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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1919
Page
6
OCR reads partly about subscription periods and payment, mentioning months in advance and mail delivery. The text is incomplete with illegible bits, but references to three or four month terms and a price. No clear event, person, or organization is discernible.
Ottumwa Iowa February 7. Major J H Herrick reports Base Hospital Unit M is broken up and its personnel dispersed. Six nurses are in Germany, sixteen taken to a hospital forty miles away, and ten enlisted men moved elsewhere. He expects no home departure soon as headquarters review records, possibly a month or more.
Notice records formation of Fairfield Oil Company in Jefferson County Iowa with Articles on file and Secretary of State confirmation. The firm plans petroleum land rights drilling mining hauling selling and delivering oil and minerals, capital stock 100000 with 60500 paid, nine directors led by named stockholders, first annual meeting set after first Sunday in January.
Fairfield meets rival Mt Pleasant in a league championship game at the high school gym tonight. Fairfield aims for a sixth straight league win as Miller from Mt Pleasant is in top condition. Curtain-raiser by Junior-Sophomore girls at 7 30 followed by the 8 15 league clash and an exhibition by Mr Heald and the tumbling boys at halftime.
The document names L. T. Gobble, W. G. Ross, C. L. Larson, J. A. Huglin and Fred L. Hunt as officers to serve until successors are elected. It caps debt at half the paid-up capital and exempts stockholders’ property from corporate liabilities. Dated January 2.
The Woman's Association will hold a food sale beginning at 9:00 a.m. Saturday in McLaughlin's furniture store. The event offers a chance to buy a real Sunday dinner. Proceeds support overseas hospital units staffed entirely by women.
The Log Cabin Chapter of D A R met with Mrs Elizabeth Whitney and Miss Abigail Heaton on East Broadway where Charles Brown of the 109th Ammunition Train spoke on his France experiences. The Rebekah Club hosted guests at Mrs W J Gilbert’s East Adams Street home with Mrs J J Hutchinson assisting. The Yeoman lodge plans a regular meeting tonight at 7 30.
The Orpheum Theater presents a thousand foot reel of Fairfield films featuring local people in action and Enid Bennett in A Desert Wooing. The program is described as exceptionally good with first class making.
The Hodgen vs Chilcott dispute is heard before Judge Connell in the district court over the amount due for the erection of the Chilcott home on East Broadway. Birth announced for Bert Barrow and wife a son. Dorothy Beliel admitted to Jefferson County Hospital. Leland Page of Keota visiting in the city. Foss Heaton of Shannon City visiting relatives. Rollie Krumholtz returns from Camp Meade New Jersey.
Miss Louise Oelman of Derby Iowa offers a graduation piano recital in Barhydt Chapel assisted by violinist Mr Robert Israel. The program features works by Foote MacDonell Musin Bach Bach Mendelssohn Chopin Sgambati Liszt and a concert with organ accompaniment by Prof Moorhead. The public is invited to attend the evening performance.
The Iowa Association of Southern California postpones the annual picnic reunion for Iowans to Saturday March 1 at Lincoln Eastlake Park Los Angeles. County headquarters and registers will be open all day with basket dinners at noon and program after 2 pm. Judge Frederick W. Houser will preside. C H Parsons secretary welcomes all Hawkeyes at California Savings Bank Spring and 4th Streets Los Angeles.
A classified notice offers potatoes at $1.40 delivered by A J Boyd and seeks a schoolgirl to work evenings at The Purity. Currency and spelling reflect historic ad style.
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