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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1917
Page
3
A flurry of short items notes telegrams from New York sailors, visits by Baker Oregon and Montana residents, and upcoming weddings. It records travels to Chicago Portland Los Angeles and Fort Worth plus local funeral notices and illness updates involving Burlington Fairfield and surrounding towns.
Provost Marshal Crowder issues new rules allowing draft age men to join SELECT units at their own request. Only white men may enlist and only in infantry signal medical and quartermaster corps. Certain branches and camps are designated with costs borne by local boards.
Burlington December 18 relative to General Crowder draft rules. A E Felker captain of the battery under formation and clerk of the local exemption board says the ruling does not affect the battery men as they were sworn in before the December 15 time limit.
An important meeting of ministers and laymen from adjoining Presbyteries convenes today to discuss the college financial campaign. A telegram from Hospital Unit A dated Chattanooga indicates troops moving toward Fort McPherson, Atlanta, facing cold snowy weather. Rev Holler of New London, Parsons graduate, attended chapel. Rev Anspach of English Lutheran will address the Y M C A tomorrow at 10 o clock.
A letter from Cairo Illinois describes Unit R enlisted men in high spirits after a concert and a $2 auditors contribution to the Company mess fund. The journey included a year 1 tourist sleeper car marked Navy, travel from Burlington to St Louis via Eads bridge, gas masks in train shed, dinner at Murphysboro, and meals from a Red Cross canteen. The convoy crossed into Kentucky and Tennessee, with thanks for Red Cross lunches and plans for supper in Jackson Tennessee.
Attention all members. There will be work in the rank of Page tomorrow night. All members please be present.
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