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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1918
Page
3
Crushed by a flurry of social and civic visits the community town notes recount Fred Jewell on business in Chicago and many residents making trips to Burlington Eldon Keosauqua Ottumwa and Des Moines. A Valentine party at the Christian church and a mid winter health club picnic highlight local gatherings. The Ellis Hose Company Firemen banquet with a pink and white decor and a large turnout capped a busy social week.
In the past eight days volunteers teachers and ladies prepared cards for each questionnaire filer to create a central classified site for the Provost Marshal General's office. Names include Rakow Gregg Brown Roth Porter Wa ters Galt Hanson Truesdale Clinkenbeard Banfield Daigneau Haddock Gantz Wray Mahon Lamberson Elder Aitchison Chidester Day Gist FE Porter Kahl Roth Stewart Hean Heaton Lyons Dice Heald Gibbona Ball Smith Reed Elsie Ahle Benson Gar moe Linter Larmore Riter Peters Locke Kilzer Horn Tallman Hague Hague Sloan Lepper Zeigler Yount Fulton Glass Kirby Switzer Hunt Bean Zeigler Montgomery Montgomery Hunt Scheffel Gallih er Macklen Koons Stickler McCleary Jones Fresconi Galliher.
Real estate loan opportunity offering seven thousand dollars on a first mortgage. Contact William L. Long at phone number 3692 for details.
Larkin Bowermaster died Monday morning at his home in Cody Wyoming after years of ill health. He was about forty six and survived by his wife and daughter Grace plus six siblings Orin Cody Frank Ottumwa Homer Wichita Kan John Fairfield and two sisters Mrs Frank Cooper and Mrs Milton Douglas. One brother Wilburt Bowermaster had preceded him January 27. Funeral held Tuesday afternoon with burial in Cody Wyoming.
The Community Bible Class led by Prof. Vartanian completed a study of John chapter six titled Christ the Bread of Life with sections on temporal and eternal bread, faith, life giving sacrifice, and the Rejected Master. The Friday program will cover John chapter seven focused on the Water chapter with Feast of Tabernacles background and contrasts with the Pharisees.
The Hartman Cream Factory announces the season opening to process ice cream sherbet sweet cream milk and butter milk. Phone 89 v99.
Prof Vartanian head of Parsons College Bible department leaves for Des Moines to join Inter Collegiate conference at Drake University. He will then travel to Crete Nebraska to address a Nebraska College students conference.
A Deming New Mexico report says Company M 133d Infantry organized a winning baseball team. Last season they won 43 of 49 games and hope to improve. They bought new uniforms with orange and black colors.
Roy L. Emry secretary of the Fairfield Retail Merchants Association will address Mt Pleasant Commercial Club and local business men at Hotel Brazleton this evening outlining retail trade concerns and association goals.
Federal agent takes charge of a box of crackers found with ground glass by P. A. Andrews. His baby had eaten most of the crackers before the discovery. Similar reports of ground glass appear in flour and candy in other cities.
Clean first class timothy hay offered for sale with delivery to Fairfield. Call 7116 for details and pricing.
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