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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1917
Page
2
The notice lists MEAN TAYLOR a W TAYLOR as editor and manager and marks the document as mail matter of the second class entered at the Fatnai Post Office Iowa.
Fairfield lodge No. 1199 B P O E held a memorial service on Sunday afternoon. The program included preludes, religious pieces, a memorial address by Richard C. Leggett, and musical selections by quartets and soloists.
Harold McNeese age 13 son of Mr and Mrs Harry McNeese suffered a bad eye injury when a peroxide bottle exploded in a bonfire and glass shards struck him. He was taken to the Hospital and it will be days before the eye sight can be determined.
A battery meeting is held at the Armory this evening at 7 30. All who signed up or are interested in this branch of the service are urged to attend as important business will be discussed.
Washington outlines the first wartime move to curb nonessential industry by giving preferred coal shipments to government orders railway fuel household needs public utilities steel plants coke ovens and munitions plants. Fuel Administrator Garfield says the aim is to assure essential military and economic needs are met amid a large 10 million ton surplus and a radical shift in distribution.
Reinforced Turkish armies mount attacks on British positions northwest of Jerusalem but are repulsed with heavy losses. In Buenos Aires, Swedish Envoy Baron Lowen departs after a brief visit, with note of cipher messages involving German ministers and Argentina.
Robert Goldstein author and producer of a motion picture seized last night was arrested on a federal warrant in Los Angeles charging producing a publication tending to cause disloyalty and mutiny among the U S armed forces. The film depicted the American war of independence and is alleged to violate the UK espionage act.
Sheriff Shan Campbell and Ab. Holly located the offender and the car after a collision east of What Cheer last week. Holly, living three miles west of What Cheer, traveled with the sheriff to retrieve the man and vehicle this morning.
Dr W S Bovard of Chicago spoke at the Iowa Conference campaign urging 5 000 more men in Sunday schools. He criticized solemn religious poses and urged natural faith and healthy Christianity. An oyster supper preceded the talks and a Sunday afternoon conference for Sunday school workers outlined plans to raise Sunday school enrollment by fifteen percent.
Mrs Elizabeth Ireland is very ill. Roy Stansberry resumes work after illness. Col W G Wilson visits before joining his regiment. Rev C T McCampbell ill with pneumonia. Mr and Mrs C J Gavin visit relatives in Mr Pleasant. Geraldine Roberts returns to Ank ney for school after vacation. Banfield and Kamp attend The Garden of Allah in Ottumwa. O Connor sisters visit Melrose. Roy Spence returns from Davenport. Bertha Murphy visits Verle Frazey Home and returns to Lockridge. Everett and Agnes Speer visit Ankney. Gaines Woelfhat Edwards and Danielson attend The Garden of Allah in Ottumwa. Clarence Roths return to Independence Kansas after visit. Fred Stansberry and two sons visit Libertyville. A T Brom returns to Des Moines after days with daughter. Edward Roth and Mrs Roth to Tulsa. A F Greet visits Ottumwa. Myers Grocery Co suspends business and plans packing and shipping. Lost Between Tribune office and Hawkeye Pump Co, ladies brown bag. Return to Tribune office 707.
Local brief items list residents and visitors including Glen Whitmer of Wahlington Iowa in Montana. Miss Anna Roth and Miss Eulalia Doller in Ottawat ow. Misses Marie Allison Elizabeth Harreld Goldie Aldrich in Burlington. Lieut E E Rorick on furlough from Ft Snelling. Frank KE Sheehy buying property in the city. Miss Borea Grinstead at Ottumwa for a play. Olive K Graber Dr F J Graber Mrs Polkhoff in Ball family. C R McKeen visiting Trenton Mo. Paul Ferrer Clair Monson Ruth Nelson Katherine Leonard in Ottumwa for a play. Calvin Doughty improving in Boston naval hospital. Mrs C A Emry visiting Mt Pleasant.
Acting on the Iowa council of the American Bar association, President Wilson confirms 297 Iowa attorneys and judges to county legal advisory boards for selective service. Each county boards has three members, serving as permanent advisers to assist registrants with affidavits and related papers at local board sessions. In Jefferson county, the chairman is J. S. McKenney with R. C. Leggett and W. G. Ress, all of Fairfield.
McCord Chapter No 5 schedules a special meeting Tuesday at 7 30 p m to confer the M M and P M degree all Royal Arch Masons urged to attend Royal Arch Degree Friday December 7th
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