Daily Journal Publisher and Editorial Leadership
Consolidated note listing the Daily Journal and its publishing house JOURNAL PRINTING CO with names for Publisher Editor Manager roles.
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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1916
Page
6
Consolidated note listing the Daily Journal and its publishing house JOURNAL PRINTING CO with names for Publisher Editor Manager roles.
Report from Fairfield indicates Company M may stay at Ft Des Moines for about a month. Mrs Elmer Fleagle confirms the plan. Officers and others may receive short leaves. Robt Fulton did not join the regular army. he and Fleagle were rejected because they were married men.
The English Lutheran church held its first regular service after Peacock meetings with a full crowd and lively choir. Rev. A H Anspach preached strongly as the program featured numerous recitations songs and dialogues by children and adults. The Kozy offers a six o'clock Christmas dinner for 50 cents per plate.
Fairfield Chautauqua editors prepare revised articles of incorporation and by laws at the forthcoming stockholders meeting. A committee led by J P Starr C D Leggett and J A Huglin will oversee the revision, while an efficiency committee including L D Thoma L J Marey and Dean Taylor will cut leaks. The program committee earns praise and the assembly outlook appears bright.
The 1915 16 Iowa Fish and Game Laws set open and closed seasons for birds and mammals. It bans trapping or killing pinated grouse prairie chickens until Sept 1 1917 and bans shooting quail on highways. It restricts ruffled grouse pheasant wild turkeys quail dates and prohibits hunting from watercraft after sunset.
M M O'Donnell who was found guilty of murdering his wife in Keokuk faces a second trial postponed to January. He was sentenced to hang after the first trial, but the Supreme Court granted a new trial. He remains in Fort Madison penitentiary.
Noted author and orator Bishop Quayle will deliver his lecture Factors of Destiny at the Methodist Church on Saturday evening December 20. Admission is 25 cents.
Miss Beatrice Lally returns to Dennison for Christmas vacation. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Van Tassel and daughter Maurine of Keokuk visit Harrison Hoagland for Christmas. Miss Nellie Banfield, Council Bluffs teacher, comes home for holidays. Philip Lang and family of Burlington plan Christmas at I. T. Wisecarver home. Harry Lovell family visits. George Leggett, Rush Medical student in Chicago, returns home for holidays. Elmer Hoskinson family and Guy Burrows family plan Christmas visit. Miss Nellie Benson returns from Batavia for Christmas.
Mr and Mrs Fred Flinspach entertained a company of friends at dinner last evening at 6 30 at their North Court street home. Tables were decorated with red candles and poinsettias and presented a pleasing appearance.
Albert Brewer of this city died this morning at Oakdale where he had been in a sanitarium for a year. The funeral will be held Tuesday at 10 o clock in the Methodist church with Odd Fellows in charge.
The Town State prison rug factory at Fort Madison operates seven looms and produces rugs monthly worth about 2500 dollars. In six months 12000 rugs have been completed. Unfilled orders run to several hundred dollars and all shop earnings go to the state.
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