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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1917
Page
2
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Postal service records show mail matter classified as second class at the Fairfield Post Office Iowa. The fragment indicates a formal designation of mail category within local mail handling procedures.
Prof C W Mountain directs a large mixed chorus at Albia with Fairfield and Parsons College contestants. The event awards a 200 dollar chief prize and gold medals, with multiple individual honors including Margaret White, Marjorie Haight and Robert Israel for solo and instrumental performances.
Local residents visit relatives and return home while many travelers relocate for work and study. Workers change jobs, births are reported, and visitors from Ottumwa Glasgow Keota Rockford Des Moines Camp Dodge visit. A prize chorus wins and a silver Loving Cup is awarded to Fairfield with display planned at Snyder's jeweler.
John Ciesielski from Pleasant Plain received life imprisonment at Anamosa after pleading guilty to obstructing a railway with spikes on the Rock Island line. Judge F M Hunter suspended the sentence and paroled him to Frank Peck of Penn township on good behavior, with monthly written reports on conduct and whereabouts.
An Elks Memorial service will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:59 in the Elks rooms. Members with families and friends are invited. Fairfield Lodge No. 1192 has arranged an elaborate musical program and will have Attorney R. C. Leggett deliver the memorial tribute.
Judge F. M. Hunter ruled Rev. F. A. Heilman’s Christian corporation will not be dissolved. Heilman, an evangelist, had used donated funds to build a residence, a move accepted by stockholders amid claims the entity was for profit and Batavia residents showed strong interest.
London dispatch reports German forces ceased attacks on the Cambria sector as British forces maintain all captured positions.
Paris reports that French forces repelled two violent German assaults near Verdun. The afternoon notes Thanksgiving events with Misses Anna and Lucy Mille at the John Kyle home in Perlee. Visits include Mrs. RC Leggett returning from a trip with paints in Burlington and others in Libertyville Ottawa Pella Rockford.
The American Red Cross has announced that graduate nurses from Jefferson County Hospital are eligible to become Red Cross nurses. Previously only nurses from hospitals with a daily average of 50 patients qualified. The decision elevates the hospital’s training to national standards and honors its superintendent.
Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Moore of Lib ertyville are city visitors today. Mrs. Rollie Stewart of Chicago is visiting at the S. 8. Stewart and J. E. Bowermaster homes. Mrs. Robert Tierney of Ottumwa spent Thanksgiving at her daughter Mrs. Ralph W. Gilmer's home.
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