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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1917
Page
3
Local briefs report Prof. EE Watson returning from Atlantic duties and numerous residents planning tied trips to Denver Des Moines and Birmingham. Mentions include visitors from Ottumwa Perie Neb Monmouth IL and Ames with Health hospital visits and state fair attendance.
In society notes Mr and Mrs Leo Blough entertained sixteen relatives and friends at their West Burlington home in honor of Miss Helen Blough of Winifred Montana. Also announced is an indoor I A U lodge picnic at the hall Wednesday evening for members and families with a bring your own sandwiches policy and a social evening planned.
E. J. Eisenhart will tune pianos in Fairfield from August 27 to September 5. Leave orders at Leggett House or local music store. 91 im.
Graduate nurse Miss Nellie Williams has moved to rooms at the Fayette Spencer home and can be reached at phone 1492. She remains in Fairfield and will practice nursing in this vicinity.
All residents who want their street oiled must sign a petition by a majority of the property owners on that street and file it at the City Clerk Paul Coleson’s office.
The text lists monthly and weekly meeting days for several unions. It notes Union Labor Meetings on each month, Trades and Labor Assembly on the second and last Fridays, Federal Labor Unions on Wednesdays, Barbers Local No 368 on the third Monday, Carpenters Local No 1804 on the first and third Tuesdays, and Cigar Makers Local No 490 on the first Monday.
The Orpheum screens the Lasky Paramount photodrama The Jaguar's Claws from W M McCoy story. Sessue Hayakawa plays a merciless Mexican bandit who captures two American girls and an oil field manager. The film markets a dramatic moral dilemma amid filming in the story’s interior.
Des Moines IA August 25 Second regiment troops move to Camp Cody New Mexico assembling at Connell Bluffs Des Moines for Des Moines concentration Council Bluffs for Companies H L and sanitary detachment Sioux City Ida Grove Sheldon LeMars Cherokee K Mason City Des Moines Webster City Eagle Grove Ames Fort Dodge and others The First regiment remains at Camp Dodge awaiting orders likely to remain to train drafted men to guard their camp before moving to Deming.
L M Dorreen of Akron Iowa will lecture on Oddfellowship at the Methodist church Tuesday evening September fourth. The speaker is described as able and expected to draw a large crowd to hear him.
Immediate opening for a fireman at Iowa Electric Co plant. Apply at once to R. H. Gentry, at the plant, 126.
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