
Scheffel’s
E. J. Elsenhart
Tyrant Fear at the Orpheum Tomorrow
Dorothy Dalton stars in Tyrant Fear a Paramount photoplay set in the far north at the Orpheum tomorrow Thos H Ince production Allaine Gran det a Canadian girl endures a trapper s mistreatment and a dive keeper s advances before finding courage and love with a pianist Dane the escape ends with the trapper s killer found dead in a snow drift
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Dorothy Dalton
Paramount
Far North
Orpheum
Thos. H. Ince
Miss Dalton
Allaine Grandet
Allaine
Dane
Yanks Guard Russ Railway In Siberia Action
Vladivostok Aug 22 The American commander in Siberia is setting troops to occupy key points on the railway between Vladivostok and Nikolsk to release hundreds of Czech Slovaks for service on the Ussuri front following Dietrichs request.
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Vladivostok
Dietrichs
Siberia
Nikolsk
Khabarovsk
Ussuri
U S Surprise to Allies Say British Leader
London Aug 22 Lord Reaize British ambassador to the United States praised America’s entry into the war saying it removed doubts fears of victory for the allies and that America has taken a splendid part swiftly at a luncheon club address.
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London
America
Lord Reaéize
United States
Largest aerial gunnery school at Fort Worth set to open
Major Thorne Decel, commander of a Calia ferro field, won approval to lease 11 000 acres near three aviation fields for a new aerial gunnery range. Targets and equipment are installed, and it will be the largest in the world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Tex
Thorne Decel
Caliaferro
Washington
County Price Interpreting Committee Names Members
Authorized by the Food Administration W. C. Spaulding H. C. Erickson Walter Burns k Officio J. H. Stuckey Dean Taylor name the members of the County Price Interpreting Committee. The notice lists officials and assigns ex officio status to some participants.
Kaiser Sees Revolt Fears In Germany Orders Known
British dispatch from France reports German leaders growing uneasy about a domestic revolution. Captured orders from General Ludendorff urge officers to stamp out dissident talk and to search leavee clothing, while notes from a Forty first division chief of staff demand strict obedience and even force. An additional order condemns burial of a downed German plane as unworthy.
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France
Germany
Ludendorff
Rhenish Westphalia
Forty-first Infantry Division
Four Deserters Sentenced to Five Years Each
Four men convicted of desertion from the army have been sentenced to five years at hard labor in the Leavenworth penitentiary. Named are Jesse F. Ulckely C. C. Blakely Veo D. Martin and John W. Penrod.
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Little Rock
Ark
Federal Penitentiary
Leavenworth
Kaw
Jesse F. Ulckely
C. C. Blakely
Veo D. Martin
John W. Penrod
Honor for Hoover at Old Iowa Home
West Branch plans Hoover day this fall with Lewis Albin as committee chairman. Governor Harding and other eminent men will attend. J. F. Deems of Burlington invited to help. Hoover, born in West Branch forty four years ago, pursued mining and education across the globe and served as U S food administrator in 1917.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Towa
Herbert Hoover
West Branch
Lewis Albin
Governor Harding
J. F. Deems
Burlington
Mr. Hoover
San Francisco
Leland-Stanford University
West
Australia
Belgium
United States
Fairs to Enforce Sugar Rules on Grounds Stands
The food administration extends hotel rules to all fair grounds stands in Towa. Sugar for drinks is cut to two pounds per 90 meals, sugar bowls must be removed, and sugar requests go to W. T. McElroy, Ottumwa. Beef and wheat flour regulations similarly apply.
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the Food Administration
Towa
W. T. McElroy
Ottumwa
Bureau of Labor Stats Launches Cost of Living Inquiry
The bureau begins a nationwide study with six agents in Baltimore calling on representative families to collect data on annual expenditures for food clothing housing fuel furniture and miscellaneous items to aid wage adjustments.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Baltimore
Notice from Reuben Gil Bert to customers
A brief city notice from Reuben Gil Bert stating he will be away briefly but his wagon will continue serving customers and inviting readers to use Classified Ads for selling renting or trading to get results.
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Reuben Gil
Bert
Iowa Revenue Tax Reduction Reported by County Auditor
County Auditor A C Turmer Beam reports the state tax levy for 191%, noting a general revenue tax of 6.25 and a capital extension tax, with a reduction of one mill over last year in general revenue for the state.
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A. C. Turtmer Beam
Siva
General Revenue Fm
Also Mentioned on This Page
Calvin Hoskins
Brighton
Rollie Millhouse
Carl Riggs
Liberyville
City
B. F. Brinton
Homer Brinton
Thomas Cline
Glasgow
F. Phillips
Birmingham
P. H. Fisher
Frank Mowery
Abingdon
Will Dyer
W. N. Gosick
Ivan Ipsam
Margaret Bishop
Rock Island
Theodore Despain
Ethel Gorman
Helen Droz
Batavia
Rebecca Teeter
Floyd Smith
Walier
Mont
W. R. Smith
Bessie Buchanan
Des Moines
Alice Clinkinbeard
Will Gosick
Charles Jordan
Charles Cummings
Reuben Gilbert
Delmer Frazey
Salt Creek
Wyoming
Joe Despain
George Despain
Harry C. Bollen
Mound City, Kan
G. C. Peterson
Ruth May Krumboltz
East Pleasant Plain
Torrance
Eau Claire
Wis
Harry Wotten
Mound City
Kan
Jefferson County Hospital
Verna Doberman
Wyconda
P. J. Brady
Mrs. C. Hareman
Taylor
Mr. Harman
Ottumwa Hospital
War Department
Yanks Guard Russ Railway
U. S
Lord Reading
County Price Interpreting Committee
W. C. Spaulding, H. C. Erickson
Walter Burns
K Officio
J. H. Stuckey
Dean Taylor
J. S. McKenney
Ray Maxwell
Louis White
E. C Fligg
C. W. Wade
Victory
Navy
Yeese
Fener
Kaiser
Prussian Ministry of War
Eval Eae
Nae Ee
Hoover
Old Iowa
DEEMS
Bureau of Labor
First Congregational
Newton
Iowa
Swanson Bros
Alta Vista Ave
Ottumwa, IA
Tam Gee
Gaumer Bros
Kodak
Gammer Bros
A. W. Switzer
Third Street
John T. Davies
George P. Loesch, L. E
Burlington St
Fey Mye
Bidak
Perse
ST. Paul
W. A. Blair
Minneapolis
Northern Steamboat Co
F. D. Kerrick
Furst Door
Tribune
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