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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1916
Page
7
Libertyville residents will see Chas Lowe, renowned landscape painter, demonstrate live at the Mc Laughlin furniture store starting tomorrow. The demonstration will be brief, highlighting Lowe's painting technique and work.
The Fairfield Retail Merchants Association holds its monthly meeting Thursday at 8.0 pm. Yeoman homestead women discuss suffrage Tuesday at Yeo wat hall. Fancy work sale Saturday at Pattern Hat Shop by Mrs Edith Gilly. L L G club hosted by Mrs G F Swanson Friday afternoon with light refreshments after. Neighbors entertain and travel notes as various residents visit relatives in Moline Ottumwa Des Moines and Oklahoma. Milk sale offer at J L King fourteen quarts for one dollar.
Mrs Wm Vogel and daughter visit relatives in Brighton and Mrs Ernest Jericho of Moline Illinois visits her mother Mrs Mary A Bradshaw. S G Gaumer remains critical at home on West Briggs after paralysis. Mrs Ollie Smith and Mrs Maud Koons of Batavia visit. Keota residents George Cupp family plan to reside here. I Simons returns to Boneparte after visit with son O J Simons. Evergreen Lodge D of H meets tomorrow at 7 30 pm with officer elections and other business. all members urged to attend.
Local brief notes list residents from Pleasant Plain Colum bus Junction Libertyville and Winfield visiting Ottumwa Bloomfield and Mt. Pleasant. A death in the Washington area is reported as C H Edwards aged forty with a widow two children and extended family in the county.
KF A U lodge selects officers including Rolla Knott as President and Ida J Stephenson as Secretary. Other posts filled by H C Cordes O D Lyons Catherine Lewis Daisy Van Tassel Myrtle Barnett Frank Simmons Flo Flder Walt Edwards Arthur Barnett John K Bowermaster Hugh Elder. Social dances are held every Wednesday and Saturday.
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