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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1918
Page
2
A brief printer and publishing note lists Journal Printing Co with Bran Tayl or Gaura R Taylor as editor and manager.
A brief subscription notice outlines pricing options by period with a monthly rate and a three month advance plan. It lists terms for subscribing through a carrier and notes the payment details.
The speaker plans to complete Christmas shopping in the forenoon hours on Monday and Tuesday.
Charles S Crail named to the California Superior Court bench succeeding Judge Finlayson. He is twin of Joe S Crail and practiced with him in Los Angeles. Crail served in the Spanish American War, later as Iowa District Attorney, and is active in Republican circles and local clubs. He and his wife live in Los Angeles with three children.
Ottumwa Courier reports the second district’s judiciary crippled by flu with only Judge D M Anderson of Albia able to preside across four counties. He fixed courts in Albia Bloomfield and Ottumwa after colleagues fell ill prompting adjournments and hospital care.
Robert Teeter died late last night at his Glasgow residence after a two year illness from stomach cancer. He moved to Glasgow from Glendale recently and is survived by his wife and five children. Funeral services will be held at 11 o'clock Monday with interment at Union cemetery.
West Point resident John Walldaper visited C F E Keltner home Friday. Mrs H D Minster and daughter travel to Brighton to visit relatives. HF Pumphrey returned from Des Moines after a three week stay. A F L Rethburn of Des Moines visited on Friday. Mr and Mrs Charles Johnson returned from Davenport. Mr and Mrs Albert Sharpe returned from Davenport. Mr and Mrs FE A Lambert of Brighton attended the Lambert Murtenix wedding. Cecil Hawkins reported seriously ill with influenza in Davenport. Mrs W S Bellwood and daughter Irene of Abingdon will visit Mr and Mrs N C Anstead for the holidays. Herschel K Miller returned home from Great Lakes Training School to spend Christmas with his parents. Mr and Mrs Ray Eckerman and son Robert Laverne of Exline join relatives for Christmas.
Mrs. J. E. Johnson a well known resident of the city died at three this morning at her West Burlington street home from influenza followed by pneumonia. She leaves her husband and four children Cecil Mrs. Levi Graber Davenport Mrs. Elmer Carlson Fairfield north and Mrs Edgar Tyrell Fort Collins. Her father in law Frank O Carlson died yesterday. Funeral arrangements not yet made.
Fairfield Business College closed yesterday for the Christmas holiday week after a successful fall term. Winter term starts Monday Dec. 30, 1918. See advertisements in this issue for early enrollment inducements.
Word arrives of Rodger Allen's death in Hannibal Missouri due to tuberculosis. A former local resident and Ford Garage worker, he was married to Hazel Price of the city. Interment will be in Hannibal.
Frank A. Jones of Nelson Nebraska left last night to spend the winter with his daughter in Atlanta Georgia after visiting his sisters Mrs Margaret Voorhies and Mrs Gus Unkrich in Nelson.
An old musterole advertisement touts relief for rheumatism and stiff joints. It claims doctors and nurses recommend it, lists uses from bronchitis to sore muscles, and markets 30c 60c jars with hospital size $2.50.
The week’s notices report the Aug 10 Birmingham marriage of Henry H Nesbitt and Marjorie Norris in San Francisco while he served. Other items note J H Cassady shipping thirty barrels of dressed turkeys to New York for 4000 dollars. The column also mentions several service members receiving discharges and a hospital hospitalizes Rainbow division member Carl Nelson, plus the death of Fred Paruitke in Canton Kansas.
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