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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1919
Page
2
The notice lists terms for subscriptions including carrier and mail delivery. It shows pricing for one week, one month, and three months with different payment methods. It appears to be an editor manager notice for Kanra R. Taylor.
Ottumwa Iowa February 7 Major J F Herrick reports Base Hospital Unit members including Ottumwans are dispersed sending patients to other hospitals and some to Germany. Six nurses were sent abroad and sixteen more to a hospital forty miles away with enlisted men. He doubts home return will come soon and warns rumors should not be trusted.
Notice announces the incorporation of Fairfield Oil Company in Fairfield Iowa with filings in Jefferson County and the Iowa Secretary of State. Authorized capital stock is 100000 with 60500 paid, nine directors, annual stockholders meeting the first Monday after the first Sunday in January, commencing December 12 1918 and lasting twenty years.
Fairfield high meets Mt Pleasant in a league championship clash at the high school gym tonight. Mt Pleasant's fast style and Miller from last year's state title squad pace the visitors while Fairfield seeks a sixth straight league win. Curtain-raiser by Junior-Sophomore girls at 7 30 and toss exhibition by Heald and tumbling team between halves.
The document lists officers L T Gobble W G Ross C L Larson J A Huglin and Fred L Hunt to hold office until successors are elected. It caps corporate indebtedness at one half of paid-up capital stock and states stockholders real and personal property are exempt from corporate liabilities. Dated January 2, 1919.
IN SOCIETY reports log cabin Chapter D A R met at East Broadway with Elizabeth Whitney and Abigail Heaton. Charles Brown of the 109th Ammunition Train spoke on his experiences in France. Rebekah Club met at East Adams Street with Mrs W J Gilbert hosting. Yeo Man Lodge plans a regular meeting at 7 30 this evening.
Orpheum Theater presents a thousand foot Fairfield reel of local residents in action along with the feature Said Bennett in A Desert Wooing. The program is described as exceptionally good and first class in its making for this evening.
The Hodgen versus Chilcott dispute over the amount due to contractor Clayton Hodgens for erecting the Chilcott home on East Broadway is being heard today before Judge Cornnell in the District Court. Also noted are a newborn baby boy to Mr and Mrs Bert Barrow, hospital admission for Dorothy Beliel, visits by Leland Page to the city, Foss Heaton’s stay with relatives, and Rollie Krumholtz’s return from Camp Meade New Jersey.
The Woman's Association announces a food sale starting at 9:00 a m Saturday at McLaughlins furniture store. The event promotes a Sunday dinner and highlights suffrage work with support for overseas hospital units staffed entirely by women.
Miss Louise Oelman of Derby Iowa performs a piano recital in Barhydt Chapel assisted by violinist Robert Israel. The program includes works by Foote MacDonell Bach Chopin Mendelssohn and Liszt with organ accompaniment by Prof Moorhead.
The Iowa Association of Southern California announces the annual Iowa picnic reunion will be held in Lincoln Eastlake Park Los Angeles on February 22 postponed to March 1 if rain. County headquarters and registers will be open all day with basket dinners at noon and a program at 2 pm Judge Frederick W Houser will preside. C H Parsons secretary will welcome Hawkeyes at California Savings Bank Spring and 4th Streets Los Angeles.
Potatoes sold for 1.40 delivered. A J Boyd advertises for a school girl to work evenings at The Purity. Contact phone 2763 for details.
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