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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1916
Page
6
Mrs. Alice Booker of Chicago attends a lecture by Chief Caupolicon on Fairfield Chautauqua next summer. She calls him an exceptionally fine speaker and notes his Harvard education. Fairfield awaits a great treat at the summer Assembly.
The annual meeting of policy holders will be held in the courthouse at 10 a.m. on January 13, 1917, the second Saturday. Important matters will be brought up for consideration and action. E D Y Culbertson secretary December 15, 1917.
Noted author and orator Bishop Quayle will deliver his lecture Factors of Destiny at the Methodist church on Saturday evening December 30. Admission is 25 cents.
The Fairfield and Jefferson County community is invited to a 7:00 p m Christmas program at the heated tabernacle with stories and school children from first through eighth grades performing selections such as Away in a Manger Stille Nacht and It Came Upon the Midnight Clear. Children assemble at 6:45 p m for the program on December 21.
A reported report of Private William Brade from the Muscatine battery being killed en route home at Brownsville proves false. A batteryman sent a false telegram to Brade’s sweetheart as a practical joke, igniting the hoax.
Mrs O S Hart and Miss Marian Hart visited friends in Ottumwa yesterday. Several families announce Christmas visits including Zihlman Morrow Allender Turner Tur ner Nelson Bettendorf La Barr relatives in Iowa.
Miss Cora May Dexter died this morning at 8 40 at her home 502 North C street after a two weeks illness with congestion of the lungs. Born January 3 1884 in Cedar township she was the daughter of John Dexter and the late mother. Survived by brother Wm E Dexter and sister Mrs Mattie E Cornell Fairfield. A Methodist and North Side Rebekah lodge member funeral plans incomplete.
Philip La Barr and Mr and Mrs J J Bettendorf thank relatives and friends for kindness at the burial of their wife and daughter and for the flowers.
In New York on December 19, invitations were issued for a reception and dance at the Hotel Astor on December 28 at eight o'clock. The event honors Iowa's seventieth anniversary, led by Mrs James S Clarkson and Judge Jerry Sullivan as presidents, with Mrs Josephine Libby delivering a popular monologue.
Parties wishing Christmas dinner at The Leggett should make reservations by nine o clock Saturday morning.
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