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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1917
Page
3
Mrs. O'Brien and daughter Sara visit Burlington while several neighbors join Chautauqua events and entertainments. Others travel to Mt. Pleasant Peoria and Osceola, with updates on family visits and new postings such as Avery school superintendent election.
The local exemption board continues reviewing claims from the second group of 80 examined Tuesday. About 70 of the 228 called so far are expected to be certified to the district board, with 12 to 15 more needed to fill the quota and only one noncombatant claim approved. Many Mennonites Dunkards and Quakers appear among the exemptions in neighboring counties.
J Eisenhart schedules piano tuning in Fairfield from August 27 to September 5. Leave orders at Leggett House or local music store. Contact FB for arrangements.
The Fairfield Board of Education announces the opening of schools on the first Monday of September after repairs to Fair field school buildings. The City Superintendent office hours are 8:00 to 12:00 and 1:00 to 5:00 at the High School Building for new entrants and transfers.
The notice lists a Chau tauqua Park picnic for church choir members families music pupils and bands plus music lovers with guests from the Chicago Operatic Company. A Builders' Bible Class picnic is planned for Chautauqua Park tomorrow evening. Roy Keltner leaves for Colfax for several weeks of treatment. George J Gould Jr of Lakewood, N J, is rejected by the draft exemption board as physically unfit in Toms River New Jersey.
Miss Nellie Williams graduate nurse has moved to rooms at the Fayette Spencer home and can be reached by phone 1492. She will remain in Fairfield and practice nursing in this vicinity.
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