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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1917
Page
10
The notice lists subscription terms and price details including 1.25 and 1.00 and asks readers to report any irregularities in carrier service. It provides telephone number 23 for reports.
Washington D C December 5. The wartime surge in government employment drives Civil Service Commission to recruit tens of thousands more workers. The Ordnance Department employs over two thousand civilians in the Gun Division alone with officers, while manufacturing plants nationwide house about twenty thousand workers now, up from ten thousand last spring. Local civil service examiners are compiling lists of needed stenographers, tradespeople, and technical staff for offices and plants nationwide.
Robert Edeson stars in the Blue Ribbon Feature Fathers of Men at the Fairfield theatre in six parts. He plays both John and Robert Howland, delivering dramatic acting as the open‑country man pursues justice after his wife elopes and his son is hurt. The performance emphasizes his resolve to avenge wrongs and protect family.
The senate adopted without opposition the OverMan resolution suspending until January 1, 1949 that part of the Clayton antitrust law forbidding joint buying agreements by the railroads. This marks the first step toward the railroad unification scheme proposed by the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Winchester December 8 The Winchester school house once serving Van Buren county scholars was burned in the afternoon fire. No pupils were reported injured. Washington Journal Miss Agnes Swift leaves tonight for Fort Worth Texas to work as a nurse at a military base hospital on temporary assignment with the Red Cross Unit R of Southeastern Iowa awaiting call to France.
A Belgian POW in Hardewuk Holland writes to the Louden Machinery Co in Fairfield Iowa seeking catalogs and explanations on agriculture. He explains he helps teach fellow prisoners to rebuild Belgium after the war and asks for postcards or machine samples to aid readings and studies.
Commodore J Stuart Blacton works day and night to adapt Sir Gilbert Parker’s Commodore J Stuart Blacton aims for artistic perfection in the film of The Judgment House. The feature will premiere at the Orpheum on Monday December 10 and Tuesday December 11.
The Fairfield Rebekah Lodge No. 96 will meet next Monday evening with initiation and members asked to bring bread and butter sandwiches. Mrs D F Spratt hosts the O E S Club Tuesday afternoon at her East Burlington home with cordial invitations. The Bulu Pageant under Mrs Clarence Hague screens tomorrow night at the Presbyterian church as part of the Praise Service for the Women's Home Missionary Society. The annual bank offering service begins at 7 30 and all are invited.
Merry Monarch, champion fat bullock owned by Purdue University Agricultural College, sold to Armour & Co. for 210 dollars per pound at the International Live Stock Exposition, weighing 1610 pounds for a total of 338 dollars. Proceeds go to the Red Cross. A separate carload Angus sale by M. P. Hall of Mechanicsburg, HI, sold for 42 dollars per hundred.
Dallas dispatch reports Sergt F G Hill, an aviator with the Royal Flying Corps stationed at Fort Worth, sustained injuries in an airplane fall at Duncanville and died from the incident.
Vacancy listing notes four modern rooms with water and electric lights furnished at 12 dollars and 50 cents per month. See Russell Smith at 739.
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