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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1918
Page
6
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A postal notice in Fairld Iowa lists mail matter classified as second class. The item mentions honoring the post office status and handling of mail matter.
Republican voters in Jefferson county hear candidate notices for Sheriff Walter Harris Clerk of Court Sanford Zeigler Jr County Auditor A Torn County Recorder Vern S Samuelson R C Leggett and M Olga Raines all seeking nomination at the June 3 1918 primary in statewide slate of Republican announcements.
A brief list of candidates seeks Democratic nominations in the June 3 1918 primary. R H W Spence runs for Clerk of Court and George M Ball also seeks Clerk of Court. a separate bid for County Treasurer is noted.
U S government seeks several hundred expert cost accountants for the finance department of the Signal Corps equipment division and other branches. Salaries range from 2400 to 6000 dollars yearly. Men only. Duties include determining production costs of airplanes and motors with assignment to plants or Washington. Applications via local post offices.
Censorship limits reporting on the Fort Sill airplane crash that killed Lieutenants Stamps and Loomis as an investigation proceeds after the aircraft fell 600 feet and caught fire.
Wm. Cook attended the funeral of Mrs. Jane Meally in Brighton today reflecting the local obituary notice and community mourning.
A letter from the Bureau of Woman's Work praises Mrs. Pearl R. Clapp of Fairfield Iowa and the Jefferson County Chapter for a garment shipment. The inspector states all garments are perfect and future acknowledgments will suffice unless criticisms arise.
Miss Nina Still visits Bloomfield on business. Briggs family from Lockridge guests in the city. Minta Hoagland to Chicago for a new position. Fay Lawson and Etta Stever visit Ottumwa relatives Sunday. Stella and Clara Monfort visit Hattie Monfort in Ottumwa. A Jefferson County Hospital birth at 9% pounds. Mrs. Willis Green and Virginia of Glendale visit Fairfield. Mrs. J D Ebert improving at home on North E street. L H Danley returns from Des Moines after J D Ebert’s death. Supervisors return from Des Moines course. Emry family attend Mrs Jane Meally funeral in Brighton. Fairfield High beats Ottumwa 22 to 20 in basketball. Hazel Scovel visits from Libertyville. Lucile Pequignot visits from Cross Lanes. Bessie Baugher returns from Cross Lanes for over Sunday. Gus Scott visits after evangelistic work at Wappelo. Dowell family depart for Gladstone. Frances Wymer and Hedvig Leafgren go to Lockridge for Sunday with parents. Bertha Hall, Fairfield Business College, becomes stenographer for KK Simmons. Gu Urkirdh visits Lockridge then Huntington with sisters. J M Blair appointed trustee of Buchanan township to fill vacancy. Marion Tracy improving at home with daughter Mrs H Ball. Bert Bowermaster and warning of sister-in-law Mrs Karl Mason's death in Fowler, Ind. KE W Martin and daughter return to Lockridge after several days with relatives. H O Brownlee returns to Long Grove after sickness and death of father-in-law J D Ebert.
Miss Grace Wheeler hosted a Frances Willard Sunday school Valentine party at her South B street home with games and refreshments. A marriage announcement from Mrs. Anna Collins states her daughter Bettye Collins will wed Raymond E. Gamble of Hollywood January 24 and reside there. Gilbert encampment No. 23 I O O F sets February 11 as its annual gathering. Jefferson County Teachers club meets at the courthouse with a surprise musical program by Penn No. 9 students including Thresa Eva Kathryn Schrack Carl Ernest Messer Sylvester Sobaski and Orlo Krumholtz. The youngsters performed in costume numbers honoring the Red Cross Nurse and Uncle Sam, to the applause of more than sixty teachers.
Des Moines February 9 Iowa Lutherans organize state wide drive for fifty thousand dollars as their 1918 share of a national war fund for welfare work among soldiers and sailors district meetings to organize and raise funds February 18 to 26 in many cities with each congregation represented.
Workless Mondays were suspended in North and South Carolina Georgia Florida Alabama Tennessee Mississippi and Louisiana due to improved weather. Garfield amended the order to exempt shops with International Garment Workers on government contracts and hoped to lift the rest of the embargoes after next week.
High school girls organized a Patriotic League with 115 members to support war effort. Officers elected include President Eloise Smith Vice President Elizabeth Fry and Secretary Treasurer Ada Scott. Weekly meetings knit blankets from scrap yarn and collect magazines tinfoil gloves and clothing for hospital and community aid.
Washington February 9 Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo urges Liberty Loan Bond holders of both the First and Second issues to hold fast to their bonds. He warns against exchanges offered by agents for questionable securities and stresses the value of keeping bonds as long as possible while not discouraging sales in real need.
Mr and Mrs Robert Teeter are in Glendale today on business. They are seen meeting local contacts and visiting several offices.
Vienna dispatches report Austrian Premier Dr. von Seydler offered the cabinet’s resignation to Emperor Charles. Simultaneously unrest in Austria-Hungary surfaced with word of a four day peace demonstration in Lemberg that left three policemen dead and forty civilians wounded. Opposition by Polish deputies to the provisional budget is cited as the trigger.
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