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Fairfield Journal

Location

Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 17, 1917

Page

7

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.

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.

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

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.

John DeMarsh Mr. DeMarsh Valley Junction Ottuma DeMarsh

Nice fat ducks for Christmas

P. RB. Wagoner advertises Christmas ducks with contact phone 4620. 780.

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.

Frank Fairfield

Also Mentioned on This Page

Wilford Liming 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 Burlington Street
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