School Children to Aid Community Fund
Citywide drive invites students to bring food and clothing for the less fortunate during the Christmas season. Adults are urged to participate and leave offerings at local banks for distribution.
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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1916
Page
4
Citywide drive invites students to bring food and clothing for the less fortunate during the Christmas season. Adults are urged to participate and leave offerings at local banks for distribution.
A scrapbook style listing notes several lost items including a package of merchandise on the square and a pair of child rompers with return requests to the Journal office. Also a Christmas toys package lost Saturday night and a housework job request in Fairfield Iowa with various help-wanted items and an agriculture seed exchange offering.
A concise ad notes remaining corset cover yokes towel ends and medallions for sale by Mrs. Dean Taylor at phone number 3430.
Mrs Wilson Reed and Mrs Orr Lawson are in Ottumwa today Ed Gilbert spent Sunday with friends in Ottumwa Victor Kessell visited in Washington with friends Sunday evening Hiram Heaton went to Washington today to attend the meeting of the Southeastern Iowa Horticultural Society and to take part in the program Miss Bertha Miller of County Line is spending the day here Friends in the city have received word that Frank Pedrick who has been ill with typhoid fever at the home of his sister in Ottumwa is now able to sit up and is getting along nicely James Simmons who is attending Hamline University at St Paul Minn came today to spend the holidays with his parents Mr and Mrs E F Simmons Mrs Ed Pequignot and children of Waterloo are visiting at the A Pequignot home Mr Pequignot is expected here later for a few days visit
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