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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1916
Page
6
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Despite cold weather the Ottumwa Elks Mid-Winter Exposition draws a large appreciative audience on the third night. The Cable Lumber Co. booth with a model bungalow and the Public Service Co. exhibit with purple and white decor attract attention. Bradshaw Furniture Co. also features prominently among the displays.
Votes show a changing field with Nora Miller and several others near the lead. Tomorrow is the final day to vote for Queen of the Exposition, with a three hundred dollar piano prize. The Otumwa Fiks and a large Elk turnout are noted, as is a Ladies Aid Bazaar with a 25 cent supper.
In Bowman North Dakota a car carrying Mrs Carl Sense and family turned over near Chenoweth during heavy snow. Mrs Carl Sense died under the car as her husband John Wright and Mrs David Sense were injured. Mrs David Sense survived dazedly and is in critical condition. The crash occurred three miles from home. Earl Sense and a hired man found the wreck and alerted relatives.
Educational Conference under the Women's Presbyterian Board of Home Missions draws visitors from Burlington Ottumwa Morning Sun and surrounding towns. Speakers include Mrs Weavis in Homeland Perspectives and Mrs Silverthorne in mission study and Latin America. Friday schedules feature finance for works, Bible study, and a popular address on War Missions and Preparedness.
The Ladies Aid Society of the Baptist church will gather Friday at two thirty in the afternoon at Mrs. A R Toothacre's home. All church ladies are invited to attend. The Hawkeye Rebekah Club guests enjoyed a seasonally decorated home hosted by Mrs. P H Fisher.
An urgent notice asks readers to donate warm clothes for winter to Fair store, Foreman and Cochran, or A. J. Boyd's, with Lil. E. RMS coordinating. The piece also notes a charitable shower for Miss Katherine Basham, a St Marys church men’s meeting and smoker, and that the Orpheum theatre is heating.
Community Xmas committees advance plans for a bigger event than last year. Small trees arrive around the square and are quickly placed, with colored electric lights strung to create a pleasing holiday display.
Due to the death of my husband I will offer at Public Sale on Thursday December 28 1916 on the farm one mile east of Fairfield along the Burlington road. The sale includes horses mules cows long chickens corn oats hay farming implements hog houses and related farm goods with full particulars on sale bills.
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