Local Briefs Highlight Visits and Passings Across Town
Chicago visitor Wilford Liming calls on relatives. Mt. Pleasant death prompts trips for C J Gavin and family. Ed Ulm suffers paralysis at home. Deaths bring calls from Wetmore’s Fred Bean and others. Local residents visit Ottumwa and attend church events. Hospitalizations and births noted alongside marriage licenses and travels for holidays.
College social season features senior dinner party and rink night
The text describes Christmas events at the local college including a Senior girls dinner for Senior boys with decorated rooms, a color themed menu, and a post dinner social. It notes a hospital unit departure and a box of candy gift for the departing boys. Skating at the Airdome Rink tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laura Light
Bessie Kemp
Florence Light
Light
Dorothy Blake
Madeline Peterson
Mabel Lundquist
Nellie Scovel
Thoretta McKee
Ada Greiner
Anna Roth
Exemption Board Dispatches 90 More Notifications
The Exemption Board sent out ninety notices to the second group of men numbered 81 to 171 to appear for questionnaires. Sixty days remain for the first eighty to appear by December 24 and the second batch by December 26. Daniel F. Kfirman of Batavia was the first to appear today after Saturday’s notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel F. Kirfman
Batavia
Civil Service Exams May Be Held in Fairfield
Assistant Postmaster S L Mc Chesney informs the Civil Service Board of a local success Miss Myrtle Coop of Fairfield who trained as stenographer and typist and has secured a clerkship in Washington at 1100 dollars yearly The letter suggests advertising to attract four or five applicants and arranging a local Fairfield examination to save travel to Burlington
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. L. McChesney
Civil Service Board
Myrtle Coop
Fairfield
Des Moines
Quartermaster General
Washington, D. C
Burlington
John DeMarsh Dies After Long Illness at Valley Junction
John DeMarsh a longtime coal dealer in the city died last night at his niece Mrs. C. E. Sappenfield home in Valley Junction after poor health. He was about 75, a Civil War veteran, widowed since October 1917, and will be brought to the city tomorrow evening at 5 10 for funeral announcements to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John DeMarsh
Mr. DeMarsh
Valley Junction
Ottuma
DeMarsh
Nice fat ducks for Christmas
P. RB. Wagoner advertises Christmas ducks with contact phone 4620. 780.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wagoner
Boys and Girls urged to join the Stocking Club
Commissioner Frank collects stockings for Fairfield children and invites every boy and girl to join the Stocking Club by delivering a membership fee of one filled pair to Scout Headquarters by Saturday December 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank
Fairfield
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Chicago
C. J. Gavin
Mt. Pleasant
J. B. Cor
Ulm
South Third Street
Fred Bean
Wetmore, Colo
E. A. Wright
Herschel Carl
Ottumwa
John Winn
Libertyville
City
Wendell Glotfelty
Great Lakes
Jofferty
Clayton Nott
E. E. Watson
Margaret
Ionia
Nashua
Presbyterian Church
Brighton
James E. Arton
Portland
Oregon
F. P. McGahan
James E. Orton
U. S. No
Hugh Bennett
Baby
Maxine
Muscotah
Kansas
A. K. Wilson
Topeka, Kansas
John Oliver
Wm. D. Junkin
Chariton
Ella M. Clark
Harvey McCleary of
Abingdon
Morgan Trewitt
Germanville
Agency
Frank Glotfelty
Lillie Gilchrist
Charlies Gilchrist
Gildford, Mont
T. F. McNew
Lucretia Miller Stewart
North Court Street
C. C. Griswold
Allerton
J. J. Welday
John Goodell
Alice Louise
D. E. Clark
Creede, Colo
Fannie Eide
Frank Danny
Eldon
Awilda Moore
Fredric
E. S. Parks
South Fourth Street
Keesey
Young Women’s Auxiliary
Miss Short
South Court Street
The
Methodist Church
Chandler School
Buchanan No. 3
Pythian Sisters
Carroll Bradshaw
Willard Daggett
Angel
Airdome
Exemption Board
J. M. Shoemaker
Andy
Brunswick Phonographs
Camir Bressewn
Box Candy
Talking Machines
Irge
Mirtha
Washington
Rosecraft Art
J. P. McLaughlin Co
North Court
Atthen
Fairfield Theatre
Taxle
Earl Richmond and
Dorothy Kelly
Swamp
Joe Welch
U.S
R. H. Maxwell
CliMax Grocery
East Side
Ludumiana
the Maker
Downs
Dean Elizabeth Stanwood
Lea Buckles Roth
Jericho & Easton’s
John T. Davies
Undertaker
George Q. Loesch
L. E
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