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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1918
Page
6
A faded classified item from Journal Printing Co lists address 1110 South Court Street Taylor Iowa with subscription rates. It notes mail subscriptions in advance and pricing for three months and per one hundred copies, posted as mail matter at Fairfield Iowa.
Notice clarifies meatless Tuesday and porkless Saturday as law, barring sale of all meats on Tuesday and pork or pork products on Saturday. Issued by Jefferson County Food Administration administrators W. C. Spalding and J. B. McKenney.
The Junior play cast is announced with Sylvia Dorothy Phelps Helen Anna Humphrey Clemantina Burl Stevenson Harriett Mary Miller David Fred Wilson Gerald Noble Hines Harold Hu yet Gaines Savage Wilbur Keesey Martin Brainard Covert Mulberry Marion McCulley The play is coached by Mrs Alice Becker and will be staged near late March. The basketball team travels to Pella for the evening match against Central College. About twenty students join the morning chapel and trip to Des Moines to sing with the Fairfield Oratorio Society today and tomorrow. Parsons is strongly represented in the local Oratorio Society.
John Crabble, arrested in Mount Pleasant for draft evasion, appeared before U.S. Commissioner Riepe and was held to the federal grand jury in Keokuk. Bond set at $1000. He said he would rather break an arm than go to military service, but now feels better about enlisting when his turn comes.
Bessie Love appears for the fourth time as a Triangle star in the Fine Arts production A Daughter of the Poor at Fairfield Theater. She plays a girl who inherits a toy shop and a lazy uncle who despises money and influences the niece toward his views, creating dramatic tension between love and duty.
Jefferson County bar plans a 2 PM ceremony at the courthouse library in honor of three members serving in the U S Army. Judge Cornell will oversee the oath of allegiance and the service flag presentation by A G Jordan to E I Simmons with remarks, music, and public attendance invited.
Thoma and Thomasoy advertise financing on city property improvements. They offer loans with terms tailored to renovate and elevate urban parcels, inviting applicants to inquire at their offices for rates and conditions.
In Society pages the Parsons College Ladies Auxiliary meets this afternoon at Mrs C A Herring’s West Broadway home. The Wesleyan Bible Class of the Methodist church gathers this evening at Mrs Fred Wray’s South Second Street home with hostesses Mrs Walter Myers Mrs Harry Beatty and Mrs J M Hunter aiding. The Yeoman lodge holds a regular meeting tomorrow evening at Yeoman hall with all members urged to attend for important business.
Charles Larson, aged about sixty four, died yesterday afternoon at four o'clock on his farm near Four Corners. He had been in poor health about a year and bedfast two weeks. Death caused by dropsy. He is survived by his wife and one stepson, plus a brother John Larson of South Dakota who was with him. Funeral follows tomorrow at one from the home, burial in the nearby cemetery.
Brighton Iowa February 21 Mrs S H Prizer receives word from son Lloyd in Co M 133rd Infantry that they will soon leave Camp Cody Deming New Mexico to proceed to Fort Kearney California for duty.
The remains of Mitchell Ross who died Tuesday evening were taken to Downing Missouri this morning for funeral services to be held there.
Jury found H C Harper guilty of assault and battery after a long deliberation but later reports indicate acquittal of the orderous assault charge. The case stemmed from a November 21 1917 incident at a County Line farm with Mrs Vaught. sentencing scheduled for Saturday.
Mrs May McCoy and four children returned to Bogus Arkansas after a four week stay with the Mead family. Mrs W W Horas visited Delta relatives and returned. Club House box supper raised 265 for Red Cross. Dr McGuire and children came back from Davenport. H F White sold hardware to W E Hoch, 160 acres in Walnut township. Mrs E W Peterson and sister Mildred Hiatt to Kansas City then Amarillo. Cay Teetes family moved back from Gallup New Mexico. Thomas Rider visited Knerr in Chariton. Home Ingham back from Deming New Mexico. Mrs Dil Kyle returned from Peoria after mother's funeral. Forrient seven room residence at North Third Hempstead with possession March 1. Phonsa 629 or inquire Ist door west of J F Dearduff.
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