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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1916
Page
7
Traveling salesman Wm Neibert and many others are in town for Christmas and New Year. Teachers, stores workers and students from Mt Pleasant, Keokuk and Ames visit relatives, attend festivities, and travel back to Des Moines Danville Brighton Washington Ottumwa and Galesburg with updates on illnesses and car sales.
Raymond Gaul of Birmingham applied for naturization papers this week at Clerk McLeland. Gaul, born in America, had his citizenship lost by taking an oath to Great Britain in Canada. Another Williams youth near Birmingham filed first papers, and Minor Silver of Stockport expects to file second papers to reclaim U S citizenship.
The Iowa Gas and Electric Co announces a $40,000 offering of seven percent preferred stock to fund line construction and expansion. Dividends are quarterly and cumulative, with redemption at $105 plus accrued dividends. The firm serves Washington and surrounding towns, planning seven better lines totaling over seventy miles of high tension capacity and expanding to Keota West Chester Packwood and Ollie.
A $25 reward is offered for the return of a black pocketbook lost between Fairfield Dry Cleaning Works and Q depot. The item contained two diamond rings one wedding ring and a small amount of money. Contact W. H. Parker.
Regular winter term for eighth year begins Tuesday January 2 1917. Enroll now to secure special low rates at airfield Business College located in Junkin Block South Main Street.
There will be work in the rank of Knight Wednesday evening at 7 30 plus a smoker run by W R Baker C C in the Knights of Pythias lodge activities.
The Methodist church calls all members to attend a midweek service this evening. Special invitation is extended to those who recently united with the church. W. R. Keesee, Minister.
A carload of hard coal departed Chicago on December 22. Prospective buyers are urged to phone A Power at 6532 or 141 to place orders.
To Our Members the annual meeting of policy holders will be held in the courthouse at 10 a m January 13 1917 this being the second Saturday Matters of importance will be brought up for your consideration and action be sure to attend E D Culbertson Sec December 15 1917
Tickets for the Masonic Banquet will cost $1.00 each. Tickets must be obtained from the committee members Dr. J. S. Gaumer A. F. Greer or R. F. Wilson no later than next Friday noon, as no tickets will be sold after that time.
Enrollment open this week at the Fairfield Business College Junkin Block South Main Street with special low rates. Both day and evening sessions available as deadlines approach.
Public sale tomorrow starting at ten o clock a.m. features all stock including three Shorthorn milch cows a span of mules a team of grey mules a registered one day mare a brown horse hogs chickens hay corn oats and all farm implements. Augusta Eckwall administrator T B Allender auditor W C Brawner clerk. Lunch on grounds.
Austrian admiralty reports two Italian patrol boats sunk and four allied warships damaged after a raid in the Strait of Otranto on December 22 23. Austrian destroyers engaged and claimed hits on several hostile destroyers. Italian account notes slight damage to two French destroyers and one Italian patrol boat.
Washington reports James R. Mann answered Augustus P. Gardner's attack by saying he stands for America first and would rather back the President's peace moves than seek the speakership. Mann denied Gardner’s charge that his minority leadership showed sympathy toward Prussia and Prussianism.
Miss Jane Addams of Hull House Chicago has promised aid to establish a Cedarville community house and social center. An abandoned church will be purchased and remodeled for the project in her birth town.
John H. Scott completed a San Francisco to Philadelphia cross country hike in 70 days 5 hours 30 minutes. He breaks prior records held by John Ennis and Edward P. Weston, and loses ten pounds en route while declaring prayer and persistence key.
Chester Lawson a 40 year old furniture salesman and Arminda Rolen 40 of Alexandria wed at noon in Anderson Indiana inside the chapel of undertaker Clayte Sells. Reverend W J Lundy officiated. The couple, previously employed by Sells, chose the Christmas ceremony despite superstitions about funeral homes.
William Amble of McLean faces jail after stabbing Mayor John Stubblefield in McLean Illinois following a reprimand for violating diphtheria quarantine rules. Stubblefield sustained wounds to the side and was reported possibly fatal. Authorities detained Amble.
Francis J. Bill of Bristo Connecticut survived a 66 000 volt electric shock when he touched a high tension distributing frame on a power house roof during a storm. Most of his body was burned black but he is recovering, doctors say.
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