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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1918
Page
7
Local brief notes show residents visiting relatives and attending events. Names include Frank and E. Rasmus, Clarence Bates, Lucas, Louden, Lamberson, Hammon, Flinspach, Banfield, Doughty, Stoner, Rodgers, Stover, Lawson, Atwood, Mitchell, Wilson, Leech, King, Unkrich, Jones, Vinton, McKee, Norris, Edmonds, Yarnell, and others as they travel to Des Moines, Davenport, Chicago, and state fairs or attend funerals and work trips.
Mr and Mrs Emry Clinkinbeard depart for Chicago to settle there. E 8 Girton goes to Des Moines for the State Fair. Martha Nelson visits Lockridge. Mr and Mrs John Cochran and sons drive to Muscatine. R L McGugin and daughters Esther and Marguerite of Washington visit Mrs Alice Stever. Donald Murdock returns from nine months on a US destroyer for ten days with his parents. Mrs John Gibson and daughter Clarissa of Valley Junction spend weekend with Mrs Alice Stever. Peter Bucher completes threshing season yielding 2600 bushels of oats from 50 acres. Mrs William Swain and daughter Katherine return to Davenport after a visit. Mr and Mrs Ransom Whitmore and daughter Katherine travel with Cephas and Mrs Marie Gantz through Nebraska and Wisconsin. Fairfield Camp No 246 MW A meets at B H Elliott’s office this evening at eight. assistant state deputy will attend. Members urged to attend.
Col E R Bennett notes the 168th Iowa Infantry suffered about 1,200 killed and wounded in the last week of July. He says the brigade is to be relieved soon and that a large casualty list may follow, though the exact breakdown between killed and wounded is not given. The letter was sent from the Ourcy river sector dated August 1.
Pauline Frederick, a leading screen actress, appears tomorrow at the Orpheum in a special feature titled Resurrection. Based on Tolstoy, the film arraigns Russian social and political conditions before the autocracy’s overthrow, with Frederick as Katusha the betrayed Gypsy girl turned Siberian exile.
Brown's Business College Muscatine Iowa announces opening dates September 2 and 8 for the year. Principal M C Colbert invites inquiries for details and notes efforts to raise enrollment.
E J Eisenhart advertises piano tuning in Fairfield with dates August 26 to September 4. Leave orders at the S Gegett house or Scheffel's music shop. Contact 961 for arrangements.
American bombing planes struck in Conflans and two towns on the Cerdun Metz railroad dropping 38 bombs. Ten direct hits were recorded amid three aerial combats in the Woevre region. Lieut Jones reportedly destroyed an albatross over Marre and Lieut Bridgeman engaged two Fokkers.
Washington reports the War Industries Board and car industry officials agree that for the second half of 1918 manufacturers will produce no more than 25 percent of their 1917 annual output. The WIB will grant preference in materials to meet this limit, provided firms subscribe to the board’s priority pledges.
In Owensboro Kentucky a massive blaze destroyed the Green River Distilling company plant and 43 000 barrels of whisky. Whisky valued at 2 840 000 dollars burned from trash piles to warehouses and the still house with burning streams flowing into the Ohio river.
Washington reports three American Marines died and one wounded in a violent engagement with bandits in Seibo province Santo Domingo on August 18. The fallen are Corp Bascome Breeden Archville Tenn Private Russell W Jones Altoona Pa and Private Joseph C Haydel New Orleans.
British and French patrol boats engaged twelve German motorboats off Dun kirk. An admiralty release says one German craft likely sunk while the allies suffered no casualties.
Evansville Indiana reports Arch D Worsham thirty a graduate of the first officers training camp at the University of Chicago and son of the late A J Worsham former mayor of Henderson Kentucky was killed July 51 while leading a command in No Mans Land per received word.
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